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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), refers to a series of calisthenics produced by the Korean Workers’ Party in the 1990s. The video clips were 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 Korean Central Television program called “The Love to the people is also in the rhythmic exercise” (KCTV)^[2] aired in August 2015,^[3][4][5] this exercise series was ordered by order of Kim Jong-il in March of 1993 as an improved version of similar exercises in Kim Il-sung era, People’s Health Exercise (인민보건체조), at the North Korean Sports Science Center. After the release of the “adults” version of the video, 4 more rhythmic exercises, for children, elders, toddlers and babies, were released serially in the 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.

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 late 2002, North Korean rhythmic exercise videos began being aired on the Japanese Television show Black Wide Show^[7] which often picked up KCTV’s news and propaganda footage for fun. A few years later, the videos became fodder for video remixes and parodies on YouTube and niconico. 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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The “I love how these so called vegans still drink water” meme became a spark in the battle between extreme vegans and the meninist group online. The meme is intended to highlight the insane lengths some vegans go to remain pure, while showing the ridiculousness of begin vegan.

Origin

The meme first came in the form of a tweet by Twitter comedian Caleb Garstecki on May 25, 2016.

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CeeLo Green’s Grammys Outfit is a gold suit and mask worn by R&B singer CeeLo Green at the 2017 Grammy Awards. The outfit immediately was the target of jokes on social media.

Origin

At the 2017 Grammy Awards, which took place on February 12th, 2017, CeeLo Green dressed in an all-gold outfit complete with a matching gold mask. The outfit, shown below, was intended to bring attention to CeeLo’s new performing persona, “Gnarly Davidson.”^[1]

On February 2nd, 2017, CeeLo explained the character in a cyptic message to XXL^[2] that read:

“Look at me… LOOK AT ME! YOUDIDTHIS TO ME CEELOGREEN, YOUFUCKINGIDIOT. BUT I LIKE IT, I’m actually…BETTER! Than you… than everyone! A karmikaze upon you! Vengeance is mine sayeth GNARLYDAVIDSON. P.S. TECHNOLOJESUS saves.”

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Immediately after images of CeeLo Green’s outfit hit the internet, social media users, particularly on Twitter, began making jokes about it. Many of the jokes connected CeeLo’s outfit to characters in pop-culture, like C-3PO.

Many websites included articles about CeeLo’s outfit and the various jokes made about it in their Grammys coverage, including Daily Dot,^[3] Cosmopolitan,^[4] The Fader,^[5] etc.

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It Was Time for Thomas to Leave is a reaction image of Thomas the Tank Engine captioned “It was time for Thomas to leave. He had seen everything.” It is generally used in reaction to something the person posting it finds disgusting.

Origin

The image is a screengrab of the Thomas & Friends episode, “Thomas, Percy and the Coal.”^[1]

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The Cat in the Hat is a children’s book written by Dr. Seuss about an anthropomorphic cat who befriends two children along with his companions Thing One and Thing Two. In 2003, a film adaptation of the book was released starring actor Mike Myers as the titular character.

History

In early 1957, Houghton Mifflin published The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss, in which a child named Sally and her little brother are visited by an anthropomorphic cat wearing a red and white striped hat and a red bow tie. While entertaining the children, he releases the creatures Thing One and Thing Two, who proceed to make a mess in the house. After cleaning up the mess, the Cat in the Hat leaves the home right before their mother arrives.

2003 Film

On November 21st, 3004, the comedy film The Cat in the Hat was released, in which actor Mike Myers stars as the protagonist cat character (shown below). The film received mostly negative reviews, having received a 10% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 19/100 score on Metacritic.

Online Presence

On October 24th, 2006, a page on The Cat in the Hat was created on the Dr. Seuss Wiki.^[2] In January 2012, a “Dr. Seuss’ Cat in the Hat” Facebook^[7] page was created, which gained over 920,000 likes over the next six years. On March 11th, 2013, a page for The Cat in the Hat film was created on TV Tropes.^[1] On April 16th, the Nostalgia Critic released a review of the 2003 Cat in the Hat film, garnering upwards of 2.5 million views and 9,300 comments over the next four years (shown below, left). On April 17th, 2016, the GameGrumps YouTube channel uploaded a video featuring footage of a 2003 Cat in the Hat video game (shown below, right).

Mr. Sprinkles

In 2007, the animated series Mr. Sprinkles by Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland was released, in which a Cat in the Hat-like character terrifies children by entering their houses to play with them (shown below).

On Reddit

In early February 2017, several Cat in the Hat-themed Fake History image macros reached the front page of the /r/MemeEconomy subreddit, with many speculating that memes related to the 2003 film were “on the rise” (shown below).^[3][4][5][6]

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Hale Hortler is an intentionally misspelled version of the phrase “Hail Hitler,” which is typically associated with poorly-drawn swastika symbols.

