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Real Life Doodles are videos and GIFs which have been digitally altered with animated doodles, often making inanimate structures and objects appear to be alive with the addition of eyes and limbs.

Origin

Spread

On February 7th, 2012, YouTuber Ecotricity uploaded a montage of collapsing cooling towers with eyes and arms digitally added to the structures, which gathered upwards of 4.6 million views and 5,600 comments within five years (shown below).

On January 25th, 2015, the /r/RealLifeDoodles^[1] subreddit was launched for examples of animated clips, gathering upwards of 316,000 subscribers over the next

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Mike Matei serves as the executive producer for CinemaMassarce, the website of The Angry Video Game Nerd, and helps write, edit, and star in the channel’s videos. He has grown into a somewhat infamous figure online for his low-quality sketches and interactions with fans.

History

Matei started Cinemamassacre’s YouTube channel in 2006,^[1] where it was originally called “JamesNintendoNerd.” After assisting with and starring in several AVGN videos, Matei began to make his own content for the channel. On January 24th, 2011, he uploaded his first solo video for Cinemamassacre, “How to Jump Over the Flagpole on stage 1-1 in Super Mario Bros,” gaining over 1.2 million views (shown below). In 2015, he began livestreaming video games and uploading the videos to YouTube.^[2]

Reputation

Brown Bricks

On May 11th, 2012, Matei uploaded “Minecraft with Gadget,” a video in which he and an animated version of Inspector Gadget, voiced by Matei, reviewed the IOS port of Minecraft. In the video, Inspector Gadget has trouble pronouncing the name of the game, eventually calling it “Minecrap.” He repeated the name several times during the video, eventually repeating “I love to build brown bricks with mine crap.” This spawned the Brown Bricks meme. Due to the negative response to the video, it was taken down (Mirror shown below). The video was quickly mocked and parodied online shortly after its release, and Matei has worked to delete all reuploads of the video.

In late 2016 and early 2017, multiple renditions of the infamous video started appearing on YouTube. The meme’s sudden resurgence in popularity may be due to it’s frequent use in media surrounding Iris animator Chris O’Neil (Oney) who can often be heard quoting or referencing it. It became a popular meme amongst of the channel’s fans. In May of 2017, Siivagunner began referencing the clip in their videos. On May 14th, they uploaded “Main Theme – Inspector Gadget: Mad Robots Invasion,” gaining over 19,000 views (shown below, left). On May 17th, they uploaded a parody of the Angry Video Game Nerd intro using the clip (shown below, right).

Mike Matei Has a Huge Dick

In late 2014, a persistent rumor started appearing in comments on Cinemamassacre videos that Matei has a large penis. Fans gleaned as much from pictures of Matei where the bulge in his pants appears quite large (examples shown below). One of the earlier known references to the size of Matei’s penis comes from a Tumblr^[4] post dated September 22nd, 2014.

The rumor was addressed in a thread on /r/OutOfTheLoop^[3] on December 12th, 2014 and has been covered in TV Tropes^[2] and Encyclopedia Dramatica^[5] in their pages on Matei. In late 2015, Matei tweeted out a picture of his penis next to measuring tape to answer a question to someone asking how large his dick was. He said “10 inches.” The picture has since been deleted but a screenshot of the tweet was posted to /tv/ on November 5th, 2015.^[7]

/r/CinemaMassacre Drama

Matei is a moderator at /r/CinemaMassacre. On May 30th, 2017, he made a post titled “Shedding Some Light”^[8] about his moderating practices, which others in the subreddit took issue with, after conversations between moderators about Matei were leaked to the subreddit. Matei was known for banning anyone who made reference to the Brown Bricks video or referencing his penis, and he attempted to explain this in his post. Other moderators of the subreddit were angered by this, Mattophobia,^[6] recommended the removal of Matei from the channel altogether for his unapologetic and harsh moderating policies. The entire fiasco was covered by two /r/OutOfTheLoop^[9][10] posts and a post on /r/SubredditDrama.^[11]

Criticism

Matei has grown infamous for his poor comedy and alleged poor character. During their playthrough of Sonic ’06, Game Grumps went on an extended riff about Matei’s simple style of comedy (shown below).

