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Antifa is the modern name for Anti-fascism, the more militant, leftist movement that stands in opposition to fascist ideologies.

History

Anti-fascism started in Italy with the creation of organizations such as Arditi del Popolo and the Italian Anarchist Union following World War I in order to combat the nationalist and fascist surge in the country.^[1] In the years leading up to World War II, the Italian movement began to spread into the Balkans and Albania, while anti-fascist groups spread in Germany, Spain, France, and the United Kingdom.

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DashieXP is the nickname of a Dominican-American YouTube user Charlie “Dashie” Guzman. He is best known for his series of skits such as Dashie VS Jason, Mortal Kombat, Ghetto, and Barney. Dashie is also best known for his Let’s Play channel DashieGames.

Origin

Dashie first came to YouTube to create a regular YouTube channel as Dashie^[2] on March 1, 2006. No videos were submitted until he started submitted random clips on 2011 while working on YouTube channels DashieXP and DashieXP2.

On March 16, 2010, Dashie started his YouTube channel DashieXP^[3] to work on skits. A second channel DashieXP2^[4] was created on June 24, 2010, to submit videos of bloopers and behind the scenes from his DashieXP videos. On September 13, 2011, Dashie made a Let’s Play channel DashieGames^[5] where he mainly focuses on video games such as Mario Kart 8 and Super Mario Maker.

Mortal Kombat Animation

Dashie’s Mortal Kombat Animation skit series is about two friends Baraka and Raiden (and Kabal most of the time) hanging out. The voices for most of the characters are done by DashieXP and few characters are voiced by others like Nightmare Cinemas^[6].

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^[1]Wikia – The DashieXP Wiki

^[2]YouTube – Dashie

^[3]YouTube – DashieXP

^[4]YouTube – DashieXP2

^[5]YouTube – DashieGames

^[6]YouTube – NightmareCinemas

^[7]DashieXP.com

PaRappa the Rapper is an 1996 PS1 game since it was released in public that was in Japan and on America, Parappa is a charming rap dog where he will teach you to press buttons at the Playstation controller, the creator Masaya Matsuura try to draw anthropomorphic animals in the 3d video game history.

In 1999, Japan, America and the Game developer release a game before Parappa the Rapper 2 was released, it’s the video game called " UmJammer Lammy " The Video game had 8.6/10 on IGN but Parappa the Rapper had perfect ratings in it

In Japan 2001, they released a video game sequel of Parappa the Rapper but in america was in 2002.

April 14th 2001, they released an Anime with PaRappa the Rapper (TV series) but it got cancelled in 2002

Oct 29, 2012, Ambassador Foxx Upload a Parappa the Rapper 2 gameplay and the title said chinese
In 2016, SiivaGunner upload a car rap HQR video on YouTube since on April where he got Terminated for copyright issues and impostering a user, but the video what he’d lost is reuploaded.

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FishieLemonDude upload a video called The Nutshack but with Parappa the Rapper

and the internet is spread with parappa memes, remix’s and Fan Art

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Accepting Your Death is an exploitable image macro series featuring an illustration of a woman lying on her death bed with the caption “accepting your death,” which is typically accompanied by scenarios in that leave a person feeling defeated and depressed.

Origin

While the illustration is rumored to come from the “How to Die Peacefully” article on WikiHow,^[3] no archived version of the illustration has been found on the site. On December 18th, 2014, Twitter user @leyawn^[1] posted several illustrations of people laying on their death bed, purportedly taken from a Wikihow article on how “to die” (shown below).

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On October 22nd, 2015, the Colorful Memes Facebook^[5] page posted a Metal Gear-themed photoshop of the “Accepting Your Death” illustration (shown below).

On May 8th, 2016, the Crippling Memes Facebook^[4] page posted a photoshop of the image with the “Call of Duty”: logo superimposed over the woman’s head (shown below, left). On December 28th, the Sarcasm Society Facebook^[2] page posted the illustration with the caption “When you tell your best joke with perfect timing and nobody laughs” (shown below, right).

