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The Old Farmer’s Almanac or simply The Farmer’s Almanac is an annual reference book that is published on the first Tuesday in the September that precedes the year for which the book represents. It provides information related to farming in particular including weather forecasts, tide tables, planting charts, astronomical data, recipes, and articles on various topics. The Farmer’s Almanac also features anecdotes and contains a section that predicts trends in fashion, food, home décor, technology, and living for the coming year. Having been in publication nonstop since 1792, the Farmer’s Almanac is the oldest continuously published periodical in North America.

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The Old Farmer’s Almanac was first published 1792 under the name of simply “The Farmer’s Alminac” and found relatively immediate success in the years that followed, despite stiff competition at the time. By its second year, distribution had already tripled to 9,000. As time progressed, the editor Robert B. Thomas started drilling holes in the Almanacs to allow for consumers to hang the books from nails or a string.

In 1832, the Almanac had already outlived its competitors, and due to that, Thomas decided to add the word “Old” to the title. He later dropped the title and returned to “The Farmer’s Almanac”. After his death, however, John Henry Jenks was appointed editor and in 1948 permanently revised the name to “The Old Farmer’s Almanac”.

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Blood for the Blood God, sometimes followed by “Skulls for the Skull Throne,” is a catchphrase from Warhammer 40k. The phrase has appeared in image macros and various other places and turned into a snowclone.

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“Blood for the Blood God” a common battlecry amongst the Chaos Space Marines faction of the game. The faction worships one of the Four Gods of Chaos, Khorne. Khorne is the God of War, Murder, Anger, Hate, and general Bloodshed. His private realm in the Warp is said to be filled with rivers of blood and that he sits upon a throne of skulls, made from all who die in battle. Thus when a Chaos Space Marine kills someone, they cry “Blood for the Blood God, Skulls for the Skull Throne!” The earliest explanation of the phrase online was posted in Khorne’s Wikia page,^[1] written March 28th, 2006.

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On July 3rd, 2008, a demotivational poster featuring the phrase was posted to gamereplays^[2] by Jean=A=Luc (shown below).

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Lil Uzi Vert’s Stage Dive refers to jokes and photoshops made about a photograph of rapper Lil Uzi Vert jumping into the crowd during a show in Miami.

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On May 7th, 2017, while performing at Miami’s Rolling Loud Music Festival, Lil Uzi Vert jumped 20 feet off a structure into the crowd (shown below). It was a celebrated moment in the hip-hop community; NME^[1] called it “the stage dive to end all stage dives” and HotNewHipHop^[2] called it “The greatest of all stage dives.”

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Shortly after the clip hit the internet, it became the target of jokes online. Sean “Diddy” Combs joked about it on Twitter that evening, gaining 2,700 retweets and 4,300 likes.

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God Left is an exploitable screencaptured image from a Grand Theft Auto V online match, showing a notification that a player named “God” has left the game. The image is often used to express distaste toward political views and cultural trends.

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On May 5th, 2017, Redditor ChandlerEB submitted an image of a pregnant man with the caption “The baby born to a man who was a woman who got pregnant by a woman who was a man,” followed by a GTA V screenshot showing that a player named “God” had left the game (shown below). Within five days, the post garnered upwards of 18,000 points (80% upvoted) and 840 comments on /r/dankmemes.^[3]

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On May 6th, Redditor LAVA_UNIT submitted a post speculating that “‘God left’ memes are at an all time high!”, along with a tweet about the NFL being older than the United States government (shown below). Within four days, the post gained over 14,100 points (83% upvoted) and 130 comments on /r/MemeEconomy.^[2]

On May 8th, Redditor SirJilliumz posted photographs of a teenager carrying a dakimakura anime pillow to the prom followed by the “God left” image" to /r/dankmemes^[4] (shown below, left). On May 9th, Redditor Huniwatnya submitted a screencapture of a news segment on “sexist air conditioning” followed by a photoshopped screenshot with the message “God went in exile for what he had created became more of a failure than he could have ever imagined” (shown below, right). Within 24 hours, the post gained over 3,000 points (97% upvoted) and 65 comments on /r/dankmemes.^[1]

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Wuss Poppin Jimbo refers to deep friedphotoshops of the character Hugh Neutron from The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius captioned with an AAVE variation on his catchphrase from the show, “What’s up, Jimbo?” The images generally feature signature Black Twitter memes such as the B Button Emoji and Timbs. Other variations have appeared with different Nickelodeon characters.

