KILL ME/Please Kill Me is a range image macros depicting people, animals or objects in various uncomfortable situations. The images are often accompanied with the caption “KILL ME”, suggesting the subject’s desire to escape.
Origin
“Home Taping Is Killing Music” was the slogan of a 1980s anti-copyright infringement campaign by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), a British music industry trade group. With the rise in cassette recorder popularity, the BPI feared that people being able to record music from the radio onto cassettes would cause a decline in record sales. The logo, consisting of a Jolly Roger formed from the silhouette of a Compact Cassette, also included the words And It’s Illegal.
Parodies
The slogan was often parodied, one example being the addendum and it’s about time too!, used by Dutch anarcho-punk band The Ex. Some fanzines changed the words to Home taping is killing the music industry and added the words …so be sure to do your part! below the logo. Another example was the early 1980s counter-slogan Home Taping is Skill in Music, referring to early mixtapes, a precursor to sampling and remixes. The cassette & crossbones image was displayed briefly as a backdrop in the “Time Out For Fun” video by the band Devo from their 1982 album, “Oh, No! It’s Devo”. Venom’s 1982 album Black Metal used the logo with the words Home Taping Is Killing Music; So Are Venom. The phrase Home-Taping Is Making Music appears on the back cover of Peter Principle’s self-produced 1988 album Tone Poems. The San Diego punk band Rocket from the Crypt sold T-shirts with the tape and bones and the words “Home Taping Is Killing the Music Industry: Killing Ain’t Wrong.” Sonic Youth has t-shirts with the cassette and sonic youth written under it.[2] The cover of Billy Bragg’s album Workers Playtime featured a notice reading “Capitalism is killing music – pay no more than £4.99 for this record”.[3] Mitch Benn also comments “Home taping isn’t killing music, music’s dying of natural causes” in the song “Steal This Song” on the album Radioface. In Poland (in mid 80’s), some of official (PRONIT label) vinyl pressings had parody stamp “Home taping… is much fun”.
The tape version of the Dead Kennedys e.p. “In God We Trust Inc.” had one blank side. The blank side was printed with the message, “Home taping is killing record industry profits! We left this side blank so you can help.” (This was on the Alternative Tentacles release; the Faulty Products-released version differed.)
More recently, the pro-p2p file sharing group Downhill Battle has used the slogan “Home Taping Is Killing the Music Industry, and It’s Fun” on T-shirts, and the BitTorrent website The Pirate Bay uses the logo of a pirate ship whose sails bear the “tape and bones.” Additionally the Pirate Party UK has a version of the tape and bones with the logo “copyright is killing music – and it’s legal” and the Swedish Piratbyrån is using the same tape and bones as their logo.
Similar rhetoric has continued; in 1982 Jack Valenti famously compared the VCR and its anticipated effect on the movie industry to the Boston Strangler, and in 2005 Mitch Bainwol of the RIAA claimed that CD burning is hurting music sales.
In March 2010, TalkTalk, as part of its campaign against the UK Government’s filesharing proposals, created a spoof video entitled “Home Taping is Killing Music”. The song was written and performed by singer/songwriter Dan Bull and featured lookalikes of Madonna, George Michael and Adam Ant lip-synching to the song.
Virgins is a collective term commonly associated with people who maintain activities that appear highly time-consuming or may be deemed unattractive by the opposite sex, resulting in the assumption that those individuals have no sexual experience. Although the term is at times used as a form of self-parody, its main usage lies with mocking specific groups of people for their looks or hobbies.
During the course of the 20th century, specific activities like playing video games, reading comic books or being active on the internet were most commonly associated in a negative fashion with the nerd stereotype. Maintainers of these hobbies were commonly depicted and generalized as being rather unattractive due to their looks, clothing and body type. This in turn generated the general assumption that they were not deemed attractive by the opposite sex, resulting in the assumption of them having no significant other and still being a virgin even at a higher age.
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Involuntary Abstinence is a concept of Internet humor typically iterated in image macros poking fun at male-oriented hobbies and activities that may be deemed unattractive by the other sex. The captions in these image macros commonly imply that the males shown maintain those hobbies for the sole sake of staying a virgin and protecting it.
The 30-Year-Old Virgin Wizard is an internet myth saying that if a person manages to still be a virgin at the milestone of age 30, he will attain magical powers on the level of a highly skilled wizard. Various requirements have been made up surrounding the myth. The phrase was first coined on Futaba Channel.
Note: Search interest has been reduced to just the category “Online Communities” to avoid search results unrelated to the focus of the article.
Jedi Mind Meld is a term used by the U.S. President Barack Obama to describe the difficulties of convincing the Republican House to avert the crisis of budget sequestration during a press conference at the White House on March 1st, 2013. Due to its conflated origin in popular sci-fi franchises Star Wars (“Jedi Mind Trick”) and Star Trek (“Mindmelding”), President Obama’s use of the term drew heavy commentaries from people trying to correct the mistake on Twitter and elsewhere.
On March 1st, 2013, President Obama appeared before the White House press corps to answer questions regarding the government’s failure to prevent automatic budget cuts from going into effect. When asked whether he was exercising his leadership to the fullest capacity, Obama responded defensively by saying that he cannot forcefully change the minds of congressional leaders as he is “not a dictator,” even drawing a pop culture reference to the popular sci-fi franchises Star Wars and Star Trek.
“I’m presenting a fair deal. The fact that they don’t take it means that I should somehow do a ‘Jedi mind-meld’ with these folks and convince them to do what’s right,” he said, while offering no new ideas for resolving the bitter dispute.
Within the first hour after the press conference, President Obama’s conflated use of “Jedi Mind Meld,” which is thought to be a combination of “mind trick” as used by Jedi fighters in Star Wars and “Vulcan mind meld” as used by telepathic Vulcans in Star Trek, quickly went viral and became a trending topic on Twitter, leading to a flurry of commentaries hashtaged #jedimindmeld[11] that eagerly pointed out the blunder.
Throughout the afternoon, the Twitter reaction to President Obama’s “Jedi mind meld” comment was picked up by numerous major news outlets, including NBC News[5], CBS News[9], CNN[8], The Washington Post[7], Reuters[3] and Mediate.[2]
Later that same day, the White House responded to the online chatters with an image macro featuring a still shot of President Obama and an anti-sequester slogan written in signature Star Wars and Star Trek font styles, as well as a shortlink URL (wh.gov/jedimindmeld) that redirects to “The President’s Plan on The Sequester” page.
