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BORN TO DIE/ WORLD IS A FUCK/ Kill Em All 1989/ I am trash man/ 410,757,864,530 DEADCOPS is a nonsensical engrish phrase.

Origin

The phrase first appeared on a t-shirt underneath a picture of two smiling cartoon animals. While it is believed that the original seller of the t-shirt has disappeared^[2], the shirt reappeared on July 12th, 2014, on Tumblr user insidemycar’s page^[3] with the caption “finna get this printed.” The image of the standing dog and cat is from a keychain sold by the Chinese retailer OneInHundred.^[1]

Spread

The meme found a wide audience on October 20th, 2014, when the Tumblr blog Gender of the Night^[4] published the image with the caption, “Tonight’s Gender of the Night is: BORN TO DIEWORLD IS A FUCK Kill Em All 1989 I am trash man 410,757,864,530 DEADCOPS.” As of July 20th, 2016, the post has over 19,000 notes. As the image grew popular on Tumblr, the shirt appeared on online retailers such as Amazon,^[5] Redbubble,^[6] and others. It has since gone on to inspire variations where the standing cat and dog are replaced with images of Pikachu, ^[7]Dat Boi, ^[8] and various others.

On December 21st, 2015, Australian producer Joel William posted an EP named “BORN TO DIE/ WORLD IS A FUCK/ Kill Em All 1989/ I am trash man/ 410,757,864,530 DEADCOPS” to Bandcamp.^[9]

On April 18th, 2016, the members of Canadian video game channel Super Best Friends Play brought up the meme in an episode of their podcast, Super Best Friendcast,^[10] leading to the height of the meme’s popularity.

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Customer Support Chat Trolling refers to the practice of pranking a customer service representative while using their company’s live web chat service. Online, screenshots and videos depicting various customer support chat pranks are often shared on various social media platforms and web communities.

Origin

On January 19th, 2009, YouTuber Jorgen297 uploaded a video of himself pranking a Microsoft customer support representative during a live webchat session (shown below).

Spread

On February 18th, 2010, Grasscity Forums^[5] member Californication submitted a transcript of a live chat session in which he pranks a Dell customer support representative. On January 28th, 2011, YouTuber xKustomxVegasx uploaded a slideshow showing a gamer trolling an EA Live customer support chat (shown below, left). On May 5th, 2012, YouTuber binbad12321 posted video showing a prank chat with an Xbox Live customer service representative (shown below, right).

On August 9th, 2013, Redditor jjcaseley submitted an Imgur gallery of Apple Customer Support chat pranks orchestrated by users on 4chan’s /b/ (random) board (shown below). Prior to being archived, the post gathered upwards of 2,200 votes (91% upvoted) and 125 comments on /r/4chan.^[1]

On June 29th, 2014, the live chat service Customer iCare^[4] published an blog post titled “How to Deal with a Weird Live Chat Troll.” On August 26th, Redditor UranusExplorer posted a screenshot of a chat with an Amazon customer service representative, in which the pair role-play as the Norse god Thor and his father Odin (shown below). Being the post was archived, it garnered more than 5,200 votes (88% upvoted) and 860 comments on /r/funny.^[2]

On July 19th, 2016, a T-Mobile customer support chat screenshot was uploaded to the internet humor site OnSizzle, featuring a conversation in which a customer asks “aye you guys like pasta salad?” (shown below). That day, Redditor Trixette submitted a post titled “Why do people keep asking T-Mobile if they like pasta salad?” to /r/OutOfTheLoop,^[3] where it gained over 1,500 votes (85% upvoted) and 200 comments in the first 24 hours.

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Spaceballs^[1] is a classic parody film of the original Star Wars trilogy directed, co-written, and starred by Mel Brooks and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in June 24th, 1987. Besides starring Mel Brooks, the movie starred Bill Pullman, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Daphne Zuniga, Dick Van Patten, and the voice of Joan Rivers.

Reception

Spaceballs gained mixed reviews from critics while users are more positive with higher scores. IMDb^[3] gave a rating of 7.1 / 10 from over 136,000 IMDb users. A 54% with a rotten mark of a average 6.2 / 10 was given from Rotten Tomatoes^[4] while the users gave a audience score of 83% and average rating of 3.5 / 5 from over 434,000 users. Metacritic^[5] critic gave it a 46 / 100 and the users with a user score of 8.6 / 10.

