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Fixed That For You, also often referred to by its acronym, FTFY, is a catchphrase used as internet slang to disparage the opinion or work of another. The phrase, popular on reddit, is often used as a modifier, indicating that the user’s previous statement was said in sarcasm.

Origin

The origin of the phrase is unknown, but some sources point to it first being used as a sincere programmer’s shorthand. The first definition in Urban Dictionary, recorded on April 15th, 2005, simply defines the acronym as “Fixed that for you,” with a non-sarcastic example:^[1]

“i can’t see the image?”
-“its ok, i FTFY”

Other early definitions, like that on the computing forum Computer Hope, are also sincere.^[2]

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Sarcastic uses of the term appear to have come into effect with the creation of reddit, where its use in this manner is incredibly common. On August 12th, 2009, a subreddit called /r/ftfy was formed, but it only ever acquired 90 readers. However, glossaries of the site’s slang dating back to as early as 2011 record the sarcastic usage as the primary definition. The Make Us Of “Awesome Guide to Reddit” defines the term as being sarcastic.^[6]

“an acronym for “fixed that for you.” People use this if they are literally correcting something, like poor grammar or spelling, but you will also see it used sarcastically. For example: someone may say that that Apple is the best computer company around, and someone who disagrees may quote them with the word Apple changed to Microsoft with FTFY underneath.”

On June 25th, 2013, the sarcastic definition was added to the entry on Urban Dictionary. As of April 2016, searches for both “fixed that for you” and FTFY bring up tens of thousands of results on reddit.^[4][5]

Example of the term in use on reddit.

The term also found widespread acceptance when it was tied to a photograph of Potato Jesus in an image macro.

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“breath in Boi” refers to a pair of images of the character Spongebob from the series Spongebob Squarepants clasping his hands together and leaning over. The images often feature image corruption similar to Real Nigga Hours, and are commonly used in shitposting. The images are also commonly used as a reaction image to various instances of people making an unwise decision.

Origin

The first known use of the pair of images was in a December 22nd, 2015 post in a 4chan /fa/ thread about a series of modified images of Spongebob wearing a pair of boots. The post contained the image along with the words “WHODISNIKKA???”.

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The image was later posted to tumblr on December 26th, 2016, where it gained over 35 thousand notes.^[2] The image was also reuploaded to iFunny, where it gained over 50 likes.^[3] A text to speech voice over of the images was uploaded to YouTube on March 13th, 2016, where it gained over 2 thousand views in one month (shown below).

A post to the subreddit /r/DemomanTwitter of a Tweet discussing roasts in Team Fortress 2 was posted on April 1st, 2016.^[4] The post has since gained over 90 points in two weeks.

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^[1]Warosu – WHODISNIKKA???

^[2]tumblr – dat boi

^[3]iFunny – BOY

^[4]reddit – ur unusual looks gay lol

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Roasting is the act of criticizing or insulting a person, most often in a joking manner, often shared on social media such as Vine. Videos of roasting have spread heavily throughout the internet, and include memes such as What Are Those?, and You’re Not My Dad.

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According to Merriam-Webster^[1], the definition of roasting is

to subject to severe criticism or ridicule – “films have been roasted by most critics”

While the use of the word Roasting has been around before the internet, the idea of roast videos recorded gained steam around 2013. On December 12th, 2013, Vine user Logan Paul uploaded a vine titled “Well that escalated quickly … #RoastJoffrey”. The Vine gained over 4 million views, and 280,000 likes.

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On April 14th, 2015, popular YouTuber, Filthy Frank, released his video titled “LOSERREADSHATERCOMMENTS 2”. The video gained over 3 and a half million views. In the video, Frank uses a clip of himself saying “you just got roasted”. The clip has been used as a popular reaction video, with a clip of it gaining over a million views.

On May 15th, 2015, viner Aaron Doh released a vine titled “5 year old roast sessions”. The vine received 7 million views.

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SpongBob Watching TV is a popular youtube video shows SpongeBob watching inapproprite stuff.

Origin

In the episode “Your Shoes Untied” SpongeBob was seen watches a sea anemone dancing on television. When Gary comes along, SpongeBob quickly changes the channel and says he was watching sports.