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Prior the first “Wuss Poppin Jimbo” edit, several deep fried memes using Nickelodeon characters saying “wuss poppin b” or some variant thereof had surfaced on iFunny, Weird Facebook and Instagram.

Origin

In September of 2016, the first image macro to include Hugh Neutron captioned “Wuss Poppin Jimbo” began to appear on iFunny. On September 18th, 2016, iFunny user @OKendrickLlamaO^[1] published the earliest known post of the picture to the site (shown below). However, because iFunny dates comments but not posts, it is possible the image was posted earlier.

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In November, a variation with the phrase in which Hugh Neutron has his arms spread out grew popular. On November 16th, Twitter user @billratchet^[2] posted the image with the caption “i am fucking dead who gave you niggas photoshop,” gaining over 14,000 retweets and 29,000 likes (shown below). This is the earliest known post of the image, though the caption implies it had been posted somewhere else before.

In the coming months, the image would gain significant spread on various platforms. On December 8th, Instagram account papafranku^[3] posted it and gained over 40,000 likes. It has also been included in various shitpost jokes on Twitter.

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On April 29th, YouTube user CowbellyTV uploaded a video titled “for every like on this video i’ll say wuss poppin jimbo in a livestream” (shown below, left). The same day, he began streaming himself saying “Wuss Poppin Jimbo,” saying it 27,046 times in 10 hours (shown below, right).

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History of the Entire World, also known as its full title history of the entire world, i guess, is a viral video by History of Japan creator and Youtuber Bill Wurtz summarizing the entire creation of the world. The video was originally uploaded on May 10, 2017, and like its Japan-centric predecessor, garnered notoriety for its non-sequitur-esque melodies, narration, and frequent colorful video effects.

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Prior to making “history of the entire world i guess”, Bill uploaded a short video on August 31, 2015 (shown below) about answering a question on the history of the world, replying with how “we were lost in space and we still are.” The video garnered over 1 million views since uploading.

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On May 10, 2017, Bill Wurtz posted a tweet saying how he was about to “explain the entire world, i guess.” The tweet received over 4.3 thousand likes and over 1.2 thousand retweets.

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That same day, the video was uploaded to Youtube. In 1 day, the video garnered almost 3 million views and hit #1 on Youtube’s “Trending” section.

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Kino is short for the word “kinography,” which is often ironically used on 4chan’s /tv/ (television and film) board and Reddit’s /r/moviescirclejerk when referring to the highest caliber of film.

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At the beginning of the 1929 film Man with a Movie Camera directed by Sovet filmmaker Dziga Vertov, a statement is displayed referring to “absolute kinography” as an “absolute language of cinema”:

“This new experimental work by Kino-Eye is directed towards the creation of an authentically international absolute language of cinema – ABSOLUTEKINOGRAPHY– on the basis of its complete separation from the language of theatre and literature.”

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On April 12th, 2016, Redditor khazixtoostronk submitted a post asking what users on 4chan’s /tv/ board “mean with the word ‘kino’?” to /r/OutOfTheLoop.^[1] On April 15th, a similar thread was submitted to the /tv/ board on 4chan, to which an anonymous user responded with a photoshopped chart attributed to the USCSchool of Cinematic arts, placing Kinography as the highest tier in a slide titled “Motion Picture Classifications” (shown below).^[3]

On June 10th, 2016, Urban Dictionary^[2] user PatricianMaster submitted an entry for “kino,” referring to it as “the highest tier of artistry in film” that “can only be enjoyed by patricians” (shown below).

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Royalty Free Ukulele is a piece of upbeat, inoffensive music featuring the ukulele, glockenspiel, and acoustic guitar that can be used by artists and creators for free. The ubiquity of the track has made it infamous on YouTube, where it has been used and covered in dozens of ironic ways.

Origin

The “Royalty Free Ukulele” track is called “Carefree.” It was composed by Kevin McLeod and uploaded to royalty-free music site incompetech^[1] on August 16th, 2014.

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The track began to spread in infamy following a November 30th, 2015 video by YouTuber Pyrocynical^[2] in which he says others have noticed his distaste of “royalty free music” followed by a video of a boy playing “Carefree” terribly (shown below, left). A little over a month later, he uploaded a video where he spoke at length about the track and remarked that while it’s a piece of good music, its use in YouTube had made saturated the market, making it a cringeworthy piece of music (shown below, right)

After Pyrocynical’s exposure, the track began appearing in various remixes and ironic covers on YouTube. Inspired by Pyrocynical, user leumane18 paired the music with a speech from Adolf Hitler, gaining over 138,000 views (shown below). Others picked up on Pyrocynical’s point that pairing the music with any footage would make the footage appear slightly happier in various other remixes.