[1]Mediate – White House Embraces ‘Jedi Mind Meld’ Meme
[2]Mediate – Obama: ‘I Am Not A Dictator,’ Can’t Just Use ‘Jedi Mind Meld’ To Force GOP Into Deal
[3]Reuters – Obama: No “Jedi mind-meld” with Republicans
[4]Salon – Obama’s ‘Jedi mind meld’ mixes up Star Trek and Star Wars
[5]NBC News – White House embraces nerdy meme for sequestration push
[6]CNN– #Jedimindmeld: The force for Obama is strong here
[7]Washington Post – Star Wars, Star Trek play tricks on Obama’s mind
[8]CNN– #JediMindMeld: May the forced spending cuts be with you
[9]CBS News – Obama’s “Jedi mind meld” gaffe stirs jokes on Twitter
[10]Politico – White House capitalizes on ‘Jedi mind-meld’ moment
[11]Twitter – Search results for JediMindMeld
The Glorious PC Gaming Master Race is a self-acclaimed title by PC-gamers used to praise PC gaming and claim it superior to any other style of gaming. The claim is often made in PC vs. console gaming discussions, in which console gamers are commonly described as Dirty Console Peasants.
On January 23rd, 2008, video game tabloid the Escapist’s[2] video game review series Zero Punctuation,[3] hosted by Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw, released a review for the PC game The Witcher.[1] Early in the video Croshaw ironically points out how the Witcher clearly is a PC game due its complex and unintuitive structure so that “those dirty console playing peasants don’t ruin it for the glorious pc-gaming master race”. As of March 2013, the episode managed to gather over 400 comments and 650 Facebook likes on the Escapist website. A version later uploaded to Youtube on July 21st, 2011, managed to gather over 200,000 views as of the same date.
A Facebook page[4] for the Glorious PC Gaming Master race was created on February 23rd, 2010, and has since managed to gather over 3.900 likes as of March 2013. The r/pcmasterrace subreddit[5] was created on April 30th, 2011, and has gathered over 1.500 readers as of the same date. An article by VG 24/7[6] published on June 14th, 2012, joked how an idea of Todd Howard, head of Bethesda, to allow console gamers to experience mods would allow them to experience the glory of PC gaming. Kotaku wrote an article[7] on November 25th, 2012, covering an image depicting the PC gaming master race (shown below) created by digital illustrator Saenji Oh, which managed to gather over 60.000 views and 800 comments on Kotaku and nearly 1 million views on Imgur[8] as of March 2013.
Additionally, threads discussing the glorious PC gaming master race or the reason for the existance of the term can be found on Newgrounds,[9]IGN,[10] Rooster Teeth[11] and the Bodybuilding Forums.[12]
Additional examples can also be found through the Tumblr tags #pc-gaming-master-race[13] and #master-race.[14]
[1]The Escapist – Zero Punctuation: The Witcher
[2]Wikipedia – The Escapist
[3]Wikipedia – Zero Punctuation
[4]Facebook – Glorious PC Gaming Master Race
[5]Reddit – r/pcmasterrace
[6]VG 24/7 – Todd Howard wants console players to experience the glory of PC mods
[7]Kotaku – The Rise of the Glorious Master Race of PC Gamers
[8]Imgur – Master Race
[9]Newgrounds – Glorious Pc Gaming Master Race
[10]IGN– Why do they call it the PC gaming master race when all of the good games are on consoles?
[11]Rooster Teeth – Why does the PC master race exist?
[12]Bodybuilding Forums – What PC Master Race games have I missed in the last 14 years or so?
[13]Tumblr – #pc-gaming-master-race
[14]Tumblr – #master-race
Origin
Hell valley sky tree is a super Mario creepypasta originating in the game Super Mario Galaxy 2 for the Nintendo console Wii. The Creepypasta itself can be found on the level (which in the game is referred to as galaxies) Shiverburn Galaxy. Whenever the player goes to first-person mode, the player can see three figures on the fringes of the map’s edge looking down at Mario.
Speculation on the Internet
Across the forums in the Internet, there has been much speculation over what these figures are, since Nintendo has yet to say anything at all about these shadowy figures. Among the speculators, the largest collection of them can be found on the Creepypasta Wiki.
“BEYONDHELLVALLEY”
Eventually, it was determined what, at least, the name of the creatures were. By hacking the game and accessing the code. One can see that the texture of the map was called “Beyond Hell Valley” (NOTE: this is translated from Japanese, due to the creation of the game by Nintendo, a Japanese company.) and they themselves were called “Hell Valley Sky Tree(s)” though they look nothing like trees.
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“Before You Say I Am Stoling This Art, Let Me Explain You A Thing” is an expression derived from a description on the art sharing site deviantART by a user who had reuploaded an older artwork to a new account. The strange sentence structure, combined with the misspelling of “stealing”, led to several reposts of the phrase on the blogging site Tumblr, where it evolved in to the snowclone, “Before You Say I Am Stoling This X, Let Me Explain You a Thing”.
On November 16th, 2012, deviantART user Gamer98[1] uploaded a piece of The Lion King fan art in submission for a contest run by deviantArt user Rinjapine. At the top of the image description, Gamer98 added a disclaimer: “Before you say that i am stoling [sic] this art: I want to explain you a thing,my old acount [sic] was [thelionofdeserts] and i’m reposting this art of TLK here in my new account, [Gamer98]” in effort to deter other deviantART users from claiming that he had stolen the artwork. The users old account, thelionofdeserts, has been deleted as of March 2013.
Also on November 16th, the novelty Twitter account @TextDeviantart[2] tweeted the phrase with the usernames and links removed. As of March 2013, it has been retweeted more than 330 times and favorited more than 150 times.
Before you say that i am stoling this art I want to explain you a thing
— Text-only DeviantART (@TextDeviantart) November 16, 2012
Also on the 16th, Tumblr user wtfstuck[3] shared a screenshot of @TextDeviantart’s tweet on the microblogging network, accruing more than 25,000 notes by March 2013. The phrase did not appear again until February 25th when Tumblr user yoshika420[4] made a text post using the phrase in an imagined scenario (shown below) where it was used as a response to paintings being stolen from the French art museum the Louvre, gaining more than 10,000 notes within a week. As of March 2013, additional image macros using a snowclone version of the phrase are posted on Tumblr with the tags “stoling”[5] and “let me explain you a thing.”[6]
[1]deviantArt – Rinjapine’s Contest Entry – What If? -
[2]Twitter – @TextDeviantART
[4]Tumblr – yoshika420: Breaking news
[5]Tumblr – Posts tagged “stoling”
Whose Line is an image macro series featuring a screen capture of Drew Carey hosting the improvisational comedy television show Whose Line is it Anyway? The captions often contain a variation of the snowclone template “Welcome to X / Where Y’s made up and the Z doesn’t matter.”