Spaceballs: The Animated Series

Spaceballs: The Animated Series^[2] is a animated TV series directed, written, and voice acted by Mel Brooks that premiered in 2008 on G4TV and Canada’s Super Channel. Originally Mel Brooks plans on getting the original cast to voice their roles, but Bill Pullman and Rick Moranis declined. Rino Romano and Dee Bradley Baker filled the roles for the characters, and Tino Insana voices Barf due to John Candy passed away in 1994. Surprisingly, Daphne Zuniga and Joan Rivers accepted to lend their voices as their roles from Spaceballs. The animated series aired a remake of the original Spaceballs movie and 13 episodes.

Spaceballs 2: The Search For More Money Possibilities

On February 6th, 2015^[7], Mel Brooks was on Adam Carolla’s Take A Knee^[10] podcast^[9] to confirm that Spaceballs is in the early phases of development and he’s hoping to potentially start filming in early 2016, after the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens in December 2015. Mel Brooks also hopes to bring the original cast back, minus John Candy and Joan Rivers due to their deaths.

On February 26th, 2016^[8], Twitter user @JediNewsUK^[11] tweeted teaser posters for Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money that mysteriously appeared in a New York City subway station. Based on the comments on @JediNewsUK’s tweet and no official updates from Mel Brooks, this is more likely a harmless prank to get the fans hyped up.

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^[1]Wikipedia – Spaceballs

^[2]Wikipedia – Spaceballs: The Animated Series

^[3]IMDb – Spaceballs

^[4]Rotten Tomatoes – Spaceballs

^[5]Metacritic – Spaceballs

^[6]Wookieepedia – Spaceballs

^[7]Nerdist – A New Spaceballs Movie is in the Works, According to Mel Brooks

^[8]Movies.com – The Schwartz Awakens? Mysterious ‘Spaceballs 2’ Posters Pop Up in New York City

^[9]Blastr – Mel Brooks confirms development on Spaceballs sequel, hopefully with the original cast

^[10]The Adam Carolla Show – Take a Knee 012: Mel Brooks

^[11]Twitter – @JediNewsUK – Spaceballs 2

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Militant Brony, also known as Horsefuc/k/er (alluding to the origin site’s /k/ weapons board), Is an image macro series featuring a young looking male wielding an AR-15 assault rifle while wearing an “I love Derpy Hooves” t-shirt. It is often accompanied with threatening and aggressive statements against supposed contrary opinions to the Brony fandom and extending to imageboard culture.

Origin

The original image allegedly was posted on 4chan’s /b/ Random board sometime between 2012 and 2013 in a thread where users would post pictures of each other’s faces to be judged by other users. Over 3 years later on July 19th, 2016, the image was re-posted as the OP of a “faces of /mlp/” thread as an erroneous “false flag” to bait users of the site into criticizing the OP’s outrageous appearance. Many posts were made criticizing the Trigger Discipline of the person in the OP image, as well as his theatrical grimace. One user created a dual-panel image macro with the text: “INSULT MY WAIFU? NOT ON YOURLAIFU” with the bottom panel being zoomed in on the face. This quickly caught on with hundreds of images being made and ultimately derailing the thread until the bump limit was reached.

Spread

With the success of the original thread reaching the bump limit the thread was remade several times being spread to boards other than /mlp/ such as /v/, /b/ and /s4s/, with over 1000 variations of the macro being made.

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Go Fun is a basic meme in which the user makes the word “Go Fun” appear on a common image, simply by adding a poorly drawn “Go” or “Fun” in front of the other, already existing word. For example, on the logo of “Pokemon Go,” one might draw in the word “Fun” at the end to make it say “Pokemon Go Fun.” The word that’s drawn in is usually copy pasted poorly, in Comic Sans MS, or drawn poorly in MS Paint.

Origin

Go Fun is a meme that began on the Discord App on July 20th, 2016. Taking place during the ARG Cipher Hunt for Gravity Falls, many of the show’s fans got together on this app to try and find the statue of one of the characters from the show, Bill Cipher. As the voice chat feature was being used in this Discord App to try and find the statue, one of the users accidentally said “Go Fun.”

