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Polygon's "Pikachu Does The Unthinkable" Tweet

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Polygon’s “Pikachu Does The Unthinkable” Tweet refers to a clickbait tweet sent out by gaming website Polygon that reads “Pikachu does the unthinkable in Pokémon’s new movie, and it’s super weird.” The tweet refers to something Pikachu does in the film Pokémon: I Choose You!. However, the open-ended nature of the tweet led people to joke about various unbelievable things Pikachu would do.

Origin

On November 7th, 2017, Polygon tweeted a link to an article about Pokemon: I Choose You! with the text “Pikachu does the unthinkable in Pokémon’s new movie, and it’s super weird.” The tweet gained 36 retweets and 45 likes in four hours (shown below).

The article explains that in a dream sequence in the film, Pikachu speaks like a human.

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[1]Twitter – Polygon


The Oregon Trail

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The Oregon Trail is a series of computer games in which the player directs a group of 19th-century pioneers traveling in a covered wagon across the Oregon Trail from Independence, Missouri to Oregon’s Willamette Valley.

History

On December 3rd, 1971, the original version of the game was released on the HP 2100 system by developers Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann and Paul Dillenberger as an educational tool to teach children about the experiences of 19th-century pioneers. In 1948, the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) hired Rawitsch to rebuild the game with events and player choices while traveling the trail. Subsequent versions of the game were released on CDC Cyber, Apple II, Atari 8-Bit, DOS, Macintosh and Windows computer systems.



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The Organ Trail

In 2010, the web browser game Organ Trail was released in which the player controls human survivors of a zombie apocalypse.



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You Have Died of Dysentery

You Have Died of Dysentery is a video game reference to a message commonly encountered in Oregon Trail, an educational computer game that was developed and distributed through public schools in the 1980s and 1990s. Due to the frequent appearance of the quote during gameplay, the phrase has since become a classic catchphrase used by old school video game fans on the web.

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What Most Single Guys Want for Christmas

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What Most Single Guys Want for Christmas is a series of photoshopped cartoons in which a cartoon of a man receiving a woman’s buttocks as a gift. Users have photoshopped different images over the image of the woman’s buttocks with other humorous things that men might want.

Origin

The earliest instance of the cartoon appearing online occurred in October 2013 on the website TheFunnyPlace.net. The site has since been pulled down, but early versions of the cartoon, in which there is no photoshop and the male character says, "Hnng yes! This is exactly what I wished for, bears the site’s watermark.

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Viewer Mail Time

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Viewer Mail Time is a scene from the Nickelodeon computer-animated TV show Back at the Barnyard where the character Pig interrupts a scene for viewer mail.

Origin

I the episode “Hypno-A-Go-Go” Pig interrupts a scene for viewer mail while saying “Hey, folks, Viewer Mail time again. Oh, here’s one from Sally, age 14. ‘Dear, Pig, aren’t you interrupting the story at the most suspenseful part?’ Well, the answer is yes, Sally. Yes, I am. Keep those cards and letters coming!”



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The moment itself did not start becoming a meme until late summer the following year. On Jan 23, 2017, YouTuber
Giddy N’ Gleeful uploaded a video about the infamous scene of Gravity Falls with the Viewer Mail Time, gaining over 7,043 views (shown below).



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Papa John's

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Papa John’s is the third largest take-out and pizza delivery fast food restaurant chain in the United States. With more than 4,700 locations around the world, the restaurant has also been attached to a number of political controversies, surrounding company policy and founder John Schnatter’s public comments.

History

On October 2nd, 1984, John Schnatter founded the first Papa John’s Pizza by selling pizza out of a converted broom closet at Schnatter’s father’s tavern, Mick’s Lounge, in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Schnatter infamously sold his 1971 Camaro Z28 for $1,600 to purchase the materials to start the company. In 2009, he found the long-lost camaro and purchased the car back for $250,000.[9]

In 2001, Papa John’s became the first pizza chain to offer national online ordering. Six years later, it became the first chain to offer SMS text message ordering.

In September 2012, the company opened its 4,000th location and celebrated by giving away 4,000 pizza throughout New York City.

2012 Papa John’s Boycott

Papa John’s Boycott refers to an online campaign against the take-out and pizza delivery restaurant chain Papa John’s Pizza. The boycott was launched in November of 2012 in response to statements by Papa John’s CEO John Schnatter regarding the health care reform legislation known as Patient Protection and Afforable Care Act (also known as Obamacare).