In the American version of Whose Line is it Anyway?, which premiered on August 5th, 1998, the show would begin with the host Drew Carey saying, “Welcome to Whose Line is it Anyway, the show where everything’s made up and the points don’t matter” (shown below).
On July 29th, 2011, a Quickmeme[1] page titled “Whose Line” was created, which featured image macros using a screen capture of Carey reading from a piece of paper. The first submission[3] on the page included the caption “Welcome to the USA / the government where the money’s made up and the debt doesn’t matter” (shown below). In the next two years, the submission received over 1,300 up votes and 400 Facebook likes.
On August 7th, 2011, Redditor turboscerbo submitted an image macro to the /r/AdviceAnimals[6] subreddit, which joked about the usefulness of a college degree (shown below, left). The post received only 280 up votes and 10 comments prior to being archived. On December 16th, Redditor Insuevi submitted an image macro criticizing the American voting system and erosion of civil liberties to the /r/AdviceAnimals subreddit (shown below, right),[7] receiving over 6,700 up votes and 130 comments prior to being archived.
On August 2nd, 2012, Redditor pbh184 submitted an image macro to the /r/AdviceAnimals subreddit,[2] mocking the concerns of the United States electorate (shown below, left). Prior to being archived, the post accumulated more than 11,200 up votes and 190 comments. On February 27th, 2013, Redditor Velociraptor11 submitted an image macro joking about lifestyles associated with people in their 30s to the /r/AdviceAnimal subreddit (shown below, right),[8] garnering upwards of 11,700 up votes and 550 comments within five days.
As of March 2013, the Quickmeme page for “Whose Line” has received upwards of 2,700 submissions.
[1]Quickmeme – Whose Line
[2]Reddit – Whose Line – America
[3]Quickmeme – Welcome to the USA
[4]Quickmeme – its time to play drew carey
[5]Quickmeme – Drew Carey whose line
[6]Reddit – Whose Line
[8]Reddit – Welcome to Your 30s
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Unfortunate Domain Names are websites that choose hilariously and intentionally chosen website names.
1. www.WhorePresents.com – Website for Who Represents
2. www.ExpertSexChange.com – Website for Experts Exchange
3. www.PenIsland.com – Website for Pen Island
4. www.TheRapistFinder.com – Website for Therapist Finder
5. www.PowerGenitalia.com – Website for Power-Gen Italia (Italian Power Generation company)
6. www.MolestationNursery.com – Website for Mole Station Nursery
7. www.IPAnywhere.com – Website for IP anywhere
8. www.CummingFirst.com – Website for the First Cumming Methodist Church
9. www.SpeedoFart.com – Website for the “Speed of art” orgainization
10. www.GotAHoe.com – Website for a holiday in Lake Tahoe
11. www.Nice-Tits.org – Website for the bird-watching society
12. www.DicksOnWeb.com – Website for Dickson musical instruments
13. www.ChoosesPain.com – Website for the holiday company, Choose Spain
14. www.ViagraFix.com – Website for the CAD company, ViaGrafix
15. www.TeacherStalk.com – Website for Teachers Talk
16. www.WinterSexPress.com – Website for Winters Express
17. www.AuctionShit.com – Website for Auctions Hit
18. www.MammothErection.com – Website for Mammoth Erection (scaffolding erecting and dismatling service)
19. www.NYCanal.com – New York Canal website
20. www.ButtHatsNotAll.co.nz – Website for But That’s Not All!
21. www.ChildrenSwear.co.uk – Website for Childrens Wear
22. www.IHaveGas.com – Website for IHA Vegas
23. www.MachoMe.com – Website for Mac Home
24. www.OddSexTractor.com – Website for Odds Extractor
25. www.BiGalsOnline.com – Website for Big Al’s Online
26. www.ScatIssue.com – Website for SCA Tissue
27. www.CumStore.co.uk – Website for Cumbria Storage Systems
28. www.AltersCrap.com – Website for Alter Scrap Processing
29. www.WeBone.com – Website for Web One
30. www.budget.Co.ck – Website for Budget
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Dragonzball P is a flash animation created by Youtube/Newgrounds user OneyNG (Real Name: Chris O’Neil). It depicts a “battle” between Goku and Vegeta, with a silly and immature twist.
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DragonzBall P was uploaded to Newgrounds and Youtube on December 19th, 2011 by OneyNG. It currently has 10.5 Million views.
On December 20th, 2012 , Oney uploaded a sequel called Dragonzball PeePee to Youtube. It currently has 6.5 Million views. Thanks to the extended length, more memetic lines spawned from it than the original.
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Though the exact date of the spread is unknown, its silly dialogue pieces can be found just about everywhere. Favorite phrases include, but not limited to: “You am no real super sand” ,“Defeating a sandwich only makes it tastier”, and “You monster Frisbee!”
The Knife Game, sometimes known as Five Finger Fillet, is a challenge that involves placing one’s palm face down on a flat surface and attempting to stab a blade between the fingers without hitting them. In 2011, YouTube musician Rusty Cage wrote a song to go with the game, which eventually led to the birth of a participatory video fad similar to Lulu and the Lampshades Cup Covers in March 2013.
Though its first appearance remains unknown, the Knife Game became popularized as early as 1986 with its inclusion in the science fiction film Aliens. In the scene (shown below, left), an android named Bishop (played by Lance Henriksen) holds down the human marine William Hudson (played by Bill Paxton) and performs the knife trick on him. One of the earliest parodies of this game was uploaded to YouTube on July 27th, 2006. (shown below, right)
In 2001, GameSpyArcade launched a Flash-based virtual game titled Five Finger Fillet.[2] The next year, the game was discussed on the Straight Dope message board[3] and the Counterglow Forums.[4] In 2006, Knife Game was added to Wikipedia[6] as Five Finger Fillet. Two years later, in 2008, the game was defined on Urban Dictionary with the name “stabscotch.”[5] Also that year, instructions for the game as “5-Finger Fillet” were shared on Instructables[7] and another video of the game was featured on eBaum’s World.[8]
On August 31st, 2011, Florida-based musician Rusty Cage[10] uploaded a video of himself (shown below, left) completing the game while singing an original song about the process. On February 28th, 2013, the video was posted to the WTF subreddit[14] and though it only accrued 18 points, the same day, a handful of YouTubers reuploaded Cage’s video[11][12], including a version that was ten minutes long.[13] The following day, the video was submitted to both /r/Videos[15] and /r/YouTubeHaiku[16], gaining 641 points between them. At this point, other YouTubers began uploading their own versions of the song, but it did not take off until March 2nd, 2013, when Norwegian YouTuber Hanna Fylling Ellingseter[9] uploaded a video of herself singing the song (shown below, right).