Spread

From the point it was created, users using the Discord app made fun of the user who had accidentally said “Go Fun” and tried making as many references to it as possible. This produced a wide variety of meme parodies such as “Pokemon Go Fun,” “Gotta Go Fun,” and “CS:GO Fun” with both the phrases “Go Fun Yourself” and “Go Home or Go Fun” being thrown around very often. The hashtag has also been used on twitter to grab the attention of Alex Hirsch, the creator of Gravity Falls.

Alex Hirsch Response Parody Images

After the widespread usage of the meme, users in the Discord group created fake Alex Hirsch responses about his presumed disapproval with the Go Fun meme. The fake responses were either entirely made up, or edits of a pre-existing Alex Hirsch tweet. Here are some notable examples:

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The meme goes by many names. Papa Day, Papa Bless, Feralfront Unfair. This meme first started on Feralfront as a protest to two new rules added to the site. Feralfront is a roleplay website where members can create characters and jump into “clans”. The administrators of the site added two new rules (https://feralfront.com/index.php?topic=2403203.0)(https://feralfront.com/index.php?topic=2403204.0) which members did not like. People protested and became angry. Many people got banned from the site. In response, a user named SometimesQuietIsViolent used their subaccout, “Papa”, to create many memes. They called the thread “FERALFRONTUNFAIR”. Staff deleted this post in about twelve hours of creating it and banned Papa. However, you can view it here (http://web.archive.org/web/20160720063830/https://feralfront.com/index.php?topic=2404445.0). And here is the original thread (https://feralfront.com/index.php?topic=2404445.0). Many other website users found this thread and proclaimed the day of it’s creation (July 20) as “Feralfront Meme Day” or “Papa Day”. People also made other threads dedicated to Papa and this meme. People also created fanart for Papa to celebrate Papa Day and their courageous sacrifice (https://feralfront.com/index.php?topic=2404998.0). The day of July 20, 2016 was a very hard day for all Feralfront users but that day was eventually called “Papa / Meme Day”.

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Starbound is an action-adventure sci-fi game with a pixelated artstyle similar to it’s rival game Terraria. The game takes place in a two-dimensional, procedurally generated universe which the player is able to explore in order to obtain new weapons, armor, and miscellaneous items. The player can choose to seven different races with different features and cosmetics, such as armor and a spacecraft.

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McDonald’s Create Your Taste is an online marketing campaign by the fast food restaurant chain McDonald’s encouraging internet users to create their own custom burgers. In late July 2016, the campaign became the target of an internet raid leading to a variety of humorous sandwich creations.

Origin

In July 2016, the New Zealand branch of the McDonald’s franchise launched a special promotion, encouraging customers to design a burger using the McDonald’s “Create Your Taste” app on their MakeBurgerHistory^[1] site in order to receive a free fries and soft drink. On July 20th, NeoGAF Forums^[2] user studyguy posted a thread titled “McDonalds asks the internet to make a burger, it obliges,” featuring various prank custom burger creations submitted to the “Create Your Taste” site (shown below).

Spread

That same day, the internet humor site Dorkly^[4] published an article about the prank burger creations. Also on July 20th, Redditor SirGanjaSpliffington submitted the Dorkly article to /r/funny, where it received upwards of 7,100 votes (88% upvoted) and 1,200 comments.

On July 21st, the user-submitted burgers were removed and the MakeBurgerHistory domain began forwarding to McDonalds.co.nz

In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the online troll campaign, including The Telegraph, Refinery 29, The Huffington Post and UpRoxx.

Various Examples

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External References

^[1]McDonalds.co.nz – MakeBurgerHistory

^[2]NeoGAF – McDonalds asks the internet to make a burger

^[3]Create Your Taste – "":https://buildyourburger.mcdonalds.com.au/burger-builder

^[4]Dorkly – McDonalds Let the Internet Create Their Own Burgers and Guess What Happened

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Donald Trump Reacts to Ted Cruz is a photoshop meme based on a photograph of the Republican presidential candidate and his family members looking displeased as his former rival candidate Ted Cruz defiantly refused to endorse Donald Trump during his speech at the Republican National Convention in July 2016.

Origin

On July 20th, 2016, United States Senator and Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz delivered a speech at the Republican National Convention, during which he congratulated Donald Trump on his victory in the primaries, though he ultimately refused to endorse him as the Republican Party’s presidential candidate by urging the attendees to “vote their conscience” in November. As the audience began booing at Cruz, Getty Images photographer Win McNamee^[1] captured the reaction of Trump and his family looking rather displeased with Cruz.

