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Smiling Usain Bolt is a photoshop meme and reaction image based on a photograph of Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt grinning at a camera while leading the 100-meter dash race at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janiero, Brazil.

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On August 14th, 2016, Usain Bolt won the gold medal in the men’s 100-meters sprint finals with a time of 9.81 seconds, becoming the first track athlete in Olympic history to win three consecutive gold medals in a single discipline. Bolt’s performance at the event was particularly noteworthy for beating his rival and American sprinter Justin Gatlin with an impressive upsurge in the last 40 meters of the dash. As Bolt crossed the finish line, Getty photographer Cameron Spencer photographed the athlete smiling at the camera (shown below).

That day, Twitter user @suss2hyphens^[1] tweeted the photograph, describing it as “the opposite” of the Crying Michael Jordan meme. Within 24 hours, the tweet gained over 6,400 likes and 5,100 retweets.

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Several minutes later, Twitter user @russbengston^[2] reposted the photo with a “bae come over” joke (shown below, left). That same evening, Twitter user @a7xweeman^[4] tweeted the picture along with a reference to the “*Record scratch* *Freeze frame*“ movie cliché. Over the next day, the tweet received upwards of 47,000 likes and 35,600 retweets.

Also on August 14th, Twitter user @sporker_^[3] posted a photoshopped version of the image showing Bolt running from “deadlines,” “sleep” and “responsibilities,” garnering more than 19,000 retweets and 15,000 likes in 24 hours(shown below).

In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the photoshop meme, including The Observer,^[5] The Daily Dot,^[6] The Huffington Post,^[7] The Independent^[8] and The Daily Mail.^[9]

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Guccifer 2.0, not to be confused with the convicted Romanian hacker Guccifer, is a mysterious hacker of unknown identity who gained online notoriety in June 2016 after claiming responsibility for breaching the servers of at least two major committees within the United States Democratic Party, namely the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), that resulted in the massive leak of private e-mails and internal memos, as well as personal contact information of Democratic officials and lawmakers.

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The “Donald Trump Report”

On June 15th, 2016, Guccifer 2.0 claimed responsibility for breaching the servers of the Democratic National Committee and released a document titled “Donald Trump Report,” a 237-page summary of opposition research against the Republican presidential candidate, via Gawker and The Smoking Gun, while refuting the cybersecurity experts’ conjecture that the cyberattack was most likely carried out by hackers affiliated with the Russian government.

Democratic National Committee Email Leak

On July 22nd, 2016, Wikileaks and The Hill published a collection of nearly 20,000 internal e-mails hosted on the Democratic National Committee (DNC), as well as unofficial correspondences, that were exchanged among key staff members and members of the press between January 2015 and May 2016. Shortly after the release of the documents, Guccifer 2.0 issued a statement claiming responsibility for the leak, once again refuting the allegations of Russian involvement from several Democratic party officials.

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Hack

On August 12th, 2016, Guccifer 2.0 released a new batch of sensitive account information and contact information of congressional members that he had allegedly acquired by hacking into the servers of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) in late July.

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Sassy Trump refers to a series of videos created by comedian and actor Peter Serafinowicz in which he takes footage of speeches made by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and dubs over them in an effeminate voice.

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On December 17th, 2015, Serafinowicz uploaded his first Trump voiceover to Youtube, giving him a British, aristocratic voice.^[1] He has done a few other videos of Trump with different accents, but the first appearance of Sassy Trump came March 4th, 2016 (shown below).

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Serafinowicz did not start regularly putting out Sassy Trump videos until August 2016, when he posted nine in the span of two weeks, as of August 15th, 2016.^[2] Blogs began picking up on Serafinowicz’ videos the weekend of August 12th, 2016, after Boing Boing^[3] posted a playlist of his videos. After that, Sassy Trump was shared on Twitter by celebrities including JK Rowling, Patton Oswalt, and Alyssa Milano.^[4] As the videos began spreading, DailyKos,^[5] Metro.co.uk, and Uproxx,^[6] posted articles about them.

