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Cloudsong is a meme based around a sound clip of a player expressing anger (“YOUSTOLE MY F**KING CLOUDSONG”) over a competitor stealing a magic cloak (or “cloudsong”) on him.

Origin

The original, full (and very profane) sound file comes from an MMORPG entitled Dark Age of Camelot. In June of 2005, YTMND user ava11 released a site with the famous quote superimposed over an image from World Of Warcraft.

Spread

Sites slowly started to materialize that summer. Often times, the quote would be remixed into other songs such as What is Love? by Haddaway. Other sites would mix the quote into various TV programs. On eBaumsWorld, a full length version of the recording was uploaded, which was subsequently released to YouTube in 2006.

Several parodies and art based on this have also been done, such as fanart of Jenny Wakeman (of My Life As a Teenage Robot) as the enraged player.

About

Ivanka Trump is an American business woman and, currently, White House special counsel to her father, United States President Donald Trump. Throughout her career, Trump has been a model, TV personality, the CEO of a fashion line and the executive vice president of the Trump Organization.

History

Ivanka Trump was born to Donald Trump and his then-wife Ivana on October 29th, 1981, their second child together. Raised in New York City, Ivanka eventually finished high school at boarding school in Connecticut. Ivanka graduated cum laude from the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania in 2004.^[3]

At age 14, Ivanka began modeling, appearing in an ad campaign for designer Tommy Hilfiger (shown below, left and center).^[1] Additionally, she appeared on the cover of teen fashion magazine Seventeen magazine (shown below, right).^[2]

Business History

Following college, in 2007, Ivanka founded Ivanka Trump Fine Jewelry off a partnership with Dynamic Diamond Corp. Over the next ten years, closed its flagship stores. It currently has a shop in Trump Tower, but is sold throughout the world.

Ivanka is the owner of a line of fashion items, including clothes, handbags and accessories. However, in February 2017, many retailers stopped selling Ivanka branded material, citing low sales.^[5] The problem escalated after a television interview with Kellyanne Conway who controversially encouraged people to buy Ivanka products, a potential ethics violation.^[6]

Reputation

Upon entering the White House, many thought of Ivanka and her husband Jared as the “voice of reason” in the Trump administration, based on her left-leaning stances on Climate Change and women’s rights.^[4] Following President Trump’s decision to remove the United States from the Paris Climate Accord, Ivanka appeared on the cover of US Weekly with the headline “Why I Disagree With My Dad.”

However, the phrase quickly became a catchphrase on Twitter, responding to Ivanka’s lack of action when it came to her father’s political decision. Twitter users began posting pictures of fictional children who had disputes with their fathers under the caption “Why I Disagree With My Dad” (examples below).

Criticism

Despite her reputation as a liberal or moderate voice in the Trump White House, many have criticized Trump for not acting on those principles. On March 12th, 2017, the weekly comedy series Saturday Night Live parodied this sentiment in the commercial parody video “Complicit.” In the video (shown below), actress Scarlett Johansson plays Trump in a perfume advertisment for a fragerance called “Complicit.” The ad uses political critiques as selling points for the product. Within four months, the video has been viewed more than 8 millions times.

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External References

^[1]The New York Times – Her Cheekbones (High) Or Her Name (Trump)?

^[2]BuzzFeed – OMG, Ivanka Trump Was Once A Model For Tommy Hilfiger In The ’90s

^[3]Wikipedia – Ivanka Trump

^[4]Forward – Will Ivanka Trump Be the White House Voice of Reason on Climate Change?

^[5]The Daily Beast – Rejected By Retailers, Ivanka Counts The Cost of Being a Trump

^[6]The Washington Post – Chaffetz, Cummings support ethics office opinion that Conway likely broke rules

I Feel Fantastic is a meme based on a video of an android singing a short song in someone’s house.

