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Forsen

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About

Forsen is the gamer handle of Twitch streamer Sebastian Fors. He and his fans are well known for helping spread Twitch memes, and helped popularize Ugandan Knuckles.

History

Fors was born on December 16th, 1990.[1] He initially played Starcraft II and reached the final stage at the DreamHack Stockholm 2012 tournament. He joined the Hearthstone team ManaGrind in January of 2014 until the team disbanded in August of that year. He gained a reputation as one of the best “Miracle Rogue” players in the game. He currently streams Hearthstone on his Twitch channel.



Related Memes

GachiGASM

Gachigasm / Gachibass refers to BetterTTV Twitch emotes featuring an image of Gachimuchi muscle man Billy Herrington, which is often used as a reaction to indicate intense pleasure or satisfaction. According to a comment submitted to /r/forsen by Redditor sc2pal on December 3rd, 2015, the gachiGASM meme started after a Billy Herrington wrestlingremix was played on the social music streaming site plug.dj, which was subsequently adopted by Fors.



monkaS

MonkaS is a Better Twitch TV emote featuring an illustration of Pepe the Frog appearing frightened while sweating, which is typically used in Twitch chat during moments of high tension in video game matches to express anxiety. On February 17th, 2017, Redditor kucykzaglady submitted a picture of the emote to the /r/forsen subreddit. That month, monkaS was added to the TwitchQuotes database.

Ugandan Knuckles

Ugandan Knuckles is the nickname given to a depiction of the character Knuckles from the Sonic franchise created by YouTuber Gregzilla, which is often used as an avatar by players in the multiplayer game VRChat who repeat phrases like “do you know the way” and memes associated with the country Uganda, most notably the film Who Killed Captain Alex?. The character is associated with the expression “do you know the way”, which is typically spoken in a mock African accent and phonetically spelled as “do you know de wey.”

Fans of Forsen commonly reference various jokes related to Ugandan warriors while playing the game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (shown below). Additionally, viewers have been known to stream snipe his channel while yelling various Uganda-related memes.



Online Presence

Forsen has a wide online presence. His Twitch stream has been viewed over 64 million times.[2] His subreddit[3] has over 10,000 subscribers and is responsible for the spread of some Twitch memes. His Twitter account[4] has over 82,000 followers.

Search Interest

External References

[1]Liquidpedia – Forsen

[2]Twitch – Forsen

[3]Reddit – /r/forsen

[4]Twitter – @forsen


Shaving Cream-chan

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Shaving Cream-chan is a moe anthropomorphic representation of shaving cream created by fans of YouTube personality Bijuu Mike.

Origin

On January 3rd, 2018, YouTube personality Bijuu Mike uploaded a video discussing the Eating Tide PODS meme, talking specifically about Tide POD-chan. In the video, he implored his followers to try and make eating shaving cream a meme. The video gained over 147,000 views (shown below).



That day, Twitter user @miii_mika[1] posted a rendering of "Shaving Cream-chan in the replies to a Bijuu Mike tweet (shown below).



Spread

Several Bijuu Mike fans answered his request for Shaving Cream memes with pictures of Shaving Cream-chan. On January 4th, DeviantArt user o-Ironical-O posted an anthropomorphized drawing of shaving cream[2] (shown below, left). On January 6th, user DaisyLaze[3] did the same. As of January 9th, 2018, there are 56 pieces of artwork under the #shavingcreamchan tag on Instagram. [3]



On January 8th, Bijuu Mike uploaded a video of himself reacting to Shaving Cream-chan, gaining over 92,000 views, as well as the recent trend of Gijinka drawings.



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Search Interest

External References

[1]Twitter – @miii_mika

[2]DeviantArt – o-ironical-O

[3]Instagram – #shavingcream

Time's Up

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Overview

Time’s Up is a leaderless social movement founded in response to the string of sexual harassment allegations on Hollywood, the Weinstein effect and #MeToo. The movement provides a set of intiatives to combat sexual harassment and support those fighting systematic inequality.

Background

On November 10th, 2017, the Latina farmworkers Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, some 700,000 women, published a letter of solidarity in Time magazine. The letter detailed the similar struggles of the two industries in their fights against sexual discrimination, abuse and harassment. They write:

“Even though we work in very different environments, we share a common experience of being preyed upon by individuals who have the power to hire, fire, blacklist and otherwise threaten our economic, physical and emotional security. Like you, there are few positions available to us and reporting any kind of harm or injustice committed against us doesn’t seem like a viable option. Complaining about anything -- even sexual harassment -- seems unthinkable because too much is at risk, including the ability to feed our families and preserve our reputations.