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“Flat Is Justice” is a catchphrase used by otakus and anime fans in order to express appreciation for flat chested female characters, and it’s often associated to lolicon. The catchphrase has often been paired with the term “Delicious Flat Chest”, used to express preference for small breasts rather than big busts.

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It’s believed that the catchphrase was inspired by a dialogue line from the Japanese visual novel Shuffle!, first released on January 30th, 2004, in which the character Mayumi Thyme proclaims that “a flat chest is a status symbol” in reference to her own bust.^[1] The dialogue was later mentioned in the episode fourth of the 2007 anime series Lucky Star by the main character Konata Izumi, spreading the quote through the anime community (shown below, left). In June 2011, the episode eleven of the anime series Steins;Gate was released, which included a scene where the character Mayuri Shiina tries to cheer up Luka Urushibara over her flast chest, being translated as “flat is justice” in one of the fansubs (shown below, right).

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AIDS Bill Clinton, also known as Terminally Bill, is a photoshop meme based on a photograph of the 42nd President of the United States Bill Clinton, which is often digitally altered to make him appear as if he is suffering from a debilitating disease.

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On January 6th, 2015, The Daily Mail^[7] published an article reporting that Bill Clinton was included in contact lists owned by American financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, which included a WireImage photograph of Clinton (shown below, left). On May 8th, 2016, Redditor KansasCityChefs posted a photoshopped version of the image titled “This is what happens when Hillary gets too close to the Presidency,” in which Clinton appears to have reddened eyes (shown below, right). Within three months, the post gained over 1,200 votes (86% upvoted) and 60 comments.

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On May 11th, TubeNet Forums^[1] member bloke posted the photoshopped image in a thread titled “shocking recent photograph of Bill Clinton.” On May 23rd, 2016,the @WorldStarFunny^[5] Twitter feed posted the same version of the photo juxtaposed next to a sick-looking SpongeBob Squarepants, asking why Clinton looks “like he’s got a case of the suds” (shown below, left). The same day, YouTuber Filthy Frank tweeted the photoshopped photo (shown below, right).^[6] Within three months, the tweets garnered upwards of 6,600 and 3,200 retweets respectively.

On June 27th, an anonymous 4chan user submitted a thread inviting readers to “meme Bill to death in the name of Kek” to the /pol/ (politically incorrect) board, where several photoshopped versions of the photo were submitted (shown below).^[3]

On July 3rd, Redditor CantContheDon posted a photoshop in which Bill’s soul appearing to be escaping his body to /r/The_Donald,^[2] where it gathered upwards of 2,200 votes (93% upvoted) and 100 comments over the next month (shown below, left). In the comments section of the post, Redditor MightyBulger submitted a GIF of various photoshopped examples (shown below, right). On July 9th, Tumblr user zimbabwe2019^[4] reposted Redditor CantContheDon’s photoshop. On July 6th, another thread featuring various photoshops of the Clinton photo was submitted to 4chan’s /pol/ board.^[8] In the comments, users referred to the meme as both “AIDS Bill Clinton” and “Terminally Bill.”

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I’m Rick Harrison and This Is My Pawn Shop is a copypasta and video remix series based on the opening scene from the reality television series Pawn Stars, which is often altered to include a variety of other contexts using the phrasal template“I’m X and this is my Y.”

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The American reality television series Pawn Stars was originally released in July 2009 on the History channel. During the show’s opening sequence, pawn shop owner Rick Harrison introduces the store and his family. A copypasta of the opening is rumored to have originated on 4chan sometime in February 2010, though the archived thread is no longer available.^[6] On May 6th, 2011, YouTuber Adfx0225 uploaded the intro (shown below).

“I’m Rick Harrison, and this is my pawn shop. I work here with my old man and my son, Big Hoss. Everything in here has a story and a price. One thing I’ve learned after 21 years – you never know WHAT is gonna come through that door.”

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On August 25th, 2011, BodyBuilding Forums^[1] member ftown submitted a thread quoting Harrison’s opening monologue. On September 22nd, 2013, Steam user Dslyexiac submitted the copypasta to the LazyPurple’s Fantastically Phenomenal Fellas Steam Group.^[4] The copypasta remained relatively dormant until mid 2016, when it began appearing ironically on various platforms online. On June 3rd, 2016, the original opening monologue was submitted by Redditor Crowww to /r/copypasta^[5] subreddit. On August 8th, a compilation of notable Vine remixes featuring the Pawn Stars opening was uploaded to YouTube (shown below).