Origin

In early August 2016, Tumblr user southern-conservatism posted several pictures of a car with an incorrectly drawn swastika symbol drawn with a key next to the word “fag” on the door (shown below, left). On August 1st, Tumblr user equestrianrepublican reblogged the post along with a picture of Adolf Hitler next to the symbol with the caption “Hale Hortler” (shown below, right). Over the next six months, the post gained over 16,000 notes.

Spread

On August 9th, 2016, Redditor ATLief submitted a multi-panel image to /r/ImGoingToHellForThis,^[2] where it gathered more than 2,100 points (96% upvoted) and 40 comments prior to being archived.

On August 27th, Redditor Gary26 submitted a post titled “Hail Hortler Flag,” featuring the incorrectly drawn swastika on a red background within a white circle (shown below).

On November 23rd, 2016, Redditor nerd-is-the-word submitted a post asking for an explanation of the “Hail Hortler meme” to /r/OutOfTheLoop.^[1] On December 25th, the Hale Hortler image was posted to a thread on 4chan’s /pol/ board.^[3]

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Sarah Silverman Tweet

On February 12th, 2017, comedian Sarah Silverman tweeted a photograph of construction markings, speculating that they were poorly-drawn swastikas (shown below).

That day, conservative writer Stephen Miller posted several tweets mocking Silverman’s tweet (shown below).

Silverman subsequently posted a tweet acknowledging her mistake, citing anti-Semitic messages directed to her and actions of the Trump administration for causing her to assume the markings were Nazi symbols (shown below).

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Pussy nuggets was a term contrived to mock Asian stereotypes and show the ridiculousness of the internet. “Pussy” meaning cat in a literal sense. Pussy nuggets can mean chicken nuggets, or general Tso’s chicken.

Creation

The term “pussy nuggets” was first coined by Caleb Garstecki, Andrew Bayura, and Peter Brucker on an online stream. It began as a joke trying to find the chief export of China to McDonald’s around the world. Later however, after the meme began to spread, they decided to turn it into a music video.

The video “Pussy Nuggets” was released on September 19, 2016 on the Politically Correct Party Youtube channel where it quickly gained over 20,000 views. The video mocked both racial and hip-hop stereotypes, and was received with generally positive criticism. Starring in the video was the character Baked Rice (portrayed by Caleb Garstecki), a Geisha singer (portrayed by Andrew Bayura), and a generic hip-hop producer.

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Adult Swaddling is a type of therapy in which an adult is wrapped in cloth like a newborn infant and rocked back and forth.

Origin

“Adult Swaddling” is the English name for Otonamaki, which was developed by Kyoto midwife and professor Nobuko Watanabe.^[1] She believes the practice helps new mother recover from shoulder and hip pain, as well as destress, though other physicians fail to see the benefit.

Spread

Stories of the trend began to spread across western media in late January of 2017 after Quartz^[2] published a video about the practice on the 30th. After that it was picked up by Reuters,^[3] Huffington Post,^[4] New York Post,^[5] and more. On February 12th, the articles and the reactions to them made Twitter Moments.^[6]

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James Broome is a British teen, and personality “Broomy”, icon of “Broomy’s Corner”. Broomy’s Corner started as an in-joke between classmates from his school, however it slowly began to gain viewers from outside sources, gaining a fan base across the United Kingdom, and slowly across other regions including America.

Two months after the channel’s creation, the now deleted “Rebellion of the Broom” channel came onto Youtuber. This channel lasted over a 48 hour span before being deleted by the channel owner. Within the 24 hours of this channel’s existence, multiple videos were uploaded to the channel before being shut down. The channel always implied two people were in charge of the channel, these people going by the names “The Voice” and “rofl xd”, each of whom used Bonzi Buddy as their appearance.
On the final day of the channel’s existence, a video titled “The End” was uploaded to the channel, crediting each owner of the team to their role, while also acknowledging the third parties who helped produce content for the channel.

The Rebellion of the Broom was a large part of the original channel’s growth, earning it over 50 subscribers in the two days, boosting it from below 70 to 125. A large part of this was collaborating parodies together, such as Review Movie World with Broomy’s Corner.

Growth of the channel slowed after the Rebellion’s disappearance, and the true identities of the owners are still unknown. Broomy’s Corner slowed down the uploads after the Rebellion appeared, however uploads did continue on the channel although they never talked about the Rebellion.

Broomy’s Corner
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkCFdSPIDhx1-DeiUQ5TqMQ

rofl xd
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_3OuhA6oSf-1-u8DlWuSRw

Roblox is a user-generated massively multiplayer online social gaming platform developed and published by the Roblox Corporation and released in 2006.