Developments

On January 1st, 2018, Time’s Up declared itself in the New York Times, taking out a full-page ad in the publication and publishing a letter of support with Alianza Nacional de Campesinas. Additionally, the letter indicated that they would be setting up a legal defense fun to support lower-income women seeking justice, advocating for legislation to punish organization that allow frequent sexual harassment allegations and move toward gender parity in studios and talent agencies.[2]

The activists involved in Time’s Up includes actresses Reese Witherspoon, America Ferrera, Eva Longoria, Meryl Streep, director Ava DuVernay, producer Shonda Rhimes and more.



Golden Globes

In solidarity with the Time’s Up movement, those attending the 2018 Golden Globes were encouraged to wear black and speak about issues involving sexual harassment in their speeches and on the red carpet.

Media Coverage

Several media outlets published articles about Time’s Up, including Vox,[3] EW,[4] Vanity Fair[5] and more.

Related Memes

Weinstein Effect

The Weinstein Effect refers to a deluge of sexual harassment and assault allegations levied towards many Hollywood celebrities and political figures, triggered by Harvey Weinstein’s sexual harassment allegations.

Me Too

#MeToo is a hashtag campaign that circulated on Twitter and other social media platforms in which actress Alyssa Milano encouraged survivors of sexual assault and harassment to post “#MeToo” or “Me Too” to raise awareness and highlight its commonality.

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Rocket League

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Rocket League is a video game developed by Psyonix in which players control small cars and attempt to push a giant ball into their opponent’s goal. Originally released on Microsoft Windows and Playstation 4, the popularity of the game soon led it to be released on Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and OS X. As of January 9th, 2018, the game has over 40 million players.

History

Reception

Online Presence

Related Memes

Chat Disabled For Three Seconds

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Serbian Nike Dab KId

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Yes. This meme comes from wonderful country of Serbia( not Siberia). It’s about kid dabbing in a cool way. As you can see this was a perfect dab. It was so perfect that we could put nike logo on it( so fucking cool). As you can see this kid is probably the coolest guy on the planet. You are cool for sure when you make dabbing cool.

Origin
The image was taken actually 1 and a half year ago. The kids were going to the dance concert. They were going to take a picture , when all of the sudden BOOM that kid dabbed. This was the coolest moment in history of Serbia, not even tupac could to this.

yesterday one kid teased the dab nike kid about the dab, but everyone was protecting the dab kid. They added all sorts of memes on his dab picture. While adding memes, one kid noticed that his arms are perfect for nike logo. And thus he is now known in he fucking class as ‘’NIKE DABKID’‘, but people from other countries call him ’’Serbian Nike Dab Kid’’.

Fuck you

TheOdd1sout

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James R., known as TheOdd1sOut, is a webcomic artist and animation youtuber who has gained popularity thanks to his videos and his comics. Currently he has around 5 million subscribers on Youtube and a large following on tumblr.

Online History

Webcomics

On June 14, 2012, James posted his first comic on his tumblr called TheOdd1sOut. It was going to be a full series of webcomics starring recurring characters called Jake, Justin and Kevin:

James continued to create comics, but he was struggling to attract readers. On April of 2013 he decided to drop his roster of characters and change the look of his comics, starting with this comic:

His followers soon begin to increase, and by October of 2013 he passed the 100 followers.

Youtube career

After the success of his comic, James decided to create a youtube account, originally called theodd1soutcomic, and on August 30 of 2014, he uploaded his first video. By the time he uploaded his first video he had around 50000 followers on tumblr.

Most of his videos are storytelling, like Domics. He uploaded videos frequently until he talked about ASMR on February 13 of 2016. By this time he had already about 5000 subscribers on Youtube. The success of this video gained him 100000 subscribers.

Some of his most popular videos talk mostly about himself in school or college. One of the first videos that got trending on Youtube was about him working on Subway. It was his first video to reach 1 million views.

By today, TheOdd1sOut’s Youtube channel has around 5,4 million subscribers.