On August 13th, Redditor CKlandSHARK submitted a screenshot of an phone’s autocorrect programmed to switch the word “fine” with the Rick Harrison copypasta (shown below).

The same day, Redditor Wizardingg submitted Harambe the Gorilla-themed version of the copypasta to the /r/copypasta^[2] subreddit (shown below).

“I’m Harambe, and this is my zoo enclosure. I work here with my zoo keeper and my friend, Cecil the lion. Everything in here has a story and a price. One thing I’ve learned after 21 years – you never know WHO is gonna come over that fence.”

On August 15th, a version of the Harambe copypasta with added emojis was posted on the /r/emojipasta^[3] subreddit (shown below). The same day, Redditor hasib_xiv submitted a post asking about the copypasta’s resurgence in popularity to /r/OutOfTheLoop,^[7] where some speculated that /r/me_irl subreddit or ironic meme Facebook pages were responsible.

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Stuck Cat refers to a picture of a cat whose right arm is caught on a bed to its left and whose left arm is stuck on a scratching pole to its right.

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On August 13th, 2016, Twitter user @aktfps^[1] tweeted a picture of her cat, Milk-chan, stuck between her pole and her owner’s bed after trying to jump on both at the same time. As of August 16th, 2016, the tweet has over 141,000 retweets and 161,000 likes.

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The tweet spread quickly as Japanese Twitter users began making memes of Milk. “@Pedalandsaddle” posted a photoshop of Milk playing multiple keyboards and gained 17,000 retweets and 13,000 likes (below left).^[3] Another photoshop of Milk-chan running a hurdles race posted by @masaK9^[6] gained 1,700 retweets and 1,000 likes (below center). After popular Let’s Play Youtuber PewDiePie retweeted it to his 8.46 million followers,^[2] his followers quickly began photoshopping Milk-chan into various scenarios (ex: below right).^[4][5]

In the following days, the Stuck Cat meme was reported on by Japanese publications nlab.itmedia.co.jp^[7] and RocketNews24,^[8] as well as English publications Mashable,^[9] The Daily Dot,^[10] and The Daily Mail.^[11]

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Shaunae Miller’s Finish Line Dive refers to Bahamian runner Shaunae Miller’s diving finish to win the gold medal for the women’s 400-meter race at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Following the event, Miller’s controversial win drew both praise and criticism online, inspiring a slew of photoshops featuring a cutout image of the Olympic champion mid-dive.

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On August 15th, 2016, Shaunae Miller dove into the finish line at the end of the women’s 400-meter final to cross right before the United State’s runner Allyson Felix (shown below). Following the race, Miller was awarded the gold medal with a time of 49.44.

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Immediately after the event, many social media users posted about the spectacular finish, with some criticizing the dive for being unethical while others defended Miller’s tactic (shown below).^[1][2] Additionally, some noted that American runner David Neville won the bronze medal in the men’s 400-meter final with a diving finish in 2008.^[4][5]

Meanwhile, many users posted various photoshops featuring a cutout of Miller diving posted in other base images, including with Jay-Z and Beyonce (shown below, left), at a baseball game (shown below, middle) and in a wrestling ring (shown below, right).^[13][14][15]

Also on August 15th, Twitter user @blackmon^[6] posted an Arthur’s Fist image with the caption “Allyson Felix when she’s standing next to Shaunae Miller on the podium” (shown below). Within 24 hours, the tweet gained over 2,200 likes and 2,000 retweets.

In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the online reaction to Miller’s dive, including BuzzFeed,[7] Time,^[8]USA Today,^[9] Metro,^[10]IBI Times^[11] and People.^[12]

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Donald Trump’s NAMBLA Donation Hoax refers to the false rumor that the 2016 Republican presidential candidate refused to disclose his tax returns because he did not want to reveal the records of charitable donations he had allegedly made to the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), a pedophile and pedrasty advocacy organization. Upon the launch of the hoax on Reddit in July 2016, it quickly proliferated across social media platforms as a way to mock Trump’s habitual use of the phrase “many people are saying” when citing unfounded claims and far-fetched conjectures in his campaign speeches.

