Torilla tavataan! (and its various versions, such as Tortillat avataan) is a sentence used to celebrate when anything remotely related to Finland can be seen in the original post. For example, if a youtuber mentions he’s been to Finland, there are bound to be tons of comments celebrating the fact using the sentence “Torilla tavataan!”.

Torilla tavataan! roughly translates to “Let’s meet at the marketplace!” and originates from the Finnish tradition of flocking to marketplaces to celebrate when something important, such as winning the ice hockey world championship, happens.

Torilla tavataan! is often followed by a bunch of Finnish comments each stating what they will bring to the marketplace, for example Finnish politicians such as Timo Soini, or kalja (beer).

Most often appearing on 9Gag, the less the original post has to do with Finland, the more likely the most upvoted comment is “Torilla tavataan!”. For example, if the Finnish flag can just barely be seen in the post, the comment section will be full of Finns, but if the post is directly about Finland, English comments will probably appear first.

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Katy Perry’s SNL Performance refers to the singer’s May 2017 musical performance on the season 42 finale of Saturday Night Live. During her two appearances, Perry’s dancing and backup dancers generated online criticism.

Background

On Saturday, May 20th, 2017, singer Katy Perry appeared on the weekly sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live to sing her hit songs “Bon Appétit” and “Swish Swish.” The performances (shown below, left and right, respectively), which included various guests, such as rappers Migos, and Instagram user @i_got_bars, who became an online senstation=.

Developments

Within 48 hours of being uploaded to YouTube, the “Swish Swish” performance has been viewed 1.4 million times, while “Bon Appétit” has been viewed 2.1 million times.

Twitter published a Moments^[9] page to document the reaction to Perry’s performance.

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Backpack Kid

One of the most popular parts of Perry’s appearance was a dancer who people online named “Backpack Kid,” making his entrance at the end of “Swish Swish” (shown below).

Within minutes of the performance, Twitter user @austinharris posted a gif of him dancing with the captions “#SNLFinale me: why am i so tired all the time me at 3 am.” The tweet (shown below) received more than 1,500 retweets and 3,800 likes in less than 48 hours.

Other Twitter users were quick to join in on praising Backpack Kid.

“Backpack Kid” is a 15-year-old Instagram user Russell Got Barzz (@i_got_barzz)^[8]. Known for his stoic facial expression, Russell has more than 520,000 followers on Instagram.

Several news outlets covered the popularity of Backpack Kid, including Cosmopolitan,^[2] Teen Vogue,^[3]ABC,^[4] and more.

“Bon Appétit” featuring Migos

Perry’s second performance of the night, a rendition of “Bon Appétit” featuring Migos, became the subject of criticism shortly after airing, particularly in regards to Perry’s dancing. On May 21st, Twitter user @behlul_official^[5] tweeted a video of Perry’s dancing with the caption “Nothing can make you cringe more than Katy Perry during Migos part of the performance #AWKWARD.” The tweet (shown below) garnered more than 48,000 retweets and 80,000 likes within 24 hours.

Other users were quick to share their thoughts on Perry’s dancing. Twitter user @strtly^[6] tweeted the same video (shown below, left) and the caption “Katy Perry cannot dance,” while @MJohnnyCarrol^[7] tweeted a gif (show below, right) from The Office‘s No God, Please No! meme with the caption "The horrible realization that you can’t fast forward through the #KatyPerry performance… #SNLFinale #SNLLiveCoastToCoast #SNL."

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Donald Trump’s Glowing Orb, also known as Trump Orb, refers to a lit globe that United States president Donald Trump was photographed touching while visiting Saudi Arabia in late May 2017. After the picture was released on Twitter, many joked that the bizarre pose appeared ominous and disturbing.

Origin

On May 21st, 2017, Donald Trump, Saudi Arabian king Salman and Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi held a ceremony to launch the opening of the Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. During the ceremony, the three men joined together to place their hands on a large, glowing globe in the center of the room (shown below).

That day, the @SaudiEmbassyUSA^[1] Twitter feed posted a photograph of the men touching the globe in which many of the countries were obscured by their hands (shown below).

