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The Doomsday Clock is a symbol depicting a countdown till a potential catastrophic event which could threaten the survival of the human race, represented as midnight on a clock.

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In June 1947, the Chicago Atomic Scientists, a group of researchers who participated in the Manhattan Project, unveiled the Doomsday clock on the cover of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists magazine, representing the time as seven minutes to midnight (shown below). The clock was originally conceived to represent the threat of nuclear disaster.

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In June 2007, the rock band Smashing Pumpkins released the song “Doomsday Clock” as the opening track off their album Zeitgeist (shown below).

On January 18th, 2013, the DNews YouTube channel uploaded an episode discussing the Doomsday Clock (shown below).

On January 22nd, 2015, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists posted an update that the clock had been moved to three minutes to midnight amid concerns about the threat of global climate change, nuclear weapons in Russia and the United States and issues related to nuclear waste disposal.^[2] On March 14th, 2016, Xkcd^[5] released a comic titled “Doomsday Clock” (shown below).

On December 18th, 2016, YouTuber dontbomiran uploaded a documentary on the Doomsday Clock (shown below).

On January 25th, 2017, the clock was moved to two-and-one-half minutes to midnight based on the “rise of nationalism,” Donald Trump’s comments on the proliferation of nuclear weapons and skepticism over the scientific consensus over climate change by the Trump administration.^[4] On January 26th, Redditor Sportsguru34 submitted a post asking about the Doomsday Clock to /r/OutOfTheLoop,^[3] where it received more than 2,000 points (89% upvoted) and 420 comments within four days.

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On January 23rd, 2015, the academic news site The Conversation

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Ceci N’est Pas Une Pipe Parodies are a series of images parodying René Magritte’s La trahison des images (“The Treachery of Images”), a famous painting in which Magritte drew an image of a tobacco pipe he captioned “Ceci n’est pas une pipe,” which translates to “This is Not a Pipe.”

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In 1928, Magritte began working on “The Treachery of Images.”^[1] The painting became famous for its meta message, making the viewer aware that what it is seeing depicted in art is merely a representation of the thing itself. In a Magritte biography by Harry Torczyner, Magritte is quoted as saying:

The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it’s just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture ‘This is a pipe’, I’d have been lying!

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Hell’s Elmo is a series of images of the character Elmo from Sesame Street.

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On January 31st an Ifunny user known as “PentecostalNationalist” started playing “Pepe Punchout” by Cafe.com, He played the game and it jokingly says Mario and Luigi need to be ethnically cleansed and Wario is now a Serbian Nazi. The user posted on ifunny and created an exact description of what the creators jokingly said and told people to raid @Cafedotcom on Twitter with the image.

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“Titus Get the Cross” is a snowclone that is usually seen in a two or three panel format and follows a format of “X get the Y.” The original image depicts a Roman soldier ordering his comrade (Titus) to get a cross with the second panel being zoomed in on the soldier’s face as he’s ordering Titus. This image has often been seen being used as a reaction image.

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While it is unclear where the snowclone originated from exactly, search results indicated that it originated sometime in the latter half of 2016.

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Bill and Phil is a captioned stock photo series in which two people discuss coining a new term, which typically includes a name pun joke followed by the sentence “I have a better idea.”

Origin

On April 6th, 2015, the @InternetHippo^[8] Twitter feed posted a mock dialogue in which a man named Phil proposes they call a giant advertising board a “philboard,” followed by a man named Bill saying “I have a better idea” (shown below). Within two years, the tweet gained over 20,000 likes and 12,000 retweets.

On August 18th, 2016, a stock photograph of two men captioned with the mock dialogue was submitted to /r/youdontsurf,^[1] garnering 13,500 votes (91% upvoted) and 100 comments over the next five months (shown below).

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On September 17th, 2016, the /r/BillAndPhil^[2] subreddit was launched for the captioned stock photos. On September 19th, /r/BillAndPhil^[4] user Danchekker posted a captioned version of the School of Athens painting, featuring a name pun based on the word “philosophy” (shown below, left). On September 24th, Redditor buttwarmers posted a stock photo of two women joking about curing depression with genocide and suicide (shown below, right).^[6]

On November 21st, Redditor doowi1 posted a stock photo of two men named Bill and Buil, who discuss what to call a building (shown below, left). On December 5th, Redditor cheesinator posted a stock photo of two men in lab coats named Robert and Ethan, in which they coin the name for ethanol (shown below, right).^[5]

On December 12th, the original “philboard” image macro was reposted on Break,^[3] where it gained over 277,000 views in two months. On January 25th, Redditor Eloykwik referred to the series as “Robert/Ethan memes,” claiming they were seeing a “dramatic drop” on /r/memeeconomy.^[9]

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Whomst is a fake word used to signal ironic superior intelligence, similar to the me, an intellectualsnowclone. In early 2017, “whomst” images pairing the word with pictures of people photoshopped to have bright purple eyes a la Gordon Ramsay’s Lamb Sauce grew popular on meme-focused subreddits.