Origin

On July 29th, 2016, Redditor RIPrince submitted an article titled “Trump Suggests Nothing Will Prompt Him to Release Tax Returns” to the /r/politics^[2] subreddit. In the comments section, another Redditor speculated that Trump was keeping his tax return private to prevent the discovery that he donated to NAMBLA (shown below). The comment has since been deleted.

“But why doesn’t Trump want to release his [tax returns]? Could it be because he donated a sizable amount of money to NAMBLA and he wants to cover it up? I’m not saying Trump donated money to NAMBLA, but people are saying that. It’s something I’ve heard, but I don’t believe Donald Trump donated several million dollars to NAMBLA over the last several years. Still, if he did that would be a great reason to not release his tax returns. But look, I’m not here to say whether or not Donald Trump donated millions to NAMBLA, I’m just here to let you know that every candidate has released his tax returns over the last 40 years, so there has to be a reason he doesn’t, and several very smart people are saying he contributed millions of dollars to NAMBLA.”

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In August 2016, the Reddit bot account AutoModerator began responding to all comments mentioning the keywords “tax return” in the /r/EnoughTrumpSpam^[1] subreddit with a message claiming the presidential candidate would not release his tax returns because he “donated to NAMBLA” (shown below).

“Speaking of tax returns, did you hear Donald Trump is refusing to release them because Donald Trump has donated to NAMBLA? That’s what all the best sources, the most tremendous sources are saying, and if they’re all saying that Donald Trump donated to NAMBLA, well, I can see why Donald Trump would want to cover up his donations to NAMBLA. I’m not claiming that Donald Trump donates to NAMBLA, but that’s what these excellent sources are alleging, that Donald Trump does indeed donate to NAMBLA.”

On August 2nd, Redditor dannylanduf submitted a post titled “<-----Amount Trump has donated to NAMBLA” to /r/EnoughTrumpSpam.^[3] Within two weeks, the post gained over 9,600 votes (67% upvoted) and 300 comments. On August 3rd, Redditor trevize1138 posted a screenshot of an argument with a Trump supporter over the NAMBLA accusations to /r/EnoughTrumpSpam.^[1] On August 4th, a fake Fox News website was launched on Clonezone.link^[6] featuring a satirical article titled “NAMBLA neither confirms nor denies Trump’s donation allegations” (shown below).

On August 9th, NY Mag^[7] published an article titled “Many People Are Saying Donald Trump Gives Money to Pedophiles, According to a Very Reputable Robot.” The same day, comedian Patton Oswalt tweeted to Fox News television host Sean Hannity about the “disgusting Trump/NAMBLA nonsense” (shown below).^[5]

Meanwhile, Snopes^[4] published an article about the NAMBLA donation rumor titled “Bot Trumps Trump,” listing the accusation that Trump donated “millions of dollars” to the organization as “false.”

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“This is the ideal male body,” also known as “This is the ideal ‘make’ body,” refers to a series of jokes parodying a tweet posted by Canadian-American conservative media personality Steven Crowder that highlighted a picture of Russian heavyweight MMA fighter Fedor Vladimirovich Emelianenko as an example of the ideal male physique.

Origin

On January 13th, 2016,^[1] Crowder tweeted the picture of Emelianenko along with a short caption describing it as “the ideal make [sic] body.” (shown below).

However, Crowder’s tweet didn’t draw any major attention until August 16th, 2016, when popular video-editing comedian Vic Berger IV mocked a tweet by Crowder that said “There is an epidemic of young, very portly girls dressing quite whorish. Unsettling.” Twitter user @playazball^[2] replied to Vic Berger IV’s tweet with screenshot of Crowder’s “ideal male body” tweet captioned “and for you men, take note of what Steven feels is the ideal body,” inspiring the spread of the joke (shown below).