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That day, the photograph was widely circulated on Twitter, with many expressing confusion about the context of the photo. Additionally, the photograph was captioned with various jokes mocking the bizarre pose.

Meanwhile, The Church of Satan retweeted the photo with the caption “For clarification, this is not a Satanic ritual” (shown below, left).^[2] Within 24 hours, the tweet received upwards of 52,000 likes and 33,000 retweets. Also on May 21st, Twitter user @nice_mustard pointed out a tweet posted nine days prior about Trump touching a “pulsing orb” (shown below, right).

In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the online reaction to the photo, including The Washington Post,^[3] The Guardian,^[4] The Daily Dot,^[5] Bustle,^[6] Breitbart,^[7] Huffpost^[8] and UpRoxx.^[9]

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The Sun Is a Dangerous Lazer is a memorable line from Bill Wurtz’s animated YouTube video “history of the entire world, i guess.” The line has since been the title for memes, YouTube videos, and online jokes.

Origin

On May 10th, 2017, musician and animator Bill Wurtz released history of the entire world, i guess, a YouTube video documenting the chain of events that make up the history of the planet Earth. The video has garnered more tha 17.7 million views in less than two weeks.

Three minutes into the video, when Wurtz begins discussing the first lifeforms to inhabit land, he sings “Can we go on land? No. Why? The sun is a deadly laser.”

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Several hours after the video was posted, YouTuber Aaron posted the four second clip of “The sun is a deadly lazer.” Within two weeks, the video (shown below) has received more than 30,400 views.

Over the next several days, “The sun is a deadly lazer” became the subject of numerous remixes. On May 12th, YouTuber Maland 2016 uploaded a remix featuring We Are Number One (shown below, left). The video recieved more than 4,000 views within a week. Posted on May 16th, YouTuber Metro3ds 2’s “‘The Sun Is A Deadly Lazer’ 4 billion times” (shown below, left) received more than 12,700 views in six days.

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Congratulations @Mobute is a Twitter joke in which people congratulate journalist and prominent Weird Twitter user Jeb Lund (@Mobute) for various accomplishments he has not achieved.

Origin

In January of 2014, Lund orchestrated a hoax in which he convinced some that he had been hired by political blog Slate as a blogger.^[1] On the 23rd, he tweeted “I am just so honored and overwhelmed to be @Slate’s first candidate to field a general blogger role. It is humbling and exciting.”^[2]

Unaware Lund was not sincere, Mediabistro linked to his tweet for their Revolving Door newsletter, which reports on new hires by media outlets.^[1] This led to confusion as to whether or not Lund had actually been hired, which Lund contributed to by continuing to tweet as though he had been hired by Slate (ex: shown below).

On June 9th, Twitter user and Vice politics editor Harry Cheadle^[3] referenced the moment by congratulating Mobute for joining Libertarian blog Reason, which he wasn’t (shown below). This marked the first “Congratulations @Mobute” joke.

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In the coming months, more Twitter users began jokingly congratulating Lund whenever a major hire was announced in various industries. On July 2nd, 2015, Gawker^[4] wrote an article about the spread of the jokes, pretending to take all of the “Congratulations @Mobute” tweets seriously. The joke continues to be popular on Twitter as of May 22nd, 2017.^[5]

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Hanged crow it became back to life to stirke it’s enemies epic badass

I will hang myself tomorrow 9:00 P.M in Canada

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Alzheimer Man is an image depicting an elderly man. It sprang up on 4chan and became a highly used and edited image on the board /bant/, and users quickly gave him his new title. No actual information is known of this man, /bant/ simply adopted it as a meme. Seen above is only a simple edit, there are many more highly edited images of this elderly man.

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The 2017 Manchester Bombing was a suicide terrorist attack that ocurred during an Ariana Grande concert at the main arena in Manchester, United Kingdom on the night of May 22nd, 2017. The attack has so far resulted in the death of at least 19 people and 50 additional injuries.