2017 #TakeAKnee Controversy

On November 1st, 2017, Schnatter claimed that controversy surrounding the National Anthem hurt sales, which were down from the previous year.[1]“The NFL has hurt us,” he said. “We are disappointed the NFL and its leadership did not resolve this.” The pizza company is the official one of the NFL and has a deal with the league and 23 teams. However, they claim to have taken some NFL-related advertising off the air.

“We expect it to persist unless a solution is put in place,” said Papa John’s President and Chief Operating Officer Steve Ritchie.

The following day, Pizza Hut, who has no affiliation with he NFL, reported a 1% sales growth in the past year.[2] Yum Brands CEO, the owner of Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC, commented, "We’re not seeing any impact from any of that.[3]

Online, people interpretted Creed’s comment as “throwing shade” or insulting Papa John’s (examples below). That day, Twitter[4] published a Moments page regarding the comments.


Throwing Shade comment of Pizza Hut on papa Johnsafter pizza hut said the TakeAKnee didn't hurt sales, there was anticipation on how it effected Little Caesar's and Domino's pizzaPizza Hut is welcomed to the resistance on the #takeaknee issue

Later that day, the frozen pizza company DiGorno Pizza also posted a series of tweets that were seemingly aimed at Papa John’s. The first tweet[5] (shown below, left) read, “Us: 🍕📈 / Them: 🍕📉” and received more than 15,000 retweets and 53,000 likes in 24 hours. DiGorno replied to this tweet with a parody of Papa John’s slogan that read, “Better Pizza. Better Sales.” The tweet (shown below, center) received more than 8,000 retweets and 25,000 likes in 24 hours. Finally, DiGorno tweeted,[6]“Update: 📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉” The final tweet (shown below, right) received more than 2,600 retweets and 11,000 likes in 24 hours.

That day, Twitter[8] published another Moments page about DiGorno Pizza’s tweets, receiving more than 1,400 likes in 24 hours.


DiGorno Pizza tweets out that they are an upward graph why the others are a downward graphDiGorno Pizza tweets out better pizza, better salesDiGorno Pizza tweets out a repeat over and over of a downward graph


Reception

Papa John’s is the third largest fast food pizza delivery and take out restaurant chain in the world. As of January 2016, the company has been valued at $2.2 billion.[17] By January 2017, Papa John’s reached a record market cap of 3.2 billion[18] before settling back down to the early 2016 price range.[19]

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On November 6th, 2008, Papa John’s launched the official Facebook[10] page. The social media account currently has more than 5.5 million likes and 5.3 million followers as of November 2017.

The following month, on December 29th, 2008, Papa John’s launched the official @PapaJohns Twitter[11] account. As of November 2017, the account has more than 545,000 followers.

On February 21st, 2012, Redditor[12] SchmittBag started the /r/Papajohns subreddit. Within five and a half years, the subreddit has garnered more than 595 subscribers. On October 24th, 2017, Redditor[13] fluffykins posted a picture of a man with a Papa John’s tattoo under the thread “First Tattoo.”


Man with his first tattoo posted on Reddit which was a Papa John's logo on his chest

Popularity in White Supremacist and Alt-Right Communities

Following Papa John’s decision to scale back advertising on the NFL as a result of the #TakeAKnee controversy, the neo-Nazi and white supremacist website The Daily Stormer[14] posted a picture of a pizza with a swaztika made of pepperoni on November 2nd, 2017. The picture was captioned “Papa John: Official pizza of the alt-right?”


Pizza with swastika made with pepperoni slices and a question if Papa John is the official pizza of the alt-right


Papa John’s released a statement to the Huffington Post.[15] The company said in a statement:

“We condemn racism in all forms and any and all hate groups that support it. We do not want these individuals or groups to buy our pizza.”

That weekend, alt-right Twitter[16] personality Jack Posobiec continued the association between Papa John’s and the alt-right by serving the pizza at his wedding rehearsal dinner. He tweeted a picture of Papa John’s pizza with the caption “Rehearsal dinner with Papa Johns!” The tweet (shown below) received more than420 retweets and 2,600 likes.


