Moore Truck Parts was established in 1980 and is a 100% Australian owned company importing new aftermarket truck panels & parts for over 15 years. Our modern warehouse is at Smeaton Grange in Sydney’s south with distributors Australia-wide.

“Woody’s Roundup” is the name of a series of Toy Story roleplaying blogs. It is occasionally is referred to as “Woody Collective” or “Woody Hivemind”.

Despite being around for a few years, Woody’s Roundup spiked in popularity when several infamous Nazi, pedophile, and TERF blogs deactivated. Soon after their deactivation another blog with the same username would pop up, but the blog title was changed to some variation of “Howdy Pardner” and their icon would be this image of Woody.

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The blogs would then post and reblog the same posts over and over, like a hivemind, which is where it got its alternate name. Roleplaying would also take place on these blogs. There are over 40 of these blogs and the number is rapidly growing as more and more blogs are being overtaken. Many wide-spread blogs known for their racism or general nastiness have been claimed by the Roundup.

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The blogs claim to “keep the Wild West safe from bandits and varmints.” It is noted in the rules set forth by the head of the hivemind, woodysroundup, that only blogs that are considering problematic can be taken into the hivemind.

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Spinning Go Kart Kid refers to a viral video of a child spinning out of control while driving a go-kart, which spawned several remixes after being circulated online in late June 2017.

Origin

On June 18th, 2017, the RM Videos YouTube channel uploaded a video titled “Spinning on a Go-Kart,” featuring footage of a young boy spinning out of control while riding on a go-kart track (shown below).

Spread

On June 19th, the Daily Pick and Flicks Facebook page reuploaded the video. On June 20th, the xCirrex2 YouTube channel uploaded a “Shooting Stars” remix titled “Forever Spinning Kid On Go Kart,” in which the child is edited into a variety of other humorous video clips (shown below). In the video’s description, a link to an animation of the child spinning in front of a green screen was provided.^[4] Within 72 hours, the video gained over 226,000 views and 220 comments.

That same day, xCirrex posted an animated GIF featuring a scene from the video to Imgur, where it received upwards of 3.1 million views and 11,300 points in three days.

On June 21st, Redditor ArkadiusBear submitted the “Shooting Stars” remix to /r/videos, where it received more than 2,100 points (93% upvoted) and 90 comments over the next 48 hours. That same day, the rights to the original video were purchased by the media licensing company Jukin Media, who reposted the video to Facebook^[3] where it gathered upwards of six million views, 110,000 reactions and 80,000 shares within two days.

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Mr. Lovenstein is a webcomic by J.L. Westover known for its dark humor paired with a soft, cartoonish art style.

History

On September 22nd, 2010, cartoonist J.L. Westover uploaded the first Mr. Lovenstein comic to the Mr. Lovenstein website.^[1]

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AureliaShipping refers to the romantic pairing, or shipping, of the characters Ash Ketchum and Lillie from the Pokémon Sun and Moonanime. It follows the popular AmourShipping partnership that took place during Pokémon X&Y.

Origin

On September 15th, 2016, the trailer for the Pokémon Sun & Moon anime was released (shown below). Unlike in the games, Ash and Lillie are classmates in the anime. Bulbapedia forums user Olive posted a thread devoted to shipping Ash with Lillie the following day.^[1]

Spread

The ship did not begin to spread widely until the show’s premiere in Japan on November 17th, 2016.^[2] On November 18th, a Strawpoll^[6] was created to decide on the official name of the ship, with “AureliaShipping” beating “AshlieShipping.” On November 21st, a Tumblr^[5] devoted to AureliaShipping was created. On the 29th, a thread devoted to commentary and art about the ship was posted to Serbeii.^[3] On January 21st, 2017, Fanfiction.net^[4] created a category devoted to fanfiction about the ship. On YouTube, several videos have been posted devoted to debating which character Ash should be shipped with: Lillie, Lana, or Mallow. On November 21st, TheChornick posted one of the most popular versions of these videos, with over 62,000 views (shown below).

The ship has also inspired a large amount of fan art on Tumblr.^[7] As of June 23rd, 2017, there are 57 results for “aureliashipping” on DeviantArt.^[8]

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Miitopia is a role-playing game developed by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS console. Using elements of life simulators, the game allows users to play as Mii characters, the standard avatar design for the Wii entertainment console.