Background

On the night of March 22nd, 2017, at around 10:40 p.m. (local time), news reports about an explosive detonation at a concert featuring Ariana Grande as the headline performer in Manchester, UK began surfacing all over Twitter. According to several witness accounts, a massive bang suddenly erupted from the foyer of the arena as the pop singer was about to finish the last song, prompting a mass exodus of panic-stricken concertgoers, most of them in their youths and teenage years.

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By 11:44 p.m., Greater Manchester Police had confirmed they are treating the case as a terrorist attack until further discovery, while notifying the citizens to stay clear of the area for safety.

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This meme originated from a YouTube video from Jake Paul published on May 5, 2017. The video was dedicated to Anthony Truj’s 21st Birthday. Jake Paul decided to have 20+ chickens put in the kitchen area of the Team 10 house in Los Angeles, California; and Jake turned on the stove. Then, Jake yells “GET A CHICKENBOI!” as a response to Erika’s comment about offending vegans. He then shouts “I’M GONNAFRYONE UP!” He then spontaneously shouts out “OHIOFRIEDCHICKEN” after Anthony brings over a chicken, and in the background, Chance Sutton yells “OFC B*TCH”, creating the meme that would be shown on the video a few seconds later as an obvious parody of Kentucky Fried Chicken. This is accompanied by an image of the mascot of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Colonel Sanders, but with the face of the Colonel Photoshopped out with a line drawing of Chance Sutton’s face. After the original quote is said again, a stereotypical “announcer voice” started reading the fine print that shows up on screen that stated “Results may vary. Any health or medical issues are no our fault.” The “not” in the accompanying voice over seems to be intentionally misspelled on-screen. The meme is present in the video from about 8:30 to 9:00. Here is the link: https://youtu.be/RhEbuDjR13M?t=8m32s

This meme was formed because Jake Paul, Anthony Truj, and Chance Sutton are all from the state of Ohio in the USA. They display their heritage, sometimes extremely overbearingly, on the two YouTube vlog accounts “Jake Paul” and “Chance and Anthony”, as well as their personal Instagram accounts.

The OHIOFRIEDCHICKEN meme appeared again on the Jake Paul upload on May 22, 2017.

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Villanos, also known as Villanous or Villainous, is a series of animated shorts about four characters living together: Black Hat, the owner of Black Hat Inc., a company which sells tools to villains; Dr. Flug, a paper-bag wearing professor who develops the tools for Black Hat; Dementia, who is mentally insane and lizard-like; and 5.0.5., a kind large blue bear-like creature.

History

On May 18th, 2017, the Cartoon Network LA YouTube channel uploaded in one video 10 shorts of the series (shown below).^[1]

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“Oh, You Love Your Mom” is a catchphrase used on Twitter that parodies music elitism. The phrase, which ends with “name three of her albums,” prompted others to tweet stereotypical mom sayings as if they were albums.

Origin

On May 13th, 2017, Twitter user @daviddeweil^[1] tweeted “Oh you love your mom? Name three of her albums.” The tweet (shown below) mocked musical gatekeeping or elitism by substituting a musical artist for “your mom.” @davidedeweil received more than 23,000 retweets and 48,000 likes.

Precursor

The expression “Name three of their albums” has been phrase used to test someone’s knowledge of a musical artist since before the internet. In regards to Twitter, however, the earliest known instance occurred on September 11th, 2011, when user @palomawesome^[6] tweeted, “‘OMG I love this band!’ Name three of their albums.” The tweet can be found below.

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Shortly after @daviddeweil’s tweet went viral, people started tweeting “album titles at him,” i.e send common motherly expressions as if they were album titles. He received more than 1,300 response to his tweet.

That day Twitter user @drnzy retweeted the original tweet and responded: “1. There’s food at home 2. I’m not one of your little friends (went 3x platinum) 3. I’ll give you something to cry about.” The tweet (shown below) received more than 13,300 retweets and 19,000 likes.

Throughout the day, people continued to tweet their mom’s “albums.”One tweet from @CTowersCBS^[2] (shown below, left), which read “’I’m not going to say it again’ is her best work,” received more than 200 retweets and 1,000 likes. Another by @blackismy^[3] (shown below, right), which featured several albums by “Your mom,” received more than 2,500 retweets and 5,800 likes in two days.