Origin

On June 2nd, 2016, lighting guy submitted a definition of “whomst” to Urban Dictionary^[1] that reads, “For times when you want to ask ‘who or whom’, but need a fancier connotation.”

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Roll Safe, also known as Think Smart, is an image macro serious featuring a photograph of actor Kayode Ewumi grinning while pointing to his temple while portraying the character Reece Simpson (a.k.a. “Roll Safe”) from his web series Hood Documentary. The image is often captioned with various jokes mocking poor decision making and critical thinking.

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On June 1st, 2016, the BBC Three YouTube channel uploaded a mini documentary on Ewumi’s Hood Documentary series, in which the actor is shown pointing to his head and smiling (shown below). Within eight months, the video gained over 1.04 million views and 1,300 comments.

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On January 28th, 2017, the @girlposts

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Kekistan is a fictional country invented by users on 4chan’s /pol/ board as the tongue-in-cheek ethnic origin of "“shitposters”":.

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On January 30th,

That day, the Republic of Kekistan Twitter^[1] feed was launched, declaring itself “the official Twitter account of the Kekistani Republic.” Within 48 hours, the feed gained over 5,000 followers.

The following day, YouTuber The New Memedia uploaded the song ""Shadilay"": under the titled “The National Anthem of Kekistan” (shown below).

#FreeKekistan

On January 30th, 2017, Twitter user @LeFloatingGhost^[2] posted a photoshopped image of soldiers carrying keyboard along with the caption “our armies shall have the best memes #FreeKekistan” (shown below).

Twitter users began tweeting the hashtag #FreeKekistan^[3] along with jokes denouncing “normies”: and proclaiming a pride in shitposting..

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“>tfw too intelligent” is an abbreviated expression for “that feeling [I get] when [I am] too intelligent” used on several online forums as mockery to individuals who feel superior to others for having specific ideologies or sentiments. The phrase is normally associated with a picture of Wojak with a bloated head, representing a big brain. The term 2smart is often used in similar fashion, including the Wojak pictures.

Origin

The earliest use of the phrase comes from a thread submitted on 4chan’s/pol/ (Politically Incorrect) on November 21st, 2015,^[1] where an anonymous user submitted “>tfw too intelligent to buy into pol’s rhetoric” along with a picture of Wojak.

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The Pineapple on Pizza Debate refers to the longstanding argument surrounding the merits of Hawaiian pizza, which is a pizza topped with pieces of pineapple. The pizza has long been a subject of internet debate, as vocal critics and supporters have made image macros and various posts taking sides.

History

The Hawaiian Pizza was created in 1962 by Sam Panopoulous at the Satellite Restaurant in Toronto, Canada.^[1] While pineapple has been a popular pizza topping since then, it has also long been the target of hatred. The earliest known internet thread about the topic was posted to Neogaf on January 17th, 2009 by TheGrayGhost.^[2]

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The debate has continued online with various degrees of rigor since the early 2010s. On December 19th, 2009, a Facebook page named “Pineapple does NOT belong on PIZZA!”^[3] launched and gained over 1,600 likes. The first image macros related to the debate appeared in 2011 in various Advice Animals (shown below).

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Do You Think Yoshi Gets Embrrassed(sic) When He Poos Out Eggs In Front Of Mario haha (from hereon, referred to as “haha”) is a meme affiliated to Yoshi to acknowledge his presence.