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The first video on YouTube made in 2008 was SpongeBob watching clips of randomly stuff.

On April 8th 2016 Internet celebrity Toby Turner was accused of drugging and raping several women. April efff made a tumblr post on that date claiming Toby drugged her drink and then raped her, as well as several times he forced her into sex while she was sober and awake. She provided evidence of the raping/drugging by providing text messages of Toby talking to April the next day. In the texts April says she was really messed up by what Toby did to her last night. Toby then replied with: ’Twas Fun

The meme itself is very new and currently is spreading mainly on Toby’s 3 YouTube channel as well as drama alert. Twas fun’s use isn’t really known but is currently used similar to pootis and pingas as well as a reply to a negative comment. This meme is also the same meme of this whole situation in general as well as Twas fun

[w.i.p]

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The Trolley Problem is a visual representation of a popular philosophical moral dilemma. In this dilemma, a trolley is approaching five people tied down to a set of tracks. Using a lever, you can divert the trolley to a different set of tracks, on which there is one person tied down. You can either do nothing and allow the trolley to kill five people, or you can pull the lever, thereby killing one person. Which answer is morally correct?

Origin

The Trolley Problem comic was originally drawn and posted by philosophy professor Jesse Prinz on his site subcortex.com^[1] sometime before 2009. The image was posted along with a depiction of similar moral dilemma: the Fat Man problem.

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The image has most notably been used on 4chan boards /lit/^[2] and /his/^[3] in a number of different edits. It has also been used to represent the trolley problem on many different philosophical sites.

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You Could Stop at Five or Six Stores refers to montage videos with clips of people auditioning/practicing for the Sarantos Studio of Acting^[6] for an unknown position, then usually following up their script with a non-sequitur phrase and a pose. Online, the videos have been subject to parody and discussions of its origin.

Origin

On May 1 2010, a Youtube user known by the handle of “Architect” uploaded a clip relating to the videos (shown left), and then on February 4 2014, Youtuber user “josh” uploaded a video (shown right) containing various clips of a similar style. They have little over 200 000 and 3 000 000 views respectively.

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On March 19 2013, a Youtube playlist was made for the /r/cringe sub-reddit^[1], showing several clips of the various auditions, with the thread gaining 76 upvotes, and on February 22 2014, another thread^[2] was made of the video uploaded by josh, which has gained over 3000 upvotes. On August 3 2013, Buzzfeed staff member Dave Stopera posted an article^[3] on Buzzfeed about the videos, asking users who they would cast. Online, particularly Tumblr and Reddit, various images and posts relating to the clips can be found^[4][5], as well as multiple discussions and requests, and comments on the videos themselves, for what the clips are about^[7][8]. As of April 2016, there are over 89 000 results for the phrase “you could stop at five or six stores or just one” on Youtube.

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WORK IN PROGRESS

Manowar are a heavy metal band hailing from Auburn,NY. They are known as the Kings of Metal due to their album, Kings of Metal. Most known for their fantasy and mythology based lyrics regarding subjects such as heavy metal, Norse gods, War, Glory, and Honor. Manowar hold the world record for both the longest set at five hours and one minute the loudest performance. The Guinness Book of World Records no longer keeps track of this record in an attempt discourage bands, particularly Manowar from breaking it because it’s dangerous. Many of their lyrics have caught on as memes and slogans, along with the statements of the band and of their fervent fans.

Origin

Manowar was formed in 1980 by vocalist Eric Adams and bassist Joey Demaio

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Wimps and posers, leave the hall

Wimps and posers is a line from the song Metal Warriors on the album Louder Then Hell

If you don’t like Manowar you are afraid of yourself

Death to false metal

You don’t know Manowar

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“Can We Listen To Something Else Besides Future” refers to a two-panel exploitable featuring a picture of American rapper Kodak Black with a look of disgust in his face and a picture of a girl being thrown out of a car after asking to change the current music on repeat.