In the following days, Ellingseter’s video was featured on a number of news sites and internet culture blogs, including Reddit[17], Sourcefed[18], Beatbeat[19], BuzzFeed[20], Blame It on the Voices[21], The Huffington Post[22], Gawker[23], New Media Rockstars[24] and Business Insider.[25] However, by March 5th, Ellingseter’s original video had been removed for a violation of YouTube’s Terms of Service. Additional “Knife Song” videos have been directly uploaded to Tumblr.[28]
[1]YouTube – Search results for “aliens knife trick”
[2]GameSpyArcade – Five Finger Fillet
[3]The Straight Dope – What’s the name of that “game” where you put your hand on a table and stab a knife…
[4]Counterglow – Friday Finger Filleting Fun
[5]Urban Dictionary – Definition for “Stabscotch”
[6]Wikipedia – Knife game
[7]Instructables – Knife Games: 5-Finger Fillet
[8]eBaum’s World – Knife vs Hand Game
[9]YouTube – Hanna Ellingseter’s channel
[10]Facebook – Rusty Cage Music
[11]YouTube – DeltaAnonymous’s Reupload
[12]YouTube – Anonymussss123456’s Reupload
[13]YouTube – eXcLuSiVeezZ’s 10 minute Reupload
[14]Reddit – /r/WTF: This man has large balls.
[15]Reddit – /r/videos: The Knife Game & Song
[16]Reddit – [Poetry] The Knife Game Song (Rusty Cage) – [0:29]
[17]Reddit – This should become the new internet trend.
[18]SourceFed – Possible New Internet Trend: The Knife Song
[19]BetaBeat – Your Newest Terrifying Internet Trend: ‘The Knife Song’
[20]Buzzfeed – Girl Totally Wins At “The Knife Song”
[21]Blame it on the Voices – This should be the next big meme: The Knife Song
[22]Huffington Post – ‘Knife Song’: Hanna Ellingseter, Norwegian Girl, Sings The Most Dangerous Song Ever (VIDEO)
[23]Gawker – Norwegian Teen Single-Handedly Revives the Internet’s Most Dangerous ‘Game’
[24]New Media Rockstars – ‘THE KNIFE SONG’ MEME IS GOING TO COST A LOT OF PEOPLETHEIRFINGERS [VIDEO]
[25]Business Insider – There’s A Dangerous YouTube Knife Game That Kids Are Obsessed With
[26]YouTube – Search results for “knife game”
[27]YouTube – Search results for “knife song”
[28]Tumblr – Posts tagged “knife song”
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Memetic Communication, or the use of memes as a form of communication, is central to the concept of memetics. The Oxford English Dictionary defines a meme as:[1]
A cultural element or behavioural trait whose transmission and consequent persistence in a population, although occurring by non-genetic means (esp. imitation), is considered as analogous to the inheritance of a gene.
From Richard Dawkins’ book The Selfish Gene, in which he coined the term ‘meme’:[2]
We need a name for the new replicator, a noun which conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation.
Thus, memes exist as a ‘unit’ of cultural expression, that are transmitted from person to person, and even between cultures. As such, for memes to exist and spread, they must be communicable. The exponential rise of social media has spurred the creation and transmission of countless internet memes, to the point where it can be said that internet memes constitute a unique form of communication, with nearly as much subtlety and diversity as a proper language.
The term ‘meme’ was coined in 1976[2], long before the days of the internet. Its original usage described units of cultural expression, such as popular pottery styles, architectural features, or even stereotypes. These memes were (and are) communicated largely through trade, theatre, and other traditional media.
An example of this sort of meme is the use of curved edges on consumer electronics. The first real example of this was the iMac G3, manufactured by Apple from 1998 to 2003.[3] The computers had a very distinctive shape, and were sold with a variety of brightly-colored plastic casings; this set a very stark contrast from the beige, square towers that dominated the market at the time. Combined with their aggressive marketing campaign, Apple’s design ethos became extremely popular, and set the standard for consumer electronics design, to the point where Apple and Samsung are locked in multiple patent battles. Square or boxy computers now look very dated.
Thus, rounded edges as a design feature can be said to be memetic, in that they are a specific design feature that quickly caught on, and was subsequently imitated by nearly all other consumer electronics companies. As far as communication, possession of consumer electronics with rounded edges, especially when it was a new phenomenon, indicates a certain level of fashionability and socioeconomic status; thus, the meme of curved edges can communicate ideas to others.
A similar concept, often used in parallel context, is the trope. Tropes are frequently used in communication alongside memes, but there is an important difference. Memes are units of cultural expression, whereas tropes generally refer to literary devices or clichés[4] In that way, tropes tend to be much more general ideas than memes; tropes may form the style of a language, while memes are the objects of language. When communicating, a person may draw upon or refer to tropes, while incorporating specific memes.
The recontextualization of memes within the internet has allowed for the huge expansion of memes and memetic communication, along with the dramatic increase in social media use. Online communication has allowed for memes to nearly become a language in their own right. Memes begin to spread on sites such as 4chan and reddit, and are picked up on by other sites such as FunnyJunk, Cuánto Cabrón, and 9gag, with new instances and derivatives being created all along. Sites such as Cheezburger and Meme Generator were created with the express purpose of creating instances of memes, and thus a memetic lexicon of sorts is created and spread around social media.
Memes become so recognizable to experienced net users that they can be used to express sentiments or ideas, without the need for explanatory text. This may not always be the case in more popular social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter, although they are still widely-recognized and find similar usage.
The most common form of memetic communication is the use of reaction faces and reaction videos. There are hundreds of examples of both, sometimes associated with text, or just ideas. Below are some of the more commonly-used examples.
A common reaction image (seen below) is an image of the Seinfeld character George Costanza bearing a look of contempt. The meme is usually called Costanza.jpg or Contempt Costanza, and its usage is fairly specific. It is generally used to express disapproval, contempt, or disbelief towards an action or argument. It can be combined with greentext (see below), as well as the phrase “I seriously hope you guys don’t do that” (ISHYGDDT). It is also frequently used along with “‘>Implying’”:/memes/implying-implying-implications/ and “‘>2012’ or ‘>2013’”:/memes/2011-2012/ (see below). An example might be:
>2013
>not knowing that memes are used for communication
>costanza.jpg
Another very common reaction image is an image of the rapper Xzibit laughing (below, left). The image is almost always associated with the phrase “Yo dawg…”, which is a reference to the original recursive humor represented by the meme. The image might be used to respond to a story or another image which features such recursive humor, such as a photo of a pizza topped with mini-pizzas. Thus, it communicates a very distinct message, by pointing out and making fun of recursiveness, especially if it’s unintentional.
