Masturbation May is the annual event of protecting the right to masturbate, promoting sexual health, and expressing sexuality.
Im 1995, Good Vibrations declared May 7 as National Masturbation Day in honour of surgeon general Joycelyn Elders who in the previous year was fired by then President Bill Clinton for suggesting to include masturbation into sexual education.
The Parking Lot is Full[1] is a 1993 webcomic that was created by artist Jack McLaren and writer Pat Spacek.
The comic, which began on October 29, 1993,[2] was first published in McLaren’s and Spacek’s university newspaper and later took on “a life of it’s own” after it made its way online.[3] On May 5th, 2002[4] Mclaren and Spacek decided to end the comic after they’d said all they needed to say.
The comic’s website currently contains an “About” page where users can read a brief description of the comic,[3] an “Archive” section where users can read old installments, excluding ones that are censored,[5] a “Merchandise” section where users can purchase a collection of old strips in book format[6] and an email link.
SOON refers to a caption in image macros typically featuring a creepy looking presence peering out from either a dark enclosed space or a window. One of the earliest examples of this meme comes from the March 27th, 2001 installment of The Parking Lot is Full.
It’s Goofy Time! refers to a series of exploitable comics based on the March 6th, 1998 installment of the comic. Examples usually feature alternate characters and captions.
[1]The Parking Lot is Full Web Page
[2]The Parking Lot is Full Web Page: The Archives for 1993
[3]About – The Parking Lot is Full Web Page
[4]The Parking Lot is Full Web Page: The Archives for 2002
MaxMoeFoe is the online handle of Australian vlogger and comedian Max Stanley, who is best known for posting pranking, video game playthroughs and fan mail videos on YouTube.
On October 6th, 2008, the first video was uploaded to the MaxMoeFor channel, featuring a short animation of a stick figure fight (shown below, left). The channel remained dormant until a video titled “The Worst Sandwich Ever” was uploaded on June 1st, 2011 (shown below, right).
On April 5th, 2012, Stanley uploaded a prank video in which he calls a McDonald’s restaurant and complains about finding feces in his burger (shown below, left). On June 7th, a second McDonald’s prank video was uploaded in which he complains about receiving a Coca-Cola drink with semen in it (shown below, right). In the next four years, the videos gained over five million and three million views respectively.
On September 3rd, Stanley released a video titled “Vomit Everywhere – 3L Milk Challenge,” in which he attempts drinks three liter jug of milk with green food coloring (shown below, left). On October 13th, he uploaded a video in which he is forced to eat food provided by HowToBasic (shown below, right). Within three years, the videos accumulated upwards of 5.6 million and 10.9 million views respectively.
In August 2012, Stanley appeared on the Australian news for posting a prank call video titled “Lord of the Dings,” in which he calls an auto repair shop (shown below). That year, YouTube removed a video in which Stanley pretends to be a 13-year-old girl on Omegle. [3]
On July 10th, 2015, FilthyFrank uploaded a video titled “Vomit Cake,” in which FilthyFrank and Stanley bake a cake together (shown below, left). On April 30th, 2016 MaxMoeFoe uploaded a Super Mario-themed video starring Filthy Frank as Mario, Idubbbz as Luigi and Stanley as Princess Peach (shown below).
That Spring, fans began shipping Filthy Frank and Stanley together, nicknaming the latter “Mama Max.” On May 1st, Redditor NocturnalPoop submitted a post asking “What’s with all the ‘Mama Max’ comments on YoutTube?” to the /r/OutOfTheLoop[2] subreddit.
Stanley was born on August 10th, 1993, in Western Australia. In October 2013, he took a break from vlogging for unknown personal circumstances.
[1]YouTube – “maxmoefoe”:
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Eric André is an American actor, comedian and television host. He is the creator and host of The Eric Andre Show on Adult Swim and plays Mike on the FXX series Man Seeking Woman.
Eric is known for his comedy show “The Eric Andre Show”, a parody of low-budget public-access talk shows which premiered on Adult Swim on May 20, 2012. The series is hosted by comedian Eric André along with comedian Hannibal Buress, who serves as André’s sidekick. In April 2015 André made a special surprise appearance on Conan to announce the show has been renewed for a fourth season.[1]
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The entire first, second, and third seasons of The Eric Andre Show have been released on iTunes, Amazon Video and Hulu plus.
[1]– Eric Andre Has a Big Announcement– YouTube.
Last Veteran of WWII Battle Group in Victory Day Parade refers to a photograph of an elderly veteran garbed in Russian military dress uniform wiping the tears from his eyes while marching down a street alongside a crowd of supporters. Since 2013, the photograph has gone viral on various social media platforms around the world, typically with the caption describing the man as the last surviving World War II veteran of his battlegroup marching alone at a commemorative parade.
The photograph is said to have been circulating the Russian web for several years, typically resurging during the days leading up to and after Victory Day on May 9th, before it gained international fame through the grapevines of social media.
According to BBC Trending’s investigation, the image was originally taken by photographer Aleksandr Petrosyan[1] on Nevsky Prospekt during the 2007 Victory Day parade in St. Petersburg, Russia. While Petrosyan recalls having taken the photograph of the crying veteran on that day, he stated that he did not speak to him person and the identity of the man remains unknown.