Origin

The video first surfaced on the Internet in 2004 along with other videos/songs with the same android. The android is named Tara, and was created by a man named Jon Bergeron. He programmed her to sing songs he wrote. He uploaded these videos by himself and offered them for viewers for a fee. However, the poor quality of each video brought negative feedback and Tara quickly became unpopular for a while.

Things changed when a user named creepyblog uploaded the most well-known video to YouTube in 2009 after buying it.

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After being uploaded to YouTube, the video was recognized by many for not just the poor quality, but Tara herself. Many have stated that she looked creepy and her singing voice was off-putting. Many reaction videos to Tara have since materialized.

Soon after, various videos parodying or mocking the video appeared. A particular video features captions misinterpreting the words to the song. Other videos include remixes to electronic music or people re-enacting the video.

Baby I’m Yours is a meme based off the 2010 nu-disco song of the same name by DJ Breakbot with vocals by Irfane.

Origin

Breakbot first released the song as a single on February 25, 2010. It was subsequently released on the EP of the same name in July.

The song is best known for two things: its music video that features rotoscoped animation and surreal imagery, and the mere fact that, two years later, Bruno Mars’ disco hit “Treasure” ended up being called on similarities to “Baby I’m Yours”. To prevent being sued, Breakbot and Irfane were credited as writers.

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In 2016 on Vine, a video appeared of a man walking across a street, only to be hit by a trotting goat who runs down the same road. As the video begins, the song can be heard starting faintly, but when the goat hits the man, the song suddenly gets louder and more distorted.

Various other videos of similar content (people getting into unfortunate events) or just people dancing to the song started appearing on multiple other sites such as YouTube.

Overview
On July 27th, 2017, Brianna Wu, software engineer and (D) candidate for the MA-09 posted a story on Twitter in which she reveals that encountered a guild in FFXV Mobile called “MAGA”. Its leader, a user by the handle of “POTUS”, taunted her, telling her she could “come get grabbed by the pussy”.

In retaliation, the congresswoman hopeful razed down the guild and captured POTUS, leaving the player locked out of their account for as long as she held him captive.

If X Were People is a viral Instagram post showing if anything else (examples: TV shows, movies, bands, albums, make up products or brands) were just people. They are like starter packs. As of July 2017, it keeps getting popular like manic.cat.lady on how she posts on a series of “If TV Shows Were People”.

About

lolzzz.net is a stock market for memes created by OriginalScrubLord and Franz Gruber. Users buy and sell memes as if they are stocks. Memes generate earnings and shareholders vote to pay out dividends.

History

OriginalScrubLord had the idea for a meme stock market in September of 2015 and recruited Franz Gruber to join him in the creation of the site. They launched the first version in November of 2015, making many improvements over time. In its early days only a small number of users frequented the site.

On March 26th, 2017 lolzzz was referenced on several websites including 4chan and facebook. In the course of two days there were 250 new users. Most users only signed up and traded during the initial burst of activity and then left soon after, leaving behind a small but passionate group of active users.

Controversies

In July of 2017 OriginalScrubLord was tinkering with earnings calculations and had to reset the ladder twice in the matter of two days, much to the chagrin of the user base.

Influential Community Members

Twincam is credited with the creation of the official lolzzz.net discord.

Epic Memer runs the official twitter @lolzzzCommunity

About

Sarahah is an anonymous social network and mobile messaging app created by Saudi Arabian developer Zain al-Abidin Tawfiq that originally launched as a web-based application in November 2016. Following its initial viral takeoff in the Arabic-speaking region, the service expanded into mobile with the release of a messaging app on Apple iTunes and Google Play in June 2017. Upon its release, the app quickly gained traction among teenagers in the English-speaking region.