History

On September 1st, 2016, Nintendo teased the release of Miitopia in their Nintendo 3DS Direct video, along with other updates to Mii-related games for the 3DS console.^[1][2] Two months later, on November 2nd, YouTuber NintenDaan uploaded a first look of the game to YouTube. Within eight months, the video has been viewed more than 32,000 times.

On December 8th, Nintendo released the game in Japan. As of February the game had sold more than 168,000 copies.^[3]

Several Months later, on June 14th, Nintendo released a demonstration of the game at the Nintendo E3 2017 (shown below). Within a week, the demo has been viewed more than 157,000 times. A demo of the game hit the 3DS eShop that day as well.^[4]

The game will be released in America on July 28th, 2017.

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I’m Gonna Tell You A Great Story refers to an exploitable 3-panel comic in which the poster imagines themselves as a grandfather who is approached by their grandson asking about something of the grandfather’s he found, usually a video game or an anime. The grandfather in the image then tells his son to sit town and tears up as he says a variant of “I’m gonna tell you a great story.”

Origin

On August 28th, 2015, the first version of the image was uploaded to Reddit in /r/lewronggeneration^[1] and featured the boy holding a copy of Super Smash Brothers Melee (shown below). The post bears a Melee Hell watermark, suggesting it came from the popular Facebook community.

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David Peters is a commercial artist, web designer, and amateur paleontologist. He is most notable among the online Paleontology for his extremely unorthodoxed views of Pterosaur anatomy.

History

In the 1990’s David Peters Illustrated Books about prehistoric life ^[4][8].

Reputation

David Peters is well known for his unorthodoxed views of pterosaur anatomy. He frequently claims to see features present in photographs of fossils, often at odds with professional scientists who have actually examined the physical fossils.

External References

^[1]ReptileEvolution.com – Home Page

^[2]David Peters Studio – Home Page

^[3]Scientific American – Why the world has to ignore ReptileEvolution.com

^[4]Paleoking.Blogspot – The Strange Journey of David Peters

^[5]Wired – PTEROSAURSDONEWRONG

^[6]Motherboard.com – Why Paleontologists Get Riled Up Over This ‘Heretical’ Pterosaur Concept Art

^[7]ScienceBlogs – Jurassic World, David Peters, and how to rile up paleontologists

^[8]io9 – The best scientific smackdown about evolution you’ll read this week

McGreasey is a slang for a character who walks down the road in a salvation army jacket, starts a hostel in a booming metro area, and only listens to hardcore music.

Example:

“Dude, hatebreed will love my shoe lace belt and faux fur coat. They destroy everything and obliterate what makes you work. Stay at my ABNB and see what happens, pussy”.

Editor’s note: Work in Progress

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Agehao Double Peace (Japanese: アヘ顔ダブルピース or アヘ顔Wピース; abbr. ADP or AWP), sometimes translated as “Ahegao Double V-Signs”, refers to a pose of making V signs, better known as peace signs in Japan^[1], with both hands in Ahegao facial expression. Since 2010s, it has been one of the iconic poses in the hentai subculture as well as online parody illustrations.

Origin

In hentai manga, particularly that in Netorare genre, women making the most popular photography pose in the country, peace sign, during/after sexual intercourse to take photos or videos has been always used as a depiction for their sexual obedience and abandonment of morality. According to Pixiv Encyclopedia^[2], the first instance that made a success to combine this cliche and Ahegao, another iconic facial expression which had established its concept in the hentai subculture in late 2000s, was an adult game My Faithful Futanari Girlfriend Got Highly addicted with The Farming Uncle’s Hentai Training and Sent Me An Ahegao Peace-Sign Video Letter (信じて送り出したフタナリ彼女が農家の叔父さんの変態調教にドハマリしてアヘ顔ピースビデオレターを送ってくるなんて…, Shinjite Okuridashita Futanari Kanojo ga Nouka no Ojisan no Hentai Choukyou ni Dohamarishite Ahegao Peace Video Letter wo Okutte Kuru Nante…). This video game, usually called Futa Letter for short, was released in Apirl 2010 by a Japanese doujin circle Hrathnir, and the “Ahegao Peace-Sign” pose by this game’s heroine Asuna Yamaguchi (shown below) is considered as the trigger of this internet meme.

