Overview

Super Bowl LI is the 51st National Football League (NFL) championship game between the New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons taking place at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas on February 5th, 2017.

Background

Conference Championship Winners

After an 11-5 season, the Atlanta Falcons won the NFC Championship game against the Green Bay Packers 44-21 to earn their first Super Bowl appearance since 1999.^[1] It was the last game ever played in the Falcons’ home stadium, The Georgia Dome. The New England Patriots, 14-2 in the regular season and helmed by head coach Bill Belichick and star quarterback Tom Brady (who missed the first four games of the regular season following #DeflateGate), defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers 36-17 in the AFC Championship game. The game will be the Patriots’ NFL-best ninth Super Bowl appearance and their 7th of the 2000s.

Halftime Show Announcement

On September 29th, 2016, pop star Lady Gaga revealed via an Instagram post that she would be performing at the halftime show after having performed the National Anthem at the previous Super Bowl.

Developments

Notable Advertisements

Snickers announced they would air the first live 30-second commercial in Super Bowl history. Nintendo also announced that they would air their first ever Super Bowl ad, showcasing the Nintendo Switch (shown below).

Other notable advertisements for the game include an ad for Mr. Clean known as “Sexy Mr. Clean,” Marshawn Lynch visiting Houston, Scotland for Skittles, Cam Newton playing Pee Wee Football for Buick, and Wendy’s recalling their Twitter Own.

CBS Sports^[2] published a compilation of all the ads leaked before the Super Bowl.

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Bowling Green Massacre is a fictional terror attack described by Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway during a televised interview in early February 2017.

Origin

On February 2nd, 2017, Conway appeared as a guest on Hardball with Chris Matthews, where she asserted that an attack known as the “Bowling Green Massacre” occurred in 2009 in Bowling Green, Kentucky, leading President Barack Obama to impose a six-month ban on Iraqi refugees (shown below).

“I bet it’s brand new information to people that President Obama had a six-month ban on the Iraqi refugee program after two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalized and they were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre. Most people don’t know that because it didn’t get covered.”

Shortly after the interview was broadcast, Twitter user @joesonka published a clip of Conway referring to the fictional event, which gained over 14,000 retweets and 13,000 likes within 24 hours (shown below).

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That evening, Twitter users began posting jokes about Conway’s statements, many of which consisted of other unsubstantiated claims (shown below).^[8]

On February 3rd, Conway tweeted that she “meant to say ’Bowling Green terrorists,” linking to a 2013 ABC News^[6] article about two al Qaeda-Iraq terrorists living as refugees in Bowling Green, Kentucky.^[7]

That day, Snopes^[1] published an article about Conway’s interview, noting that no massacre ever took place. Also on February 3rd, the parody site BowlingGreenMassacreFund^[2] was launched to help victims of the fictional terror attack, containing a “Donate Now” button which links to a donation page for the American Civil Liberties Union (shown below).

Meanwhile, two posts about Conway’s interview reached the front page of /r/politics.^[3][4] The same day, Redditor netoholic submitted a post speculating that Conway was playing “5D chess by manipulating the media to report on the story of Iraq terrorists who came to the United States as refugees to ”http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sites/r-the_donald">/r/The_Donald.^[5]

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ProZD is the internet handle of voice actor SungWon Cho, who rose to internet prominence via videos posted to his Vine, YouTube, and Instagram accounts in which he often makes fun of tropes in video games and anime.

History

Cho uploaded the first video to his YouTube account on May 16th, 2006.^[1] His first video to gain significant interest utilizing his voice-acting talents, posted June 4th, 2010, featured him singing a parody of the Disney song “Under the Sea” in the voice of Bioshock character Andrew Ryan (shown below).

Over the next few years, Cho built a YouTube following by doing dubs of animations for video games like Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney and Professor Layton.^[2]

Goofy Covers

On February 7th, 2014, he uploaded to his Tumblr what would become his most viral work yet, a cover of the Frozen song “Let It Go” sung in the voice of Disney character Goofy.^[3] On Tumblr, it has gained over 70,000 notes. The same day, he uploaded the song to YouTube, where it gained over 653,000 views (shown below).

The popularity of his Goofy-voice covers brought Cho his widest audience yet. Two months after his Frozen covers, Cho uploaded a video of himself singing Evanescense’s Bring Me to Life, which garnered over 3.2 million views (shown below).

Vine

On November 14th, 2014, Cho started a Vine account with a post of him singing in the voice of a dancing turtle (YouTube repost shown below).^[4]

On his Vine, Cho introduced one of his most recognizable styles, filming himself as he imitates popular video game and anime tropes. On Vine, he gained over 196.7k followers before the site shut down. He has posted all of his Vines to his Instagram account,^[5] which has over 37.6k followers, to his YouTube account, which has over 215,000 subscribers.