History

Sarahah^[1] (meaning “honesty” or “freakness” in Arabic) was developed by Saudi Arabian computer scientist Zain al-Abidin Tawfiq, who originally envisioned the service as a way for employees to anonymously share their honest feedback about their employers, and initially launched as a social networking site in November 2016. After its debut, Sarahah saw moderate success in Arabic-speaking countries, though THESERVICE didn’t quite take off until January 2017, when Tawfiq decided to take a different approach in marketing the service by sharing it with his friends whom he considered to be “connectors,” or social influencers, as defined in Malcolm Gladwell’s 2000 nonfiction book The Tipping Point.

Regional Success

Tawfiq’s new approach in spreading the words of his website proved to be quite effective, with the number of signups skyrocketing from around 70 users to over 1,000 users in the span of just a few days in January 2017. Shortly after its viral spread across Saudi Arabia, Sarahah quickly snowballed into one of the most popular up-and-coming social networks across the Arabic-speaking region at large, including Lebanon, Tunisia, and most notably, Egypt. According to Tawfiq, by the time Sarahah reached Egypt, the service had more than 3 million registered users.

Mobile App

Encouraged by the widespread success of Sarahah in Arab countries, Tawfiq then proceeded to expand beyond the regional market by developing an English-language version of the service as a mobile messaging app in the spring of 2017. The app was released for both iOS and Android on June 13th. Upon its mobile debut, Sarahah saw a notable influx of signups from Canada, a trend which Tawfiq has since attributed to the Arab expatriates living in the country, followed by widespread adoption in other English-speaking countries like the United States and Australia, particularly among gossip-obsessed teenagers who were drawn by the anonymous commentary feature of the app.

Features

The app allows users to search for others on the platform who they may know and send them anonymous messages, mostly questions or comments on the recipient, either anonymously or using their profile names. As with many other similar services, the ability to share anonymous commentaries has been the main drive behind the popularity of Sarahah, although the success of the app in the English-speaking regions has been also attributed to its close integration with the popular messaging service Snapchat. The app also allows users to apply filters to control who can send them messages.

Reception

Upon the initial release of the English-language mobile app in June 2017, the website received more than two million unique daily visitors during the first week. Following Snapchat’s update on July 5th, which enabled its users to import messages from Sarahah into their snaps, the app began to rapidly climb the charts on Apple iTunes and Google Play stores, where it soon became the most downloaded app for both iOS and Android users in the span of just about two weeks.

Concerns

Similar to its predecessors like Formspring, Ask.fm, Yik Yak, the app has drawn concerns about cyberbullying, mainly due to its popular usage among teenagers and the anonymous nature of interactions that take place on the platform. On July 18th, Business Insider reported on the risk of cyberbullying on Sarahah, quoting several wary reviews of the app from iTunes^[2] and Google Play^[3] stores. On July 27th, New York Magazine^[7] interviewed several teenagers who have use the app, most of whom acknowledged its susceptibility to cyberbullying and harassment, though they “didn’t seem too concerned” about it being an issue.

Traffic

According to Tawfiq, the app has accrued more than 14 million registered users since its launch, as well as over 20 million unique daily visitors to the app and the website in aggregate. As of late July 2017, Sarahah.com is ranked as the 102nd most popular website in Saudi Arabia, according to Alexa.

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Enemy Spotted is a popular line uttered by characters in multiplayer first person shooter Counter Strike when they spot a member of the opposite faction. While being a staple soundbyte in the game series, it became associated with a short clip of a young man wearing a black balaclava and attires doing an amateur recreation of the game’s terrorist faction.

Origin

On April 10th, 2006, Youtube user cukrius uploaded a short homemade movie titled Counterstrike in REAL which features a group of young men dressed as terrorists and counter-terrorists from famous game Counter Srike (shown below, left). As of August 2017, the video gathered more than 17 million views. Nine years later, on April 6th, 2015, user youdonowme uploaded a 3-second-cut clip of the young lad wearing a black balaclava who jumped a flight of stairs before saying the line “Enemy Spotted” (shown below, right). This peculiar instance, in which suspenseful audio was added prior to the line’s delivery, accumulated to over 580 000 views in the next two years.