Asuna’s Ahegao Peace-Sign in Futa Letter

Precursors

Prior to Futa Letter, the same double peace signs with Ahegao-like face was often struck by Japanese idol/actor Shingo Katori^[3] in 2009 TV drama adaptation for popular manga series Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo^[4] (shown below, left), and his ridiculous face caught an attention as well as his awful acting in those days. Also, Shimbo Nomura’s gag manga in 1980s Tsurupika Hagemaru^[5] sometimes showed the protagonist Hagemaru’s double V signs with silly face (Shown below, right). These similar expressions in gag manga became to be mentioned as early examples of Ahegao Double Peace after the pose’s popularization on the web in 2010s.

Spread

Helped by the popularity of the circle’s organizer, Japanese famous hentai creator Misakura Nankotsu (みさくらなんこつ), Asuna’s Ahegao Peace-Sign started going viral on 2channel, Futaba Channel (2chan), niconico and Twitter in that year. And during the path of spreading on these online communities, “Ahegao Peace” pose became to be relabeled as “Ahegao Double Peace” since it was more accurate to describe that Asuna’s pose and sounded more pleasant for Japanese people.

The further spreading of Ahegao Double Peace came in the following year. On April 23rd 2011, Kanimaru-kun, an official mascot character for Kanie Town in Aichi Prefecture, caught an online attention as it looked like Ahegao Double Peace (Shown below, left). In the following month, it also went viral that Yuko Aioi in Nichijou TV anime struck the “perfect” Ahegao Double Peace in its 8th episode (Shown below, center). By these topics happened on serially, this pose succeeded to establish its own concept on the web in the middle of 2011. Thereafter, Japanese online illustrator communities Pixiv and Nico Nico Seiga have had a vast amount of posts of hentai and parody illustrations of Ahegao Double Peace.^[6][7] A Shift-JIS art for the pose, v(゜∀。)v , was also made in this period. 2013 TV anime WataMote also parodied Ahegao Double Peace in the ending credit movie for the 5th episode (Shown below, right).

Meanwhile, Takashi Otsuka^[8], the director for TV anime Glitter Force/Smile PreCure!^[9], tweeted on May 25th, 2012 that he was feeling uncomfortable against some of collages or photoshopped images of the on-going child anime and asked people not to to post them to the public because it would make them suffer claims from people who misunderstood that it were really aired or get forced to change the story.^[10][11] It was generally considered what he mainly mentioned to were the Ahegao Double Peace images of Lily/Yaoi Kise or Glitter Peace/Cure Peace who often makes the peace sign in the show. Those images circulating on the social networking service and matome blogs were taken from 2chan or Pixiv (shown below).

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Chris Benoit (real name Christopher Michael Benoit) was a Canadian professional wrestler, who has wrestled in several promotions, most notablyWorld Championship Wrestling (WCW), World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) and New Japan Pro Wrestling. In late June 2007, Benoit murdered his wife Nancy and his son Daniel before commiting suicide, which led to several conspiracy theories and discussions online.

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Wikileaks4India is a Daily Hindi news website for Breaking News in hindi from India, Todays News Headlines, Latest News, Viral News, and Investigation.

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Ahegao (アヘ顔) is a drawing genre in Japanese Hentai comics, in which the character (mainly female) is showing, during sexual intercourse, an intense amount of pleasure translated by her facial expression.

Etymology & History

In the name, “Ahe” comes from Japanese onomatopoeia of “Aheahe” (アヘアヘ) describing female’s flushed breath/moaning in sex and her sexual excitement, and “Gao” (顔) means “Face”. According to a forum post in Nico Nico Pedia‘s entry for Ahegao^[1], it’s confirmed that the term had been already used in porn magazines to simply explain porn actresses’ face of pleasure in early 1990s. Used in the same context, it also made appearances on a handful of posts in 2channel and its sister board community for adult contents BBSPINK as well as descriptions for porn videos on adult e-commerce sites in the first half of 2000s. The oldest 2channel post in existence that includes this term was posted to a thread in /company/ (tip-off) on November 4th, 2001.^[2]

Meanwhile, according to 2008-2009 Japanese blog posts WebLab.ota’s “Ahegao History”^[3] and “Ahegao Chronology” (shown below)^[4], and Himajin no Dabun’s “Chronological Analyze of The Ahegao Genre in Adult Games”^[5], it was around 2003-2005 that some hentai manga and anime creators began introducing extremely exaggerated face depictions of women’s abnormal orgasms by unwanted sexual intercourse, hardcore BDSMs, rapes or other sex assaults. Another blog post by Bar Rikashitsu no Bibouroku^[6] suggested that Japanese ero guro^[7] mangaka/painter Suehiro Maruo^[8] had already introduced this kind of depiction to his works in early 1980s.