Two related images of Xzibit are also used (below, center and right). These have somewhat different connotations; they are generally used to follow up on the use of the ‘smiling Xzibit’, when the recursiveness is taken to new levels. The center image is generally used to express amazement or wonder, while the right image is used to express confusion, or to say “this has gone too far”.
The use of individual rage faces as reaction faces is extremely widespread, and remain one of the most widely-recognized forms of memetic communication on the internet. Due to the diverse nature of rage comics, there are tons of possible examples with a variety of meanings. Rage faces are generally used to conclude or to react to stories or images, and rage comics, compilations of rage faces, are used to illustrate stories with well-recognized images. A list of common examples can be found here.
The phrase You Tried, accompanied with a gold star, is commonly used to contemptuously make fun of the failures of others. The image originated on tumblr, and is now used across the internet. Along with its derivatives, it communicates a very clear and precise response message – feigning sympathy while really feeling contempt or vindication towards the failure in question.
Nope.AVI is a very widely-used reaction video (see below). It is frequently used as a humorous response to a story or photo, although its direct meaning can vary. It may be used to simply express a negative response (i.e. no). Another common use is to express fear or disgust at a story or picture; the usage of “nope” in this context has expanded beyond nope.AVI, and is frequently used as a response.
Another important facet of memetic communication is the widespread use of internet slang expressions, such as YOLO, derp, LOL, spam, and dafuq. There are a large number of neologisms and idioms that are said to have originated on the internet, and thanks to social media, they have found their way into everyday use online. Slang terms are frequently used along with other forms of memetic communication, including reaction images (mentioned above). Internet users have even developed a unique writing system, 1337speak, that frequently accompanies the internet lexicon.
Internet slang is so prevalent that it finds usage in everyday speech away from the internet, and thus is widely-recognizable in all forms of media. While many of the phrases’ meanings may be misinterpreted down the line, the spread and usage of memetic language is omnipresent in today’s society. A list of common terms can be found here.
An interesting case of memetic internet slang is the use of the word ‘fag’ as a suffix. In the traditional sense, ‘fag’ is short for faggot, a pejorative term used against homosexuals. On 4chan, the term was originally used as a suffix in a similar context, to insult users who had unusual interests. For example, an alternate (and much more derogatory) term for a furry is ‘furfag’.
However, as the popularity of the -fag suffix grew on 4chan, it began to be applied more and more humorously, creating terms such as oldfag (for users who had been using the site for a long period of time), eurofag (for European users or users interested in European culture), or drawfag (for users who enjoy drawing), none of which are particularly insulting. In fact, the -fag suffix grew to be used to indicate a sense of camaraderie between users.
The -fag suffix has since found usage far beyond 4chan, and although its traditional pejorative connotations still cause confusion and misunderstanding, those who are more versed in memetic language recognize it for the meaning it has attained through its memetic spread across the internet.
Another case of memetic language is the widespread use of emoticons or emoji to convey emotions. These are typographical characters or figures that usually incorporate some type of facial features to express an emotion. The archetypical example is the smiley face: :-). There are a wide variety of examples of such emoticons used to express simple emotions or sentiments, like happiness, sadness, boredom, anger, etc., and they are frequently used in text-based communication, such as tweets or text messages. There are also a number of more subtle or complex emoticons that are widely used, such as:
Since emoticons are so widely used, they constitute a fundamental form of memetic communication.
Internet users have created a unique mode of memetic communication that prefaces statements with ‘>’. This habit began on 4chan, where lines of text that begin with ‘>’ are automatically colored green. This gave rise to what are referred to as greentext stories, in which a narrative is related using a series of sentence fragments, each beginning with ‘>’, and often accompanied by an image to convey the author’s emotions:
Greentext stories are almost always personal narratives, truthful or otherwise. In many cases, they have gag endings, where the author will entirely distort the context of the narrative to make it much more humorous. Although greentext stories are most prevalent on 4chan, they can also be found in many other forum-based sites, as well as in IRC chats.
A related use of > to preface a statement is “‘>Implying’”:/memes/implying-implying-implications/, or ‘>Implying that X’. This is almost always used mockingly, to point out unsound logic upon which conclusions are drawn or opinions are formed. As with greentext stories, the use of ‘>Implying’ originated on 4chan. It, along with its variants “‘>2012’ or ‘>2013’”:/memes/2011-2012/, are frequently combined with the Costanza.jpg reaction face (see above) to express contempt at someone else’s logic or arguments.
Walking on Sunshine is a video remix series based on footage from an episode of the reality television show Intervention detailing a young woman’s struggle with inhalant addiction. The videos usually feature the 1983 hit single with the same name by the English-American rock band Katrina and the Waves for comedic effect.
In Season 4 Episode 19 of the A&E reality show Intervention, originally aired on August, 11th, 2008, a woman named Allison is confronted by her family for having an unhealthy addiction to huffing computer duster (shown below, left). On August 15th, YouTuber meowmitchell uploaded a montage of notable scenes from the episode (shown below, right), receiving over 860,000 views and 1,300 comments in the following five years.
On August 15th, 2008, Ebaumsworld[2] user mystardustc uploaded a remix video featuring footage of Allison huffing duster accompanied by the 1983 hit single “Walking on Sunshine” by Katrina and the Waves (shown below, left). Two days later, YouTuber Larry Madill uploaded a montage of scenes from the Intervention episode accompanied by the song “Because I Got High” by Afroman (shown below, right). In the following five years, the video gained more than 200,000 views and 500 comments.
On September 21st, 2009, A&E[5] aired a follow-up episode of Intervention in which Allison celebrates one year of sobriety and attempting to make amends for the way she behaved as a drug addict. On April 28th, 2010, Comedy Central aired an episode of the animated television series South Park, in which the talking towel character Towelie develops an addiction to computer duster. In the episode, Towelie is shown reenacting several scenes from the Intervention episode (shown below).
On October 4th, 2011, the pop culture blog The Frisky[3] posted a list of items that could be used to create a Halloween costume of Allison as seen in the Intervention episode. (shown below, left). On June 22nd, 2012, the web comic Don Depresso[7] published an illustration mocking computer duster inhalation (shown below, right).