On May 8th, 2013, the photograph was submitted to Reddit’s /r/pics[2], where it gained 2,862 votes prior to being archived. On May 9th, 2015, which marked the 60th anniversary of Victory Day in Russia, the photograph was submitted to /r/pics[3] for the second time, accruing 4,550 votes before its archival. On April 1st, 2016, the Facebook page[4] for English-language news site HypeDojo posted a captioned version of the photograph. Within the first month, the post gained over 800,000 shares.
Due to the lack of biographical information about the man depicted in the image, many viewers from different countries of The Allies misinterpreted it as representing a veteran from their respective nations, including Great Britain, Australia and the United States. On April 16th, BBC Trending[1] ran an article about the photograph titled “The mystery veteran who won the internet’s heart,” which identified one of the medals on his uniform as “The Order of the Patriotic War,” a decoration given to those who served in the Soviet Army during World War II, citing the analysis of Dr. Igor Sutyagin, a Russian military expert at the UK’s Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI).
[1]BBC– The mystery veteran who won the internet’s heart
[2]Reddit – Emotional WWII veteran at a Victory Day parade in Russia. I found this photo really moving. Taken by: Aleksandr Petrosyan
[3]Reddit – Emotional WWII veteran at a Victory Day parade in Russia
[4]Facebook – HypeDojo’s Facebook Post
[5]SoundCloud – The unidentified World War II veteran who’s become an internet meme’
[6]Reddit – Last veteran of his WWII battle group marching alone in Memorial Day Parade.
[7]9GAG – Last veteran of his WWII battle group marching alone in Memorial Day Parade
The Dover Boys at Pimento University or The Rivals of Roquefort Hall (better known as simply The Dover Boys) is a short animated cartoon directed by Chuck Jones that was released in 1942 as part of the Merrie Melodies series created by Warner Bros. Entertainment. Because of its dramatic dialogue and unusual antagonist, the cartoon is highly popular online, and spawned various YouTube Poops, image macros, and has been popularly quoted on Tumblr.
The cartoon follows the story of the Dover Boys visiting their mutual fiancée, Dora Standpipe, and taking her to the nearby park for a game of hide and seek. While Dora counted to 15,000 facing against a tree, the Dover Boys searched for a place to hide, eventually ending up in a saloon in which Dan Backslide, the arch-rival of the Dover Boys, played snooker and cried about his hatred towards the Dover Boys and love towards Dora Standpipe. He notices the Dover Boys hiding under the pool table, and sees it as an opportunity to abduct Dora. Using a disguise and a stolen runabout, he does so, bringing Dora into his house in the mountains. Dora’s distress calls from the house are heard by a boy scout, who sends a telegram to the Dover Boys requesting help. The Dover Boys then quickly arrive at the house and beat up Backslide. After punching him several times, the Dover Boys attempt to strongly punch him one last time, but accidentally do it to each other, resulting in both Backslide and the Dover Boys being knocked out and Dora Standpipe resolving to dating a sailor who had only served as comic relief earlier in the cartoon.
The Dover Boys at Pimento University is a parody of the Rover Boys book series, with the Dover Boys’ names, Tom, Dick and Larry, Dora Standpipe’s name, as well as the antagonist’s name, Dan Backslide, being references to characters from the Rover Boys: Tom, Sam, Dick, Dora Stanhope and Dan Baxter. The Dover Boys is one of the several cartoons created by Warner Bros. that fell under public domain, as its copyright had not been renewed.
During the years 2010-2011, The Dover Boys became a somewhat popular source for YouTube Poops, particularly due to the complexity of the dialogue.
While fan art has existed before the period, The Dover Boys became particularly noted online around 2011, when Dan Backslide’s catchphrase, “Confound those Dover Boys! They drive me to drink!” became an in-joke within the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom, with the quote being manipulated to fit certain characters from the show. As a result of the catchphrase becoming popular within the fandom, other quotes made by Dan Backslide have been used in fan art as well.
In April 2016, The Dover Boys has become a popular in-joke in Tumblr, with users using quotes from the cartoon as copypastas, one of the most popular variations being made by user skarchomp, who made a Tumblr post made to look like a call out post for the Dover Boys made by Dan Backslide.[1] The post is often manipulated, with Dan Backslide being replaced with another villain who hates a group of fellow characters. At the same time, The Dover Boys generated an ironic fandom with fan art and image parodies.[2]
Body Transformations refer to before-and-after images and videos that highlight individuals’ drastic changes in physique over time, typically as a result of significant weight loss or muscle gain. Online, such media are often shared on various communities devoted to the topic of physical fitness.
Body transformations have been widely utilized in advertisements for weight loss and fitness products. One of the earliest known examples comes from a 1920s ad for the Dynamic-Tension fitness book by American bodybuilder Charles Atlas, which featured a comic in which a skinny man transforms himself into a bodybuilder to defend his pride against a beach bully (shown below).
In 2004, the reality television show The Biggest Loser began airing in the United States, which featured obese contestants competing to lose the most weight to win a cash prize at the end of the season. On August 28th, 2007, YouTuber Kluivert9 uploaded a video titled “My body transformation,” featuring a slideshow of photographs showing his transformation from skinny to fit (shown below). Within nine years, the video gathered upwards of 6.5 million views and 11,700 comments.
On June 28th, 2009, YouTuber durrah 1986 uploaded a slideshow of photographs depicting his fitness progress over several years (shown below, left). On January 13th, 2010, YouTuber Hamid Hassanzadeh posted photographs showing his 5-month body transformation (shown below, right).