On May 14th, Twitter published a Moments page, archiving some of the most popular posts and responses to the tweet.^[4]

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Saturdays Are For The Boys is a catchphrase associated with sports-humor blog Barstool Sports. After appearing online, it became a hashtag celebrating male fraternity.

Origin

On June 11th, 2016, Barstool writer Feitelberg (@FeitsBarstool) tweeted:^[1]

“FRIDAYSAREFORTHEMEN, SATURDAYSAREFORTHEBOYS”
- some old guy just yelled that, it makes no sense, but I love it"

The tweet gained over 1,500 retweets and 4,600 likes (shown below).

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Feitelberg’s followers responded with GIFs and images embodying the phrase “Saturday Is For The Boys.” On June 17th, he wrote a blog post about the phrase,^[2] along with some of his favorite responses.

Over the next few months, the hashtag took off, as men shared videos of their various acts of drunken debauchery with the hashtag on Instagram and Twitter. Major sports figures tweeted the hashtag as well, including Rob Gronkowski, Noah Syndegaard, and Michael Phelps. Barstool also began selling shirts with the phrase on it.^[4] The spread of the hashtag was covered by The New York Post^[3] in October of that year. In early 2017, Barstool writers filmed several athletes saying the phrase.^[5]

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“The horse’s name was friday”, sometimes written as “The horse’s name is friday”, is a catchphrase that is often used to reply to questions on discussion forums or social media when the replier does not know the answer to the question, or simply uses it as an act of trolling when it is completely irrelevant to the question.

Origin

The phrase comes from a famous riddle that dates back to an unknown time. The riddle is, “A cowboy rides into town on Friday, stays in town for 3 days, then leaves on Friday. How did he do it?” The answer to the riddle is the said phrase, “The horse’s name was friday”. The riddle was made popular after it was mentioned in the episode “iGive Away a Car” of iCarly, a web show and tv show aired on Nickelodeon .^[1]

(Third riddle in the video)

Since the widespread of the riddle, netizens often use the phrase “The horse’s name was friday” to answer other riddles or questions when they do not know the actual answer. Reaction images have also been created on Meme Generator^[2] and Memecrunch^[3] respectively. The term is also occasionally mentioned when something related to “horse” is brought up in a post for no apparent reason, such as this post on iFunny.

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^[1] iCarly Wikia – http://icarly.wikia.com/wiki/Jeffery_Flanken
^[2] Meme Generator – https://memegenerator.net/instance/54441658/mr-bean-the-horses-name-was-friday
^[3] Memecrunch – https://memecrunch.com/meme/121G4/the-horse-name-is-friday

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Finland Doesn’t Exist refers to a joke conspiracy theory that the European nation Finland is a hoax created by the Japanese and the Russians to give the Japanese free reign to fish in the Baltic sea.

Origin

The origin of the hoax is a response to an AskReddit thread titled “What did your parents show you to do that you assumed was completely normal, only to later discover that it was not normal at all?” On December 27th, 2014, user Raregan replied, “My parents never believed in Finland, I grew up to never believe in Finland until I researched it further. It’s a pretty heated topic in my family.”^[1] When pressed as to why, he provided the full details of the conspiracy (shown below). His comments gained 5,586 and 6,718 points, respectively.