Origin

On March 10th, 2014 rapper Kodak Black tweeted the original image with the caption “Young Rich Nigga Trappin Outta Bentley” ^[1] earliest use of the meme were by Twitter users “PersianFlacko” (Shown below, left) and user “CamGotClout” (Shown below, right) both tweets have an average of 2k retweets and likes as of April 2016

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Most spread has been shown in Tumblr, user “slimybaby” created a post featuring the meme ^[2] which has over 13,000 notes as of April 2016, another variation, made by user “slimeghost” which has been since then deleted ^[3] garnered almost 12,000 notes a Steven Universe version was also created ^[4] which has over 7,000 notes as of April 2016.

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Pose Ton CRS (French for Put Your CRS [anywhere] as well as a play on the word “pose”) is an exploitable picture of a riot control policeman violently kicking a woman bystander during a protest against the 2016 Labor Code Reform in France. The policeman, especially his posture during the kick, became a subject of parodies online in a manner not dissimilar to the Peter Crouch Can Do Anything meme.

Origin

On April 14th 2016, during a protest against the labor code reform in Paris, over 200 demonstrators were pushed by riot control police (known in French as CRS) towards shops and cafés on one side of the street. After numerous altercations involving the use of tear gaz, one of the cafes’ customers got up to verbally protest against how the police was handling the situation and was quickly attacked by one policeman, kicking her down.
The scene was filmed by a BMFTV crew reporting on the event (YouTube upload shown below).

The exact moment of the kick was also captured by photographer Jan Schmidt-Whitley who uploaded it to his Facebook page^[1] (shown below) offering backstory on how and why the customers were angry at the police for being trapped with the demonstrators. The photograph was shared over 3 000 times in the next three days.

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The same day the photo was shared online, Twitter user @JulesLmeghribi submitted a template version (shown below)^[2]. A fad of parodies involving the policeman put into various other pictures took hold on the site, under the hashtag #PoseTonCRS^[3].

As early as the following day, the trend became widely reported by various online news outlets, including 20 Minutes^[4], Le Monde^[5] or Les Inrocks^[6].

The Victim’s Testimony

On April 15th, the woman being hit began sharing her side of the story to Buzzfeed which contacted her, revealing she is a 24 years old student named Tamara who was sitting at the terrace of a nearby café and got caught in the crossfire between demonstrators and policemen^[8], she also announced her intention to file a complaint against the police:

«J’étais au café Le Conservatoire, avenue Jaurès. Les lycéens avaient fini par charger après avoir été bloqués pendant 40 minutes par les CRS. Forcément, les policiers ont chargé en retour et toutes les personnes qui se trouvaient en terrasse et d’autres personnes pas du tout impliquées dans la manif, se sont retrouvées au milieu de tout ça.
Ils ont lancé leurs lacrymogènes sans réfléchir sur les personnes en terrasse vu que les lycéens ont vite reculé. Alors j’ai “gueulé” sur eux en disant aux CRS qu’ils s’en prenaient à n’importe qui, sans réfléchir. Là, je me me suis pris un coup violent et non justifié, je suis encore choquée», nous dit-elle.

Translation:

“I was sitting at café Le Conservatoire, in Jaurès avenue. The high school students eventually charged the riot control force because they had blocked them for a whole 40 minutes. Of course, the policemen charged as well in retaliation but everyone who happened to be sitted at the terraces of the cafés as well as other bystanders who weren’t involved at all in the demonstration became trapped in the middle of all this mess. The policemen threw tear gaz at us, the people in terrace, without thinking, as the students quickly backed off. So I “shouted” at them, saying that the police was attacking anyone at random without thinking. That’s when I got gratuitously and violently kicked. I’m still in shock." She told us.

