Lamb Chop is a meme based upon the character of the same name from the children’s series Lamb Chop’s Play-A-Long.

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Lamb Chop’s Play-A-Long is an American children’s series created and presented by Shari Lewis. It primarily focused on Lamb Chop, the title character, and her adventures with her friends Charlie Horse and Hush Puppy. It was first broadcast on PBS between 1992-1995, while also airing in Canada on YTV. It ran for 4 seasons over 85 episodes, and met with generally favorable reviews.

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The focus of the meme is a scene from the show of Lamb Chop flailing her body spastically. The original site, from YTMND user skatevans99, had the metal song Soul Of Fire by HIM as the musical choice.
Many users made their own sites by placing Lamb Chop in various situations such as assuming King Kong on the Empire State Building or wielding a lightsaber. She may not of received as much popularity as other memes of the period, but a good amount of sites with her have been made.

Dancing Meloetta is a meme featuring Meloetta, a Pokémon from the franchise’s fifth generation, dancing to a variety of musical choices.

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The original clip of Meloetta dancing is taken from the second Japanese ending to the Pokémon Black & White anime series. It features Meloetta dancing to a song known as Mitte Mitte Kochichi. A more frequently aired version with other major Pokémon dancing with her also exists.

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Soon after being uploaded to YouTube, the clip was subject to a number of parodies. One of the earliest is of Meloetta dancing to Gangnam Style by PSY. Other versions include her dancing to “Electric Zoo”, a SpongeBob soundtrack, and Gera Gera Po.
The meme got even more recognition when a “You Reposted In The Wrong Neighborhood” version was uploaded in 2016. It currently sits at 48,986 views.

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Jared Kushner Russia Collusion Speech refers to a series of image macros and online jokes about Jared Kushner’s press conference regarding his involvement in the Russiagate scandal.

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On July 24th, 2017, President Donald Trump son-in-law and special counsel Jared Kushner held a press conference to publicly deny allegations that he colluded with the Russian government during the 2016 United States presidential election. The speech (video below) followed a meeting with the Senate Intelligence committee regarding his involvement with Russia.^[1]

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During the speech, people began making jokes about Kushner on Twitter. Most of the jokes, focused on the timbre of Kushner’s voice as well as his milquetoast demeanor. Twitter user @BrendanHickey9 tweeted, “*Takes hit of helium from balloon* ‘My name is Jared Kushner.’” The tweet (shown below, left) received more than 600 retweets and 2,700 likes in less than 24 hours.^[3] Twitter user @morninggloria tweeted, “I could probably grow a beard faster than Jared Kushner.” The tweet (shown below, right) received more than 300 retweets and 2,700 likes.^[4]

Some users also made jokes about how Kushner reminded them of the Saturday Night Live character Jacob the Bar Mitzvah Boy, played by comedian Vanessa Bayer. Twitter user @JElvisWeinstein posted an image of the character with the caption “I did not collude with Russia.” The tweet (shown below) received more than 650 retweets and 2,800 likes.^[10]

Later that day, people began sharing and adding captions to a photograph by Mark Wilson of Getty Image of Kushner during the speech.^[2]

Several media outlets covered the speech and the memes it spawned, including Teen Vogue,^[5] Elite Daily,^[6] The Mary Sue^[7] and more. Meanwhile, Twitter published two Moments pages on the speech. one on the content of the speech^[8] and the other on the memes.^[9]

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“Sopa de Macaco, Uma Delicia” (lit. Monkey soup, a delicacy) is a catchphrase associated with a Facebook post by brazilian Bettynho Zigindum, where’s he’s shown eating monkey soup. In early 2017, the catchphrase “Uma delicia” was started being used to mock brazilian users on some online communities like 4chan, in similar vein to “Designated Shitting Streets” and Alberto Barbosa.

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On an unknown date, brazilian Facebook user Bettynho Zigindum posted an image album to his personal account, which has been removed. In the album, he mentions that his mother-in-law prepared him monkey soup and shows several pictures where a monkey is shown skinless and tored into pieces before being cooked into a soup. The earliest archived picture of the album comes from brazilian comedy agregator site Arreganho, posted on March 30th, 2016.