Spread

The same day, Redditor belisaurius submitted McNamee’s photograph to the /r/photoshopbattles^[2] subreddit, where users created photoshopped variations on the image, many of them with only slight changes. In less than 24 hours, the thread garnered more than 4,728 points (81% upvoted), 870 comments and 70 submissions.

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From left to right: Xavier Woods, Big E, and Kofi Kingston.

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The New Day is a tag team comprised of the professional wrestlers Big E, Xavier Woods, and Kofi Kingston. Formed in 2014, they are best known for their memetic promos (talk segments), internet references and bizarre antics in the world of WWE. The New Day have amassed a strong following online in wrestling fandom and through their social media activities. As of 20th July 2016, they are also officially the longest-reigning WWE Tag Team Champions, clocking in at 332 days, and Kingston is the longest reigning tag champion from all combined reigns, including his previous teams.

Online History

All three members of the team are gamers, as are several other WWE wrestlers, and Woods in particular runs a Let’s Play gaming YouTube channel called UpUpDownDown,^[1] the name of which is a reference to the Konami Code. The channel, founded on 18th March 2015, has over 600,000 subscribers as of 21st July 2016. Woods tends to operate under the moniker Austin Creed rather than his ring name on the channel, but other wrestlers will appear under their ring names, so most of its content is in a strange limbo as to whether it is “canon” to WWE. The channel is occasionally referenced on-air during WWE broadcasts.

All three members can be found on Twitter: Woods at @XavierWoodsPhD,^[2] wherein he describes himself as ”Senpai” and “Mario kart savant and real life bard”, active since May 2009 with 355,000 followers; Big E at @WWEBigE,^[3] active since March 2012 with 477,000 followers, and Kingston at @TrueKofi,^[4] active since June 2009 with 1.78 million followers.

Reputation

The New Day were originally received very poorly for being what fans perceived as forced characters,^[5] playing on the gimmick of a “black gospel” stereotype. However, in April 2015, they turned into heels, or villainous characters, and started playing their characters much more closely to their actual selves. They incorporated strong elements of nerd culture and internet culture, and these traits caused their unpopularity to reverse itself and skyrocket over the latter half of 2015 and throughout 2016, which resulted in their turning back into faces (good guys), essentially by default. As of mid-2016 they are still one of the most “over” (popular with the crowd) acts on the current WWE roster and are partially credited, along with other popular active teams, with the resurgence in popularity of tag team wrestling with WWE fans.

The stable is considered to serve as a good example of what happens when the creative department allows wrestlers to bring fresh ideas to the table, and of a “hatedom” managing to completely reverse itself into a fandom. At the end of 2015, wrestling reviewer Dave Meltzer gave the team the year’s “Best Gimmick” award.^[6]

Fandom

The New Day are the frequent subject of fan art, which will often stylise them in a cartoony or even anime-like fashion, because of their important status as fellow nerds.

For artist names and their sources, please click the images to view their pages in the image gallery.

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Francesca and Francesca II

Francesca was the name of Woods’ trombone and the New Day’s official fourth member, according to her eulogy by Big E.^[7] He brought her to ringside while supporting Kingston and Big E and would frequently play along to the group’s entrance music, using Francesca to start the “New Day Rocks” chant, and incorporating short instrumentals into some of the moves performed by his partners. Woods has even gone as far as to play the Final Fantasy “Victory Fanfare” as can be seen in a YouTube compilation video below:

Francesca was destroyed by Chris Jericho on 11th January 2016 episode of Raw. Later, Woods debuted a second trombone named “Francesca II” in honour of the fallen Francesca. Francesca II was revealed to have been cheating on Woods with another WWE wrestler, Enzo Amore, on the 13th June 2016 Raw. However, Woods has continued to bring Francesca II with him to the ring, suggesting that all is forgiven.

“Don’t You Dare Be Sour”

Don’t you dare be sour is a catchphrase that forms part of the New Day’s entrance routine. Every time the New Day are about to enter the ring, Big E is backstage with a microphone. He will address either the crowd or his opponents, followed by this catchphrase before the entrance music starts. “Don’t you dare be sour” is now occasionally used in online wrestling discussions to poke fun at someone who is considered to be salty.

Booty

Booty is a term for things that aren’t cool. In short, serious opponents who hate fun and have no time for the New Day’s hijinx can be considered “booty”. Many of the New Day’s opponents have been referred to by the team as booty.