Jack Posobiec tweeting that he is having Papa Johns at his wedding rehearsal dinner

Online, people mocked Posobiec for having fast-food pizza at his wedding rehearsal dinner as a means of “owning libs.”


imagined conversation between Jack Posobiec and himself about using the Papa John's pizza as way of owning the libscomment online about how Jack Posobiec is going to stuff his face with pizza that tastes like shoes and then claim he owns liberals

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H3H3’s Papa Bless

“Papa Bless” is a catchphrase associated with Ethan Klein of H3H3Productions and reference to American pizza company, “Papa John’s”. It is often jokingly used to express gratitude to CEO John Schnatter and showing appreciation of kindness.


H3H3Productions of Papa Bless

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Ultra instinct

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Ultra instinct is a new form of Goku in the ongoing anime series Dragon ball Super believed to be attained by only gods of destruction after rigorous training and persistence, The ongoing saga pits Goku against a new fighter named Jiren, a virtual monster able to overpower Goku while in his Blue form. The power from ultra instinct is able to match Jiren in fighting power and speed. unlike his previous forms however, this seems to come with a different level of skill added as he avoids punches instead of blocking them and has a more serious demeanor, Said by his friends that he was moving “Far differently then regular Goku does”
The purpose of the form seems to be avoiding danger without the user needing to think about it, The body moves on its own in response to danger for the user to focus on fighting.

Origin
Before its reveal, Ultra instinct goku was known as Limit breaker Goku by fans of Dragon ball super after a teaser image was
Spread about, however even before that back in april of 2017, it was known to be “Super Saiyan Beyond” based on a comment made by one of the people working on the series ( @Toshio916 )

This second image is what spurred calling it “Super Saiyan Beyond” Due to the use of Beyond in his twitter post here.

This final image is Lord Beerus mentioning the name of what he thinks this new form just might actually be, Being a form known only to the gods untill this moment, Many of his own gods even doubted his remark claiming that ultra instinct should be out of the reach of mortals.

The initial reveal was made here, During this time is when goku’s new form was being known as Limit breaker. Showing off goku’s new form having a reveal date of 10/8/2017. Making a 1 hour special (Which was really just two episodes released at once) Alongside a one peice movie as a double promotion.

The main time the action began was here. During episode 109 is when the initial fight began. Episode 110 being when the form is finally attained (This video combines the scenes between both episodes.)

Which garnered world wide attention from every dragon ball fan, Spurring endless reaction videos to the action packed episodes from a long overdue and awaited two episodes.

Use as a meme
Ultra instinct has been initiated into a meme status from the sudden change in form. Being utilized over small fights or movie scenes as a blue smokey effect put ontop of the protagonist in any fight scene. The part that initiated the internet’s response can be seen here.
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The music and the punching sounds (even some of the speach) Can be heard in the main notable examples.
One of the first being ultra instinct shaggy

along with plenty more notable examples which will be linked below.

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Animoji

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Animoji are animated emoji introduced as part of iOS 11 for the iPhone X made by Apple. Using face-capture technology, Animoji mimic the facial expressions of the user and records their audio, which is then filtered through a voice modulator corresponding to which Animoji character is used.

Origin

On September 12th, 2017, Apple announced the Animoji for iOS 11 (shown below).[1] At the event, they showed off twelve emoji characters, including a unicorn, dog, cat, poo, and others.



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On October 31st, 2017, PC Mag put out a YouTube video demonstrating the different characters that gained 24,000 views (shown below). Animoji were released on November 3rd, 2017.



Quickly after release, there were tutorials and reviews of the feature on tech sites such as Select All[2] and The Verge.[3] In The Verge’s piece, writer Vlad Savov noted that the feature could be a revolutionary means of communication, writing, “The key is in the depersonalization and the stripping of extraneous information that animoji provide: things like how messy your room is, how puffy your face is, and so on are simply taken out.” He cites a video made by a co-worker’s daughter as an example (shown below).



Animoji Karaoke

On November 1st, tech writer Harry McCracken uploaded a video of the Fox animoji moving it’s mouth along with the lyrics of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,”. making it appear as though it were lip-syncing with the song. McCracken dubbed the format “Animoji Karaoke.” The tweet gained 830 retweets and 2,300 likes (shown below).