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Donald Trump’s Transgender Military Ban refers to a controversial policy proposal by United States President Donald Trump that would ban transgendered people from serving in the military. While President Trump cites the specific medical costs associated with transgendered troops, the reaction among the public, politicians and military personnel has been largely negative.

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On the morning of July 26th, 2017, President Donald Trump tweeted a series of statements on transgendered U.S. citizens serving in the military. Over three tweets^[1][2][3] (shown below), he wrote:

“After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you.”

Each tweet was retweeted more than 40,000 times and liked more than 110,000 times.

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Babymetal are a Japanese band fusing metal with Japanese Idol pop. The band features three singers, Suzuka Nakamoto (“Su-metal”), Yui Mizuno (“Yuimetal”), and Moa Kikuchi (“Moametal”), and are backed by heavy metal instrumentation played by the Kami Band. After growing extremely popular in Japan, the group began growing popular in the West, and has been the subject of many popular reaction videos in which a certain group of people react to their performances, usually with confusion.

History

Babymetal was formed in 2010 and are managed by the Amuse talent agency.^[1] They were originally a subunit of Japanese Idol group Sakura Gakuin, and played their first show on November 28th, 2010 when they were between the ages of 10 and 11. Their first song, “Doki Doki Morning,” was originally released in April of 2011 as part of the Sakura Gakuin album Sakura Gakuin 2010 Nendo: Message. The band shot a music video for Doki Doki Morning and uploaded it to YouTube in October of 2011. The video was reuploaded to YouTube on November 8th, 2012, where it has since gained over 20 million YouTube views (shown below).

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Call of Duty Perk Parodies are image macros featuring icons for perks from various games in the Call of Duty franchise captioned with jokes using the name of the perk as a punchline.

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In multiplayer modes for many games in the Call of Duty franchise, players can acquire perks that passively grant bonuses to their character in various ways.^[1] On July 25th, 2017, Redditor Destructaucon submitted a screenshot of the “Awareness” perk in Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Call of Duty: Black Ops III and Call of Duty Online with the caption “When you’re beating ur meat in your room while everybody is home” (shown below). Within 48 hours, the post gained over 9,200 points (95% upvoted) and 90 comments on /r/dankmemes.^[2]

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On July 25th, Redditor themidgetchicken submitted a screenshot of the “Dead Silence” perk with the caption “When you beat your meat with your parents home” to /r/dankmemes^[4] (shown below, left). The following day, Redditor Oswamano posted a picture of the “Sonic Boom” perk with the caption “when you beat your meat after coming home from family vacation and nut so hard you blow a hole through the ceiling” to /r/dankmemes^[3] (shown below, right).

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You Got the Dud refers to a memorable line from the animated TV sitcom The Simpsons. In the show, the Simpson family and their son’s friend Milhouse are playing the board game Mystery Date, when they notice that one of the game’s characters, “the dud,” looks like Milhouse.

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“If My Girl Drowning” Copypasta refers to a copypasta popular mostly on Twitter in which a person presents a scenario in which both their girlfriend and another object are both drowning and they can only save one, and they usually elect to save the other object. The copypasta is generally littered with emoji.

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The copypasta originally started on Black Twitter. The original post read “If my barber and my girl both drowning and I can only save one. Catch me at my girl’s funeral with the freshest fade ever,” with no emojis. The original post appears to have been deleted, but it was quoted on Twitter on August 1st, 2014, by @annaelizabethh_.^[1] That user was quoting a user named “KiranDavid_,” who is likely Kiran David, an author who goes by the handle @KiranADavid (shown below).

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Hillary Clinton’s “What Happened?” Book is an upcoming memoir written by Hillary Clinton discussing the contentious 2016 United States presidential election.

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On July 27th, 2017, Hillary Clinton unveiled the title of her upcoming book What Happened, a memoir discussing experiences during her 2016 presidential run against Donald Trump (shown below).

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That day, Twitter user @Kno tweeted a photoshopped version of the book cover edited to read “What in the Entire Fuck Happened?” (shown below, left). Meanwhile, Twitter user @ColeLedford11 posted a photoshopped picture of the inside of a book with a passage about Clinton getting “3 million more votes than Trump even with his collusion with the Russian government” (shown below, right).

Also on July 27th, several Twitter users posted joke names for the book along with the hashtag “#BetterNamesForHillarysBook”^[2] (shown below).