In the game, players are able to create their own virtual worlds and design their own games within the platform. Games on Roblox can be designed using a sandbox edition of the programming language Lua. Their in-game currency, Robux, can be rewarded to users and developers, which in turn can be converted to cash through the Developer Exchange program. The game is designed to be family-friendly and device-agnostic, with the ability of running on a wide variety of devices and platforms, including PC, Mac, Android, iOS, Xbox, and Oculus. As of fall 2016, Roblox has over 500,000 game creators designing games, and 30 million active monthly players, who have logged more than 300 million hours of game play. The Roblox Corporation employs more than 200 people in its San Mateo, California headquarters.

On January 10th, ROBLOX released their new logo.
http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/roblox_logo.png (See the new logo by going to the link.)

Then, sometime people began making photos of the ROBLOX logo. However, they edited it, like put the dominos,bethesda,cheezits on the O’s.

Examples: (go to the links to see images)
http://forum.berezaagames.com/uploads/default/original/3X/3/8/38ece3bf536b2ffd144b4030b3f1df64af88f4df.png
http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/209/990/5a2.png
http://forum.berezaagames.com/uploads/default/original/3X/f/5/f531da8740b17c71de41187e909a917858766293.PNG

http://imgur.com/2bA30ly

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The Lorax is a children’s book written by Dr. Seuss and first published in 1971. It chronicles the plight of the environment and the Lorax, who speaks for the trees against the Once-ler. As in most Dr. Seuss works, most of the creatures mentioned are original to the book.

History

2012 Film

The Lorax is a 2012 American computer-animated 3D musical fantasy comedy film produced by Illumination Entertainment and based on Dr. Seuss’s children’s book of the same name

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Reception

Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association named The Lorax one of its “Teachers’ Top 100 Books for Children”. In 2012 it was ranked number 33 among the “Top 100 Picture Books” in a survey published by School Library Journal the second of five Dr. Seuss books on the list. In a retrospective critique written in the journal Nature in 2011 upon the 40th anniversary of the book’s publication, Emma Marris described the Lorax character as a “parody of a misanthropic ecologist”. She called the book “gloomy” and doubted it was good for young children. Nevertheless, she praised the book overall, and especially Seuss for understanding “the limits of gloom and doom” environmentalism.

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Let it Grow

Let It Grow is a song from the 2012 Illumination Entertainment film The Lorax based on the Dr. Seuss book of the same name. The song grew into a popular vehicle for Word Replacement Remixes on YouTube in late 2016.

Once-ler

The Once-ler is a fictional character played by Ed Helms from the 2012 movie “The Lorax”. Who, in the original Dr Seuss story, was depicted as a faceless green suit with long green gloves that in his greed and blindness destroys an entire ecosystem just in order to create a product called a “Thneed”.
But after the 2012 release, in which the Once-ler character was suddenly personified and obtained a face and a back-story, something a bit out of the norm happened: A large a sporadic fan-base grew up overnight from Tumblr and invaded both DeviantArt and YouTube with thousands of articles, blogs, cosplay, gifs, fan-fic and fan videos related to the character. Currently 5,500 posts under Once-ler and 8,500 under Lorax exist on DeviantArt. 1,990,000 results came up when searching “The Once-ler” on Google.
The National Anthem of the fandom is without a doubt “How bad can I be” which was featured in the movie.

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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.

DashieGames

DashieGames is a Let’s Play channel created by Dashie on September 13, 2011. He currently has over 3.5M subscribers.

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

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Antifa is the modern name for Anti-fascism, the more militant movement of the left that stands in opposition to fascist ideologies, often with violent methods.

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]

Spread

In the years leading up to World War II, the Italian movement began to spread into the Balkans and Albania, while anti-fascist groups started in Germany, Spain, France, and the United Kingdom.

In the United States, anti-fascist groups began in opposition to organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan and the Friends of New Germany. During the Red Scare, a post-WWII witch hunt for communist sympathizers, being anti-fascist “prematurely” (before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor) was cause for suspicion.

Post-Trump Antifa

Following the presidential election of Donald Trump, anti-fascist groups, commonly known as Antifa, began garnering mainstream attention for their response to certain events, particularly the Punch of Richard Spencer. The event started a national dialogue on what was acceptable resistance in the face of white nationalism. Antifa groups made waves again when they protested alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos speaking at UC Berkeley. That led to a profile of the Antifa movement on Wired,^[2] who investigated the online war between Antifa groups and Neo-Nazis.

Bash the Fash

Bash the Fash is a phrase used by antifascists advocating violence as an acceptable form of resistance against fascism. Although the phrase had been a slogan for antifascist groups since at least the 1980’s it saw a resurgence after Richard Spencer was punched in the face.

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Justin Trudeau’s Handshake With Donald Trump is a photoshop meme based on a Reuters photograph of the United States President reaching out for a handshake with the Canadian Prime Minister during their summit at the White House in February 2017.