[1]Jezebel – Intervention Follows Up On Huffing Addict
[3]The Frisky – Halloween Inspiration
[4]Jezebel – Intervention Follows up on Huffing Addict
[5]AETV– Allison Gave Followup
[6]Facebook – The duster girl from intervention
[7]Don Depresso – Intervention
Note: Work In Progress, Reseaching
“Do It For Her” is a memorable scene taken an 1995 episode of the American-animated sitcom The Simpsons, in which character Homer Simpson put photos of his daughter Maggie around a plague. The scene has since been parodied online to commemorate a loved one, often time fictional characters.
The scene was originally taken from Season 6, Episode 13 “And Maggie Makes Three”[1] from the animated sitcom The Simpsons, first airing in the United States on January 22nd, 1995. During the episode, after being shown a flashback of the birth of their third child, Maggie, we’re cut to the present, where Bart is asking what it has to do with Maggie’s photo? Homer then simply replied that he keeps them where he needs them the most, before cutting to his workplace where photos are covering a plaque, originally reading “”http:" />Don’t Forget, You’re Here Forever" to spell out “Do It For Her.”
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Since It’s original airing, both fans and critics has praised the episode as being one of the best in the long-running series, often the original scene as a very emotional moment. Years later, online users eventually began parodying the scene to loved ones.
[1]Wikipedia – And Maggie Makes Three
“Few naggins, be grand”, or “a few naggins they said, be grand they said”
A Meme originated in Ireland, it underlines the drinking culture present in Ireland
a Naggin is a measurement of spirits (usually vodka). the wiki states
“A naggin (sometimes spelled Naggan) is the name used in Ireland for a small bottle of spirits, often of vodka or whiskey. A naggin contains 200ml of liquid[1]. The next size up from a naggin is 350ml in volume, often called a,”shoulder" “super-naggin” or “double naggin”, despite falling short of truly containing twice the amount of fluid the next size is 700ml this is known as a “neck”. Naggins, particularly those of inexpensive vodka (such as Huzzar), are popular among youths and students. They are often implicated in binge drinking."
this phrase (Few Naggins, Be Grand) is usually placed over the character being in an obscure place depicting the outcomes of being drunk, or over a politician depicting the heavy drinking culture over the politicians
Dezzing is a photo fad nspired by an unflattering mugshot of Oakland Raiders football player Desmond Bryant. The fad gained momentum on Twitter after it was introduced by American talk show host Jimmy Kimmel in late February 2013.
On February 24th, 2013, Oakland Raiders’ defensive tackle Desmond Bryant was arrested for criminal mischief after he allegedly went to his neighbor’s home inebriated and caused a commotion.[1] The next morning, his arrest record was made public[2], along with his booking photograph in which he is seen shirtless with his neck awkwardly twisted and his mouth agape. The mugshot photos have since been removed from the public record.
On February 25th, Bryant’s mug shot began spreading across sports blogs and news sites including Big Lead Sports[3],CBS Sports[4] and USA Today,[6] as well as the /r/NFL subreddit.[5] The same day, Deadspin[7] launched a photoshop contest with the image, encouraging viewers to edit Bryant’s face into other images (examples shown below). On February 27th, image macros submitted to /r/Funny[18] and /r/AdviceAnimals[19] utilizing Bryant’s mug shot hit the front page of Reddit, earning more than 1400 points each.
On the February 27th episode of his late night talk show, Jimmy Kimmel showed viewers Bryant’s mug shot and invited them to take photos of themselves imitating the face (shown below, left). Following the path of Tebowing, Kimmel also asked people to tweet the photos with the hashtag Dezzing[8] and showed examples of that night’s guests posing with Bryant’s facial expression, including celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay.
Between February 27th and 28th, the hashtag was used on Twitter more than 1500 times.[9] On the 28th, the Jimmy Kimmel clip was shared on BroBible[10], Bleacher Report[11], YardBarker[12] and Larry Brown Sports.[13] That evening, Kimmel aired a second segment (shown above, right), featuring several user-submitted photos from Twitter fans making the face. Over the next several days, Dezzing was featured on PetaPixel[14] and CBS Sports.[15] Though most of the photos were submitted through Twitter[8], additional images can be found on Instagram[16] and Tumblr.[17]
[1]Yahoo! Sports – Raiders defensive tackle Desmond Bryant arrested on Sunday morning
[2]Miami Dade Corrections Inmate Profile System – In Custody Inmate Information
[3]Big Lead Sports – Desmond Bryant’s Mugshot is Memorable
[4]CBS Sports – Raiders Desmond Bryant’s mugshot something less than flattering
[5]Reddit – /r/NFL: Raiders Desmond Bryant’s mugshot. Greatest of all time?
[6]USA Today – Desmond Bryant’s mugshot has to be seen to be believed
[7]Deadspin – Photoshop Contest: Desmond Bryant’s Derpy Mug Shot
[8]Twitter – Tweet results for “#dezzing”
[9]Topsy – Tweet results for “#dezzing”
[10]BroBible – Jimmy Kimmel Debuts the Hot New Craze That Is ‘Dezzing’
[11]Bleacher Report – Jimmy Kimmel Keeps Desmond Bryant Mugshot Hilarity Going with ‘Dezzing’
[12]Yard Barker – Desmond Bryant’s mug shot inspires ‘Dezzing’ social media trend
[13]Larry Brown Sports – Desmond Bryant’s epic mug shot inspires ‘Dezzing’ social media trend
[14]PetaPixel – NFL Player’s Funny Mugshot May Spark a Viral Portrait Pose Called “Dezzing”
[15]CBS Sports – Desmond Bryant’s mug shot leads to #Dezzing Internet meme
[16]Statigr.am – Photos tagged “dezzing”
[17]Tumblr – Posts tagged “dezzing”
[18]Reddit – Desmond Bryant’s mugshot looked awfully familiar…
[19]Reddit – My immediate thought when I saw Desmond Bryant’s mugshot.
15 Minutes Late With Starbucks is an expression used to mock someone who shows up late to a meeting or event because he or she appears to have stopped for coffee on the way.
On September 3rd, 2012, Twitter user emre published a tweet which claimed that pop singer Taylor Swift looked like someone who would show up late to class with Starbucks. Within the next six months, the tweet received over 1,000 retweets and 700 favorites.
taylor swift looks like those white girls who show up 10 minutes late to class with starbucks every day
— emre(@chanelpuke) September 3, 2012
On January 30th, 2013, Tumblr[2] user cristaly posted an illustration of the Homestuck character Jade Harley holding a Starbucks cup (shown below) with the caption “Enters the Medium 15 minutes late with Starbucks.” Within five weeks, the post received over 3,000 notes.