On February 25th, 2011, an advertisement was uploaded by the Six Pack Shortcuts YouTube channel, featuring before-and-after photographs of men using the company’s “Afterburn” training video for abdominal muscles (shown below, left). On June 23rd, the /r/progresspics[1] subreddit was launched for Redditors to share before-and-after photographs of their body transformations. On February 5th, 2012, YouTuber Furious Pete uploaded a video showing how to fake fitness transformation videos (shown below, right).
On March 4th, the /r/NakedProgress[2] subreddit was launched for NSFW photographs of fitness and weight loss progress. On December 12th, a Facebook[3] page titled “Body Transformation” was launched, which gathered upwards of 179,000 likes over the next four years. On March 3rd, 2013, YouTuber Jon Calvo uploaded footage of himself losing 175 pounds over three years (shown below, left). On August 9th, 2014, YouTuber Bar Brothers DK posted a video showing a 16-year-old’s fitness transformation using a calisthenics program (shown below, right).
On January 1st, 2015, Ebaumsworld[5] published a slideshow titled “23 Incredible Female Body Transformations.” On August 14th, YouTuber David Laid posted a video showing his bodybuilding progression from the age of 14 to 17 (shown below, left). On September 4th, the EpicMashups YouTube channel posted a video of 10 celebrity fitness transformations (shown below, right). In December, a compilation of celebrity body transformation images was posted on 9gag.[4]
[1]Reddit – /r/progresspics
[2]Reddit – /r/NakedProgress (NSFW)
[3]Facebook – Body Transformation
[4]9gag – The Most Extreme Body Transformations Done For Movie Roles
[5]Ebaums World – 23 Incredible Female Body Transformations
50 Cent is the stage name of rapper, producer and actor Curtis James Jackson III. Online, he has been involved in a number of controversies, many of which stem from content posted on his Instagram page.
In 1998, Jackson began his rap career with his first appearance on the track “React” by Onyx. In 1999, Jackson released his debut single “How to Rob.” In 2002, Jackson received a $1 million record deal from Dr. Dre. On February 6th, 2003, Jackson’s debut studio album Get Rich or Die Tryin’ was released by Aftermath Entertainment. Over the next 13 years, Jackson released five additional albums, including The Massacre (2005), Curtis (2007), Before I Self Destruct (2009), Animal Ambition (2014) and Street King Immortal (2016).
In December 2008, Jackson created the @50cent[5] Twitter account, which received more than 8.26 million followers within eight years. On February 9th, 2012, Jackson launched the @50cent[4] Instagram feed, gathering upwards of 9.9 million followers over the next five years. In August 2014, Jackson posted an ice bucket challenge video, in which he challenges boxer Floyd Mayweather to read one full page of a Harry Potter book. That month, he posted another video in which he challenged Mayweather to read The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss. Later that month, Jackson posted several other videos directed at Floyd Mayweather (shown below).
In June 2011, an Anonymous operation was launched against Jackson to vote down the music video for his song “Outlaw” on YouTube and leave comments referencing fellow rapper Ja Rule. The goal of the operation was to “make 50 Cent the new Rebecca Black”.
On July 3rd, 2012, Twitter user yung_raditz sent American rapper 50 Cent a tweet reading “@50cent Release the album or get shot again”. 50 Cent responded to this tweet by saying, “yeah just saw your picture fool you look autistic”, which was later followed by “I don’t want no special ed kids on my time line follow some body else”. These tweets caused a controversy for various people, resulting in numerous angry replies. Afterwards 50 Cent apologized for the tweets, even noting “…i was in special ed…”.
In January 2016, rapper Meek Mill released the track “Gave Em Hope,” which contained lyrics that many interpreted were attacking Jackson.
“I got 50 reasons say you’re taking dick / And it’s 50 reasons I should kill, nigga.”
That month, Jackson and Mill posted several images on Instagram insulting one another, including various image macros and photoshopped pictures (shown below).
In May 2016, Jackson posted a video to Instagram, in which he is shown filming a young airport employee while accusing him of being high at work (shown below). The video was subsequently deleted, but was reuploaded by YouTuber JahBwoy on May 1st (shown below). The following day, Redditor mindmerciful submitted the video to the /r/videos[2] subreddit in a post titled “50 Cent is an asshole.” Within 24 hours, the video gathered upwards of 1.34 million views and the Reddit post received more than 5,900 votes (88% upvoted).
The following day, the news station Fox 19 aired a segment on the incident, identifying the man in the video as Andrew Farrell, an airport janitor with Asperger’s syndrome (shown below). The segment was subsequently posted on the /r/videos[3] subreddit, where it gained over 3,100 votes (87% upvoted) and 580 comments.
On May 3rd, TMZ[1] reported that Farrell’s family had hired a lawyer to possibly sue Jackson over the video, saying they would “forget the whole thing” if Jackson donated $1 million to their GoFundMe page and apologized in person.
50 Cent Drive By refers to a series of animated GIFs and video clips in which Jackson is shown staring at someone in bewilderment, before smirking in a condescending manner and driving away.
Jackson was born on July 6th, 1975 in Queens, New York. At the age of 12, Jackson began selling illicit drugs and purchasing firearms for protection. In 2000, Jackson was shot in the hand, arm, hip, legs, chest and cheek outside his grandmother’s house in Queens, New York.