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Joke variations where Crowder’s original text is applied to different images began spreading rapidly through Weird Twitter, to the point where “The Ideal Male Body” was a Twitter moment^[3] by the end of the day. Popular variations included Graham, ^[4] Toad crossed with Bayonetta, ^[5] Homer Simpson,^[6]Shrek, ^[7] Frasier,^[8] and many more. The meme was covered by The Daily Dot,^[9] New York Magazine,^[10] College Humor,^[11] and The Verge.^[12]

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DC Leaks is a website which serves as a repository for leaked emails taken from the accounts of top-ranking officials from around the world. In August 2016, the site was widely publicized for releasing emails hacked from organizations run by business magnate George Soros’, including the grantmaking network Open Society Foundations.

History

In April 2016, the website DC Leaks^[1] was launched, where several hacked emails from the Gmail account of retired United States General Philip Breedlove were published. In a series of emails to former Secretary of State Colin Powell in September 2014, Breedlove asked for help in convincing United States President Barack Obama to take more aggressive action toward Russia (shown below).

Russian-backed Speculation

On August 12th, 2016, the internet security company ThreatConnect^[3] published a blog post speculating that DC Leaks was a “Russian-backed” influence outlet and connecting the website to the mysterious hacker Guccifer 2.0.

Soros Leaks

On August 11th, 2016, Wikileaks^[5] released a January 2011 email in which George Soros advises then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to intervene in political unrest in Albania.^[5] On August 13th, DC Leaks^[4] released 2,576 internal documents from various organizations run by Soros, the vast majority taken from the Open Society Foundations (OSF) international grantmaking network. The files, which were created from 2008 to 2016, documented various plans orchestrated by Soros, including the manipulation of European elections and policies surrounding immigration throughout the continent.

On August 15th, Wikileaks tweeted a link to the DC Leaks website, garnering upwards of 3,300 likes and retweets in the first 48 hours.^[2]

The same day, Redditor Rietendak submitted a post titled “What is sorosleaks?” to t/r/OutOfTheLoop,^[6] gaining over 1,800 votes (90% upvoted) and 270 comments in the next 72 hours.

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Supposedly, people are going naked viking in reference to Oleg Harald.

In Norse mythology, Öleg Harald was the one mortal who got lost in Bilfröst, a burning rainbow bridge that reaches between Midgard (the world) and Asgard, the realm of the gods. Harald was also known as the naked viking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9Nye1gtLms&list=PLyINrybsfUkOoMs69WUkqLi7KmLCh6t0S

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You Reposted In the Wrong Neighborhood is the name of a song by ＳＨＯＫＫ青.^[1] It combines the lyrics of “Shake That” by Nate Dogg and Eminem with the instrumental from “Casin” by glue70.^[2] It has inspired a series of remix videos on Youtube.

Origin

ＳＨＯＫＫ青 posted “You Reposted In the Wrong Neighborhood” to Soundcloud on March 24th, 2014. As of August 17th, 2016, the song has over 689,000 plays.

While it’s unclear when the song was first used in a remix video (reddit users on threads in /r/OutofTheLoop^[6] and /r/youtubehaiku^[7] are baffled), one of the earliest examples is a video^[3] posted by Youtuber Rene Descartes on August 11th, 2015 called “umaru goes hard” (shown below).

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Remix videos with “You Reposted in the Wrong Neighborhood” began appearing more frequently towards the end of 2015. sorox94 posted an Undertale variation called “You Determined In the Wrong Neighborhood”^[4] that’s gained 52,385 views as of August 17th, 2016 (shown below, left), while another uploaded by Frojo Memes^[5] on December 26th, 2015 (below, right), has gained 91,019.

More and more video remixes have been posted throughout 2016, as users have matched the song to footage of The Simpsons character Moe dancing,^[8]Overwatch characters dancing,^[9] and Anime characters dancing.^[10][11] On June 8th, 2016, the Youtube channel “chill Station”^[12] posted a “full version” that edited ＳＨＯＫＫ青’s original post to include the entire a capella from “Shake That.”

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Keep it Going Raps is a video series in which participants perform raps surrounding a single keyword. Many of the raps use the word “sausage” taken from the original video uploaded to YouTube in January 2015.