Ahegao Timeline (WebLab.ota, 2009)

Ahegao in today’s meaning was formed by increase and evolution of this drawing style in the middle of 2000s, and its spreading to the otaku community via Futaba Channel (2chan), 2channel/BBSPINK which became to host Ahegao-themed threads around the middle of 2007^[9][10], and matome blogs reprinting threads in those online communities. And in around 2008, it had enough spread to be recognized as one of famous drawing techniques for orgasms. The first Ahegao-themed doujin comic anthology “A-H-E” was released in the winter of that year (Shown below, left). In 2010s, major publishers had released Ahegao themed comic anthologies (Shown below, center) as well in its first half and even porn videos became to occasionally feature the facial expression (Shown below, right), along with popularization of hentai fetishes in the real-life sex industry.

Additionally, Ahegao, Ahegao-like silly faces, and its derivative Ahegao Double Peace became to be sometimes featured even in normal anime titles in the non-sexual context (Shown below).

From top left to bottom right:
Fuse Kazakiri from A Certain Magical Index (2010), Miwako Mizukoshi from Hen Semi (2011),
Honoka Kousaka from Love Live! (2013), Toko Fukawa from DanganRompa (2013)

Online Revelance

Against the backdrop of the large popularity in the otaku community, which had been developed in the late-2000s, Ahegao has earned a lots of online visibility as both a hentai art technique and fodder for parody illustrations. In its early days, Ahegao had been a popular style in the Collage culture in 2chan and 2channel. And Japanese illustrators communities Pixiv and Nico Nico Seiga which were launched in the same period have been popular Ahgao-sharing services since its beginning. As of June 2017, Pixiv holds over 20000 illustrations tagged under Ahegao^[11], and Nico Nico Seiga, which doesn’t have the adult section, also has plenty of illustrations featuring the face.^[12]

On the Westerners Web, this particular facial expression is called in not only the original name, but also translated terms “Fucked Silly Face” or “Mind Break Face”.^[13] Tagged under these names, lots of Ahegao illustrations have been drawn by DeviantArt users^[14], or reprinted to Tumblr and Danbooru. Urban Disctonary‘s article and Reddit’s subreddit /r/Ahegao were launched in June 2010. Besides, Instagram’s hashtag also has tons of Ahegao selfies by female otakus and cosplayers.^[15]

Definition

Ahegao is defined in several blog researches and online user-made dictionaries’ articles, which list these features below.^{[3][16][17][18][19][20]}

• Rolled-up Eyes
• Stuck-out Tongue
• Got wet by tears, snot, drool or semen or other body fluids
• Flushed Face
• Ridiculously strange moans: eg. Nhoooh! (んほぉ!), Aheee! (あへぇ!), Iguuh! (イグゥ), etc…

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Ahegaokin

Ahegaokin (アヘ顔菌, lit. “Ahegao Bacillus”) is a series of exploitables for the face. Triggered by an illustration which was inspired by 2chan’s Ahegao photoshopped image of Suiseiseki from Rozen Maiden, lots of illustrations of characters being infected by the bacillus were uploaded to Pixiv in 2008-2009.

DESUDESU

DESUDESU is a derivative of Desu meme and an Advice Dog spin-off which reused that Suiseiseki’s Ahegao face. As early as April 2010, this series became to be shared on Meme Generator.^[21]

Ahegao Double Peace

As well as the face itself, its derivative Ahegao Double Peace (アヘ顔ダブルピース) is also one the iconic poses in the hentai subculture and online parody illustrations. This quite weird pose had established its concept in the middle of 2011.

Baan Face

Baan Face (バーン顔) refers to an Ahegao-inspired face and pose struk by Iroe Gennma a.k.a Nee-san in Japanese manga +Tic Elder Sister (+チック姉さん). Since its web anime series was published in 2011, this silly pose has been occasionally used in a motif for parody illustrations.^[22][23]

Ahegao Fingers

Ahegao Fingers is series of photoshopped images which came from Reddit’s /r/dank_meme in May 2017.