This meme started as an inside joke of fairly popular Hamilton (a popular musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda) artist, Sierra Sharp or as she goes by Lizardsinner on Instagram and both Lizardsinner and yamhaylet on Tumblr. Sierra on an Instagram direct message group, jokingly said that herself was famous American composer Lin-Manuel Miranda, in response members of the group chat jokingly asked for tickets to see the show, in which Sharp herself replied, something along the lines of “No, i need money for baby pools,”. Then, members of the group chat proceeded to create images of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s face zoomed in with the words “Baby Pools” written in a generic font. Afterwords, Sharp posted a drawing of Lin in a baby pool with little context to her followers on Instagram.
Fans of Sharp had begun to produce many pictures of Lin in situations containing baby pools with the hashtag #LinNeedsBabyPools. The meme has spread to websites such as Tumblr and Twitter but it has not gained nearly as much popularity as it has on Instagram.
We Just Need to Pee is a hashtag campaign launched in protest of various laws aimed at preventing transgender people from entering bathrooms of genders not specified on their birth certificates.
In February 2015, Canadian Senator Donald Plett made several public statements in favor of a controversial amendment to Bill C-279, aimed at preventing pre-op transgender people from entering washrooms of the gender they identify with. In defense of the amendment, Plett argued that allowing trans women into women’s restrooms “allows for pedophiles to take advantage of legislation that we have in place.”[2] That month, Canadian trans woman Brae Carnes began posting selfie photographs of herself in front of urinals inside men’s restrooms while holding a sign reading “Plett Put Me Here” (shown below).
The following month, other transgender rights activists began posting selfie photographs on social media taken in bathrooms matching their biological sex along with the hashtags #PlettPutMeHere" and “#WeJustNeedToPee”[1] (shown below).
On March 14th, the LGBT news site Advocate[4] and BBC News[5] published articles about the hashtag campaign. On MAy 1st, YouTuber Lauren Bracken posted an animated video about the transgender bathroom debate title “We Just Need to Pee” (shown below, left). On May 21st, YouTuber FinnTheInfinncible, a trans man, posted a video titled “We just need to pee!”, which criticized proposed legislation aimed at penalizing transgender people from entering public restrooms of the gender they identify as (shown below, right).
On February 22nd, Charlotte, North Carolina passed a city ordinance prohibiting sexual orientation or preference-based discrimination in public accommodations (like bathrooms), passenger vehicles for hire and city contractors. A month later, on March 23rd, the North Carolina State Legislature passed the bill HB2, which banned people from using bathrooms of the gender not specified on their birth certificate. Following the bill’s passage, the #WeJustNeedToPee hashtag saw a resurgence in popularity among those protesting the legislation. On April 15th, Advocate[6] published a slideshow highlighting 16 notable examples of the hashtag (shown below).
[1]Twitter – #WeJustNeedToPee
[2]The Star – Activists angered by change to transgender rights bill
[3]Twitter – #PlettPutMeHere
[4]Advocate – Trans Filks Respond to Bathroom Bills
[5]BBC News – We just need to pee
[6]Advocate – 16 Images Showing We Just Need to Pee
Peter Dutton’s Unflattering Face is a photoshop meme based on a poorly-lit photograph of the Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton that was taken by a news reporter at a press conference held on May 3rd, 2016. The image promptly went viral after Dutton’s staffer requested the photojournalist to remove the photograph from Twitter, which in turn triggered a series of jokes poking fun at the Australian minister’s forbidding appearance and the officials’ ill-conceived attempt at media censorship.
On May 2nd, 2016, Australia’s Ministry of Immigration and Border Protection called for a press conference in response to two Somali refugees who set themselves on fire while seeking asylum in the country. As Minister Peter Dutton entered the dimly-lit room and approached the podium before the bursts of camera flashes, Fairfax Media’s political reporter Stephanie Peatling[1] tweeted a photograph of the Minister with a large portion of his face obscured in shadow (shown below).
Shortly after Peatling shared the photograph on Twitter, the reporter was contacted by Dutton’s staffer with a request to remove the tweet as it portrayed him in an “unflattering” manner. Peatling then complied with the request and immediately followed up with a tweet[2] explaining her reason for the removal, which soon brought on even more attention to the image from the Australian social media.
About an hour later, Australian journalist Dave Donovan[3] tweeted the same photograph of Peter Dutton in question (shown below), thereby implicitly invoking the Internet’s long-standing anti-censorship phenomenon known as the Streisand Effect.
On May 3rd, Redditor MonthofMarch submitted the original image of Peter Dutton to /r/PhotoshopBattles[4] in a post titled “Australia’s Immigration minister Peter Dutton wants this photo removed,” which quickly took off and drew nearly 100 photoshopped parodies based on Dutton’s “unflattering” photograph. Throughout the day, Australian Ministry of Immigration’s public relations debacle was reported on by various local news outlets, as well as several major English-language news sites overseas, including Sydney Morning Herald[5], SBS[7], Business Insider[11], The Guardian[14] and BuzzFeed[10], among others.
In the following 48 hours, the unflattering photograph in question continued to emerge on Twitter, Reddit, Imgur and elsewhere online, along with a series of satirical tweets and photoshopped parodies mocking the villainous image of Dutton’s face.