Matei has also been criticized for being unfunny and arrogant by Encyclopedia Dramatica.^[5] Commenters on /r/Cinemamassacre have also spoken negatively about Matei’s character. In response to his “Shedding Some Light” post, user digitaldebaser wrote of Matei, “He was rude, he was degrading, and he made me question if James was anything like him. It hurt as a fan.”

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Got The Shit? is a series of exploitables based on a four-panel webcomic by J.L. Westover. Online people have changed the third panel of Westover’s comic, so that the character in red will refer to it as “good shit.”

Origin

On March 23rd, 2017, cartoonist J.L. Westover published the original comic to his website, MrLovenstein.com.^[1] The comic (shown below) follows the following sequence: 1) Two men on a park bench, the one in red says, “Got the shit?” 2) The man in the trenchcoat hands him an envelope. 3) The man in red opens the envelope to reveal a note that says, “You matter.” 4) The man in red says, “Das good shit.”

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That day, Westover posted the comic to his Facebook^[2] and Twitter^[3] pages. On Twitter, the comic received more than 300 retweets and 700 likes. On Facebook, the comic receieved more than 14,000 reactions and 8,400 shares. Westover published the comic on the /r/comics^[4] subreddit, where it received more than 31,200 points (85 upvoted) and 214 comments. Redditor Xxallahuakbar69xX reposted it on the /r/WholesomeMemes^[5] subreddit, where it received more than 27,000 points (88% upvoted) and 170 comments.

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Buck Bumble is an Ariel 3rd person shooter for the Nintendo 64. The game received popularity due to the game’s god-like legendary theme song, which has been remixed many times.

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Right about now, it’s time to rock with the biggity Buck Bumble
Right about now, it’s time to rock with the biggity Buck Bumble
Bump to the bump to the bump to the bass
bump to the bump to the Bumble
Bump to the bump to the bump to the bass
bump to the bump to the Bumble
Bump to the bump to the bump to the bass
bump to the bump to the Bumble
Bump to the bump to the bump to the bass
bump to the bump to the Bumble
Bump to boop to the boop to the boop boop
Bump to the base to the base base base base
Bump to boop to the boop to the boop boop
Bump to the base to the base base base base
Badabadaba
Badabadaba
He say
Badabadaba
Badabadaba
He say ma te ulla eh
’Ey! ^[1]

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Buck Bumble was a fairly popular game before the theme song started getting remixed, with let’s plays being common and the theme song being uploaded numerous times.
One of the earlier remixes of a title song remix was when JJokerDude uploaded “Super Buck World” onto YouTube on Jan 9, 2015, where the song with altered to resemble Super Mario World’s theme song. The video has over 135,000 views. ^[2][3]

Afterward, on Febuary 22, 1015, AntDude uploaded a video onto YouTube about Buck Bumble which would later get half a million views.

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xXMLGSerenaXx is a MLG Version of the Pokemon Girl named Serena from Pokemon X&Y.

When the YouTuber named: DCrystal Studios // awyuxuan8881 started to livestream to create the MLG Version of the Pokegirl named Serena. in May 8 2017.

It was originally edited by: awyuxuan8881
Edited using: Adobe Photoshop CC 2015

The picture that he created from memegenerator website.

When awyuxuan8881 was appreciated the Edit of MLG Serena he nicknamed MLG Serena into xXMLGSerenaXx as a player name.

In June 3rd 2017 he started to remake the xXMLGSerenaXx into memes.

Who is awyuxuan8881?

awyuxuan8881 aka: xXDCrystalXx is a 13 year old YouTuber , Comedian , MLG Editor , Viner , Cameraman , Editor , Creator of xXMLGSerenaXx and Roaster who roast players and people from other video games that include chat system or places.

awyuxuan8881 started his YouTube Channel in: May 7 2012 ( the coincidence of MrBeast’s birthday date but he is so lucky. )

awyuxuan8881’s birth date: October 15

Overview

Evergreen State College Racism Protests refer to a series of demonstrations organized by students at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington in late May 2017 to protest racism on campus. After refusing to participate in the “Day of Absence & Day of Presence,” which demanded that white students, faculty and staff leave campus for one day, Biology professor Bret Weinstein was targeted by activists who accused him of racism and demanded his resignation.