Origin

On February 13th, 2017, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited the White House for a first time face-to-face meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump. During a photo op before the press members, Trump reached his hand out for a handshake and Trudeau reciprocated by shaking his hand while facing the camera. While the moment went unnoticed in video, a photograph taken by Reuters photographer Kevin Lamarque captured an awkward split-second of Trudeau seemingly gazing at Trump’s hand, which made it seem as if the prime minister was contemplating on whether to shake his hand.

As many TV and internet news outlets broke their reports on the first face-to-face summit, the Reuters photograph instantly grabbed the attention of the readers, and by quarter after noon, a handful of people on Twitter^[2][3] had already started cracking jokes about the awkwardly timed photograph.

Spread

At 12:22 p.m., VICE Noisey editor Kim Kelly^[3] tweeted the photograph with the caption “Today, we are all Justin Trudeau,” garnering more than 1,691 likes and 2,500 retweets in less than 12 hours.

At 12:29 p.m. (EST), Redditor Cleantoe submitted the photograph to the /r/PhotoshopBattles subreddit^[6] in a post titled “Canadian PM Justin Trudeau hesitating to shake Donald Trump’s hand.” Throughout the afternoon, dozens of Justin Trudeau’s imagined monologues and photoshopped parodies, including jokes about Trump’s "small hand ":/memes/trump-s-small-hand reputation, continued to crop up and spread on Twitter^[5] and Reddit^[6], which was subsequently picked up by various news outlets in virtually all English-speaking regions.^{[7][8][9][10][11][12]}

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After a fight between two ROBLOX players on Ro-Nation, whom are apart of the ROBLOX group United States of America, owned by Nightgaladeld, on whether or not the current President of the group named Suddenrush12G was a good President, the two individuals met up in real life after challenging each other to a fight. In the end, the player named Ozzymen won who was supporting Suddenrush12G. The fight was unknowingly recorded and the results were retarded.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeef8bh7Zyw

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Trumputin is a portmanteau of the names Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, which is often used by those speculating about an intimate relationships between the two heads of state.

Origin

In January 2016, the @Trumputin Twitter feed was launched, which describes itself as a promoter of “free markets, free speech” and against “global government.” The feed’s profile picture features a photoshop of Vladimir Putin with Donald Trump’s signature hairstyle (shown below).

Spread

On July 28th, 2016, the TrumPutin Facebook^[1] page was launched, which highlights internet memes mocking the relationship between Trump and Putin.

On January 14th, 2017, YouTuber PortraitPainter Pabst uploaded a speed painting of Putin with Donald Trump’s hair titled “Mr. Trumputin” (shown below).

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This meme originates in the Information Technologies class of Maricopa High school. Found in random startup files at this school, it has become a symbol of great meme superiority. Only those with this meme in their startup folder are true meme lords.

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Pick-Up Lines

Origin

[Researching]

Spread

On February 13th, 2014, BuzzFeed^[3] published a “listicle”: titled “25 Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Pick-Up Lines to Avoid Using on Valentines Day.”

On February 14th, 2017, the Nihilist Memes Facebook page posted an image macro with a pickup line joking about existential “nihilism”: (shown below).^[1]

/fit/ Pickup Lines

On May 26th, 2013, Redditor FreakTalent submitted a collection of /fit/ pickup lines to /r/4chan,^[2] where it received upards of 2,300 votes (91% upvoted) prior to being archived (shown below).

Prank Videos

On April 12th, 2011, the Simple Pickup YouTube channel posted a video titled “Internet Trolls Pick Up Girls,” in which college students approach women with internet meme references, garnering upwards of 2.7 million views and 240 comments over the next six years (shown below, left). On November 6th, 2012, Australian YouTuber AdrianVanOyen uploaded a video titled “Pick Up Line Insanity,” in which two young men walk up to random women and say absurd pick up lines (shown below, right). Within five years, the video gained over 8.1 million views and 16,100 comments.

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WIP

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“#RelationshipGoals” is a hashtag used to share pictures on social media that the poster believes exhibits the type of romantic relationship worth striving to achieve with a partner.

Origin

While the moment “Relationship Goals” became a popular way to comment on images of couples on social media is unclear, one of the earliest articles to use “Relationship Goals” in that way was posted on Lifehack^[1] on June 15th, 2009 in an article titled, “Relationship Goals: 8 Traveling Couples To Follow On Instagram.”

Spread

The phrase and its hashtag began seeing more spread over the coming years on photo-sharing sites like Instagram and Pinterest. However, it was not until the Summer of 2014 when the hashtag began to gain some more widespread attention. On July 7th, 2014, Buzzfeed^[2] published an article of cute couples’ photos that featured several posts using the hashtag #RelationshipGoals. On the same day, a Reddit photo^[3] of an old couple titled Relationship Goals was posted and gained over 18,000 upvotes.

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