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[1]Twitter – Stephanie Peatling’s Tweet
[2]Twitter – Stephanie Peatling’s Tweet
[3]Twitter – Dave Donovan’s Tweet
[4]Reddit – PsBattle: Australia’s Immigration minister Peter Dutton wants this photo removed
[5]Sydney Morning Herald – When Peter Dutton’s face became an ever-evolving meme
[6]Sunshine Coast Daily – Peter Dutton’s many faces on Reddit
[7]SBS– ‘Unflattering’ photo Peter Dutton’s team wanted deleted goes viral
[8]Junkee – People Are Having Lots Of Fun With This Photo That Peter Dutton Doesn’t Want You To See
[9]News.com.au – Peter Dutton photo goes global after he demands it be deleted from internet
[10]BuzzFeed – This Is What Happens When You Tell The Internet To Delete A Photo
[11]Business Insider – Immigration minister Peter Dutton’s just became a victim of the ‘Streisand effect’
[12]The Age – Letter from Immigration Minister Peter Dutton to Fairfax Media
[13]Pedestrian.TV – DUTTON’S PHOTOHITTHEFRONTPAGE OF REDDITFOR A SAVAGEPHOTOSHOPBATTLE
[14]The Guardian – Peter Dutton photo goes global after he demands it be deleted from internet
Smug Pooing Baby is an image macro series based on a photograph of an infant smiling with his arms behind his head in a chair, which was purportedly taken immediately after he soiled himself, accompanied by captions portraying the baby as a smug and overconfident individual, as well as various references to potty training.
On May 2nd, 2016, Imgur[1] user atodaso uploaded a photograph of an infant boy along with the title “Every time he craps his pants, he puts his hands behind his head and smirks.” Within 48 hours, the photo received upwards of one million views and 14,700 points.
That day, Imgur user IneegoMontoya uploaded the photo along with the caption “MRW I’ve Put In My 2 Weeks Notice / And I’m Just Coming In And Watching It All Fall Apart” (shown below). Within 48 hours, the image received more than 400,000 views and 6,800 points.
Also on May 2nd, other Imgur users posted various image macros using the baby photograph, including a joke about infant incontinence (shown below, left) and a photoshopped picture comparing the baby to Martin Shekreli and Donald Trump (shown below, right).[2][3]
In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the meme, including The Daily Dot,[4] Cosmopolitan[5] and ForeverVogue.[6]
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[1]Imgur – Every time he craps his pants
[2]Imgur – When you get R Kelly’d by a baby
[3]Imgur – Evolution of a smug rich prick
[4]The Daily Dot – This smug baby just crapped his pants
[5]Cosmopolitan – Everyone Loves the Look on This Babys
[6]ForeverVogue – This Pooping Baby is now a Meme
#NeverTrump is a Twitterhashtag meme principally known for its use by American conservatives, Republicans, and other right-of-center individuals to express their opposition to the candidacy of businessman and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. The hashtag also refers to the conservative, right-of-center political movement of the same name, which is devoted to obstructing Trump’s election to the American presidency.
The Republican presidential primary began with a crowded field of at least twelve notable candidates as of Iowa Caucuses.[7] Analysts have suggested that the large field divided traditional Republican voters in early primary contests, allowing Trump to achieve victory even when polls indicated Republicans’ preference for one of the other candidates.[8]
To combat this phenomenon, some Republican commentators and strategists suggested that the field narrow and that Republican voters consolidate around a single, non-Trump candidate. Early advocates of this strategy include the editorial board of the National Review, a conservative political magazine, which made it the magazine’s editorial policy to oppose Trump’s candidacy.[9]
On February 26, 2016, the #NeverTrump hashtag began trending worldwide,[1] primarily in response to Donald Trump’s success in the Nevada primaries and an endorsement from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. [Researching]
Following the initial success of the #NeverTrump hashtag, media outlets began using the term as collective moniker for right-of-center Americans staunchly opposed to Trump’s nomination. Conservative groups also began adopting the term as a self-identifier.
In early March, 2016, the #NeverTrump PAC was created to advocate against Trump’s candidacy.[5] Notable donors to the PAC include Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay, who donated $100,000 to the PAC in April.[6] Also in March, Jonah Goldberg of the National Review published an editorial entitled “The Way Forward for the #NeverTrump Movement.”[10]
On April 29, 2016, The Hill published a partial list of prominent Republican figures who have purportedly joined the #NeverTrump movement, including the 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney, former RNC Chair Ken Mehlman, U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska, Gov. Charlie Baker of Massachusetts, several former and sitting U.S. House members, as well as various donors, writers, talk show hosts, and strategists, among others.[19]
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As Trump continued to advance toward the Republican nomination, some media outlets began to draw a distinction between two different branches of conservative opposition to Trump’s nomination. While many acknowledged the increasingly likelihood of Trump’s nomination, conservative writers and radio hosts like Ben Shapiro of the Daily Wire,[11] Glenn Beck,[12] and Mark Levin[13] insisted that being part of the #NeverTrump movement meant that they would not vote for Trump even if he were the eventual Republican nominee.