At Wrestlemania 32, the New Day did a special entrance in which they hid inside a giant box of “Booty-O’s Cereal”, only to emerge dressed as characters from hit anime series Dragon Ball Z. The entrance was widely circulated online in the form of gifs and screen captures. So popular was the Booty-O’s entrance that it was turned into official merchandise. A Booty-O’s cereal box can be purchased from WWE’s online store, however, it contains a New Day-themed T-shirt rather than cereal.^[8] On 21st July 2016, fye.com announced that they would sell an actual cereal based on the New Day’s Booty-O’s, serving as an example of deficitionalised merchandise.^[9]

References to Other Memes & Subcultures

In addition to loving gaming, popular anime, and things from the 90s, Woods is also a brony and as such, the New Day incorporate colourful unicorns into their ring attire. They also frequently don glowing “unicorn horns” which members of the crowd were eventually able to purchase as merchandise and also wear.

While a singles wrestler in NXT, WWE’s developmental brand, Woods wore tights that were emblazoned with the memetic statement “Over 9000”.

In a promo in 2016, Big E made reference to “putting respeck on the name” of the New Day, and in another promo that same year, Xavier made reference to sliding into the DMs of Beyoncé Knowles.

On the 18th July 2016 edition of Raw, Woods made reference to Pokémon GO and proclaimed his allegiance to the game’s Team Valor to an amusingly heated reaction from the crowd.^[10] People online jokingly claimed that this constituted a heel turn for Woods.

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Sargon of Akkad (also known as Carl Benjamin) is a YouTube pundit who attacks people he calls regressive lefts,SJWs, and radical feminists especially Anita Sarkeesian, who is a radical feminist. He was also heavily involved in #GamerGate^[1]

Sargon argues that these groups are politically correct, abuse identity politics, find racism/sexism/homophobia/etc., fail to criticize Islam for the crimes of Islamist, and use of left-wing politics (such as feminism) to shield against criticism.^[2]

History

In June 21, 2013, Sargon uploaded his first video criticizing Anita Sarkeesian.^[3]

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“Hillary for Prison” is a mock campaign slogan perpetuated by critics of 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, asserting that she should be sent to prison for various crimes, most notably surrounding an ongoing political scandal involving her use of a private email server while she served as Secretary of State.

Origin

In February 2014, the “Hillary Clinton For Prison 2016” Facebook page was launched, which gained over 26,000 likes over the next three years.

Spread

In June 2015, the site HillaryforPrison.net^[1] was launched, which sells merchandise printed with the slogan “Hillary for Prison 2016” (shown below).

On August 30th, the New York Post^[3] published an interview with Amagansett, New York resident Andy Sabin, who claimed he had to install an electric fence to protect his “Hillary for Prison” signs from being torn down by vandals.

On March 16th, 2016, the /r/HillaryForPrison^[2] subreddit was launched, describing itself as a “sub for everyone who wants to keep Crooked Hillary out of the Oval Office.” Over the next four months, the subreddit gathered upwards of 52,000 subscribers. During the 2016 Republican National Convention in late July, several news sites reported that “Hillary for Prison” movement had gained significant traction among attendees.^[4][5][6] On July 20th, Republican Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie performed a mock prosecution against Clinton at the convention, in which he listed various alleged offenses and asked the crowd if she was “guilty, or not guilty” (shown below).

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Gavin is the name of a child who rose to online fame through his appearances in videos uploaded by Vine star Nick Mastodon. Outside of Vine, various images of his facial expressions are generally used as reaction images to express disbelief, doubt, and confusion.

Origin

Gavin is the nephew of Vine star Nick Mastodon.^[8] He made his first appearance on Nick Mastodon’s Vine^[1] on February 24th, 2013 (below).

Spread

Gavin remained a popular cameo on Nick Mastodon’s Vine account for several years. On May 8th, 2014, Mastodon uploaded a compilation of Gavin vines onto YouTube (shown below). As of July 21st, 2016, the video has over 50,000 views.