Background

On March 15th, 2017, Weinstein sent an email to a student protester named Rashida, in which he stated “On a college campus, one’s right to speak -- or to be -- must never be based on skin color” (shown below).

On May 24th, students at the college protested at various locations on campus, where they shouted chants like “hey hey, ho ho, these racist teachers have got to go.” During the protest, the official Facebook page for the The Olympian newspaper livestreamed portions of the demonstration (shown below).

That same day, a student livestreamed protesters arguing with Professor Weinstein in a campus hallway, during which several students ordered him to resign.^[2]

Developments

Online Reaction

That day, Professor Weinstein’s brother Eric Weinstein posted several tweets criticizing “SJWs” for attacking his brother (shown below).

On May 25th, YouTuber Make Cringe Great Again uploaded a video of students yelling loudly at Professor Weinstein (shown below).

That day, student activists and supporters of Professor Weinstein began tweeting about the protests using the hashtag “#exposeevergreen.”^[7] Meanwhile, evolutuionary psychologist Diana Fleischman posted screenshots of tweets by Evergreen College Students threatening and insulting white students who did not participate in the protests (shown below).^[4]

On May 26th, Redditor Galinskykid83 submitted a video by the Evergreen State College group Common Bread in a post to /r/videos^[3] titled “Evergreen State College group looks like it’s a sketch from Portlandia.” Within 15 hours, the post gained over 840 points (89% upvoted) and 390 comments. The original upload of the video was subsequently removed, but was reuploaded by YouTuber mscarpss (shown below).

News Media Coverage

On May 25th, The Washington Times^[5] published an article titled “Students berate professor who refused to participate in no-white ‘Day of Absence’,” which reported that students had taken over Evergreen College for the past 72 hours. Meanwhile, the local Washington news station King 5^[8] aired a segment on the protests against Weinstein, noting that earlier in the school year Weinstein had raised conecrns about proposed hiring policy changes that “would have race play a larger role in the hiring process” (shown below).

Also on May 25th, HeatStreet^[6] published an article titled “Student Mob Shrieks at Professor Who Objected to Event That Kicks White People Off Campus for a Day.” The following day, The Washington Post^[1] published an interview with Weinstein, in which he revealed that he had been told by the Chief of Police that it was “not safe” for him on campus. The following day, Weinstein appared as a guest on Tucker Carlson Tonight (shown below).

Additional Videos

On May 27th, 2017, YouTuber bestof evergreen posted a compilation of videos taken during the protests titled “Student takeover of Evergreen State College” (shown below). Within 72 hours, the video gained over 500,000 views and 2,500 comments. In the coming days, the video reached the front page of the /r/PublicFreakout,^[9] /r/KotakuInAction^[10] and /r/The_Donald^[11] subreddits.

On May 28th, YouTuber Mitchollow uploaded footage of student activists demanding extensions for their courseworks without penalty to college president George Bridges (shown below). That day, The College Fix reported that Evergreen student activists sent a demand to President Bridges that the admnistration take down the “Student takeover of Evergreen State College” video, referring to it as footage “stolen by white supremacists and edited to expose and ridicule the students.”

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The charkie cry was a popluar meme in the discord server end me created by henzakurza. The cry goes like OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWOWOOWOWOOWOWOOWOWOooWooWOWoWOwowOWOOWO. for a while until i gets to loud an stops.

Overview

Evergreen State College Racism Protests refer to a series of demonstrations organized by students at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington in late May 2017 to protest racism on campus. After refusing to participate in the “Day of Absence & Day of Presence,” which demanded that white students, faculty and staff leave campus for one day, Biology professor Bret Weinstein was targeted by activists who accused him of racism and demanded his resignation.