In response to criticism that an article entitled “Indiana May Be #NeverTrump’s Last Stand”[15] mischaracterizes the #NeverTrump movement as being solely concerned with the Republican nomination, FiveThirtyEight politics editor Michael Cohen acknowledged on Twitter that “#StopTrump” was probably the more accurate description for efforts to merely deny Trump the Republican nomination. Perhaps acknowledging this nuance, some media outlets have used the phrase “Stop Trump” to refer to efforts to prevent Trump from becoming the Republican nominee, keeping the concept distinct from “#NeverTrump,” including Fox News[16] and the Washington Post.[17] However, the distinction is not universally practiced or recognized.[18]
Lots of people making this point to me, which is … fair. #StopTrump is more accurate. https://t.co/a5WQsksztZ
— Micah Cohen (@micahcohen) May 2, 2016
Following the withdrawal of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz from the Republican primary on May 3, 2016, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus declared Trump to be the presumptive nominee and encouraged Republicans “to unite and focus on defeating” Fmr. Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee.[2] In response to Trump’s victory, numerous prominent Republican politicians, strategists, journalists, authors, organizers, activists, and voters expressed their disapproval by tweeting the hashtag and vowing to never vote for Trump.[3] In one notable example, a Republican journalist at the right-leaning Washington Free Beacon burned his party registration:
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) May 4, 2016
This opposition, dubbed the “#NeverTrump Movement,” has received significant news coverage from various media outlets, including the Washington Post.[4] Some in the movement, including RedState editor Erick Erickson, have called for a third party candidate to encourage conservatives not to stay home on Election Day so as to avoid down-ballot defeats.[14]
Some Republicans have criticized the #NeverTrump movement for failing to unify around the Republican frontrunner and inadvertently aiding Clinton’s Democratic candidacy. [Researching]
[1]Mediaite – #NeverTrump Has Been Trending Since Last Night And Even Rubio Is Playing Along / Posted on 2-27-2016
[2]Politico – RNC chairman: Trump is our nominee / Posted on 5-3-2016
[3]Slate – A List of the Conservatives Who Are Holding the Line and Still Refusing to Support Trump / Posted on 5-3-2016
[4]Washington Post – It’s the beginning, not the end, of #NeverTrump / Posted on 5-3-2016
[5]Washington Examiner – Grassroots activists form #NeverTrump super PAC / Posted on 3-10/2016
[6]The Hill – EBay founder donates $100k to anti-Trump PAC / Posted on 4/16/2016
[7]New York Times – Iowa Caucus Results / Updated on 5-2-2016
[8]Huffington Post – HUFFPOLLSTER: The GOP’s Divided Field Is Helping Donald Trump Win / Posted on 3-3-2016
[9]National Review – Against Trump / Posted on 1-21-2016
[10]National Review – The Way Forward for the #NeverTrump Movement / Posted on 3-30-2016
[11]Daily Wire – What Next For #NeverTrump? Never Means Never. / Posted on 4-27-2016
[12]HotAir – Glenn Beck on #NeverTrump: I wouldn’t vote for a Trump/Cruz ticket -- or a Cruz/Trump ticket / Posted on 4-8-2016
[13]TheRightScoop – BREAKING: Mark Levin just announced he is officially #NEVERTRUMP! / Posted on 4-8-2016
[14]RedState – Time For A Third Party Alternative / Posted on 5-4-2016
[15]FiveThirtyEight – Indiana May Be #NeverTrump’s Last Stand / Posted on 5-2-2016
[16]Fox News -Krauthammer: Stop Trump Movement Dies in Indiana / Posted on 5-3-2016
[17]Washington Post -This New Indiana Poll Is Very Bad News For The Stop Trump Movement / Posted on 5-1-2016
[18]NBC– Even After Cruz Exits Race, Stop Trump Movement Pledges to Fight / Posted on 5-4-2016
[19]The Hill – Republicans Who Vow Never to Back Trump / Posted on 4-29-2016
Usagi Yojimbo (Japanese: 兎用心棒 Usagi Yōjinbō, meaning “rabbit bodyguard”) is a comic book series created by Stan Sakai. The series is currently published by Dark Horse comics.
The series mainly follows rabbit Samurai, Miyamoto Usagi, along with other anthromorphic characters set in the Edo period (Japanese: 江戸時代 Edo jidai) of Japan (1603-1868), living as a Ronin as he wanders the land on a quest, honing his skills as he serves people as a bodyguard.
After Usagi’s first appearance in 1984’s anthology Albedo Anthropomorphics and anthology Critters a year later, the long-eared Samurai received his own series in 1987 and was published by Fantagraphics Books, Mirage Comics and now currently Dark Horse comics.
The series has released over 145 issues, all combined into 30 Book volumes and 7 omnibus volumes (Usagi Yojimbo Saga) from 1987 to now on.
Miyamoto Usagi had appeared in episodes S3E32 and S3E34 of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated TV Show though he is mentioned as Usagi Yojimbo rather than his actual name and has appeared later in episodes S2E23-26 of the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TV Show which featured his world and characters.
The series has been awarded with 5 Eisner awards over the last 20 years, the character Miyamoto Usagi is rated #92 in IGN’s Top 100 Comic Book Heroes.
I Am The One is a Vine video remix series using an audio clip from the 2015 hip hop song “Ultimate” by Denzel Curry. Many of the videos contain footage of people delivering insults, performing impressive stunts or displaying confidence accompanied by the sunglasses drop animation from the “Deal With It”GIF series.