On August 11th, 2014, The Daily Dot^[2] published an article featuring cute Gavin vines. In 2015, Gavin continued to make regular appearances in Mastodon’s Vine and Instagram^[6] videos, though his popularity plateaued over the course of the year. Then on June 25th, 2016, Gavin’s online fame skyrocketed after Twitter user “@wedecideit”^[3] tweeted a series of Vine videos starring Gavin, with each instance garnering tens of thousands of likes and retweets. The same day, a Twitter account was created under the handle “@GavMemes” that amassed over 41,000 followers in four weeks.^[7] On July 13th, Smosh published a list of the 19 cutest Gavin vines.^[4] On July 17th, Nick Mastodon tweeted a picture of Gavin in an upcoming issue of Entertainment Weekly.^[5] On July 19th, Katy Perry retweeted a post that had a picture of Gavin with the caption “my favorite celebrity” (pictured below).

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R.I.P Taylor Swift (Smith) memorial signifying Taylor Swifts carrier had died was painted over later to say R.I.P Harambe with Taylor Swifts face painted over to be the meme SpongeGar

The future is now thanks to science is a line spoken by Clemont (From pokemon ofc) while showing off his invention which mostly fails horribly.

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No Man’s Sku is an upcoming survival video game set for release on PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Windows systems in early August 2016. The game is unique for allowing players to explore a procedurally generated open universe, with upwards of 18 quintillion planets to explore.

Gameplay

The game is played from the first-person perspective of a planetary explorer, bearing many similarities to other games in the survival genre. The player starts the game wearing a spacesuit and is equipped with a jetpack, a multitool and a spacecraft. By exploring planets throughout the universe, players collect information which is uploaded to a galactic database called The Atlas in exchange for in-game currency. Currency is used for a variety of upgrades, including gear and abilities. Players can extra resources from planets and hunt various lifeforms, which can raise their intergalactic “wanted level.” Additionally, the game’s entire virtual universe is created through procedural generation, deterministic algorithms and random number generators.

History

On December 9th, 2013, the UK indie developer studio Hello Games announced No Man’s Sky at the Spike VGX awards ceremony, presenting a trailer highlighting the game’s procedurally generated environments (shown below).

In June 2014, No Man’s Sky was presented during Sony’s PlayStation press conference at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (shown below).

Online Presence

On June 12th, 2014, the /r/NoMansSkyTheGame^[1] subreddit was launched for discussions about the upcoming game.

Controversies

Delay

On May 27th, 2016, approximately one month prior to the game’s planned release on June 21st, Hello Games announced that the game would be delayed until August 9th. Following the announcement, Hello Games’ founder Sean Murray tweeted that he had “received loads of death threats” (shown below).^[2]

“Superformula” Lawsuit

In mid-July 2016, the company Genicap claimed that No Man’s Sky was using its patented geometric transformation “superformula” in its procedural generated landscapes and terrain. Genicap business developer Jeroen Sparrow claimed that the company did not want to halt the launch of No Man’s Sky, but stated “if the formula is used, we will have to sit at the table at any given time.”^[3]

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#TrumpYourself is an image generator developed by the Hillary Clinton campaign where Facebook users can upload pictures of themselves and superimpose quotes by Donald Trump on them.

History

On July 21st, 2016, Clinton’s Facebook^[1] and Twitter^[2] pages announced the launch of #TrumpYourself, a web application hosted on Hillary Clinton’s official campaign site.^[3] Within the hour of its launch, #TrumpYourself quickly grew traction on Facebook and Twitter, causing the site to crash temporarily.^[4] In addition, users discovered that the choice of Trump quotes changed based on their race or gender (i.e. women could superimpose a quote of Trump saying “Fat Pig” or immigrants and refugees could superimpose “DONALDTRUMPWANTS TO BAN ME”).

News and Media Coverage

By the end of the day, the website was covered by CNN,^[5] Entertainment Weekly,^[6] Time,^[7] and many other major news outlets.

Various Examples

Search Interest

As shown in the Google Trends report, search queries for “trumpyourself” saw its initial spike in late August 2015, presumably due to the launch of a pro-Trump image generator application with the same name, which allowed its users to add the Republican candidate’s iconic “Make America Great Again” hat over their heads.

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Philip DeFranco is a YouTube vlogger best known for hosting the pop culture and news series The Philip DeFranco Show and launching a network of channels owned by Discovery Digital Networks.