Background

On March 15th, 2017, Weinstein sent an email to a student protester named Rashida, in which he stated “On a college campus, one’s right to speak -- or to be -- must never be based on skin color” (shown below).

On May 24th, students at the college protested at various locations on campus, where they shouted chants like “hey hey, ho ho, these racist teachers have got to go.” During the protest, the official Facebook page for the The Olympian newspaper livestreamed portions of the demonstration (shown below).

That same day, a student livestreamed protesters arguing with Professor Weinstein in a campus hallway, during which several students ordered him to resign.^[2]

Developments

Online Reaction

That day, Professor Weinstein’s brother Eric Weinstein posted several tweets criticizing “SJWs” for attacking his brother (shown below).

On May 25th, YouTuber Make Cringe Great Again uploaded a video of students yelling loudly at Professor Weinstein (shown below).

That day, student activists and supporters of Professor Weinstein began tweeting about the protests using the hashtag “#exposeevergreen.”^[7] Meanwhile, evolutuionary psychologist Diana Fleischman posted screenshots of tweets by Evergreen College Students threatening and insulting white students who did not participate in the protests (shown below).^[4]

On May 26th, Redditor Galinskykid83 submitted a video by the Evergreen State College group Common Bread in a post to /r/videos^[3] titled “Evergreen State College group looks like it’s a sketch from Portlandia.” Within 15 hours, the post gained over 840 points (89% upvoted) and 390 comments. The original upload of the video was subsequently removed, but was reuploaded by YouTuber mscarpss (shown below).

News Media Coverage

On May 25th, The Washington Times^[5] published an article titled “Students berate professor who refused to participate in no-white ‘Day of Absence’,” which reported that students had taken over Evergreen College for the past 72 hours. Meanwhile, the local Washington news station King 5^[8] aired a segment on the protests against Weinstein, noting that earlier in the school year Weinstein had raised conecrns about proposed hiring policy changes that “would have race play a larger role in the hiring process” (shown below).

Also on May 25th, HeatStreet^[6] published an article titled “Student Mob Shrieks at Professor Who Objected to Event That Kicks White People Off Campus for a Day.” The following day, The Washington Post^[1] published an interview with Weinstein, in which he revealed that he had been told by the Chief of Police that it was “not safe” for him on campus. The following day, Weinstein appared as a guest on Tucker Carlson Tonight (shown below).

Additional Videos

On May 27th, 2017, YouTuber bestof evergreen posted a compilation of videos taken during the protests titled “Student takeover of Evergreen State College” (shown below). Within 72 hours, the video gained over 500,000 views and 2,500 comments. In the coming days, the video reached the front page of the /r/PublicFreakout,^[9] /r/KotakuInAction^[10] and /r/The_Donald^[11] subreddits.

On May 28th, YouTuber Mitchollow uploaded footage of student activists demanding extensions for their courseworks without penalty to college president George Bridges (shown below). That day, The College Fix reported that Evergreen student activists sent a demand to President Bridges that the admnistration take down the “Student takeover of Evergreen State College” video, referring to it as footage “stolen by white supremacists and edited to expose and ridicule the students.”

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Editor’s Note: This entry is currently being researched and updated in real-time.

Overview

2017 London Attack was a terrorist attack carried out by three individuals near London Bridge and Borough Market in central London on the evening of June 3rd, 2017. The attack began with a deadly vehicle rampage of a white van driving over the pedestrian walkway across the landmark bridge, followed by stabbing of several innocent diners at restaurants in Borough Market. As a result of the attacks, seven people, as well as all three attackers, were killed and 48 others suffered injuries of varying degrees.

Background

On June 3rd, 2017, at around 9:58 p.m. (local time), a white van traveling southbound across London Bridge suddenly derailed from the pavement and mounted onto the walkway, ramming several unsuspecting pedestrians along its path. After reaching the south end of the bridge, the three suspects exited the vehicle ran into Borough Market, one of the largest and oldest food markets in the city, where they began stabbing random diners at restaurants with knives, until they were shot dead by the Metropolitan Police at 10:15 p.m.