Over the following days, McCracken and others uploaded similar videos using Animoji, iOS11, and iMovie. Popular examples include a tweet by @jsnell which uses Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” (shown below, top) and a tweet by @NickStarr which uses Baha Men’s “Who Let The Dogs Out?” (shown below, bottom). McCracken wrote in Fast Company[4] a piece detailing how he started the trend. It was also covered by The Verge,[5] Buzzfeed,[6] Select All,[7] and more.





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Paradise Papers Leak

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Overview

The Paradise Papers Leak refers to the release of more than 13.4 million files that expose some of the world’s biggest businesses, politicians, public figures, entertainers and sports stars as sheltering vast amounts of wealth in secret tax havens, from 1950 to 2016. Similar to the Panama Papers Leak, the files reveal a massive attempt to evade taxes by storing money in an intricate series of business, properties and other high-priced assets.

Background

On November 5th, 2017, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, in collaboration with more than 380 journalists from over 90 media organizations in 67 countries, reported on the Paradise Papers, a 13.4 million document leak that released 13.4 million files exposing the trillions of dollars moved through offshore tax havens.[1]

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Trigger The Libs

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Trigger the Libs is a phrase used by some conservatives and the Alt-right with regards to actions taken specifically to upset, or trigger, liberals. The phrase has been used sarcastically by the left to make fun of right-wingers who use the phrase when they do something silly and debasing in the hopes of making a political point. It can be expressed in various permutations such as “owning the libs,” “owning snowflakes,” etc.

Origin

While the concept of “triggering” had long been used as a way to mock the left on the right, the phrase “trigger the libs” began seeing use during the 2016 United States Presidential Election. The earliest use of the phrase “Trigger the libs” on Twitter was posted on July 31st, 2016 by user @S55N007[1] remarking on an outfit worn by Hillary Clinton (shown below).



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[1]Twitter – @S55N007

Boomx4

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Boomx4 or “Boom x4” is a series of YouTube animated videos set to the Venga Boys song “Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!!” In the video, a character puts another over their knee and spanks it, before thrusting its hips to the beat of the song.

Origin

On May 1st, 2017, YouTuber[1] Merenge posted the video “bOOMx4 (oRiGiNaL meMe),” which featured an animation of a woman leaning a man over her knee and spanking him. The video has since been removed, but as of May 20th, the final archive date, it had received more than 359,000 views.

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That day, more YouTubers began posting variations of the animated video. YouTuber Couch Potato posted one (shown below, left) of a character eating a bag of chips, receiving more than 2,800 views. Additionally, YouTuber cream puff posted on that was closer to the original in narrative (shown below, right), receiving more than 1,200 views in six months.



On May 7th, YouTuber[4] Stariaat posted a variation featuring color furry characters. The post (shown below) received more than 2.3 million views in six months.



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Dear David

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Dear David is an ongoing story told by Adam Ellis via Twitter documenting a ghost named “Dear David” who supposedly haunts in his apartment. While not confirmed to be fictional, the story is reminiscent of a creepypasta.

Origin

On August 7th, 2017, popular cartoonist Adam Ellis[1] began telling the story of how a dead child is haunting his apartment and is trying to kill him. His first tweet gained over 55,000 retweets and 76,000 likes (shown below).



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Over the course of many tweets, Ellis documented the story of his haunting. The story tells the tale of his encounter with a dead child named “Dear David,” a dead child who will only answer two questions. If you ask him a third question, he kills you. In his story, Ellis meets Dead David and asks him three questions, initiating the haunting. In his story, Ellis has included pictures of his cats engaging in strange behavior, as well as pictures and videos of his apartment documenting the haunting. The entire story is included in a Storify (shown below).[2]



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[1]Twitter @moby_dickhead

[2]Storify – Dear David

Shrek Fedora

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Shrek Fedora is a reaction image typically used in response to posts criticizing religion on social media, referencing the *tips fedora* internet meme associated with militant atheism online.

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On July 25th, 2017, the @ThinkAtheist Twitter feed tweeted "Apparently the “shrek fedora” meme is the newest tend in “attacking” #atheist twitter accounts" (shown below).[1] That tweet has since been removed.



On August 27th, YouTuber %%% %%%% posted a video showcasing replies to Onision’s tweet featuring the Shreak fedora image (shown below). The following day, Redditor RolfIsSonOfShepnard submitted the video to /r/YouTubeHaiku,[3][3] where it gathered upwards of 2,000 points (97% upvoted) and 60 comments.