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Popee the Performer (POPEE the ぱフォーマー POPEE the pa fōmā) is a 2001 Japanese CGI Show created by Ryuji Masuda in 2001 based in the manga of the same name, the series features 39 episodes and a special episode, In late 2016 and early 2017 the show became very popular on Youtube, Tumblr and Deviantart

About

The series focuses on Popee, is an apprentice in Wolf Circus and his assistant Kedamono, a purple wolf who always uses masks to express himself, there is also a character called Papi, who is Popee Father. the series, that is a kids show, differs by its deaths, blood, sexual jokes and creepy scenes

Reception

On October 13th, 2016, the Youtuber MrFalconnPunch996 uploaded a review of the Show (shown below, left). On February 12th, 2017, the Youtuber BaptismOnFire uploaded another review, referring to the show as the Most Disturbing Kids Cartoon/Anime
Ever (shown below, right).

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I Hate Dust refers to a memorable quote used by General Darwin in the Mockbuster move The Amazing Bulk. The line has since been remixed and parodied numerous times, even being a part of an I Hate Everything Search for the Worst episode.

Origin

On April 17, 2012, Laybl Productions released The Amazing Bulk to try to cash in on the success of The Amazing Hulk franchise. The film quickly grew popularity from people buying it thinking that they’re buying The Amazing Hulk, and instead getting a shameless cash grab. The movie has a 1.7 star ranking on IMDb.^[1] A trailer with over 525,000 views is shown below.^[2]

In the movie, there is a scene where General Darwin is cleaning a bookshelf while complaining about dust.

Scene Transcript
General Darwin: I hate dust! I don’t want it building up in my home.
General Hannah: Hi dad!
General Darwin: Ya let dust build up, and before you know it, you’ve got an army of dust bunnies plotting to take over.

On March 17, 2016, I Hate Everything uploaded a Search for the Worst episode on the film. The video has over 2,200,000 views as of June 24, 2017 (Below, Left).^[3] On March 19, 2016, I Hate Everything uploaded a Trying to Watch Episode on the movie. It has over 970,000 views (Below, Right).^[4] Both videos have a small section where General Darwin says “I Hate Dust”

Spread

On March 17, 2016, Meetch uploaded a video with just General Darwin saying “I hate dust!”. As of June 24, 2017, it has over 10,000 views (shown below, upper left).^[5] On March 19, 2016, John Bellows uploaded an edit of the scene. The video almost has 80,000 views (shown below, upper right).^[6] On March 25, 2016, JarBear uploaded a remix to the line. It has over 89,000 views (shown below, lower left).^[7] On July 9, 2016, I Hate Everything uploaded a video about hating dust. Much of the video is about the scene on The Amazing Bulk.^[8]

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I saw a mudcrab today. He told me that this thread was WIP. Feel free to contribute

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“Oblivion NPC dialogue parodies” refer to edited footage of awkward dialogues with overlapping overworld themes from game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

Origin (WIP)

While quality of recorded dialogue in TES:IV was mocked for a long time, first video edit surfaced late 2014 on Youtube under the title “Oblivion NPC dialogue in a nutshell” by user Sharkblock^[1]. Video featured footage from animated show “Arthur” episode “Buster’s Best Behaviour”.

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^[1]Youtube – Sharkblock’s channel

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Köksal Bektaşoğlu, better known as Köksal Baba, is a man from Turkey who rose to fame following the upload of a 2015 video which featured him street fighting. Since then, he has become known for his violent personality mixed with his diminutive stature.

Online History

In 2013, Baba, along with his friend Süleyman Köse, began a YouTube channel^[1] documenting his life. A personal website^[2], Twitter account^[4], and Facebook page^[5] were registered around the same time^[3]. Baba also created an account on the photo sharing website Instagram^[6], and had an account on the now-defunct video platform Vine.

On November 7, 2015, the channel uploaded the video “KOKSALBABABOXING (LITTLEMANBOXING)”, which gained over 5 million views as of 2017. Later that month, the channel uploaded the video “Koksal Baba With Brand New Car”, which gained a similar number of views.

Baba has been reported on by various Internet websites, such as the Turkish Haberler^[8] and the English-language Dose^[9].

Personal Life

Baba was born on February 10, 1975. According to his website’s biography, he is a retired junior boxing champion^[7].

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How Republicans Are Born is a snowclone popular on Twitter made in mockery of a tweet by conservative activist Grover Norquist that imagines his daughter being denied the purchase of a guitar because she does not have the money to cover the sales tax on the object.