Terrorism in the UK

In 2017, the United Kingdom has been targeted by at least two major Islamist terrorist attacks, beginning with the vehicular attack in Westminster that killed five people in March, followed by a suicide bombing attack at the Manchester Arena that killed 22 people, including many children and teenagers. According to the Metropolitan police, the investigators are treating the attack in London as having been motivated by Islamist-extremism.

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User “priorduck” started his cravings for kebabs and never stopped, he suggested he wanted a kebab and everybody agreed despite him getting it since.

Origin
User priorduck wanted a kebab one day, suggested it, and still currently priorduck sits and waits for the kebab to be implemented.

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Far Cry is a series of first person shooter video games known for the expansive, open world environments that allow for more interactive gameplay.

History

Released on March 23rd, 2004 for PC, the original Far Cry followed ex Special Forces operator named Jack Carver in search of a missing journalist he was escorting across a mysterious set of islands. The game sold more than 730,000 copies within four months of release and led to five spin-offs, including Far Cry Instincts (2005), Far Cry Instincts: Evolution (2006), Far Cry Instincts: Predator (2006), Far Cry Vengance (2006), and Paradise Lost(2007).^[1]

Ubisoft released Far Cry 2 on October 23rd, 2008 without the help of the original game’s developer, Crytek.^[2] The game took place in Central Africa with a goal of assassinating a ruthless arms dealer.

Four years later, Far Cry 3 was released on November 29th, 2012. The game followed several American tourists besieged by pirates in the pacific. A spin-off, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon followed the game on April 30th, 2013.

Far Cry 4 was released on November 18th, 2014 and takes place in fictional Himalayan country, allowing players to explore the mountains, forests, and villages of the region.

Far Cry 5

On May 26th, 2017, Ubisoft announced Far Cry 5, which, for the first time, brought players to America. Set in Hope County, Montana, the game pits players in a violent war against a cult who seeks to take over the area.^[4] The game is set for a released date of February 27th, 2018.

That day, Ubisoft released the first trailer for the game. WIthin 12 hours, the video (shown below) has been viewed 440,000. The trailer was also posted to the subreddits /r/gaming,^[5] /r/pcgaming and /r/xboxone,^[7] where it received more than 1,000 points each, respectively, in the first 12 hours.

The initial announcement also included several character videos, detailing some of the members of the resistance of Hope County. The trailer for the character Nick Rye (shown below, left) received more than 111,000 views in under 12 hours. The trailer for Pastor Jerome Jeffries (shown below, right) received more than 118,000 views in under 12 hours.

Online Presence

As of May 2017, the official Far Cry Facebook^[16] page currently has more than 2.6 million likes and 2.6 million followers and the official Twitter account, @farcrygame,^[17] has more than 294,000 followers.

Reception

The main entries in the series have generally fared well with critics and players. The first Far Cry game scored 89% on Metacritic,^[3] while its successors have generally scored in that range, between 85% and 90%.

Far Cry 5 Antagonist

On May 26th, 2017, people discussed the game’s new locale and villains, commenting that this would be the first time a Far Cry game took place in America. Some on Twitter discussed Ubisoft’s decision to make rural Americans the antagonist in the game. That day, Twitter user @Spacekatgal^[8] wrote, “I played and enjoyed Far Cry when it had unsettling right-wing themes, and I’ll play this one too. But, wow, they really went there.” Another user, @patrickklepek^[9] tweeted, “I don’t know anything about Far Cry 5, but a game about white identity and extreme nationalism would be awfully appropriate in 2017.”

Twitter published a Moments page^[11] to document the reaction to the announcement. Several news outlets covered the announcement as well, including Polygon,^[10] Kotaku,^[12] Forbes^[13] and more

That day, Redditor wolfram^[14] posted a photo of himself made to look like the antagonist from Far Cry 5 in the thread “I didn’t realize I was cast as the villain for Far Cry 5.” The post (shown below) received more than 50,000 points (60% upvoted) and 2,200 comments.