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“Just Give ’Em One of These” is a quote uttered on a memorable scene from the American animated sitcom The Simpsons, in which character Moe Szyslak teaches how to self-defense with dances moves. The scene has inspired several remixes, where other songs are played over his dance.

Origin

The scene comes from the 22nd episode of The Simpson’s fifth season, Secrets of a Successful Marriage, first aired in May 19th, 1994. In the episode, Homer goes to an adult education center and peeks on a class of “Funk Dancing for Self-Defense” hosted by Moe. After doing some dance moves, Moe grabs a shotgun and fires several times.

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Rigby’s Mixtape is a video series from the animated series Regular Show.

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From the episode “Video Game Wizards”, Throughout the trip, Rigby aggressively targets Mordecai for not picking him. Rigby even went to the extent of making a Mix-Tape with a song he recorded himself, called “Never Pick Their Friends”. He also made matching shirts, one of which was obviously made for himself, but he gives it to Skips anyway. The night before the tournament, Rigby blasts Never Pick Their Friends from a boombox outside of the hotel they are all staying at, much to Mordecai’s dismay.^[1] (Shown Below)

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On Apr 17, 2012, Youtuber Omnitrix024 uploaded a video called “SNSD’s The Boys on Rigby’s Mix Tape” which had 5,898 views.

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^[1]Regular Show Wiki – Video Game Wizards

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Mr Kown is the name given to a short copypasta commonly found on 4chan’s /trash/ board to convey confusion and/or disgust with the thread’s topic, usually fetish threads.

Origin

On the 30th of July, 2016, an anonymous user replied “can some tell me why sit on some is hot. i don’t kown do y’all get off to this just thank (:” with an image of Carl Brutananadilewski to a thicc thread on /trash/^[1]. A few days later, the first real iteration of the copypasta appeared in response to a Pokémon rule 34 thread, reading “can one tell me why do people like this because i really want to kown.” with an image of Edd from Ed, Edd n Eddy^[2].

On the 6th of August, 2016, the first known instance of the final copypasta was posted in a paw fetish thread^[3], reading “can some tell me why do people like this because i really want to kown” with a GIF of confused Nick Young, which became associated with the copypasta and was later dubbed Mr Kown by /trash/ users.

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The post was repeatedly posted in various threads, at some stages it was able to be found in almost every thread on the board. Searching the phrase “want to kown” on Desuarchive’s /trash/ archive yields over 700 results^[4].

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^[1]/trash/ – can some tell me why sit on some is hot. i don’t kown do y’all get off to this just thank (:

^[2]/trash/ – can one tell me why do people like this because i really want to kown.

^[3]/trash/ – can some tell me why do people like this because i really want to kown

^[4]Desuarchive – “want to kown”

How bad can i be is a song from the lorax

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Mr. Potato Head is an American toy consisting of a plastic model of a potato which can be decorated with a variety of plastic parts that can attach to the main body. These parts usually include ears, eyes, shoes, a hat, a nose, and a mouth. The toy was invented and developed by George Lerner in 1949, and first manufactured and distributed by Hasbro in 1952.

History

In the early 1940s, Brooklyn-born toy inventor George Lerner came up with the idea of inserting small, pronged body and face parts into fruits and vegetables to create a “funny face man”. Some speculate he got the idea from his wife’s nephew Aaron Bradley, who was seen placing sticks inside of potatoes in the family garden. Lerner would often take potatoes from his mother’s garden and, using various other fruits and vegetables as facial features, he would make dolls with which his younger sisters could play. The grape-eyed, carrot-nosed, potato-headed dolls became the principal idea behind the plastic toy which would later be manufactured.

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xLegopro123x was a place clickbaiter with over 10k place visits. He usally changes the thumbnails of the game which is called Bait and Switch Method

He is ?? years old.

His real name is Josh.

He looks up Furry Porn BUT Not Gay Furry Porn

He got banned for making a shirt which is a naked wolf uncensored. Gladly ROBLOX Banned It.

His past usernames are OnlyOneOnRoblox iGotMyRunningSh0esOn

He is a bit famous.

He Copys stuff without ur permisiion

Some Say He is the Next JaredValdez4

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Sad Taylor Swift is a photoshop meme based on a photograph of Taylor Swift seated on a park bench resting her head on her hand. After the picture began circulating online in late January 2017, many noted its striking resemblance to the Sad Keanu photograph.

Origin

On August 1st, 2014, The Daily Mail^[6] published several photographs of Swift eating a cup of frozen yogurt and sitting by herself in a park in New York City (shown below). On January 25th, 2017, a photo from the article in which Swift is shown resting her chin on the palm of her hand was uploaded to Imgur (shown below, right).^[1]

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That day, Redditor Susan_Is_Not_A_Bitch submitted the photo to the /r/PhotoshopBattles subreddit.^[7] Within 48 hours, the post garnered more than 2,700 points (91% upvoted) and 190 comments, many of which contained photoshopped variations of the picture (shown below).