In February 2015, the hip hop track “Ultimate” by Denzel Curry was released on Soundcloud (shown below).
bq.“I am the one, don’t weigh a ton
Don’t need a gun to get respect up on the street”
On February 6th, 2016, Viner Stop It, Joe posted a short clip from the cartoon The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack with the hook from “Ultimate” heard playing in the background (shown below). Within three months, the video gained over 8.6 million loops, 212,000 likes and 80,000 revines.
On February 23rd, Viner okay jack uploaded a clip from the 2003 animated children’s film Finding Nemo with “Ultimate” playing in the background (shown below, left). On February 26th, Viner michael k uploaded a video of a classroom argument featuring the “Ultimate” hook dubbed at the end of the clip (shown below, right). Over the the next three months, the videos received more than 4.4 million and 6.9 million loops respectively.
On March 11th, the Best Vine Compilation YouTube channel posted a montage of “I Am The One” Vines, gathering more than 450,000 views and 560 comments in the next two months (shown below, left). On March 23rd, the Top Vines YouTube channel posted another “I Am The One” compilation video (shown below, right).
Additional examples are featured on the “I Am The One” Vine trends page.[1]
[1]Vine – I am the one
“Put a Bird on It” is a catchphrase that stems from a comedic skit featured in an episode of the American sketch comedy TV series Portlandia. While originally intended as a satire of the avian motif that became a trend in hipster fashion and home décor merchandises during the early 2010s, the phrase has been since incorporated into the aforementioned products as an ironic tagline.
The phrase was first introduced in a sketch from the pilot episode of IFC’s hipster-satire comedy TV show Portlandia wherein Bryce Shivers (portrayed by Fred Armisen) and Lisa Eversman (Carrie Brownstein) work as a duo of interior décor specialists who visit businesses and homes to put “birds” on a variety of objects and call them art. The episode premiered on January 21th, 2011.
Immediately after the series premiere of Portlandia, the skit was cited by several pop culture blogs and entertainment news sites as a notable moment from the show that exemplifies its satirical take on the hipster culture, including Gawker, Los Angeles Times, The Oregonian, Pop Sugar and USA Today. In addition, IFC launched a promotional bookmarklet at PutaBirdOnIt.com which allows its users to add a large sprite of the orange bird, as seen in the skit, on any webpage (shown below).
Throughout 2011, “Put a Bird on It” continued to grow into a parody video meme with many fans of Portlandia sharing their re-enactments of the original skit on YouTube, while some brought their own twists into the joke by replacing the bird with other animal mascots representing their local regions. Meanwhile, the joke also caught on Etsy and other online marketplaces specializing in handmade merchandises, where many artists and merchants began offering a variety accessories, jewelries and household items bearing the now-iconic bird, with some even openly embracing the phrase “Put a bird on it!” in ironic humor.
On October 15th, 2011, Urban Dictionary user ValleyoftheLOLs submitted a definition for “Put a Bird on It,” describing it as:
A phrase exclaimed when placing an image of an avian creature on any item, especially one that was “handcrafted” or “thrifted” so as to make it totally adorable and artistic. It’s, like, soooooooo cute! Whether it’s a necklace or a t-shirt or an iPad cover or a corset, it could probably use a bird on it.
On October 24th, 2011, Salon ran an article titled “Put a Bird on It: The aftermath,” which reflected upon the cultural impact of the Portlandia sketch on the once-popular trend of the avian decoration in fashion and handcraft merchandises.
On March 25th, 2016, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders made an appearance at a campaign rally in Portland, Oregon. During his speech, a brown house finch flew onto the stage and perched onto the podium, which immediately prompted cheers and laughters from the crowd and quickly went viral on the social media, with many supporters and local news outlets drawing references to the catchphrase in describing the amusing encounter between the candidate and the bird. That same day, the instantly iconic image of Bernie Sanders smiling at the bird was tweeted along with the catchphrase via _Portlandia_’s official Twitter account.
[1]Wikipedia – Portlandia
[2]IFC– If You Like It, Put a Bird On It
[3]IFC– Put a Bird on It!
[4]Gawker – Portlandia: Put a Bird on It
[5]Los Angeles Times – For the birds? ‘Portlandia’ lovingly pokes fun at Portland, Ore.
[6]The Oregonian – Northeast Portland: Does Portlandia ‘Put a Bird on It’ Skit Mock Queen Bee Creations?
[7]PopSugar – Portlandia Proclaims, ‘Put a Bird on It!’
[8]USA Today – Put a bird on it!
[9]PutaBirdOnIt.com – Put a Bird On It! (archived)
[10]Urban Dictionary – Put a bird on it
[11]Etsy – Search Results for ‘Put a Bird on It’
[12]Salon – Put a Bird on It: The aftermath
[13]Wikihow – How to Put a Bird on It
[14]YouTube – Search Results for ‘Put a Bird on It’
[15]GIPHY– Put a Bird On It
[16]Tumblr – Tagged Results for ‘Put a Bird on It’
[17]The Oregonian – Bernie Sanders’ ‘Put a bird on it’ Portland moment gets the late-night comedy treatment
Peanut Butter Baby is a viral video featuring footage of a young baby boy seated on top of a table completely covered in peanut butter. Since the video was reuploaded to Vine in 2015, it has inspired numerous remixes on the video sharing site.
On January 24th, 2009, Facebook[4] user Gina Gardner Brown uploaded footage of her daughter Emily covering her baby brother Ethan’s entire body in peanut butter (shown below). According to the description, the video was recorded in 2004.