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^[1]Facebook – Jan Schmidt-Whitley’s photo

^[2]Twitter – Template

^[3]Twitter – #PoseTonCRS

^[4]20 Minutes – #PoseTonCRS: Le coup de pied d’un policier devient un mème sur Twitter

^[5]Le Monde – Le CRS, la jeune femme, le coup de pied et la viralité

^[6]Les Inrocks – Le mème de la semaine : quand un CRS devient la risée du web

^[8]Buzzfeed – A Cop Got Turned Into A Meme After Kicking A Student During A Protest

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“Stop Complaining” was a recurring comment on the YouTuber Hekya’s channel and Facebook pages that peaked in January after he posted several rants about him losing several years worth of progress growing his social media because of different unfortunate events. He’s claimed to have started the Let’s Play trend, losing a channel with 23000 subscribers being subscribed to by PewDiePie and having whitelisting from several big music labels, losing a channel with 81000 subscribers being the 108th most subscribed channel of all time, over 500 million views to someone who stole his idea, with a handful of other big claims. A handful of these claims have been proven to be true, including PewDiePie’s subscription, some of the whitelisting, the amount of views on a similar page as his, and the 23000 sub channel. It’s unconfirmed if the claims about starting Let’s Play and the 81000 108th most subscribed channel are true or false. This raises the question if Hekya was the first Let’s Play creator or not. These topics have been very controversial on his page since then.

Origin:
Around early November 2015 a YouTuber who goes by the name of Hekya closed his channel and posted a several paragraph rant about how he was too upset to continue posting content online. A handful of the responses made were criticizing him for giving up, and to stop complaining. For the next couple of months Hekya occasionally posted more about the reason why he’s upset; Claiming he started the Let’s Play trend, having had someone plagiarize his content and making hundreds of millions of views and how he’s lost several big YouTube channels to hackers. Since these events, Hekya has started making new content again and people still occasionally post comments saying ‘stop complaining’, poking fun at his rants and the responses.

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Michael Bublé Doesn’t Know How to Eat Corn on the Cob is a photoshop meme based on a picture of singer-songerwriter Michael Bublé inserting a corn on the cob longways into his mouth. The photo was widely mocked online, with many asserting that Buble did not know how to correctly eat cooked ears of corn.

Origin

On April 13th, 2016, the online tabloid The Sun^[1] published a Splash News photograph of Buble eating the end of a corn on the cob while at the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, California (shown below). The same day, the entertainment news blog Digital Spy^[4] highlighted the photo in an article titled “Cobsucker Michael Bublé just doesn’t know how to eat corn on the cob.”

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On April 14th, Redditor extraordinary15 submitted the photo to the /r/photoshopbattles^[2] subreddit, where it gained over 5,200 votes (90% upvoted) and 300 comments, many of which featured photoshopped variations of the photo (shown below).

On April 15th, Tech Crunch reporter Greg Kumparak posted a tweet^[3] mocking Buble for not knowing “how to eat corn” (shown below). In 48 hours, the tweet gained over 3,400 likes and 2,900 retweets (shown below, left). Meanwhile, Buble tweeted^[13] the photo and referred to the online reaction as “vegetable harassment” (shown below, right).

In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the photoshop meme, including BuzzFeed,^[5] US Weekly,^[6] Eater,^[7] The Huffington Post,^[8] Metro,^[9] Elite Daily,^[10] Mashable^[11] and ET Online.^[12]

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I’m So Random / Lol So Random / So Random is a phrase that describes something/someone perceived as “random” via their actions, and is commonly paired with ironic usage of the emoticon XD. Online, the phrase is commonly used to mock people who use the phrase to describe something/someone and/or themselves.

Origin

The origin of the phrase is not known, but usage of the term is reported to be found around 2004. The earliest popularly-known example of ‘randomness’ on the Internet is the meme Katy t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m. Another speculated source of the rise of popularity of the phrases might be due to the Disney Channel show titled “So Random!”^[3].

Explanation of ‘Random’ Culture

‘Random’ culture refers to a group of people, usually within their teenage years, who do/say things unrelated to a conversation/action at hand and/or jokes that do not adhere to any types of humor, which they perceive as funny. They describe themselves as “random” due to the off-kilter, off-beat and unrelated style of humor they employ. They are commonly sources for cringe material, due to their sense of humor being commonly perceived as attention-seeking.