White Genocide Controversy

That day, more reactions to the trailer, particularly its use of a white, Christian cult as the antagonist, caused some online to call the game a “white genocide simulator.” An anonymous 4chan user created the thread “Far Cry ‘White Genocide Simulator 5’” and wrote “From a purely business standpoint, I don’t understand what their strategy is here. In my experience most gamers are white and seem to be more right-leaning than left. How does alienating the majority of their prospective buyer base seem like a good idea? Do they honestly think this will sell well, or are they just doing it anyway because it’s ‘the right narrative?’”^[18] The thread received more than 575 replies before archiving.

Since the trailer’s release, an online petition on the website Change.org^[19] started, asking Ubisoft to “Cancel Far Cry 5.” The author of the petition writes, “Enough is enough UbiSoft. We’ve sat through your multicultural lectures and your preachy games aimed at degenerates and miscegenators. We’ve tolerated it in the name of gameplay design and innovation. But no more! Far Cry 5 is an insult to your fanbase, the Americans who make up the majority of your customers, and it’s time you woke up to that fact. Change this, or cancel it.” As of May 30th, the petition has more than 680 signatures, roughly 300 short of its goal.

However, many have wondered if this is a real controversy or an example of Poe’s Law, in which the controversy itself is a satire. Redditor FindMeTheTruth^[20] posted about the petition in the /r/KotakuInAction subreddit under the thread “SJW’s have been faking outrage by ‘white supremacists’, possibly Ubisoft themselves as Ghostbusters tier marketing, for the upcoming Far Cry game. Problem is that they forgot to word things so it doesn’t sound like them (includes blaming Gamergate for attacking gamers).” The post received more than 1,000 points (77% upvoted) and 150 comments.

Twitter users have also said that they were skeptical as to whether this was an actual outrage or not.

Fandom

On August 22nd, 2016, the /r/farcry^[15] subreddit launched. In nine months, it has gained more than 12,800 subscribers.

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#ThingsThatLeaveBritainReeling is hashtag that responded to frequent reports that the country of Great Britain was “reeling” after the 2017 London Attack. The hashtag comedically sends up the mundane or banal things that irritate the country’s citizens.

Origin

Following the 2017 London Attack, many media outlets, including ABC, began describing Great Britain as “reeling.” In the early morning of June 4th, 2017, The New York Times tweeted “The London attacks hit a nation still reeling from the shock of the bombing in Manchester almost 2 weeks ago,” along with a link to the accompanying article (shown below).^[1] The weet receieved more than 590 retweets and 870 likes.

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On June 4th, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver devoted a segment to the hashtag (shown below) and referred to coverage of citizens’ response to the attacks as “insulting.” Several news outlets covered Oliver’s segment, including The Daily Beast,^[2] Vanity Fair,^[3] Entertainment Weekly^[4] and more.

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“Fireflies” is a song by American electronica duo Owl City. It has been the subject of popular remix videos and in the late 2010s found use as a soundtrack to Unfitting Music videos.

Origin

Fireflies was recorded in 2008 by Adam Young and features Matthew Thiessen of Relient K performing the vocal.^[1] It was released on July 14th, 2009, entered the charts in early September of that year, and eventually reached number 1. As of June 5th, 2017, the music video (shown below) has over 205 million views.

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Gay Silence refers to a series of reaction images featuring the subject staring cryptically either at the camera or someone off screen with the caption “[Gay Silence],” referring to the look one gives when asked about presumed heteronormative sexuality despite the reality.

Origin

One of the most popular variations of the meme features a 1979 interview with actor, writer and director Jodie Foster.^[1] In the interview, an interviewer asks Foster about her dating life, specifically what she looks for in a male partner. However, Foster had yet to reveal that she is a homosexual. Since being uploaded on May 29th, 2014, the video (shown below) has been viewed more than 279,000 times as of June 2017.

Spread

On February 9th, 2014, Blogspot user blueiskewl postsed a series of images with subtitles from the Foster interview. At the end, blueiskewl included a gif of Foster raising her eyebrows with the caption “[gay silence]” (shown below).