Oh God here goes.
Well firstly they say that the actual ‘place of Finland’ is just Eastern Sweden. Helsinki is in Eastern Sweden and when people fly there it’s not like they would notice.
World maps are altered as it’s a U.N conspiracy to keep people believing in Finland. And the idea that an entire country is made up seems so bizarre that nobody would ever believe it, making it easy to do.
Finland’s main company, Nokia, is apparently owned by the Japanese and they’re a main player in this.
Now as for ‘why’ people would want to invent Finland as a country that’s a bit more in depth and there’s a few reasons as to why Sweden and Russia go along with it but it’s mostly to do with Japanese fishing rights.
You see the Japanese love their sushi but tight fishing regulations and public outcry mean they can’t fish as much as they want. So after the Cold War they agreed with Russia to create a ‘landmass’ called Finland where they could fish. After all, if people thought there was a country there nobody would expect the Japanese to be harpooning whales would they?
The fish is then transported through Russia where a small percentage of the food is given to the population, (they were of course starving at the time of Finland being invented), and then is shipped to Japan under the disguise of ‘Nokia’ products. Japan is apparently one of the worlds largest importers of Nokia products despite the fact that ‘nobody there owns a Nokia phone’ apparently.
The crux of all this however, and my favourite part, is the homage that the Japanese gave to this entire conspiracy theory.
What do fish have? Fins. Therefore they named their imaginary country Finland.
There are loads more that they go on about but I can’t remember it all at the moment.
EDIT: Thanks for the Gold! I’m amazed how big this has gotten, I told my parents and although they don’t really understand Reddit they’re glad that the ‘truths’ being put out there for people to make their own decision.

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Redbone is a song by hip-hop recording artist Childish Gambino off his album Awaken, My Love! It became the subject of remixes in May 2017 following a popular tweet that described a remix where all the audio is muted as “What Redbone would sound like while you’re making out in the bathroom of a house party.”

Origin

“Redbone” is the second single off Awaken, My Love! and was released on November 17th, 2016.^[1] The song is Gambino’s most successful single to date and his first top 40 single. On May 27, 2017 it debuted at number 1 on the Adult R&B charts. The song also featured in the closing and ending credits of the race-related horror film Get Out directed by Jordan Peele.

On May 14th, 2017, Twitter user @chloestixx tweeted a remix of the song where the audio was heavily muted, captioning it “What Redbone would sound like while you’re making out in the bathroom of a house party.” Her tweet gained over 85,400 retweets and 195,900 likes (shown below).

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On May 21st, Twitter user @alanmora1 replied to @chloestixx with his remix, “what redbone would sound like while you’re peeing in the bathroom of a house party,” that played the audio of the @chloestixx post with the sound of someone urinating in a toilet over it (shown below). His post gained over 5,300 retweets and 13,200 likes.

This marked the first of dozens of remixes that riffed on @chloestixx’s post. One by Twitter user @YungMondi in which rapper Famous Dex adlibbed over the track (shown below) caught the attention of XXLMag.^[2] The spread of the remixes led to an inquiry posted to /r/OutOfTheLoop on the 23rd.^[3]

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Chilaquil refers to an image of a dog that became the subject of photoshops on Twitter and Facebook among Spanish-speaking communities in May of 2017.

Origin

On May 17th, Facebook page El rincón de la curiosidad.^[1] posted an image of a woman posing with a large dog, a cross between a German Shepard and a wolf (shown below..

In response, user Clemente Miranda posted a picture of his dog, the “Chilaquil,” a cross between two breeds that is only allowed in “marginal colonies like mine.” His comment, shown below, gained over 11,000 likes and reactions. The comment also gained over 1,300 replies.

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A few days following the appearance of Chilaquil on the page, users on Facebook and Twitter began to photoshopping Chilaquil into various scenarios. One popular tweet was posted on May 20th by @AndresCisnerosP,^[2] photoshopping the dog onto Shaquille O’Neal, gaining over 420 retweets (shown below).

The spread of Chilaquil gained attention from Spanish-speaking media outlets, including Buzzfeed^[3] and Univision.^[4]

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Trump’s Middle East Trip refers to President Donald Trump nine-day diplomatic visit to various Middle East country. The trip, marked by numerous controversies, gaffes, and memes, was Trump’s first venture abroad since becoming president.

Background

Amidst the mounting pressure the dismissal of FBI Director James Comey and allegations of collusion with Russia during the 2016 Presidential Election, President Trump and his advisers boarded a plane for the Middle East in hopes of resetting the narrative of a controversial first 100 days of Trump’s presidency.

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Donald Trump’s Glowing Orb

On May 21st, 2017, Donald Trump, Saudi Arabian king Salman and Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi held a ceremony to launch the opening of the Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. During the ceremony, the three men joined together to place their hands on a large, glowing globe in the center of the room (shown below).