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On the magical day of 25 Aug 2013, some curious furfag started a thread asking if the magical egg-laying-dragon-horse-dinosaur-frog gets bashful when he does his natural maternal(?) instinct in front of people like how a dog would care if he shits on top of your shoe rack. After posting apparently thrice, each with the melancholic quote of “haha” at the end, Yoshi is now recognised as the “Lay-egg haha guy”

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Well, obviously, leddit, having a community with the humour as similar to Donald Trump’s Inaugural Speech, has posted it, it received 2882 updogs as of this writing

https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/1zavju/anon_is_curious_about_yoshi/

Another ribbit thread has one upboated post having the same picture on top (NSFW)

https://www.reddit.com/r/classic4chan/comments/2gyxhn/yoshi/

And it even spread to a bodybuilding site where a banned user named VicelikeLlama5 posted the quote word for word

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=161383903

In 2016, a YouTube video by Spergalert made a dramatic reading of the said screenshot

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In Japan, February 2nd is designated as the Twintail Day (Japanese: ツインテールの日). Since 2012, internet users and even professional female models/idols have annually celebrated the day for the otaku-beloved hairstyle on Twitter and other social networking services.

Background

Twintail, also called as Bunches^[1] or Pigtails^[2], is considered as one of the representative hairstyles in the otaku culture due to its frequently appearances in anime/manga/video game titles after 1990s. Particularly, it’s said that the historical success of Sailor Moon series in that decade led the hairstyle to the most popular one by the main character Usagi Tsukino / Sailor Moon. Meanwhile, this hairstyle also became to be popular in the real world’s pop culture because of the rise of Japanese female idol scene throughout 1990s-2000s.

Against a backdrop of a large presence of Twintail in pop/otaku culture, Kan Furuya, Japanese fashion designer/photographer and the president of a company Laugh Valley, launched a general incorporated association for the hairstyle, Japan TwinTail Association, in December 2011. In the following month, he also registered February 2nd as the Twintail Day to Japan Anniversary Association which licenses any kinds of anniversaries by paying registration fee. A document published on JAA’s website explains the reason of the designation: The day has two “2” which means “Twin”.^[3]

Notable Developments

On February 2nd, 2012, Japan TwinTail Association opened its official website TwinTail Project Japan^[4] which featured the hairstyle by young female idols/models photos mostly shoot by Furuya, who also took on the chairman of the association, and began promoting the anniversary day. The launch of the unique association was reported by Japanese online gossip news media^[5] as well as later covered in English articles by Anime News Network^[6], Kotaku^[7] and Culture Japan.^[8] But it had to wait the day of the following year to took off as an actual anniversary associated with user activities on social networking services. Since 2013, Twitter users have been posting Twintail selfies or cosplay photos with a hashtag #ツインテールの日^[9], and a vast amount of illustrations have been uploaded to Pixiv^[10] and Nico Nico Seiga^[11] for celebrating the day. In addition, professional models and idols also become to participate to the celebration on Twitter and Instagram^[12] along with popularization of the anniversary day in the mid-2010s.

Also, Twintail Day has gradually spread on the English-speaking web. Its English hashtag #twintailday has been used for celebrating the day on Twitter since around 2015.^[13]

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Editor’s note: This Twitter timeline may include mature contents.

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The 2017 Milo Yiannopoulos UC Berkeley Protest was a demonstration protesting a talk on cultural appropriation by Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos held at the University of California, Berkeley in early February 2017. After the protest turned violent, police canceled the event and evacuated Yiannopoulos off campus.

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Yiannopoulos’ Response

After being evactuated from the campus, Yiannopoulos posted a video on Facebook about the protests, denouncing the demonstrators for being anti-free speech (shown below, left). Shortly after, he was interviewed on the Fox News television show Tucker Carlson Tonight (shown below, right).

Online Reaction

That evening, Twitter user @janeygak posted a video of a woman wearing a “Make America Great Again Hat” being pepper sprayed in the face by a protester while being interviewed (shown below). Within 24 hours, the tweet gained over 10,000 retweets and 8,400 likes.

Meanwhile, the @HWNDUS Twitter feed posted a video of a woman being punched in the face during the protest (shown below).

On February 2nd, YouTuber Philip Fabian uploaded footage of masked protesters dressed in black beating people with wooden poles (shown below).

Donald Trump’s Response

On the morning of February 2nd, United States President Donald Trump tweeted “If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view – NO FEDERALFUNDS?” (shown below). Within 12 hours, the tweet gained over 107,000 likes and 33,000 retweets.

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In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the event, including SFGate, NY Times, CNN and Fox News.

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zhdun is a russian photoshop meme that uses in funny images for fun

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Margriet van Breevoort created a sculpture (shown below)

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after the original post, thay spreaded at other social media websites

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Mad, Red, and Nude Online is a popular way on Twitter to mockingly characterize someone getting heated in an online debate.