On November 5th, 2017, actor “Wil Wheaton”: replied to a tweet posted by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan about sending prayers to those affected by the 2017 Sutherland Springs church shooting. In response, many Twitter users replied with variations of the Shrek Fedora reaction image (shown below).



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Sonic Forces

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Sonic Forces is a platform video game in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise released in November of 2017 for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4, and Xbox One. The game notably features the addition of a player-avatar character who plays an important role in the plot.

Development

Sonic Forces was developed by the Sonic Team, which made Sonic Colors and Sonic Generations.[1] The game was announced at San Diego Comic Con on June 22nd, 2016. That day, the trailer for the game was uploaded to YouTube by the Sonic the Hedgehog YouTube Channel (shown below). The trailer showed off the avatar player-character addition to the game.



On August 31st, 2017, the official Sonic the Hedgehog Twitter account announced several pre-order bonus costumes for Sonic Forces, which included skin based on the protagonist Joker from Persona 5 (shown below).



Sonic Forces was released on November 7th, 2017.

Reception

The game received mixed reviews from critics. As of November 8th, 2017, the game has a 53/100 on Metacritic.[2] While critics praised the visual presentation, they criticized the game’s brevity and platforming problems that had plagued previous entries in the Sonic franchise.

Online Reaction

Similar to critics, fans have mixed reviews of Sonic Forces. On Steam, the game has a mixed user rating.[3]

Sonic Forces 5 Persona Costume

Sonic ForcesPersona 5 Costume, also known as Fursona 5, refers to the Persona 5-themed player skin for the Sonic Forces player-avatar. After the costume was announced in late August 2017, many online made jokes describing it as a furry depiction of the Persona 5 protagonist.



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[1]Wikipedia – “Sonic Forces”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Forces

[2]Metacritic – Sonic Forces

[3]Steam – Sonic Forces


Paul Joseph Watson

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Paul Joseph Watson is a British YouTuber, writer and editor-at-large of the online publication Infowars.com. While some have characterized him as a far-right conspiracy theorist, Watson describes himself as a “classical liberal” who is both against both the alt-right and the alt-left.

History

In October 2002, Watson began working for Alex Jones at PrisonPlanet.com.[3] In January 2009, Watson launched the @PrisonPlanet[2] Twitter feed, which gathered more than 748,000 followers over the next eight years. On July 5th, 2011, Watson launched the Paul Joseph Watson channel on YouTube.[1] The first video uploaded to the channel featuring an interview with Watson discussing various geopolitical issues around the world (shown below, left). On July



On October 15th, 2013, Watson uploaded a video titled “Hidden Messages in New $100 Dollar Bill?,” discussing conspiracy theories about apocalyptic warnings contained within folded dollar bills (shown below,). Over the next four years, the video gathered upwards of 12 million views and 12,500 comments. On October 29th, 2014, Watson released a video discussing viral videos in which police officers are shown harassing American citizens (shown below, right). Over the next three years, the video garnered upwards of 6.5 million views and 15,100 comments.



On August 6th, 2015, Watson posted a video titled mocking a footage some conspiracy theorists were speculating showed a demon caught on camera in front of Barack Obama (shown below, left). On August 4th, 2016, Watson released a video titled “The Truth About Hillary’s Bizarre Behavior,” speculating that then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was suffering from brain damage (shown below, right).



Interviews

On March 12th, 2012, the YouTube channel Press For Truth interviewed Watson, in which he discussed how he got involved with Infowars.com (shown below).



On September 8th, 2017, YouTuber Westmonster uploaded an interview with Watson in which he discussed his past conspiracy theory content (shown below).



“I’ve talked about some quite fruity things in the past in my younger days, in terms of conspiracy theories. We don’t all believe what we believed ten years ago.”

CNN Meme War

On July 6th, 2017, Watson posted a compilation of CNN meme war videos titled “Trump vs. CNN: Ultimate Meme Compilation” (shown below). Within four months, the video received more than 528,000 views and 3,000 comments.



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Triggering the Libs

Watson frequently posts tweets intended to “trigger” members of the left wing, leading to posts mocking him for “Triggering the Libs”.