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Shooting Stars is a song by Australian electronic duo Bag Raiders released in 2009. Several years after its release, the song began appearing in remix videos employing a synthwave aesthetic, particularly of people falling.

Origin

“Shooting Stars” was originally released as the B-side to Bag Raiders’ “Turbo Love” EP in 2008,^[2] and made its first appearance on YouTube on October 1st, 2008 when an instrumental version was played in a game of Audiosurf (shown below).

Bag Raiders released “Shooting Stars” in as a single 2009. The song peaked at number 62 on the ARIA singles chart. On July 22nd, 2009, Modular People uploaded the song’s video to YouTube. The video, shown below, is heavily influenced by retro synthwave aesthetics. It has over 13 million views.

After the song was used by Australia’s Got Talent in 2013, the song shot into the Top 40.^[1]

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The first known use of the track in a meme context was of a crude animation uploaded to YouTube by Glaceygirl on December 29th, 2015 (shown below).

The track appeared in some less popular YouTube mixes until July of 2016, when it began gaining more traction. On July 30th, 2016, the track was paired with a video of CGI gorillas dancing as a parody tribute to Harambe and uploaded to YouTube by TheN00bNinja. It has gained over 150,000 views as of February 2017 (shown below).

After that, the song grew more established as a meme, appearing in several popular remixes before spiking in popularity in late January 2017 following an upload by All Ski Casino on the 23rd that paired the song with a video of a fat man diving (shown below). That video gained over 530,000 views and gained over 1,600 upvoted on /r/videos^[3] the same day.

This started a trend of videos where the song is paired with footage of people falling edited to look as though they are falling through space.

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Bash the Fash is a phrase associated with anarchist and antifa movements advocating violence as a means to stop fascists from spreading their beliefs. Online the phrase is often used in vertical posting and comment chains.

History

Anarchists and Antifa often justify violent opposition to fascism with an Adolph Hitler quote claiming that the Nazi party could have been stopped if it was destroyed in its infancy.

“Only one danger could have jeopardised this development – if our adversaries had understood its principle, established a clear understanding of our ideas, and not offered any resistance. Or, alternatively, if they had from the first day annihilated with the utmost brutality the nucleus of our new movement.” ^[1]

In 1993 anarcho-punk band Oi Polloi released the EP Guilty which contained the track "Bash the Fash.

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^[1] https://zuriz.wordpress.com/2013/10/06/smashing-the-nucleus/

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*Depression Memes" refer to a variety of image macros and captioned GIFs that explore the subject of melancholia in a humorous way.

Origin

On January 5th, 2013, Redditor CuriousCarrot created the subreddit /r/depressionmemes as a discussion forum where users can share stories about their clinical depression using image macros and other meme formats.

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J.G. Wentworth refers to commercials for the diversified financial services company J.G. Wentworth, which aired during daytime television programming in the late 1990s.

Origin

began airing a commercial in which various people yell the phrase “It’s my money and I need it now!” (shown below).

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On November 7th, 2011, Redditor Lunchable_ submitted a post titled “J.G. Wentworth,” featuring a 60’s Spider-Man image macro with the caption “It’s my money and I need it now!” to /r/funny (shown below, left).^[1] On December 30th, a similar 60’s Spider-Man image macro was posted by Redditor Geckos to /r/funny (shown below, right).

On June 27th, 2016, Tumblr user j4ya^[2] posted a Nut Button image macro referencing the J.G. Wentworth commercials (shown below). Over the next eight months, the post received more than 173,000 notes. Two days later, Redditor Timetravelinghippie reposted the image macro to /r/FellowKids.^[3]

On January 28th, 2017, the Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen Facebook page posted a photoshopped picture of the ""Cash Me Ousside"": girl over a J.G. Wentworth ad (shown below).

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Red Hot Nickel Ball Videos are recordings of a ball of nickel heated until it glows red hot, then being placed on various objects, usually melting through them and sometimes causing remarkable chemical reactions. As with the later 1,000 Degree Knife Videos, the recordings are regarded as oddly satisfying, while others criticized them for being YouTubeclickbait.