Origin

On June 25th, 2017, Grover Norquist tweeted:^[1]

How Republicans are born…
Daughter, 8, has been savings up to buy her first Guitar.
Found it for $35. She had 35 exact.
Then…sales tax

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CNN White House Press Briefing Sketch refers to a number of hand-drawn illustrations depicting White House Press Briefings that cameras were barred from. Online, the sketches became a popular source of image macros and parody.

Origin

In June 2017, the White House began banning cameras from certain White House press briefings.^[1] The unconventional rule has been met with criticism, especially after White House chief strategist responded to questions about the lack of cameras with a text message reading, “Sean got fatter.”

On June 23rd, CNN sent sketch artist Bill Hennessy, who has sketched Supreme Court proceedings in the past, to the press briefing. That day, @CNN^[3] posted one of Hennessy’s sketches to Instagram with the caption, “The White House has banned cameras at some of its press briefings – so we sent courtroom sketch artist Bill Hennessy to capture the scene instead.” The post (shown below) received more than 10,700 likes in three days.

Spread

Later that day, CNN posted several sketches from the press briefing on Twitter.^[4] In a tweet captioned “The White House has been prohibiting cameras at some press briefings, so we sent a sketch artist,” CNN tweeted four images from the briefing. The post received more than 5,000 retweets and 12,000 likes in three days.

CNN correspondents Jim Acosta^[9] and Brian Stetler^[8] also shared the sketch on Twitter (shown below, left and right, respectively). Acosta received more than 3,700 retweets and 11,000 likes for his tweet, which he captioned “So sketchy to not have cameras at WH briefing. So CNN sent sketch artist to capture the moment.” Stetler garnered more than 2,300 retweets and 4,500 likes within three days.

Shortly after the sketches hit Twitter, people began posting captions above the pictures. Twitter user @darth posted two of the most popular. First, they posted a sketch with Spicer replaced with a bush, alluding to the time reporters found him hiding in the bushes and the caption “was not a supporter of the idea of a courtroom sketch artist in the white house briefing room but this is pretty good tbh.” The tweet (shown below, left) received more than 1,400 retweets and 4,500 likes. @darth followed this tweet with another photoshop that replaced Spicer with the This Is Fine dog and the caption “‘how was the press conference’ ‘fine.’” The tweet received more than 2,400 retweets and 7,500 likes.^[10]

Throughout the day, people continued to post pictures and parodies of the press briefing sketches (examples below).

Several news outlets covered CNN’s sketches, including The New York Post,^[5] The Washington Post,^[6] Uproxx^[7] and more.

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Christian Burns’ VidCon Security Guard Harassment refers to an incident in which 19-year-old Instagram model Christian Burns was filmed verbally abusing a security guard for blocking his entry into a building at the VidCon conference in late June 2017.

Background

On June 22nd, 2017, YouTuber SuperFilmyGuys uploaded a video titled “VidCon Security Arrested YouTubers,” in which Instagram model Christian Burns is shown verbally harassing a security guard at the 2017 VidCon conference (shown below, left). In the video, Burns repeatedly brags about how “famous” he is, how much money he has while calling the guard “ugly” and “blue collar.” The following day, YouTuber John Hill uploaded a subtitled version of Burns’ confrontation with the security guard, which gathered upwards of 236,000 views and 1,200 comments.

Developments

Online Reaction

On June 25th, h3h3productions uploaded a video titled “Don’t Go To VidCon,” which featured the Christian Burns video (shown below). Within 24 hours, the video gained over 2.3 million views and 32,200 comments.

Meanwhile, YouTuber rqdex – uploaded footage allegedly showing Burns being assaulted by YouTuber Bryce Hall (shown below). Also on June 25th, a post titled “Instagram model bullies VidCon security guard” was submitted to /r/rage.^[5]

Christian Burns’ Response

On June 24th, 2017, Burns’ was interviewed by YouTuber “Keemstar”: on the show #DramaAlert (shown below). Within 48 hours, the video received more than 678,000 views and 15,400 comments.

Security Guard’s Response

Meanwhile, YouTuber Brandon released an interview with two of the security guards who were targeted by Burns, in which they discussed their perspective on the incident and called for viewers to back off from bullying Burns (shown below, left). The following day, Burns appeared with the security guard on #DramaAlert (shown below, right).

News Media Coverage

In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the online backlash toward Burns, including The Inquisitr,^[2] The Daily Mail^[1] and NBCNews.^[3]

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