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On November 11th, 2015, a notable parody was made by Youtuber jimmy2296, using a short clip from Disney’s classic movie Finding Nemo in which Nemo is trying to pronounce the word “anemone” but ends up stuttering (shown below). As of August 2017, it has gained over 670 000 views.

On June 15th, 2016, an entry on Urban Dictionary was made for the phrase, referencing the initial video^[1].

Various examples

Search Trend

As shown by the graph, a sudden spike in the line’s popularity occured towards the last half of 2015, noting an influx of parodies being made.

External References

^[1]Urban Dictionary – Enemy Spotted

Cruisin’ On Down Main Street is a meme based on the theme song of the hit children’s series The Magic School Bus.

Origin

The meme first appeared on Vine sometime in 2016, though the exact original clip or creator is unknown. The meme usually starts off with footage of the intro and things go about normally. However, when Arnold groans, it would cut to footage of a bus of some kind getting destroyed as the theme song becomes loud and distorted.

Spread

As of 2017, the meme has received multiple remakes and reworkngs. It has spread to multiple sites such as YouTube and Twitter.
One version circulating features the heads of Arnold and Phoeboe placed on the heads of a duo getting a bit too excited at a club.

The 21st Night Of September is an Internet meme based off the song “September” by disco group Earth, Wind, and Fire.

Origin

The song was first released in 1978 as part of their compilation album The Best of Earth, Wind & Fire, Vol. 1. It was released as a single that November. The song did well with listeners and critics, and continues to be used in various forms of media such as movies and commercials.

It is best known for its chorus, which notably contains the nonsensical lyric “ba-dee-ya”. It was previously debated that it referred to the Persian king Bardiya, but this was debunked by the band soon after.

Spread

Starting in January 2014, a video called Kenny’s Hat surfaced through YouTube user Closet Pankin. It depicts a video of a boy named Kenny putting a hat on his head with live-action images of marijuana on it. After, the camera slowly zooms towards him as the opening bars of September play. This video currently sits at 62,427 views. The meme initially didn’t take off until the same video was posted to Vine by an unknown user a little later.

By that point, an unexpected amount of vines featuring the song have been made, either relating to dank memes or the song itself. Many of these have spread to other sites such as YouTube.

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About

A boy pussy is a colloquial term for the anus of a male bottom, usually a “twink”. Because a typical twink body type is hairless and “tight”, it is commented to be as tight as a vagina when having sexual intercourse.

Origin

I don’t know where the heck boy pussy happened, but It sure feels older than Ask Jeeves dot com

The first documented piece of the term boy pussy is in UrbanDictionary last June 13, 2003 ^[1]

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Throw That Boy Pussy

Throw that Boy Pussy is a music video used to promote a single by Fly Young Red which feature a bunch of male dancers twerking to the music. The music has over 3 Million Views as of this writing with almost half as much Upboats as Downboats (18,504 Thumbs up and 18,372 Thumbs down). ^[2]

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Sources

^[1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=boy%20pussy

Overview

#NoConfederate refers to an ongoing controversy and outrage surrounding the upcoming HBO series Confederate, created by David Benioff and D.B Weiss, the showrunners of the hit HBO series Game of Thrones. The backlash toward Confederate has to do with the subject matter of the series, which portrays a United States where the Southern Confederate army won the U.S. Civil War and slavery remains legal.

Background

On July 19th, 2017, HBO^[1] announced a new series from the creators of the hit television series Game of Thrones, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. Entitled Conferate, the follows an array of characters in a world where the southern confederate states won the civil war, meaning that slavery remained legal.

“Confederate chronicles the events leading to the Third American Civil War. The series takes place in an alternate timeline, where the southern states have successfully seceded from the Union, giving rise to a nation in which slavery remains legal and has evolved into a modern institution. The story follows a broad swath of characters on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Demilitarized Zone – freedom fighters, slave hunters, politicians, abolitionists, journalists, the executives of a slave-holding conglomerate and the families of people in their thrall.”