History

On September 15th, 2006, DeFranco launched the Sxephil YouTube^[1] channel while attending East Carolina University. The earliest public video uploaded to the channel was released on December 27th, in which DeFranco lists 10 ways to “get out of an argument” (shown below, left). In a video uploaded in September 2010, DeFranco revealed that 70 of his earlier videos had been unlisted because he found them to be too “douchey.”^[3] On July 30th, 2007, DeFranco uploaded an episode of The Philip DeFranco Show titled “Doda Elektroda has some huge…..”, in which he discusses Polish artist Dorota Rabczewska (shown below, right). Over the next nine years, the video gained over 5.2 million views and 2,900 comments.

On September 19th, 2007, launched the Philly D vlog channel on YouTube.^[2] On July 1st, 2009, DeFranco released an episode in which he discussed a trending photograph of a sea pig, garnering more than 3.5 million views and 10,200 comments in seven years (shown below, left). On November 22nd, 2010, DeFranco uploaded an episode of The Philip DeFranco Show in which he discussed the viral Carlos Rodriguez mugshot (shown below, right). In six years, the video gained over 6.9 million views and 14,800 comments.

On August 23rd, 2011, DeFranco uploaded a video titled “Marriage Makes You Fat! Science Confirms,” which accumulated upwards of 3.9 million views and 13,800 comments over the following five years (shown below, left). In January 2012, DeFranco launched the SourceFed^[10] news channel on YouTube. On May 1st, DeFranco released a episode discussing a widely circulating video of Kate Upton performing the “Cat Daddy” dance (shown below, right). Within four years, the video garnered more than 3.8 million views and 14,500 comments. That month, DeFranco’s channels were acquired by the Discovery Digital Networks subsidiary Revision3.

On July 22nd, 2014, The Philip DeFranco Show released an episode discussing a $7.5 million lawsuit against YouTube Michelle Phan (shown below, left). Over the next two years, the video gained over three million views and 8,300 comments. On March 23rd, 2016, DeFranco uploaded a video about virtual reality pornography, which received upwards of 3.2 million views and 2,300 comments in four months (shown below, right).

Social Media Presence

As of July 2016, DeFranco has more than 980,000 likes on Facebook,^[4] 680,000 followers on Twitter,^[5] 481,000 followers on Instagram,^[6] 127,000 followers on Vine, 12,089 subscribers on Reddit and 11,300 followers on SoundCloud.^[9]

Reception

In 2008, DeFranco won the Sexiest Geek award from Wired Magazine. At the Streamy Awards in 2013, The Philip DeFranco Show won Best News and Culture Series and SourceFed won the Audience Choice for Best Series of the Year.

Personal Life

DeFranco was born on December 1st, 1985 in New York, New York. He has attended several universities, including the University of South Florida, the Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College and East Carolina University. DeFranco has stated that he is an atheist and identifies as a libertarian politically.

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Pokemon GO, after two weeks of the release date, the app is not in it’s best standing. Having been better standing on release, the active MILLIONS of players are furious of the creator’s (niantics) taking steps backwards since the app’s release.

And given the app’s issue’s impact, Niantics, after many days of these issues, sends an update to it’s players for “Minor text fixes”..

Niantics, being aware of the server crashes, has still not (outwardly) taken any notice of the “3-Foot-Step” bug, that has been ruining the game for many players.

About

Zucked is a word that essentially means “to be screwed over by Mark Zuckerberg.” It has been popularly used in several different contexts since Facebook’s conception in 2007.

Origin

The first use of “Zuck,” or “Zuckerberg,” as a verb came in 2007, where its definition was “to steal an idea from someone who trusts you (e.g. business partner, friend, or a company that has hired you to do work for them).”^[1]

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As Facebook grew into an empire, “Zucked” came to be the verb used when Facebook would steal an idea from a competitor (i.e. “Twitter was Zucked when Facebook stole their public facing profiles”).^[2]

On May 18th, 2012, Facebook’s stock took a brutal hit. Mark Zuckerberg lost $3 billion dollars in three business days, and his investors took huge hits as well. This led to finance journalists to begin writing “Zucked” to mean “sudden wealth loss.”^[3]

In Fall 2014, “Zucked” came to mean the act of Facebook deleting a person’s account because they were suspected of using a “fake name.”^[4] This policy came under scrutiny by people with non-western or non-traditional names, like the Irish,^[5] Native Americans,^[6] and the Vietnamese.^[7] It also drew criticism from the LGBTQ community, as the policy affected queer users using adopted names or pseudonyms.^[8]

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