Origin

On February 28th, 2013, the carsandwater YouTube channel uploaded a video of a ball of nickel heated till it is glowing placed on a pillar of dry ice (shown below). Within four years, the video gained over 4.2 million views and 2,200 comments.

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Over the course of the next four years, the channel uploaded 97 videos^[1] of the Red Hot Nickel Ball being placed on various objects. Some of the more compelling videos were covered by media outlets; Gizmodo,^[2] for example, has posted two dozen articles about different Red Hot Nickel Ball videos. On September 11th, 2014, the channel posted one of two videos in which they applied a super-cooled nickel ball to an object, the first being honey (shown below). The video gained over 5.5 million views in two years.

As of February 7th, 2017, the channel’s most popular upload with over 17 million views shows a red hot nickel ball being dropped on floral foam. In the video, shown below, the green foam shrinks and turns black at contact with the nickel ball.

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Betty Boop is an animated cartoon created by Max Fleischer, with help from animators including Grim Natwick. She originally appeared in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop film series, which were produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures. She has also been featured in comic strips and mass merchandising.

History

Betty Boop made her first appearance on August 9, 1930, in the cartoon Dizzy Dishes the seventh installment in Fleischer’s Talkartoon series. Although Clara Bow is often given as being the model for Boop, she actually began as a caricature of singer Helen Kane. The character was originally created as an anthropomorphic French poodle. Betty Boop appeared as a supporting character in 10 cartoons as a flapper girl with more heart than brains. In individual cartoons, she was called “Nancy Lee” or “Nan McGrew” – derived from the 1930 Helen Kane film Dangerous Nan McGrew – usually serving as a girlfriend to studio star, Bimbo.

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“Yaint” is a slang contraction of the words “you are all not,” which is often associated with people living in the Southern United States. In 2017, a series of comics and image macros in which a character insists on using the expression began trending on the microblogging site Tumblr.

Origin

On December 11th, 2003, Urban Dictionary^[1] user lauren submtted an entry for “yain’t,” defining it as a combination of the words “y’all” and “a’int” (shown below).

On December 17th, 2016, Tumblr user nyanberry^[4] posted a comic of Superman arm wrestling a glowing figure who replies “yaint” to the phrase “you are all not.” Within two months, the post gained over 24,400 notes.

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On December 30th, 2016, Redditor heatstroke-pitlord submitted the Superman comic to the /r/DeepFriedMemes^[6] subreddit. On January 1st, 2017, Instagram^[2] user owen_kung reposted the comic. On January 16th, Twitter user @YahBoyCourage^[5] tweeted the same comic, garnering upwards of 1,200 likes and 500 retweets in the next two weeks. On January 25th, Derpibooru^[8] user Hugoberting.Esq uploaded a photoshop of the comic featuring anthropomorphic versions of the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic characters “Rainbow Dash” and Applejack (shown below).

On January 26th, Tumblr user joksiiie^[7] posted a Voltron Legendary Defender photoshop of the comic, accumulated upwards of 10,000 notes within four days (shown below, left). On January 28th, the Meme Documentation^[9] Tumblr published a post requesting information on the meme. On January 30th, Instagram user @empactivated^[3] posted an edited version of the arm wrestling comic with the characters Zarya and McCree from Overwatch (shown below, right).

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Spy Kids 2 Glasses refers to an image from the 2002 film Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams in which the character Juni Cortez sees another team of spy kids, and his glasses fold out and zoom in so he can get a better look. The moment became a reaction image in the mid 2010s, often paired with captions describing situations one might need to take a closer look or squint.

Origin

While the original use of the picture as a reaction image is unclear, it likely started on Tumblr in the summer of 2013. The earliest-dated post featuring the image is a screenshot from Tumblr posted to memedroid^[1] by joeblow9042 on August 15th, 2013.

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Teen Comix, also known as “No Fear--X--One Fear” is an exploitable comic strip in which a teen is seen walking with a shirt that reads “No Fear.” In the second panel, he passes another person posing a humorous question or scenario, and then in the third, his shirt now reads “One Fear.”