On January 30 2005, Urban Dictionary Pip uploaded the top definition for the term^[1] on the site describing the subculture, describing it as:

The latest buzzword used amongst mindless teenagers as a way of showing just so utterly irreverent their predictable sense of humour is. Particularly dominant among English teens and University students, the word “random” or the act of being “random” is a desperate plea for others to recognise how totally against the grain of the norm you are and that you’re really crazy and out there. Trouble is, being “random” is predictable, boring, moronic and extremely sad indeed.

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On April 16 2011, a page describing the phrase “I’m so random” was uploaded to Encyclopedia Dramatica^[4]. On November 24, 2013, Reddit user Redbingo posted a thread on /r/OutOfTheLoop, asking what “xD I’m so random!” mean^[5]. There are also many results for the phrase on Tumblr^[6] and 4chan^[7]. The webcomic xkcd also made a comic^[8] referencing the subculture and phrase.

On June 26 2011, an anonymous user posted the top definition for the term “lol so random xd”^[2] on Urban Dictionary, defining the term as:

A sarcastic statement mocking the type of netspeak that is popular among 12-17 year olds. When spoken in word, it is spoken in a serious (thus ironic) voice while pronouncing the “xd” as “ex dee”.

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im lazy but i’ll probably add images to this later when i’m not sick

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“Hey, Authority” refers to a photograph of American singer-songwriter Kid Rock holding up a middle finger at the camera outside of a courtroom in April 2016. Short after it was posted to his Twitter and Facebook accounts, the rock musician’s petulant anti-authoritarian message went viral online and spawned a photo fad of various individuals mimicking his gesture with the caption “hey, authority.”

Origin

On April 12th, 2016, Kid Rock posted an image of himself smiling and sticking up his middle finger while standing outside of a courtroom, prefaced with the caption that reads “hey, authority.” Within hours of the post on Twitter^[1] and Facebook^[2], Kid Rock’s photograph began racking up thousands of likes and shares; in just a little over two weeks, the image garnered more than 4,800 retweets and 8,500 likes on Twitter, as well as over 55,000 likes, 4,800 shares and 1,500 comments on Facebook.

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That same day, American standup comedian Joe Mande^[6] tweeted a parody image of himself awkwardly sticking up a middle finger while standing next to his office nameplate, followed by American comedian Andy Richter’s tweet^[7] featuring the Chihuahua dog (as seen in the “Sleep Tight Pupper” meme) with the caption “hey, authority.”

On April 13th, Comedy Central’s @Midnight host Chris Hardwick^[9] hosted a live challenge event inspired by Kid Rock’s viral “middle finger” photograph, prompting another batch of parody photographs mimicking the musician’s defiant message. Also on April 13th, Kid Rock’s tweet was covered by a number of viral media and internet culture blogs, including The Verge^[3], Uproxx^[4] and The Daily Dot.^[5] In addition, Redditor w4lt3r submitted a screenshot of the original tweet to /r/FirstWorldAnarchists.^[10]

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get troued m8

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“Joel Skype”, also known as “Joel Get on Skype”, is a Twitch chat copypasta referencing a message posted during the 2015 North American League of Legends Championship Series (LCS), which demanded that a person named Joel launch the Skype messaging application.

Origin

On February 7th, 2015, a Twitch user began demanding a person named Joel get on Skype in the Twitch chat room for the North American LCS, leading other users to spam the message in the channel.^[1]

Spread

The following day, Redditor Matt1509 submitted a post titled “Who is Joel?” to the /r/leagueoflegends^[2] subreddit, to which many cited the Twitch messages during the championship stream. That month, a shirt printed with the words “Joel Skype” was placed for sale on the online retailer RedBubble^[4] (shown below).

On February 21st, 2015, YouTuber BeastAbbleBie uploaded footage from a League of Legends web show in which the host says “Joel, get on Skype” (shown below, left). On April 2nd, 2015, YouTuber PentaSteal uploaded footage of a game show comedy sketch on the same web show, in which the host says “Joel, you are cordially invited to get on Skype” (shown below, right).

On April 3rd, a screenshot of players spamming “Joel Skype” in the video game RuneScape was posted on Imgur (shown below). On November 22nd, HLTV Forums^[5] user conoR submitted a thread asking about the “Joel Skype meme.” On March 31st, 2016, Yahoo! Esports^[3] published an article listing “Joel Skype” among various other memes on Twitch chat.