On January 27th, 2017, the iO Trendz YouTube channel posted a video about the photoshop meme (shown below). In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the photoshop meme, including Complex,^[2] BroBible,^[3] The Chive,^[4] Rsvlts.^[5]

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Anybody Want a Peanut? is a popular quote used by Fezzik from the romantic movie The Princess Bride.

Origin

The Princess Bride was released on October 9th, 1987. The movie features a character named Fezzik played by André René Roussimoff.

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There were multiple references of the scene, from The Powerpuff Girls, and more.

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Ahok (or Basuki Cahaya Purnama, Chinese: 鍾萬學; Tjung Ban Hok; pinyin: Zhōng Wànxué ; born June 29, 1966) is an Indonesian politician serving 17th Governor of Jakarta. He’s been surrounded with controversy due his religion (Protestantism) in a majorly a muslim population, however since his political campaign visit in pulau seribu he’s been the center of political debate in Indonesia due to his religiously sensitive statement and several different muslim conservative movement.

History

In a September speech, Ahok said Islamic groups who were using a Koranic verse to discourage support for him were deceiving voters. The verse is interpreted by some as prohibiting Muslims from living under the leadership of a non-Muslim. Islamic groups said he had criticized the Koran and lodged complaints with the police. Ahok later apologized^[1].

This prompted several thousand muslim took part in large scale protest to arrest Ahok^[2], where around 100,000 muslim attended the protest. The movement was accompanied with a green background poster (that said “Aksi 4 November Bela Islam” or the english translation “4 November Movement Defending Islam”) that’s been circulating in twitter.

The poster also parodied by Ahok supporter with various picture that mock (criticize?) the movement

The night after the protest turn violent, The President Jokowi Widodo took a statement at the President Capital while wearing a “trendy” jacket, it cause a sudden influx of sale of the same product ^[3] and search history.

^[1]http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37996350

^[2]http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37856476

^[3]http://www.bintang.com/lifestyle/read/2647311/jaket-bomber-jokowi-laku-keras

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North Korean Rhythmic Exercise, usually called “Rhythmic Exercise” (Korean: 율동체조, Yuldong chejo or 률동체조, Ryuldong chejo; Japanese: 律動体操, Ritsudou Taiso) simply, refers to a series of calisthenics produced by the Korean Workers’ Party in 1990s. Its official video clips had been popular visual resources for audio-dubbing parodies in the early days of niconico Douga (niconico).

Origin

According to the Korean Wikipedia’s article^[1] and a TV program “The Love to the people is also in the rhythmic exercise” which was aired by Korean Central Television (KCTV)^[2] in August 2015,^[3][4][5] this exercise series began to be developed as an improved version of similar exercises in Kim Il-sung era, People’s Health Exercise (인민보건체조), at North Korean Sports Science Center by order of Kim Jong-il in March 1993. Began by the release of the adults version in the following year, 4 more rhythmic exercises, children, elders, toddlers and babies versions, were serially created in 1990s. Its soundtracks, except for the toddlers version, are played by Wangjaesan Light Music Band.^[6] These official tutorial movies for the exercises are still aired on KCTV in 2010s.

Besides, the Korean Workers’ Party also created several sports-themed rhythmic exercises (Basketball, Soccer and Wrestling versions) during Kim Jong-un era.

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In around late 2002 or early 2003, North Korean rhythmic exercise became to catch an attention among some of Japanese people by a midnight TV show Black Wide Show^[7] which often picked up KCTV’s news and propaganda footage for fun. Few years later, the launches of YouTube and niconico brought the exercises’ unique movements on cheap music up to visual resources for online video parodies. Particularly, the children version had been often used for audio-dubbing videos which mashup its footage with anime or video game music between 2007 and 2011.^[8][9]

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Fashwave is an artistic movement that combines retrowave and vaporwaveaesthetics with alt-right messages, mostly associated with United States President Donald Trump.

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Lady Gaga’s Halftime Show refers to Lady Gaga’s performance during halftime of Super Bowl LI. The performance, particularly the moment when Gaga jumped off the roof of NRG Stadium in Houston and was lowered via cables onto the stage, sparked parodies and comparisons on social media.

Origin

On February 5th, 2017, at the beginning of the halftime show at Super Bowl LI, Lady Gaga sang a mashup of American folk songs “God Bless America” and “This Land Is Your Land,” recited a bit of the American Pledge of Allegiance, then jumped from the roof of NRG Stadium and was lowered onto her stage via cables. The moment, shown below, immediately sparked jokes and pop culture comparisons on social media.