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On January 14th, 2015, YouTuber Big Mac uploaded footage of a high school student performing a rap about sausage, launching into the song with the phrase “Everybody say ‘sausage’ keep it going” (shown below). Within two years, the video gained over 1.2 million views and 330 comments.

“Everybody say sausage keep it going,
grits with the cheese with the eggs with the sausage,
and I done climbed out that bitch fire with the sausage,
say I’m riding out the mothafuckin trap with the sausage,
say sau sau sau sau sau sau sausage,
said keep it on going lil mama gotta sausage,
bout to give that hoe that mothafuckin sausage,
say sau sau sau sau sau sausage,
said sau saue saue sau sau sausage,
keep it on going ima ride on the (sausaaaage)”

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On February 7th, 2015, Viner KingVADER uploaded a clip of group of young men lip syncing the original sausage rap (shown below). Within two years, the Vine garnered more than 870,000 loops, 11,000 likes and 5,700 revines.

On March 6th, 2015, YouTuber VineArchive uploaded a video of a group of high school students rapping about sausage in a cafeteria (shown below, left). Within 17 months, the video accumulated upwards of 5.7 million views and 3,300 comments. On March 9th, the video reached the front page of the /r/videos^[1] subreddit, where it received over 6,000 votes (84% upvoted) and 600 comments prior to being archived. That day, BuzzFeed^[3] published an article about the rap videos, reporting that the related hashtag #sausagemovement^[2] had been trending on Twitter. On March 20th, the VineArchive channel uploaded a video of a group of young men singing a “Keep it Going” rap using the word “pussy” (shown below, right). Within two years, the video gathered upwards of 1.1 million views and 1,000 comments.

On March 26th, YouTuber Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy uploaded a sausage rap performed by a group of teenagers in a classroom (shown below, left). On March 30th, YouTuber Drew Macedo uploaded footage of a group of teenagers performing the same sausage rap titled “White girl sausage song,” in which a young boy raps a verse referring to himself as “a gay nigga” (shown below, right). Over the next 15 months, the video gained over 2.3 million views and 2,600 comments.

On April 6th, the World’s Best Videos YouTube channel uploaded a compilation of “Keep it Going” rap videos (shown below, right).

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Unusual Olympic Athlete Names refers to the myriad athletes who appear at the Olympics and have names whose pronunciations sound like English puns.

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While the advent of the internet allowed people to share funny Olympic athlete names with each other, it wasn’t until 2008, when NBC began to stream the Olympics online^[2] and thus allow online viewers to screencap the coverage and save pictures of athletes with unusual names, that the phenomenon of “Unusual Olympic Athlete Names” began to start spreading. Until then, blogs cataloguing funny names in sports had included Olympians alongside American sports players, such as when the blog List of the Day^[1] published an article called “The Ten Dirtiest Names in Sports,” which included Olympic basketball player Gregor Fucka and Olympic swimmer Misty Hyman.

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The cataloguing of unusual Olympic names began in earnest during the 2012 Olympics in London, as dozens of sites including Funny or Die,^[3] TheBertShow,^[4] TotalProSports,^[5] Buzzfeed,^[6] and more published roundups of strange or humorous Olympian names, like Kim Yoo Suk (pole vault), Dong Dong (trampoline), Destinee Hooker (volleyball), etc.

The trend returned for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, as Buzzfeed^[7] and TotalProSports^[8] again published lists of unusual names. Twitter user @JimboLoony^[9] lampooned the trend by photoshopping Olympic ski jumper Andreas Wank’s name to read “Cunty Spunkfuckshitpiss.” Some users believed him, causing the Daily Dot^[10] to publish an article assuring readers that there was no athlete named Cunty Spunkfuckshitpiss.

The trend has grown less popular for the 2016 Summer Olympics, with the most high-profile coverage coming from The Sun.^[11] However, Dong Dong returned with an image macro where his name is used as the punchline of a Law and Order joke.

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A small YouTuber by the username “ItzGar” was in a Skype call with his friends when he started to pretend to drink bleach, after this was screenshotted, it was spread around different chat groups until it finally found its way into Keemstar’s (the host of an internet news show) server on a website called Discord, where users added the caption “when keem is not online” referring to the fact that fans are upset when Keemstar is not always online. After this slowly getting bigger and bigger a group of people decided to spam the image on Keemstars twitter and on his Discord as a way to troll him and his viewers.