Meanwhile, The Daily Dot^[3] published an article about the online reaction to the book titled “Hillary Clinton’s new book title is getting laughed off of Twitter.”

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Special Australian Edition refers to a joke popular on Twitter in which people take famous movie stills and subtitle the famous quotes associated with the image in an Australian dialect, the idea being the still image comes from a special Australian edition of the film.

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On November 13th, 2016, Twitter user @IllyBocean uploaded a still image from The Omen (1976) in which the child’s nanny, about to hang herself, cries “Look at me, Damien! It’s all for you!” In @IllyBocean’s “Special Australian Edition” parody, the subtitle reads “Oi, look at me, Damo. It’s fucken all for you, ey.” The tweet gained over 120 retweets and 400 likes (shown below).

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Donald Trump’s Letter From Pickle refers to a letter written by a 9-year-old boy named Dylan (nickname Pickle) that was read by Sarah Huckabee Sanders at a White House press briefing in July 2017. Online, the validity of the letter has been the subject of debate, leading some to write humorous parody letters and share them.

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On July 26h, 2017, White House Press Secretary delivered the White House press briefing, reading statements from the administration and answering questions from the media. At the start of the briefing, she decided to read a letter from a 9-year-old boy named Dylan, who goes by the nickname “Pickle” (video below).

That day, Sarah Huckabee Sanders posted the letter from Pickle on Twitter.^[1] The tweet, which contains an image of a letter that looks like it was written by a child, received more than 870 retweets and 3,400 likes in 24 hours.

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Within minutes of the picture being uploaded to Twitter, people began posting mock versions of the letter that made jokes about President Trump’s policies and controversies (examples below).

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The creamed corn was room temperature after being left out for several days. However, it still tasted of quality once I took the responsibility to consume it.

A remix of Word Replacement Remixes, this is a series of YouTube Reaction-style videos wherein repeated words or actions within a video prompt the reactor to perform a challenge. Most notably, many people perform this challenge by eating some type of spicy food.

Be smart, I know how Jose is a meme that appeared unexpectedly in the early days of 2016.

It is characterized by being a simple meme but with a very particular idea, since it aims to eradicate the bad practices of people, the vices that are always observed and that can get tired users.

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This meme came from “Be like Bill” which has the same objective as its versions in other languages, ironic about the behavior of each person. Its creator was lost in the anonymity and to the day of today, it is not known who was the one who created it.

From this came an Italian version called “Sii eats Bill” created by Andrea Nuzzo, who from that idea used the meme to "denounce ironically and simply to all those who act particularly stupid or who can annoy others with Their states ".

The administrator of the Facebook page in Spanish (his real name is unknown) asked Andrea Nuzzo for permission to make his own Spanish version, to which the Italian replied: “Claro, adelante”, the same day, the meme was born I know how Jose was quickly viralized on the Internet, with Facebook being the medium used by him.

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The meme uses a short paragraph in which it explains how “Jose” does not do any of the many bad practices that people do currently, whether bad habits of Facebook as day-to-day things, at the end is accompanied by the phrase "I know Intelligent, be like Joseph. "

Snail Gosh originated in May 2007 when the user Crash4563 began to be interested in YouTube Poops at the time however the influence for what would become Snail Gosh stems back to Frosties Kid Advert when one of the videos was uploaded back in 2006 it was reversed and this inspired Crash4563 the following year to see what it would be like if the Chocolate Guy was reversed and the user reversed the video but at the time did not have the technical ability to reverse videos so instead just reversed the audio of Chocolate Guy saying CHOCOLATE and uploaded into a video with just the audio only. This was known at the time as Still Nosh not Snail Gosh but gradually the name evolved into what would become Snail Gosh but unfortunately Crash4563 got suspended by Viacom in June 2007 for copyright violations but videos started to appear about Still Nosh/Snail Gosh.

A X Ate My X (or just Ate My….) is a meme originating on the site YTMND. It usually depicts a photoshopped image of a character or animal eating everyday objects or food.

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The very first instance of the Ate My…. meme was posted to YTMND on October 17, 2006 by user Kassius. It depicted multiple images of a turtle munching on a small television set. As the next image appears, the screen flashes and so forth, giving them the impression that it’s moving like a video. The song in the background is taken from the 2003 puzzle game Mojipittan.