Origin

On March 6th, 2015, webcomic Escape From Heaven by Branson Reese^[1] uploaded a strip called “Teen Comix.” In the original, shown below, the second panel shows a shirt that reads “What if they made Simpsons porn illegal?”

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John Wick is a neo-noir action film starring Keanu Reeves as the titular protagonist assassin, who seeks vengeance against mobsters for killing his dog. The sequel John Wick 2 is scheduled for release on February 10th, 2017.

History

On October 24th, 2014, John Wick was released in theaters. In the film, the retired assassin John Wick (played by Keanu Reeves) receives a puppy named Daisy after his wife succumbs to a fatal illness. After forming a bond with the dog, a group of Russian mobsters kill his dog while stealing his car. Wick subsequently goes on a violent rampage to avenge Daisy.

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In February 2015, directors Chad Stahelski and David Leitch revealed that a sequel John Wick 2 was in development. In May, the sequel starring Keanu Reeves was greenlit by Lionsgate films and would be sold at the Cannes Film Festival. On October 8th, 2016, an official trailer for the sequel was released on YouTube, gathering more than 7.3 million views and 5,900 comments over the next four months (shown below).

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On October 25th, 2014, the /r/JohnWick^[1] subreddit was launched for discussions about the film. On February 13th, 2015, YouTuber Nick DiNizio uploaded a montage tallying all the people killed by Wick in the film (shown below).

On May 7th, YouTuber DarkDark Productions uploaded a remake of the John Wick trailer in Grand Theft Auto V (shown below, left). On September 10th, YouTuber KeanuReevesTurk uploaded footage of Keanu Reeves training for the film, which garnered more than 3.22 million views and 600 comments over the next two years (shown below, right).

On December 19th, a 4chan user submitted a post asking if the film was “actually good or was everyone just memeing it?” to which another user responded that it was a “surprisingly ok” for being “like a CoD frag video” (shown below). That day, a screenshot of the post reached the front page of /r/4chan,^[3] garnering more than 3,300 points (91% upvoted) and 125 comments prior to being archived.

On March 3rd, 2016, YouTuber Taran Tactical uploaded footage of Keanu Reeves training for John Wick 2 on a shooting range, which received upwards of 7.1 million views and 4,600 comments over the next year (shown below). The following day, the video reached the front page of /r/guns,^[4] received over 3,200 points (93% upvoted) and 500 comments prior to being archived.

On January 24th, 2017, YouTuber Dean Wyatt uploaded a shootout scene from John Wick dubbed with audio clips of “Michael Jackson”: making a variety of grunt noises (shown below, left). That day, the video reached the front page of /r/videos.^[2] On February 7th, 2017, YouTuber uploaded a parody trailer titled “Dog Wick,” in which a small dog takes down a group of mobster to avenge his murdered owner (shown below).

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The film gathered mostly positive reviews, having reached a score of 85% on Rotten Tomatoes^[5] and 68% on Metacritic.^[6]

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Sean Spicer is a Republican political strategist and current White House Press Secretary and Communications Director for the 45th President of the United States Donald Trump.

History

In February 2011, Spicer was chosen as the communications director for the Republican National Committee (RNC). Under his direction, the RNC expanded its presence on social media and created its own television production department.

White House Press Secretary

On December 22nd, 2016, Spicer was selected as the White House Press Secretary for the Trump administration.

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#SpicerFacts

On January 21st, 2017, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer held his first press conference under President Trump. There, he chastised the media for supposedly falsely reporting on the size of the crowd at Trump’s inauguration. Despite photographic evidence to the contrary, Spicer insisted Trump’s inauguration had the highest attendance numbers ever, echoing Trump’s claim that 1.5 million people attended his inauguration when the official report placed the number at 250,000. Following Spicer’s press conferences, users began mocking the disprovable statements made by Spencer by tweeting outlandish statements with the hashtag #SpicerFacts, often with pictures of Spicer.