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A Series Of Unfortunate Events Cover Parodies are photoshop edits of the cover of Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events books in which the image accompanying the book’s title is replaced with an image of a person or message that is meant to signify the start of a tragic narrative.

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On May 7th, 2017, Reddit user CtrlAltFetus^[1] uploaded the first photoshop edit of the book’s cover, replacing the artwork with a book titled “History of the Jews,” gaining 308 points (shown below).

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So I Drew My Crush refers to an image macro series of portraits of the artist’s love interest under the caption “so I drew my crush.” These captions are frequently preceded by the phrase “I’m 14 and I decided to do something with my hormones,” while the renderings are generally of fictional characters or someone you would not expect.

Origin

The earliest iteration of the image macro appeared on September 3rd, 2014. That day, Tumblr user biteghost^[1] posted an illustration of the anime character Kurogane from Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle. Above the drawing (shown below), they added the caption, “tonight was anime nostalgia night, so I drew my Original Husband. My very first crush. The First and Foremost. My ninja babe Kurogane from Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle.” The post received more than 75 notes.

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Several days later, on September 6th, Tumblr user heichouleo posted another crush drawing (shown below). They captioned their post, “so i wanted to ask my crush out in a cute way so i drew him this and sent it to him, it didn’t work but ayyyeee wouldn’t this be a hella cute way of asking someone out?” Their post received more than 120 notes.

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Don’t claim X if you don’t know who this is, or as it is used in images: don’t👏claim👏X👏if👏you👏don’t👏know👏who👏this👏is, is a snowclone which features various exaggerated fictionalized versions of certain fields, and claiming that one cannot be a fan of said field if they are not familiar with the character depicted within the image.

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Lidl Stingy- Grillaa is a finnish song made for an summer ad for the german based store of Lidl
the ad is ok but the part where ‘’Grillaa* starts playing is just weird
the lyrics go like this in English ’’grill grill grill grill grill grill corn, grill grill grill grill sausages’’ the song is originally in Finnish and is about 2 minutes long it became a small meme when a handful of seventh graders made it a meme cause the song is just plain weird its more weirder than supply drop in MWR

“Touch X! Gently Dumbass!” is an image meme usually posted in Facebook in order to use its image system to mostly spoil the deaths of many characters in shows or just to make a plain joke about killing ants by making users click on the image previews, since it doesn’t show the full image until one would click on it.

Origins

On May 10, 2017 Facebook page named Sarcasm posted an image on Facebook promptly telling users to tap on the ant. If one were to touch the photo the full image will load, showing a dead ant with the message “Gently dumbass! U killed it:v.”

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On May 11, 2017, Facebook page ジョー・デ・ラ・ジョジョ Jo de la Jojo posted a parody of the picture prompting followers to tap on Noriaki Kakyoin from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, with the full picture featuring a picture of a donut photoshopped on Kakyoin’s death image with the text “Gently dumbass! You donuted him!”

Images in Facebook private group JoJo Hell started posting memes of the death of various JoJo characters such as Jotaro Kujo and spoilers such as the universe reset in the sixth part of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Stone Ocean.

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Sassy Lost Child is an exploitable image from the One-Punch Mananime in which the main character Saitama meets the character Tatsumaki and mistaking her for being a child, asks “what’s with this sassy lost child?” The image has been replaced with various characters from other series.

Origin

The scene takes place in episode 10 of One-Punch Man, “Unparalleled Peril,” aired December 6th, 2015.^[1] Saitama tags along to an emergency S-Class Heroes meeting, where he meets Tatsumaki. After she berates him, Saitama, believing her to be young due to her appearance, asks “what’s with this sassy lost child?” (English fan dub shown below).

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On December 10th, the blog FunnyAnimePics^[2] uploaded an image macro of the scene, captioning it, “When no one takes you seriously because you look like a kid” (shown below).

In the following year, the image would grow into an exploitable in which the characters were replaced, usually by other Japanese characters who fit the spunky anime girl trope. On January 3rd, 2016, Facebook meme page “Princess Yukiko’s Steel Meme Run”^[3] uploaded one of the first variations using Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure (shown below). Variations since have incorporated Star Wars, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Smug Wendys, and many more.