On August 27th, 2015, Digg posted an edited version of the video to Vine.[6] The next day, YouTuber Fun-Time Just Be Happy[5] reuploaded the original Facebook video, gaining over 1.57 million views and 2,700 comments in the next nine months. On September 19th, YouTuber SuperDubbyDancer Geo uploaded an short clip from the original video, garnering more than 842,000 views and 670 comments in eight months (shown below).
On October 28th, Viner Bismark Pino posted a remix of the music video for the 1977 disco song “Stayin’ Alive” by the Bee Gees with a clip of Ethan saying “ah” in sync with the song’s chorus (shown below, left). On November 16th, the /r/DoesItFeelGood[1] subreddit was launched for submissions of Peanut Butter Baby remix videos. On December 4th, Viner ya boi jay posted a remix set to the tune of the 2015 pop song “Sorry” by Justin Bieber (shown below, right).
On December 22nd, BuzzFeed[2] published a listicle containing 22 Peanut Butter Baby Vine remix videos. On December 23rd, YouTuber casual uploaded a music video remix of the video set to the song “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” from the classical ballet The Nutcracker (shown below). On February 3rd, 2016, BuzzFeed[3] published an article titled “We Need To Talk About Peanut Butter Baby Right Now.”
[1]Reddit – /r/DoesItFeelGood
[2]BuzzFeed – 22 of the Best Peanut Butter Baby Vines of 2015
[3]BuzzFeed – We Need to Talk About Peanut Butter Baby Right Now
[4]Facebook – Gina Gardner Brown
#DropOutHillary is a social media hashtag urging the 2016 Democratic presidential primary candidate Hillary Clinton to suspend her campaign and concede the nomination to rival Bernie Sanders.
Throughout the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries, various critics of the front-runner candidate Hillary Clinton used the hashtag #DropOutHillary in tweets calling for her to abandon her presidential campaign. On May 4th, 2016, the hashtag began trending on Twitter[5] and Facebook[6] immediately after the Republican presidential primaryTed Cruz and John Kasich had suspended their campaigns, with many supporters of both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders calling for Clinton to do the same (shown below).
That day, the news site Blue Nation Review[2] published an article titled “Despicable #DropOutHillary Hashtag: Only a Female Front Runner Would be Told to Drop Out,” which accused the online campaign of being fueled by sexism. By the end of the day, The Inquisitr[7] reported that nearly 100,000 tweets containing the hashtag had been posted on the microblogging site. The article subsequently reached the front page of the /r/politics[3] subreddit, where it gained upwards of 11,900 votes (65% upvoted) and 3,600 comments within 24 hours. By May 5th, the hashtag had been tweeted over 475,000 times.[4] In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the trending hashtag, including Vox,[8] RT,[9] TheGatewayPundit[10] and Salon.[11]
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[1]Twitter – @Honest_Hillary
[2]Blue Nation Review – Despicable DropOutHillary Hashtag
[3]Reddit – Drop Out Hillary
[4]Twitter – @OhioGanja
[5]Twitter – #DropOutHillary
[6]Facebook – #DropOutHillary
[7]Inquisitr – Drop Out Hillary
[8]Vox – #DropOutHillary is a sign the race is winding down for Bernie Sanders
[9]RT – #DropOutHillary Twitter blows up with anti-Clinton tirade
[10]TheGatewayPundit – #DropOutHillary Hashtag Goes Viral On Twitter
[11]Salon – Drop out Hillary
Benny Hill was a English comedian and actor, best known for his performance in the long-running popular sketch show The Benny Hill Show (1955-1991) with the famous Yakety Sax theme, known for it’s chase scenes and for it’s stereotypical and slapstick comedy, which was broadcasted internationally, with 21 million viewers watched the show at the peak of it’s run in 1977.
The Benny Hill Show was a variety of sketches, gags and musical performances by different artists, similar to Saturday Night Live. Benny Hill often did impersonations and parodies of famous celebrities and films. Benny Hill sped up the footage and use the TV camera for visual comedy or often known as ‘sight gags’ for most of his sketches, resembling cartoon behaviour. With Hill calling it ‘Live Animation’.
The song Yakety Sax was written by Homer “Boots” Randolph and James Q. “Spider” Rich in 1963. Randolph recorded the song and released it as a 7" single that same year.
The Benny Hill Show used the song as it’s theme and has became a signature tune of the show. Best known for usage in chase themed sketches with slapstick humour.
His show is proven successful in revenues for Thames Television when it was broadcasted, and is considered a cult classic along with others such as Monty Python and is still popular in reruns and is influential today even after Hill’s death.
He has been widely received by many celebrity fans, such as Charlie Chaplin, Johnny Carson, Michael Jackson and many others.
The"NO ME CUENTEEES" translated to " DO NOTTELL MEEE" created in 2016 famous expression used in the local university tecnologico de los llanos was used for their intengers as a joke but suddendly this photo was made and it went up like vape, very popular in the actual social media and its surroundings.
used most with series, for when you haven’t seen a chapter and somebody comes with the idea of telling you what happened. In this case you use the popular expression " NO ME CUENTEEES" and the person who you are speaking with will fully understand the meaning behind those words. It is important to know that the pronuntiation of this phrase has to be very well pronounced otherwise it would translate to a very offensive phrase wich for reasons of culture I cannot say.
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