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Supergirl’s Comic-Con Controversy refers to an in terview given by the cast of CBS/CW show Supergirl that generated controversy when the cast belittled a popular ship among the show’s fandom and further angered fans with what fans considered inadequate responses to their anger.

Background

Supergirl is considered a very LGBTQ friendly show, as it has featured a major character coming out as gay and is regularly covered by women and queer-interest site Autostraddle.^[1] In the Supergirl fandom, a popular ship features the characters Supergirl and Lena Luthor, two characters who begin as enemies but become friends as the show progresses. The ship is known as “Supercorp” among fans. During an interview with MTV at San Diego Comic-Con on July 22nd, 2017, the cast of Supergirl gave an improvised musical performance recapping the events of Season 2. During the performance, actor Jeremy Jordan went out of his way to exclaim that Supergirl and Luthor were “only friends” (shown below).

Developments

The quip immediately angered fans of the ship, who felt disrespected by the joke.^[1] This led to harsh social media backlash, which caused Jordan to give a defensive response on Instagram to fans in which he decried people spewing “so much hate”^[2] (shown below).

Glee Defense Meme

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Outback Steakhouse Satanic Cult is a parody conspiracy theory in reference to the location of several Outback Steakhouse restaurants. When viewed on a map, one Twitter user noticed that the placement of these restaurants make a penta gram (five-pointed star), a prominent symbol in Satanism, neopaganism and freemasonry.

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OMG I Almost Fell For These Illusions refers to a four-panel exploitableimage macro in which text of an emotion or phenomena is inserted among three optical illusions paired with the title text.

Origin

The earliest traceable post to use the format was posted on July 27th, 2017 to popular Facebook meme page Nihilist Memes.^[1] There, it received about 48,000 likes and reactions as well as over 11,900 shares. It is worth noting that the image has a watermark pointing to @hassan.sohail01, suggesting that the image came from an Instagram user of that name. However, as of July 31st, 2017, no account with that exact handle exists.

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Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind refers to series of comments, image macros and references to the 1896 painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme, depicting a nude, screaming woman emerging from a well.

Origin

“Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind is the title of an 1896 painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme.^[1] In the picture, a nude woman (truth) emerges from a well screaming (shown below).

On December 6th, 2012, Tumblr^[2] user prufrocking posted the painting to Tumblr. Within fiver years, the photo received more than 481,000 notes.

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Boonk Gang is an Instagram who gained much online notoreity for posting footage of himself performing various stunts and committing various crimes.

History

On April 10th, 2017, the @boonk.ig Instagram feed was launched, in which a young man is shown going behind the counter at a Popeye’s Chicken fast food restaurant to serve himself some fried chicken and leaves without paying (shown below). Within four months, the video gathered upwards of 1.22 million views.

On July 27th, 2017, Boonk Gang posted a video of himself throwing milkshakes on the ground in a while celebrating his Instagram feed reaching one million followers (shown below).

Fandom

On January 28th, 2017, the Boonk Gang Facebook^[3] page was launched.

On July 27th, the viral media site ShockingVidz.com^[1] published a fake news post claiming that Boonk was “found dead in South Florida from gunshot wounds.”

On July 29th, Urban Dictionary^[2] user Penisboiiii submitted an entry for “boonk gang,” which described

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Swear Jar refers to an exploitable image of two jars. The first jar, labeled “Swear Jar,” has significantly less money in it than the second jar, which is labeled with an action the poster does frequently.

Origin

A swear jar is an object intended to discourage the use of profanity.^[1] When a person uses profanity, they will have to put a certain amount of money into the swear jar. On June 30th, 2017, Tumblr user secret-knight^[2] posted the first example of the template, with “JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Reference Jar” over the second jar. The post gained over 12,000 notes (shown below).

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