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#WithFewExceptions or “With few exceptions” is a Twitter hashtag, mocking a statement from President Donald Trump’s lawyer, who said that the President’s tax returns contained “‘no income of any type from Russian sources’” with few exceptions." People use “with few exceptions” to mock the cryptic and potentially contradictory nature of the “exceptions.”

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I Was Bitten By a Turtle When I Was a Young Lad refers to a copypasta from a Yahoo! Answers question in which a person asks if they can still drink orange juice even though they were bitten by a turtle as a child. The question, considered ridiculous for its syntax as well as the supposed medical connection between turtle bites and orange juice, has been posted numerous times on the site and elsewhere.

Origin

On September 1st, 2008,^[1] Yahoo! Answers user Tuggy posed the question, “I was bitten by a turtle when I was a young lad, should I still drink orange juice?” For additional information, they said “I need to know ya’ll. I love to drink that dang OJ. It be tasting very good to me.” Ostensibly, they were trolling.

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Following Tuggy’s post, the same question appeared on Yahoo! Answers dozens of times in the following years.^[2] On December 29th, 2010, Owl City^[3] posted the question to his Facebook page. The question was also included in a Complex^[4] compilation of dumb Yahoo! Answers questions. The question continues to be posted to Yahoo! Answers in 2017, to some exhaustion. One commenter responded to the question, posed in March,^[5] "can’t believe anyone is still trying to troll with this old, unoriginal “question”. This has been posted at least once a week for years."

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Colbertposting is the act of referencing and parodying the politically-charged opening monologues from The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, complete with over-the-top intentional mispronunciations of President Trump’s name

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Posts vary, ranging from depicting Colbert as a petulant whiner ^[2], to furiously deranged ^[3], to a interdimensional hellspawn revealing himself ^[4] as he makes nonsensical complaints about 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.

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https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/82124112
^[2]https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/82309293/
^[3]https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/125164722/
^[4] https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/125164722/#125168479

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Fartposting, Brapposting, or simply Brap, often extended with more ’A’s as required (for example: “braaaaaaap”), is a slang term which refers to the sound produced by a fart, and consequentially, alludes to fart fetishists in the form of copypasta.

Origin

“Brap” is primarily used for shitposting and thread derailing on image boards such as 4chan.

A Reddit user posted to the subreddit r/OutOfTheLoop, looking for an explanation of the term.^[1] Many comments responded explaining that the term referred to farting. One user replied with a possible origin from 4chan, stating:^[2]

the actual answer is a few people who were into fart/scat fetishes started posting pictures of chicks with nice asses and stuff and then posting cringe tier erotica next to it about chicks farting and stuff.

People found it hilarious and started posting it all over the place and it just kind of took of as a meme. I think i saw it on /r9k/ before /fit/ though.,

Precursor: Brap as Euphemism for Farting

An early use of the term can be traced back to March 04, 2008 on Urban Dictionary, where the fifth-ranked submitted definition for “brap” reads thusly:^[3]

The volume rating of a fart (Bp) governed by three variables;- rectal pressure®, buttock friction (f) and sprouts consumed (SpC). Buttock friction (f) can be reduced to zero by pulling the ringpiece open wide during emission.

“My word said the vicar, that anal exclamation was right off the brapometer”

However, it should be noted that there are other definitions ranked above this that do not coincide with either the memetic usage of “brap” as shitposting or with fart fetishism.

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Usage of “brap” as a copypasta-style meme seems to have spread primarily in the mid 2010s, with regard to the aforementioned Reddit thread attempting to seek an understanding of the term’s usage on 4chan. On November 16, 2016, a 4chan user gained mild notoriety on the video games board, /v/, with a post containing what appeared to be brap-themed roleplay.

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The post mutated into an oft-cited copypasta, going on to appear in other threads on /v/,^[4] and also on other 4chan boards, including /tv/, which has even seen threads requesting the pasta be posted.^[5] On December 24, 2016, a copy of the post was submitted to r/copypasta.^[6]

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Crytyping refers to a form of typing one does either when under intense emotional stress or when attempting to show they’re under stress, resulting in many typos and misspelled words. It grew into a joke format on Tumblr, growing in popularity in early 2017.

Origin

While it’s unclear where exactly crytyping got its origin, it was defined by Pickle Farmer on Urban Dictionary^[1] on December 22nd, 2012 as “When you’re crying so hard, you can’t type properly. This is usually exaggerated to make whoever you’re talking to feel bad.” (Shown below.)

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