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Immediately after the jump, members of Twitter began making jokes by comparing the jump to other notable jumps in pop culture. Some of the tweets compiled in the Twitter Moment^[1] around the event compared the moment to Toy Story, Professional Wrestling, and the film Black Swan (shown below).

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Sad Tom Brady refers to an image of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady seated on a bench with his head down, which was widely circulated online prior to his team’s comeback victory during Super Bowl 51 held in early February 2017.

Origin

During Super Bowl 51 on February 5th, 2017, Brady was filmed with his head down on a bench while his team was down 20-0 against the Atlanta Falcons during a FOX broadcast of the event. Immediately after, the Sports Illustrated Twitter feed immediately posted the clip of Brady with the caption “Tom Brady is sad” (shown below). Within 24 hours, the tweet gained over 3,700 likes and 1,900 retweets.

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Shortly after, other Twitter users began reposting the photo and mocking Brady’s defeated-looking posture, many of which referenced the DeflateGate controversy (shown below).

Meanwhile, Redditor Shadowfacts985 submitted a post to /r/memeeconomy^[2] speculating that “Sad Tom Brady memes are gonna be yuge.” That evening, several news sites published articles about the Brady image, including BuzzFeed,^[5] Refinery 29^[6] and Hollywood Life.^[1] In a startling upset, the Patriots rallied back to win the game after being behind 25-points, leading Twitter user @DJWinek^[3] to tweet the Brady image with the caption “Shortest-Lived Meme / In Meme History” (shown below).

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*"I Call My Own Shots" refers to jokes made about a tweet made by President Donald Trump in which he claimed “I call my own shots, largely based on an accumulation of data, and everyone knows it. Some FAKENEWS media, in order to marginalize, lies!” On Twitter, jokes about the tweet paired the text with nonsensical GIFs.

Origin

On February 6th, 2017, President Trump tweeted “I call my own shots, largely based on an accumulation of data, and everyone knows it. Some FAKENEWS media, in order to marginalize, lies!” (shown below).^[1]

While it’s unclear what exactly Trump is referring to, The Daily Dot^[3] cites speculation that Trump is taking issue with a New York Times article^[2] posted on the 5th that insinuates former Breitbart executive chairman and current top White House advisor Stephen Bannon snuck in language to an executive order that promoted Bannon to the National Security Council, and that Trump was not aware of the addition until after he signed the order.

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Shortly after Trump’s tweet, Twitter users began pairing the text with unrelated images and GIFs to mock the tone and bizarreness of the tweet. One of the first popular examples, with 432 retweets, was posted by @MaynardBasilisk, who paired the text with a GIF of a man riding a boar (shown below).

Over the course of the day, many more Twitter users published their variations on the joke. Another popular variation of the joke was to use “I Call My Own Shots” in dialogue memes as an excuse for bad behavior, similar to how Twitter users responded to when Trump said to CNN’s Jake Tapper, You Are Fake News.

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Is a Hot Dog a Sandwich

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On April 21st, 2015, the food blog First We Feast^[1] published an article titled “A Bro and a Philosopher Debate the True Meaning of a Sandwich,” in which medieval philosophy professor Dr. Calvin Normore discussed the debate:

“I think it might also be because the history of the hot dog is different than the history of sandwiches as a whole. They almost exist on different temporal planes. When history’s first Frankfurter was made in Central Europe and stuck in a roll of bread, it was done outside the modern concept of a sandwich. So, yes, they likely are sandwiches, but only in the same sense that benches are also chairs.”

On July 8th, comedian Hannibal Buress posted a tweet arguing that “a hot dog has all the qualities of a sandwich.” The tweet was subsequently deleted. On November 7th, the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council announced that was not a sandwich.^[3] On November 30th, comedian John Hodgman and The Sporkful^[2] podcast host Dan Pashman debated the topic at the Bellhouse in Brooklyn, New York (shown below).

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Hot Monkey Dick is an exploitable panel series featuring a monkey about to have intercourse with a human male, with the panel usually edited to feature a similar situation with other characters. Originating from a single-panel adult comic, other parts of the comic are often referenced alongside it, most notably the prior phrase “It’s time…”.

Origin

The earliest traceable version of the original comic was uploaded to the furry art archive e621 on November 28th, 2011, by furry artist Furronika.^[1] However, according to Wikifur,^[2] most of Furronika’s original art got deleted in 2010 and 2011; this makes it nearly impossible to trace back the original version. This also leaves it unclear if the phrase “hot monkey dick” was present in the original version, given the odd punchline where the male lead is convinced to buy a PS3 as a result of having intercourse with a monkey.

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A meme made in Markiplier’s “DON’T LAUGHCHALLENGE #4”, in which Tyler says “And now!…It’s a face-off” as the screen gets stretched horizontally.

https://youtu.be/L8IglGeB-P8?t=9m10s