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The Onion Retweet

On January 28th, 2017, Spicer retweets a satirical article about his role in the Trump administration to provide “robust and clearly articulated misinformation” (shown below). Following the retweet, many speculated that Spicer was unaware that “The Onion”: was satirical, while others claimed he was making a joke. Within two weeks, the tweet garnered more than 19,000 likes and 16,500 retweets.

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Saturday Night Live Skit

On February 5th, 2017, actress Melissa McCarthy impersonated Spicer in a skit on Saturday Night Live (shown below).

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#ShePersisted is a hashtag used by liberals and feminists to support Senator Elizabeth Warren after United States Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell silenced her Senator "Elizabeth during a debate on confirming Senator Jeff Sessions to the position of United States Attorney General, and defended his action with the quote, “She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted.” After the quote was published, it became a rallying cry for liberals and feminists, who applied “Nevertheless, she persisted” to other famous women in history.

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On February 7th, 2016, Senator Elizabeth Warren was giving a speech to the Senate arguing against the confirmation of Sessions. As part of her speech, she read a letter^[1] Coretta Scott King, wife of Dr. Martin Luther King, wrote to Strom Thurmond arguing against the appointing of Sessions to the Federal Court as a judge in 1986. At that moment, Mitch McConnell brought forth an objection that Warren was breaking Rule XIX of the Senate, which barred senators from impugning each other’s character. The Senate then voted 49-43 to bar Warren from participating in further debate on the confirmation of Sessions.

When asked later for an explanation about the incident, McConnell said of Warren, “She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted.”^[3]

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The moment sparked the hashtag #LetLizSpeak^[2] and it was noted how the rule had hardly ever been applied despite numerous cases in recent years when senators impugned each other’s character. Warren later took to Facebook to read the letter, where she gained over 2 million views.^[5]

Most notable, however, was the backlash McConnell’s tweet inspired from the left, as #ShePersisted^[4] trended on Twitter the following day as people used the hashtag to tweet out feminist statements, often applying the words to other famous women in history who fought against sexism. News outlets covered how McConnell’s words were swiftly turning into a feminist rallying cry, including Mashable,^[6] The Daily Dot,^[7] The Washington Post,^[8] Buzzfeed,^[9] and more. The Washington Post^[1] also ran an op-ed suggesting that McConnell had inadvertently provided Warren with a campaign slogan for 2020.

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Obama Vacationing refers to jokes made about photographs of former President Barack Obama kitesurfing with Virgin CEO Richard Branson two weeks after his term as president ended.

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About a week before Obama was seen kitesurfing with Richard Branson, Obama was seen vacationing wearing a backwards baseball cap, which sparked enough jokes for a Twitter Moment.^[2]

Origin

On February 7th, 2017, Virgin^[1] posted an article written by their CEO Richard Branson detailing his and former president Barack Obama’s trip to the British Virgin Islands. They engaged in a friendly competition to see if Barack Obama could learn how to kitesurf before Branson could learn how to foilboard. They posted a video of the day, as well as pictures of the two of them in the water.

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“Easy D” is an expression tweeted by United States President Donald Trump, presumably as a shorthand for “easy decision,” which was widely mocked on Twitter due to its similarity to the name of the deceased rapper “Eazy-E” and the euphemism “The D”.

Origin

On February 8th, 2017, Donald Trump posted a tweet about a “big increase in traffic” into the United States causing the American people to be “more vulnerable” and complaining about waiting for “what should be Easy D!,” presumably referring to an ongoing court battle over his executive order on immigration (shown below).^[1]

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Immediately after the tweet was posted, Twitter users began mocking the use of the shorthand “Easy D” as if it were a euphemism for “dick” (shown below).

Meanwhile, other Twitter users posted photoshops of Trump’s faced superimposed on to photographs of the deceased rapper Easy-E (shown below).

Meanwhile, Redditor Go_To_Bethel_And_Sin submitted a post asking “What is Easy D?” to /r/OutOfTheLoop.^[2]

In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the online reaction to Trump’s tweet, including The Daily Dot, NY Daily News, The Guardian, Slate and UpRoxx.

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