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According to New York Magazine,^[1] the first instance of a person getting “mad and nude” online was @ScottyBurberry, who, in an argument about beer vs. vodka, posted a picture of himself in his underwear in a tweet that read “Beta Male doesn’t realize when he’s been outclassed” (shown below).

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Unty Zula was created by YouTube creator I Hate Everything with his brother Jamie and they used it to trigger James,

It then went on to get a twitter parody account where the user would tweet out random humour that wasn’t funny at all. The owner rebranded his twitter to BruntyUnty where he would tweet out that he wasn’t a furry and doesn’t want to have sex with one of his friends. He also bullies crippled people calling them mutants.

He gained a lot of popularity in the community from running a Discord server where people would photoshop him to bully him.

Pulling a Quintus Harmont – Did you just QH?
~ When you think everyone is against you. ~
“Can be used to describe a shitty person dependent on the context.”

Interjection
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(a way of describing a person who’s unable to work together with other people and/or a hypocrite.)
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(can be used as an exclamation of surprise.)
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(used derisively to question the comprehension, intelligence, or common sense of the person being addressed):
But he did nothing wrong at all. You’re pulling a Quintus Harmont now!

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“Wanna Smash” and “Lemme Smash” are slang expressions indicating an interest in engaging in sexual intercourse. Online, the phrase is often mocked as a poorly chosen pick-up line, similar to the expression “ayy bby u wan sum fuk?”

Origin

On June 30th, 2003, Urban Dictionary^[1] user Tai submitted an entry for “smash,” defining it as the “process of fucking someone good” (shown below).

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On April 12th, 2008, a Yahoo Answers^[4] user submitted a question asking “What does the term ‘I wanna smash’ mean?” On April 22nd, 2014, BodyBuilding Forums^[5] member robbocrew submitted a thread titled “How to tell a girl you just want to smash.” On October 16th, Urban Dictionary^[3] user llamalord submitted an entry for “lemme smash,” defining it as slang for “let me have sex with you.” On February 13th, 2015, YouTuber Erik Shaw uploaded a video titled “Wanna Smash?”, in which a friend misunderstands his invitation to play Super Smash Bros. (shown below).

On August 31st, Redditor ah00287 posted a two-pane image in which a woman says “I thought u said u wanted to smash” followed by a screenshot from the game "Super Smash Bros. to /r/funny^[2] (shown below).

On August 30th, 2016, YouTuber TheMungBros uploaded a “prank”: video in which he asks people if they want to “smash,” before revealing that he is inviting them to play a game of Super Smash Bros. (shown below).

On December 16th, 2016, YouTuber Incept uploaded footage of two birds involved in a courtship ritual titled “Lemme smash,” dubbed with various text-to-speech pickup lines (shown below, left). On December 25th, Instagram user memeophiliac.v9^[6] uploaded a comic titled “How to Start a Conversation With a Girl,” featuring a screencapture of the “lemme smash” bird (shown below, right).

On December 28th, YouTuber Mini Meatwad uploaded a remix of the bird courtship video in “G Major” (shown below, left). On January 5th, 2017, YouTuber Jadyn – Fang Trap uploaded an illustrated parody of the “Lemme Smash” video (shown below, right).

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DootMario is a short, 27-second clip of TwichVinesauce streamer Vinny performing a poor, vocalized rendition of the Super Mario Bros. Super Show! credits theme, Do the Mario. Online, the clip is known for it’s poor, humorous improving, and has received a variety of edits and mixes.

Origin

On December 14, 2016, Vinny streamed the construction park simulator Planet Coaster.^[1] In the stream, Vinny, requested to record his voice to be placed in the in-game park, recorded a 27-second short, attempting to emulate the Super Mario Bros. Super Show! ending credits theme, “Do the Mario” (identified as “DootMario2.mp3”) Although the clip went fairly unnoticed in the initial full-stream release, the shorter highlight video compilation, released on January 7, 2017, would include the DootMario segment.^[2]

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Some time after the original Twitch and YouTube highlight uploads, a decent chunk of users within the Vinesauce community took notice of the poorly improved moment, and began to utilize it in a variety of edits, starting on January 13, 2017 with SoundCloud user respin’s “Do the MaCHrio Time.”^[3]

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Shortly after the release of the Planet Coaster highlight video, on January 12, 2017, Vinny officially released the original DootMario2.mp3 via Vocaroo, in response to the popularity of his vocal improvisation.^[4]