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Be Careful Who You Call Ugly In Middle School, sometimes with “high school” substituted for “middle school” is a catchphrase often applied to a pair of pictures to illustrate an obvious discrepancy, in a manner similar to Expectation vs. Reality, but with a satirical commentary on the anti-cyberbullying movement.

Origin

The origin of this meme is unknown, but it first surfaced around October of 2015 on social media sites like Facebook around the same time as a hashtag-style challenge, called “#BeCarefulWhoYouCallUglyChallenge” was circulating. The challenge was meant to inspire people to stop cyberbullying by encouraging people to post pictures of themselves during their “awkward phase” and then again as adults, to show their current beauty. On October 13th, the parody Instagram account savagerealm posted a composite of two images; one the “before and after” of a girl posting on Facebook, and one of Confused Nick Young. The image post received 213 likes, and was subsequently repost on forums like 9gag, IGN, and Imgur.

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Petty Skai Jackson / Skai Jackson Sitting is a reaction image based on a photograph of American teen actress Skai Jackson sitting primly on a chair. Upon entering circulation via Twitter in April 2016, the image has been used in combination with dialogues or descriptions of social interactions illustrating common acts of pettiness and pretentiousness driven by perfectionism, particularly within the Black Twitter community.

Origin

On April 4th, 2016, the actress Skai Jackson tweeted a photo of herself waiting in the green room of the New York City Fox affiliate before an appearance on the morning news show Good Day New York.^[9] The tweet received 666 retweets and 1,679 likes as of April 19th.^[1]

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On April 12th, Twitter user jonnnfinest tweeted the photo with a captioned imaginary conversation between a boyfriend and a girlfriend. The tweet received over 12,800 retweets and over 11,100 likes.^[2]

On April 13th, Twitter user tamela__ tweeted the photo with a captioned imaginary conversation between a teacher and his or her students, which received over 10,000 retweets and over 11,000 likes.^[3]

On April 14th, users on Twitter discovered that there was another angle taken of the photo, and began tweeting both photos paired with captions.^[4]

Also on the 14th, users began posting the photos to Tumblr. One post, a screenshot of a tweet originally posted by shedissinme from that day,^[5] received more than 19,000 notes.^[6]

On April 15th, Buzzfeed explained the photo meme in an article.^[7] As of April 19th, an image search for the original photo upload confirms thousands of instances on Twitter.^[8]

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This meme consists of the person tweeting at Uber’s support Twitter account with something like “Hey @Uber_Support one of your drivers called me a fat cunt and threw me off to the side of the highway. This was him” with a picture of a celebrity in a car. The first known tweet was of a picture of Demi Lovato.

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Stoner Sloth is the mascot for an Australian anti-drug public awareness campaign created by the global creative firm Saatchi & Saatchi, which urges teenagers to abstain from using the drug marijuana. In a series of videos, the anthropomorphic sloth is shown struggling to complete a variety of simple tasks, followed by the words “You’re Worse On Weed” displayed on the screen.

Origin

Starting in November 2015, a series of videos commissioned by Australia’s New South Wales Department of Premier and Cabinet were released on Facebook,^[1] which feature people dressed in a sloth costumes who demonstrate ineptitude in various social situations as a result of being too high on marijuana.

Spread

On December 15th, YouTuber aa4398743873 uploaded a compilation of Stoner Sloth clips, which gained over 3.8 million views and 4,700 comments. Several days later, Redditor snowsoftJ4C submitted the video to the /r/AccidentalComedy^[2] subreddit.

On December 19th, YouTuber quollism posted a Stoner Sloth parody video warning about the dangers of salt (shown below, left). On December 23rd, YouTuber Lewis Spears posted a video titled “Stoner Sloth. The Worlds Worst Anti-Marijuana Campaign” (shown below, right).

On December 27th, the Sydney Morning Herald^[3] reported that the public awareness campaign was cost taxpayers $500,000. On April 17th, 2016, The Fine Brothers posted a Teens React video featuring the Stoner Sloth clips (shown below).

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