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[1]YouTube – PrisonPlanetLive

[2]Twitter – @PrisonPlanet

[3]YouTuber – Press For Truth

Jazz Music Stops

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Jazz Music Stops is a reaction image of a jazz musician playing an upright bass with his mouth agape. People online have read the expression on the musician’s face as disgust and have used it as such in various image macros or as reactions on message boards.

Origin

The earliest known instance of the reaction was on June 10th, 2017 on Imgur.[1] However, the image was captioned Me Irl, indicating that it may have been posted to the /r/meirl subreddit.



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On September 3rd, 2017, the image was added to the meme template archive Shitpostbot 5000[2] by user INDECIBLE. The image was given a rating of 5.

That day, Redditor ThatOneEskimo posted the image in the /r/gamegrumps[3] subreddit, where it received more than 795 points (99% upvoted) in two months. In this case, the image was reacting to the thread titie “when Arin finally kills the last enemy in Sonic Unleashed.”

The following week, on September 9th, the image appeared on the 4chan[7]/pol/ by an anonymous user. The post (shown below) was captioned “What the fuck is this degenerate shit?”



On October 16th, Twitter[5] user @mvgvn used the image to react to a conversation that ended in “Why you give me chlamydia?” The post (shown below, left) received more than 600 retweets and 875 likes in less than one month.

On October 26th, Instagram[4] user @imthrifter posted the image with the caption “Black people: *drinks lean, does Molly, percs,xans* ayyyy lit *Someone does coke* Black people:” The post (shown below, right) received more than 17,400 likes in less than two weeks.



The following month, on November 6th, Redditor Rapitak posted the image in the /r/MemeEconomy subreddit. The post received more than 460 points (95% upvoted) and 20 comments in 24 hours.

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Why Didn't You Invest in Eastern Poland

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Why Didn’t You Invest in Eastern Poland refers to a series photoshopped images based on a Polish economic stimulus advertising campaign, featuring a child looking sternly at the camera. The images typically replace either the child’s stern looking face or place the adds tagline “What will you say when your child asks: why didn’t you invest in Eastern Poland” in different contexts.

Origin

On September 7th, 2012, the Polish marketing outlet Marketing Przy Kawie[1] announced a new campaign Polish Information from the Foreign Investment Agency to encourage economic investment in eastern Poland. The ads featured the tagline “Why didn’t you invest in Eastern Poland” and featured three characters: a child, a father-in-law-and a psychotherapist (examples below).







In addition to the television ads, a number of print ads featuring the characters appeared around Europe. All three character appeared in the print ads, with the child (shown below) becoming the most commonly used in the meme, specifically the question “What will you say when your child asks: Why didn’t you invest in Eastern Poland.”



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On January 25th, 2013, the website Something Awful[2] posted the ad as part of “Photoshop Phriday,” encouraging users to submit photoshops of the ad (examples below).



Four years later, on November 8th, 2017, Redditor[4] sylezjusz posted the original advertisement in the /r/Europe subreddit. The garnered more than 29,000 points (92% upvoted and 660 comments in less than one day.

The following day, Redditor[3] Empty_Cake_Shop posted a variation of the meme in the /r/MemeEconomy subreddit. The post (shown below) features the child character with an altered tagline, “What will you say when your child asks: why didn’t you invest in The porn industry.” It received more than 2,100 points (93% upvoted) and 30 comments in less than six hours.



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Horny On Main

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Horny On Main is a slang term for the practice of posting and engaging with sexually charged posts on one’s main account on a social media site instead of doing so from a secondary account created for that purpose. It’s particularly popular as a meme on Tumblr, and developed from descriptive slang to a meme following Ted Cruz “Liking” a Pornographic Tweet and the supposed outing of Constable Frozen as a vore enthusiast.

Origin

The phrase “horny on main” first appeared online in mid-2016. On June 6th, 2016, Twitter user @spiral_liker[1] posted “sorry for almost getting horny on main, again. im getting better!” (shown below).

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Constable Frozen

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[1]Twitter – @spiral_liker

Dream Bunny

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Ian Macleod, better known as Brutalmoose, unearths a bizarre show pilot that told kids to repress their feelings and only explain their fears to the Dream Bunny that sleeps with them, born in ancient times. Also, don’t tell your parents about Dream Bunny.

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