That day, the @SaudiEmbassyUSA^[1] Twitter feed posted a photograph of the men touching the globe in which many of the countries were obscured by their hands (shown below).

That day, the photograph was widely circulated on Twitter, with many expressing confusion about the context of the photo. Additionally, the photograph was captioned with various jokes mocking the bizarre pose.

Melania Swats Donald’s Hand

On the morning of May 22nd, video of Melania Trump swatting Donald’s hand away as he attempts to hold her hand on an Israeli tarmac. One of the earliest to share the video, Twitter user @raggapegs^[2] posted a the clip with the caption, “LOL! Melania in Tel Aviv is as MISERABLE, as Melania in the U.S. Watch her push away the CREEP’s hand. PRICELESS😂😂😂This guy is DISGUSTING!” The tweet (shown below) received more than 11,000 retweets and 17,000 likes.

Later that day, Gizmodo’s Matt Novak posted the video to YouTube. Within 24 hours, it went to number one on their trending chart with more than 5.7 million views.

Several news outlets covered the swat, including The New York Daily News,^[3] Gizmodo,^[4] The Daily Dot,^[5] and more.
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The avid gambler Jxzy turned £10 into £10000 at which point it was said that stumpy would get £1000 for only shouting numbers to bet on(not that stumpy did not have any money in this the £10 was Jxzy’s).
when Jxzy was losing money stumpy then left Jxzy in rage insulting him, at this point we know that stumpy isnt going to get the £1000 for doing nothing.

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“thats about as likely as stumpy getting his grand”

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Whaboom is the catchphrase of Lucas Yancey, a contestant on the 13th season of The Bachelorette.

Origin

The season premiere of the 13th season of The Bachelorette aired May 22nd, 2017. After several men had already arrived at the house and introduced themselves to the season’s bachelorette, Rachel, Yancey, a real estate developer and aspiring comedian, pulled up to the house in a limo. After making some jokes with Rachel, he introduced her to his catchphrase, “Whaboom,” which he shouts while violently shaking his head (shown below).

Two days before the episode aired, “Whaboom” was added to Urban Dictionary by “Mr. WhaBoom.”^[2]

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Yancey was instantly identified as the season’s “villain,” a traditional outlier contestant whose negative qualities irritate the other contestants.^[1] Huffington Post,^[3] Buzzfeed,^[4] and Washington Post^[5] all referred to Lucas as “the worst” in headlines of their stories recapping the episode. Meanwhile, “Whaboom” trended on Twitter^[6] as fans reacted with exasperation at Lucas’ schtick. Uproxx^[7] covered some of the fan reactions in their recap of the episode.

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“Stop Staring At Me With Them Big Ol’ Eyes” is memorable quote by the Flying Dutchman from an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants. The meme has been the subject of multi-panel image macros, in which the first panel features a character with their eyes wide open, the text instructs them to stop staring with those “big ol’ eyes,” and in the final panel, they are seen squinting.

Origin

The phrase “Stop Staring At Me With Those Big Ol’ Eyes” is said by the Flying Dutchman to SpongeBob (shown below), in the season two episode “Your Shoe’s Untied,”^[1] which first aired on November 2nd, 2000.

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On March 13th, 2013, YouTuber AMReed8 posted the above clip, entitled “STOPSTARING AT ME WITHTHEMBIG’OLE EYES!” Within four years, the video has received more than 120,200 views.

On November 9th, 2015, Redditor Kirble_Konnection^[3] posted an image (shown below) from the video game Five Nights at Freddy’s in which the characters are photoshopped to have bigger eyes. The post received more than 50 points (92% upvoted).

On November 11th, 2016, a user of the ascii art board on the anonymous message board 4 channel made reference to the meme. In the comic, an ascii cat is told “stop staring at me with those big ol eyes.” The cat complies.

On March 3rd, 2017, Tumblr user Ryuukibap^[4] posted a variation with the character Orisa from Overwatch. Within three months, the post has received more than 17,000 notes.

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