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Jackass is a television series, orginally aired on MTV from 2000 to 2002. The show is created by Johnny Knoxville, Spike Jonze, and Jeff Tremaine. The series stars Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, and Steve-O.

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Reservoir Dogs is a 1992 crime thriller film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. The film stars Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Lawrence Tierney, and Quentin Tarantino himself.

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City of Fire Controvery

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Group Walk

This is an iconic image from the film. It has spawned numerous parodies found on the internet, this picture is most notable in facebook covers, 9gag, flickr, and tumblr (shown below).

World’s Smallest Violin

World’s Smallest Violin is a famous line from the film delivered by Steve Buscemi. The line said when Mr. White (Harvey Keitel) and Mr. Pink (Steve Buscemi) are arguing about tipping. Mr. Blue (Eddie Bunker) asked Mr. Pink if he doesn’t care if the Waitresses are counting on their tips to live, that is where Mr. Pink does the famous finger rubbing and line.

The line has been used in several other medias. Most famously is in the Episode of Spongebob.

Flater created his channel back in April 2012, he use to make videos such as “Call Of Duty” montages and edit them himself but it didn’t bring much attention to his channel back in them days so I think he quit YouTube and then came back in December 2014. He started uploading videos claiming that he is the famous ‘hacking’ group “Anonymous”. I think he just made them to get on Keemstar’s show DramaAlert and he did.

Throughout the year 2015 and 2016 he has been making videos such as montage parodies ‘MLG’ and has been growing fast since then, he had like 1k subs or something back in early 2015 but now in August 2016 he has almost 82,000 subscribers on his channel.

Flater has been getting quite popular with making comedy videos of keemstar and transforming them with songs such as ‘Thomas The Tank Engine’ #KeemstarTheTankEngine. You can watch that video here:

Then he continues to make videos of Keemstar because he knows his fans have been liking his Keemstar content and gets a lot of attention to the videos. I will link a few more here:

I think these videos are well thought of and very creative and Flater has been making memes come more popular.

I will keep updating this submission with what Flater has made and the memes he has made become popular with.

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LochteGate refers to a scandal involving American Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte, who was accused of telling a fabricated story about being robbed at gunpoint along with several of his teammates at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Background

On August 14th, 2016, Lochte, along with teammates Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger and Jimmy Feigen, claimed they had been robbed at gunpoint by several men posing as police officers. That day, Lochte discussed the incident in an interview on NBC News, where he described having a cocked gun placed against his head (shown below).

Ryan Lochte:“And then the guy pulled out his gun, he cocked it, put it to my forehead and he said, ‘Get down,’ and I put my hands up, I was like ‘Whatever.’”

Meanwhile, Lochte tweeted a message that he and his teammates were “safe and unharmed” (shown below). Within four days, the tweet gained over 10,000 likes and 2,700 retweets.^[2]

Developments

Fabrication Accusation

On August 18th, Brazilian authorities claimed Lochte and his teammates fabricated the robbery story, and had actually been involved in an argument with security at a local gas station over damage to a bathroom door.^[3] That day, The Daily Mail^[4] published an article highlighting leaked security camera footage which police claimed did not match the swimmers’ accounts of the robbery.^[4]

On August 18th, Yahoo Sports^[5] reported that a source informed them Bentz and Conger gave written statements refuting Lochte’s claim that they were armed at gunpoint.

Online Reaction

On August 18th, Redditor JourneymanHunt posted a George Zimmer image macro joking that Lochte and his teammates were robbed by a prostitute to /r/AdviceAnimals^[1] (shown below). Within 24 hours, the post gained over 5,400 votes (91% upvoted) and 440 comments.

Meanwhile, YouTuber Cr1t1kal uploaded a video titled “Why Ryan Lochte Lied,” which mocked Lochte’s original robbery story for being absurd (shown below).

Also on August 18th, many Twitter users began mocking Lochte in tweets using the hashtag #LochteGate (shown below).

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