On February 6th, Tumblr[7] user s0cksy posted a joke about a baby born late with Starbucks, which accumulated upwards of 40,000 notes within the next month.
On February 17th, Redditor koobaxion submitted a post to the /r/homestuck[1] subreddit featuring a screenshot of a Tumblr post with the Homestuck character John Egbert carrying Starbucks coffee (shown below). Within 17 days, the post gained more than 160 up votes and 10 comments.
On February 20th, Homestuck[3] released an update in which the character John appears 15 pages after the intermission begins with a Starbucks cup on the table next to him (shown below). The same day, the panel was cited in the Homestuck memes TV Tropes page.[4]
Many Tumblr[6] and DeviantArt[5] users have submitted fan art illustrations inspired by the meme, often featuring fictional characters from films, television shows and video games.
[1]Reddit – John arrives 15 minutes late with STarbucks
[2]Tumblr – enters the medium 15 minutes late with starbucks
[3]MSPAintAdventures – john with starbucks
[5]DeviantArt – Late with starbucks
[6]Tumblr – late with starbucks
[7]Tumblr – baby born late with starbucks
About
Arnold Schwarzenegger, also known as The Governator is a very famous populer, and well endowed actor, in mostly action movies from the 80’s who later also became the governor of Florida.
He is most known for his acting roles in the Terminator, Predator and Commando movies, which his sometimes over-the-top or sometimes, great acting spawned serveral memes and pop-culture catchphrases such as ‘get to the choppa!!!’ ‘ill be back’ and “put that cookie down! NOW!” as well he is known for his signature Austrian accent and tough demeanor.
Bio
Schwarzenegger was born in Thal, Austria, a small village bordering the Styrian capital Graz, and was christened Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger. His parents were the local police chief, Gustav Schwarzenegger (1907–1972), and Aurelia (née Jadrny; 1922–1998). Gustav served in World War II, after he voluntarily applied to join the Nazi Party in 1938. Gustav served with the German Army as a Hauptfeldwebel of the Feldgendarmerie and was discharged in 1943 after contracting malaria. They were married on October 20, 1945 – Gustav was 38, and Aurelia was 23-years-old. According to Schwarzenegger, both of his parents were very strict: “Back then in Austria it was a very different world, if we did something bad or we disobeyed our parents, the rod was not spared.” He grew up in a Roman Catholic family who attended Mass every Sunday.
Early adulthood
Schwarzenegger served in the Austrian Army in 1965 to fulfill the one year of service required at the time of all 18-year-old Austrian males.[15] During his army service, he won the Junior Mr. Europe contest. He went AWOL during basic training so he could take part in the competition and spent a week in military prison: “Participating in the competition meant so much to me that I didn’t carefully think through the consequences.” He won another bodybuilding contest in Graz, at Steirer Hof Hotel (where he had placed second). He was voted best built man of Europe, which made him famous.
“The Mr. Universe title was my ticket to America – the land of opportunity, where I could become a star and get rich.” Schwarzenegger made his first plane trip in 1966, attending the NABBA Mr. Universe competition in London. He would come in second in the Mr. Universe competition, not having the muscle definition of American winner Chester Yorton.
Early roles
Schwarzenegger wanted to move from bodybuilding into acting, finally achieving it when he was chosen to play the role of Hercules in 1970’s Hercules in New York. Credited under the name “Arnold Strong,” his accent in the film was so thick that his lines were dubbed after production.[14] His second film appearance was as a deaf mute hit-man for the mob in director Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye (1973), which was followed by a much more significant part in the film Stay Hungry (1976), for which he was awarded a Golden Globe for New Male Star of the Year. Schwarzenegger has discussed his early struggles in developing his acting career. “It was very difficult for me in the beginning – I was told by agents and casting people that my body was ‘too weird’, that I had a funny accent, and that my name was too long. You name it, and they told me I had to change it. Basically, everywhere I turned, I was told that I had no chance.”
Schwarzenegger drew attention and boosted his profile in the bodybuilding film Pumping Iron (1977), elements of which were dramatized. In 1991, Schwarzenegger purchased the rights to the film, its outtakes, and associated still photography. Schwarzenegger auditioned for the title role of The Incredible Hulk, but did not win the role because of his height. Later, Lou Ferrigno got the part of Dr. David Banner’s alter ego. Schwarzenegger appeared with Kirk Douglas and Ann-Margret in the 1979 comedy The Villain. In 1980 he starred in a biographical film of the 1950s actress Jayne Mansfield as Mansfield’s husband, Mickey Hargitay.
Action superstar
Schwarzenegger’s breakthrough film was the sword-and-sorcery epic Conan the Barbarian in 1982, which was a box-office hit. This was followed by a sequel, Conan the Destroyer in 1984, although it was not as successful as its predecessor. In 1983, Schwarzenegger starred in the promotional video “Carnival in Rio”.
In 1984, he made the first of three appearances as the eponymous character and what some would say was the signature role in his acting career in director James Cameron’s science fiction thriller film The Terminator.[ Following The Terminator, Schwarzenegger made Red Sonja in 1985.
During the 1980s, audiences had an appetite for action films, with both Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone becoming international stars.[14] Schwarzenegger’s roles reflected his sense of humor, separating his roles from more serious action hero fare. His alternative-universe comedy/thriller Last Action Hero featured a poster of the movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day which, in the fictional alternate universe, had Sylvester Stallone as its star.
He made a number of successful films: Commando (1985), Raw Deal (1986), The Running Man (1987), and Red Heat (1988). In Predator (1987), another successful film, Schwarzenegger led a cast which included future Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura (Ventura also appeared in The Running Man and Batman & Robin with Schwarzenegger) and future candidate for governor of Kentucky Sonny Landham.
Footprints and handprints of Arnold Schwarzenegger in front of the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre
Twins (1988), a comedy with Danny DeVito also proved successful. Total Recall (1990) netted Schwarzenegger $10 million and 15% of the gross, and was a science fiction script directed by Paul Verhoeven, based on the Philip K. Dick short story, “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale”. Kindergarten Cop (1990) reunited him with director Ivan Reitman, who directed him in Twins.
Schwarzenegger had a brief foray into directing, first with a 1990 episode of the TV series Tales from the Crypt, entitled “The Switch”, and then with the 1992 telemovie Christmas in Connecticut. He has not directed since.