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The image grew popular with the YTMND crowd and more variations started being created towards the end of 2006. Notable variations include 7 8 9 that depicts a poorly drawn seven (with monstrous features like sharp teeth) eating a nine, as well as Cosby Ate My Pokeman!, which is an image of Bill Cosby eating a Squirtle (with Cosby’s “Pokeman” quotes synched to the music).

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Michael Cera Album Covers refers to a series of photoshop parodies that place comedic actor Michael Cera on the cover of various popular music albums.

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On July 26th, 2017, the Twitter^[1] account @PigsAndPlans posted a series of photoshop album cover parodies that featured actor Michael Cera placed in various, iconic record covers, including Outkast’s Stankonia, Kendrick Lamar’s Good Kid, M.A.A.D City, N.W.A’s Straight Outta Compton and more. Within 24 hours, the images (shown below) received more than 34,000 retweets and 61,000 likes.

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That night, Twitter^[2] user @Bayer19 photoshopped the actor into the cover of Drake’s album Take Care. The post (shown below) received more than 800 retweets and 1,900 likes.

Over the next several days, people continued to photoshop Michael Cera into popular hip hop album covers (examples below). The tweets were so popular that Twitter^[3] published a Moments page to commemorate the trend.

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Adam Ellis, aka adamtots, is a cartoonist and writer for Buzzfeed who draws webcomics intended to be relatable. Though he has amassed a large following, he has been criticized for his art style, particularly his tendency to cut-and-paste previous works.

History

Ellis is a native of Portland, Oregon.^[1] He debuted with his blog Books of Adam^[2] on July 12th, 2010, where he shared art and musings about various topics. On July 9th, 2013, he published Books of Adam: The Blunder Years,^[3] a book of his art and various stories. He began posting his comics to Reddit on December 22nd, 2014. His first post to /r/funny^[4] gained over 14,000 points (shown below).

He appears to have been hired by Buzzfeed in early 2015. The earliest comic of his with a Buzzfeed watermark posted to his Facebook page^[5] appears on February 6th, 2015 (shown below). Ellis’ work was written about by The Huffington Post^[6] on April 12th of that year. He has since written many comics for Buzzfeed and has amassed over 796,000 followers on Facebook.^[7]

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Ellis has been criticized for his work, particularly his tendency to cut-and-paste previous images and faces for his comics. On May 18th, 2017, a question about the Adam Ellis hate was posted to /r/OutOfTheLoop.^[8] In the thread, the top comment by wham00 reads:

“From what I’ve observed the comics are very low effort when it comes to the art and humor. His characters are for the most part static in every panel, with only very small changes in expression or eye position. He’s been accused of using templates. Also the punchlines tend to be pretty lame, and he’s just an obnoxious guy in general.

On July 1st, an entry on him was added to BadComicsWiki.^[9] In the entry, the site notes how the static facial expressions of the comic were similar to the work of Ctrl+Alt+Del (shown below).

On July 25th, Ellis posted a comic about summer heat, which was soon noticed to be a near cut-and-paste job of one of his previous comics. Tumblr user candygarnet^[10] pointed this out in a post that gained over 26,000 notes.

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X Destroys Everything In Its Path is a meme based around a GIF of a bullet slicing through multiple objects (which includes an apple, a card, and a water bottle).

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The original footage of the bullet slicing the objects is taken from an unknown Korean television series that aired on EBS (Educational Broadcasting System) sometime between 1995-2001 (evidenced by the logo in the footage). In September of 2006, YTMND user tricolor found the footage and edited it so that each object is shot down in succession (as if they’re set up one by one), unlike the original where it’s obvious they’re being shot one at a time. All this was set to Franz Schubert’s “Ellens dritter Gesang” (better known as “Ave Maria”). User cliffmartinez uploaded this footage (with its original music and uncut) to YouTube on April 20, 2012. It sits at only 50 views as of 2017.

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Just over a month later, the meme took off. A site entitled “One Star Destroys Everything In Its Path” was uploaded, giving the meme its official name (the original by tricolor was simply called “Killing Me Softly”). After that, more sites spawned, which typically replace the bullet with something else (such as Metal Slug or Katamari, the latter has the addition of picking up the objects in true Katamari fashion).