On August 21st, 2014 an anonymous 4chan user posted a gif from the Foster interview (shown below) on the /g/ – technology messageboard.^[3] Several months later, November 12th, Redditor moschle^[2] uploaded a gif from the interview ( in the thread “MRW a man named Michel tells me that my french accent is ‘very beautiful’.”

On May 30th, 2017, Redditor EMGZ posted a variation of the meme by featuring YouTuber idubbbz and the caption “when you and your friend of the same sex accidentally touch hands” in the /r/DankMemes subreddit. The post (shown below) received more than 29,000 points (84% upvoted) and 300 comments.

The initial Foster picture went viral on May 31st, 2017, when Twitter user @elanorbate tweeted “forever mood: jodie foster being asked about boys in an interview in 1979” along with the screenshots of the interview. The next day, Redditor halfdeafmusic^[4] posted a four-panel image sequence of the interview, including Foster’s stare. The thread, entitled “Jodi Foster being asked about boys in 1979,” received more than 37,300 points (81% upvoted) and 2,800 comments in four days.

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Am I Disabled? is a reaction image of Homer Simpson from The Simpsons reading a book titled “Am I Disabled?” The image is used as a self-deprecating reaction image when the poster discovers they enjoy something they believe is beneath them.

Origin

The image comes from Season 7, Episode 7 of The Simpsons, “King-Size Homer,” which aired November 5th, 1995.^[1] Early in the episode, Homer attempts to get on disability so that he can work from home, and reads a book called “Am I Disabled?” to see what are his options for becoming legally disabled.

On February 26th, 2013, lGillipollin uploaded a Demotivational Poster joke using the image to the Spanish site Demotivacion.es,^[2] marking one of the earliest times the picture was used in a meme format (shown below).

Spread

The picture began being used as a reaction image in late 2016 and early 2017. On November 20th, 2016, it was posted to /r/me_irl.^[3] On December 14th, the template was uploaded to memegenerator.^[4]

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“Something Wrong, I Hold My Head” is a snowclone template referencing the 2010 Kanye West song “All of the Lights.” In the original song the lyrics are “Something wrong/ I hold my head/ M.J. gone/ our nigga dead.” This has spawned various parodies where M.J. is replaced with various other recently deceased celebrities.

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We Rate Dogs is a single topic blog on Twitter that takes pictures of peoples’ dogs and rates them on a 1-10 scale, often rating the dogs above 10. Since its inception in 2015, the account has gained over 2.2 million followers.

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They’re Good Dogs Brent

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Star Wars Sithposting is a Facebook group which is notable for having a large size for a meme page, a history with hackers, grudges against other groups, and for being the birthplace of several Star Wars related memes.

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Hacking Controversy and Group Sale

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Telegram is a free, web-based text messaging application that comes fully equipped with person-to-person encryption across mobile, desktop and web platforms

History

In Feburary 2012, Nikolai and Pavel Durov, the founders of Russia’s largest social networking site VK, began developing Telegram, an end-to-end encrypted instant messaging service. Telegram launched 16 months later in August 2013.^[1]

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We Could Make a Religion Out of This is a quote used by Bill Wurtz in his video The History of the Entire World, much like The Sun is a Deadly Lazer.

Origin

On May 10, 2017, Bill Wurtz uploaded “history of the entire world, i guess”^[1] as a sequel to his previous video, History of Japan. In it, he jokingly goes over what happened over history to shape the Earth. Whenever he goes over a new religion, he says: “We could make a religion out of this”.

This video has over 21 million views.

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Two days after the original video as uploaded, Hexagon – Nebulous uploaded a sound clip onto YouTube of Bill Wurtz saying the phrase. It has over 4,000 views.^[2]

Later, on the same day, Meteorite Enzo uploaded a video onto YouTube of a compilation all the times Bill Wurtz said “We could make a religion out of this”. This video has over 90,000 views.

Eventually, the phrase became subject to remixes. One example is one with We Are Number One. This has 45,000 views.^[4]

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