Schwarzenegger’s commercial peak was his return as the title character in 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day, which was the highest-grossing film of 1991. In 1993, the National Association of Theatre Owners named him the “International Star of the Decade.”[4] His next film project, the 1993 self-aware action comedy spoof Last Action Hero was released opposite Jurassic Park, and did not do well at the box office. His next film, the comedy drama True Lies (1994) was a popular spy film, and saw Schwarzenegger, reunited with James Cameron, appearing opposite Jamie Lee Curtis.
That same year the comedy Junior (1994) was released, the last of his three collaborations with Ivan Reitman and again co-starring Danny DeVito and also for the second time featuring Pamela Reed. This film brought Schwarzenegger his second Golden Globe nomination, this time for Best Actor – Musical or Comedy. It was followed by the action thriller Eraser (1996), the Christmas comedy Jingle All The Way (1996) with Arnold playing the main character, Howard Langston, and the comic book-based Batman & Robin (1997), where he played the villain Mr. Freeze. This was his final film before taking time to recuperate from a back injury. Following the critical failure of Batman & Robin, Schwarzenegger’s film career and box office prominence went into decline.
He returned with the supernatural thriller End of Days (1999), later followed by the action films The 6th Day (2000) and Collateral Damage (2002) both of which failed to do well at the box office. In 2003, he made his third appearance as the title character in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, which went on to earn over $150 million domestically.[citation needed]
pop culture and internet popularity
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s famous plays and often over-the-top scenes spawned many refrences and catchphrases that are used very often, to this day:
“I’ll be back” used with playful seriousness, a very widespread line that came from the movie ‘Terminator’ he said the line with awe inspriting and cold manner only to ram into a police station with his car, a few seconds later.
“GET TO THECHOPPA!” link:http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/get-to-the-choppa
used humorlasly when things aren’t going the way they are expected. came from the movie ‘Predator’ when he screamed that phrase with all his available lounges in an over the top manner, urging his comrades, to, obviously, get to the chopper on time.
“Put that cookie down!” link: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/put-that-cookie-down
used mostly as captions and image macros, involving cookies and other variuos baked goods and/or yelling men.
the line came from the ’Jingle all the way" which was used entirely out of context.
“Remember I said i will kill you last? I lied” used mostly in captions, came from the movie “Commando” he said it right before pushing an enemy combatant off a cliff
.“Hasta la vista, baby.” another popular catchphrased, widespread in pop culture, used in scenarios when one wants to behave with an overly serious and awe inspiring manner. used in the movie “Terminator II – Judgement day” right before Arnold shot the frozen enemy terminator.
Arnold’s movies are so famous, that in fact, Doug Walker A.K.A The Nostalgia Critic (link:http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/doug-walker) made an entire month just reviewing his films, that month was called “Schwarzenegger Month”
He has also quite a few funny shots and clips that are used with other popular image macros.
an impressive amounts of short scenes from his movies are used as reaction videos and as ‘forum weapons’.
One good example "SHUT UUUP! from the moive ‘kindergarden cop’
Arnold Schwarzenegger is also famous for his own traits: his tough musclar body and his strong Austrian accent.
in pop culture as well as in internet culture, tough and strong men are intetionally given Arnold’s Iconic accent.
And in fact, an entire band was formed to sing with the famous accent and make many parodies from Arnold’s memes and become quite popular as such. The band is calling itself – The Austrian Deat Machine. (link: http://www.austriandeathmachine.com/)
help to edit the entry will be greatly appriciated
“Swimming Anime” is the nickname given to an unnamed anime project from Kyoto Animation announced in April 2012. It has growing fan followings on both Tumblr and 4chan’s /a/ (anime and manga) board, despite there being very little information available about the actual show.
In April 2012, Animation Do, a property of Kyoto Animation, made an announcement for an untitled project about a swim team. The announcement only contained two images, one of a character swimming (shown below, left), and another of the four main characters standing in front of a pool (shown below, right).
Despite a lack of information on the series, many bloggers on the Chinese web were excited by the prospect of a new original series from Kyoto Animation, including AcFun.tv[1], CCSX[2], CCC News[3], Mop[4] and PCGames.com.cn[5], referring to it as “男子竞泳” or male competition swimming. Also in April 2012, the first 4chan[6] thread about the series was posted to /a/ (anime and manga) resulting in dozens of responses discussing what the series could be about. More attention was brought to the series on March 6th, 2013, when YouTuber CureSumika posted a promotional video for the project (shown below).
Over the course of the day, an Instagram account[10], Twitter account[11] several ask blogs and fan blogs were made for Swimming Anime, despite it still being a concept.[12] That evening, Crunchyroll[13] shared a PowerPoint presentation parody that explains how fans can ship the unnamed characters from the untitled project. Additionally, the site announced a Swimming Anime cosplay contest on its Facebook page (shown below).[19]
The explosion in fan reaction to the video as well as its lack of name or additional context was discussed on the Adult Swim forums[14], Yahoo! Answers[15], the All Kpop forums[16] the Galaxy Cauldron Forums[17] and 4chan.[18] As of March 7th, 2013, there are dozens of archived threads about swimming anime on Foolz Archive.[7] There are also hashtags on Twitter[9] and Tumblr[8] to discuss the show.
[1]AcFun.tv – 京阿尼子公司将推出原创新作 题材是“男子竞泳”？
[2]CCSX– 120404 – 京阿尼旗下的動畫公司「アニメーションDo」將推出原創的『男子競泳』新作！已故漫畫家「石ノ森章太郎」的未完遺作《サイボーグ009》將從13日網路連載完結篇！
[3]CCC News – 京阿尼推“男子竞泳”新作
[4]Mop – 京阿尼子公司将推出原创新作 题材是“男子竞泳”？
[5]PCGames.com.cn – “京阿尼”大坂工作室可能要制作原创动画
[6]Foolz Archive – New anime by KyoAni’s second studio?
[7]Foolz Archive – Search results for “Swimming anime”
[8]Tumblr – Posts tagged “swimming anime”
[9]Twitter – Tweet results for #swimminganime
[10]Instagram – swimminganime’s Profile
[11]Twitter – @swimminganime
[13]Crunchyroll – Funny Fan Reactions to “That New Swimming Anime”
[14]Adult Swim Forum – Swimming Anime
[15]Yahoo! Answers – What is this new swimming anime called?
[16]All Kpop – what the heck is this swimming anime
[17]The Galaxy Cauldron Forums – Swimming Anime
[18]Foolz Archive – I’ve never seen something evolve to such cancerous levels so quickly.