Collaborations

James is known to collaborate in others videos. Some of his collaborations include JaidenAnimations, TimTom, and FootofaFerret (shown bellow)


Google trends

Ewan McGregains

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About

Ewan McGregains is a meme revolving around an image of actor Ewan McGregor profusely exercising to prepare for a film role (possibly the Obi-Wan Kenobi spin-off film). The trend was created by Star Wars Sithposting: A New Hope in part as a response to the gradual decline in popularity of the Ben Swolo meme and in continuation of the group’s profound adoration for the character of Obi-Wan Kenobi. Most of the jokes revolve around his role as Obi-Wan and various Scottish stereotypes.

Origin

On January 6th, 2018, Tony Horton (world-renowned fitness trainer and inventor of P90X) posted a photo of Ewan McGregor working out with fitness trainer Scotty Fifer, while sporting a beard very similar to the one he had while playing Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequels over a decade ago.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bdohm4Slz0i/
One day later, Facebook user Oban Johnson posted the photo in the group Star Wars Sithposting: A New Hope with the caption “Sithposting, you know what to do.”

Spread

And indeed they did. Sithposting member Jack Renshaw was the first to answer the call, offering up a simple take on the classic “Hello There” meme.

The image of McGregor provided an opportunity to remix classic prequel memes such as “Hello there,” “Oh, I don’t think so,” and “Sith Lords are our speciality.” Given the age of the meme, the full extent of the meme’s reach has not been discovered yet. Stay tuned to find out how far the Ewan McGregains meme will spread.

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Heartbroken Cowboy

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Heartbroken Cowboy is a reaction meme which, indicates the OP is distraught to their core about something…like the fact that this meme is not yet listed on KYM.

Origin

It originates from James Ritchey’s youtube video “57. Current Chart – Y2016M7D24” which, was deleted in 2016. The video was part of a series of videos in which, James discussed the songs he was listening to. In the screenshot James appears heartbroken, even though he does not appear this way in the video, and the video itself was not sad. Which is amusing, and the meme pokes fun at that.

Spread

The first known usage read, “Heartbroken Cowboy is heartbroken”, and early usages followed this formatting. Over time the “Heartbroken Cowboy is” format has slowly been replaced with “When” or “MRW”.


I Enjoy...

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About

I Enjoy… refers to a shitpostingsnowclone in which people post about things with the construction, "I enjoy X. They are my favorite Y. When (something good happens), I think to myself “yes”. When (something bad happens), I think to myself “no”." It is often used with sports teams.

Origin

On January 3rd, 2018, Reddit user Rapey_Keebler_Elves[1] posted a text post in /r/minnesotavikings, a subreddit for the National Football League’s Minnesota Vikings, which read, "I enjoy watching the Minnesota Vikings play football. They are my favorite NFL team. When they score a touchdown, I think to myself “yes”. When the other team scores a touchdown, I think to myself “no”." The post gained over 13,700 upvotes.



Spread

After the popularity of that post, the post became a snowclone for other fandoms in Reddit. For example, in /r/RocketLeague, user alfabetsoop[2] posted a variation for the video game which read, "I enjoy playing Rocket League. It is my favorite video game. When my team scores a goal, I think to myself “yes”. When the other team scores a goal, I think to myself “no”." The post gained over 25,000 upvotes (shown below, left). Another post to /r/falcons[3] which used the snowclone for the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons, gaining over 550 upvotes (shown below, right).



Many of the posts in the snowclone involved sporting teams. Other popular posts regarding other subjects include a post by Redditor DangerJuice[4] about a weapon in _PlayerUnknown: Battlegrounds that gained over 7,300 upvotes (shown below, left). Another popular example was posted about the television show The Flash,[5] gaining 1,200 upvotes. An inquiry about the meme was posted to /r/OutOfTheLoop,[6] where it gained over 240 upvotes.



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Ken Ashcorp

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About

Ken Ashcorp is a singer/songwriter who makes music about popular internet tropes in video games, anime, and cartoons.

Online History

His first song “I Wish There Were Still Dinosaurs” was uploaded on November 18, 2010. On the same day, he uploaded his second song “Vuvu Hero,” which was based on a game of the same name.[1]



Since then, Ken has released 29 songs on his YouTube channel,[2] along with 21 singles on his Apple Music[3] and Bandcamp pages.[4] One of his songs “Absolute Territory,” which revolves around the Japanese concept of Zettai Ryouiki, is the most popular on his channel with over 9.7 million views. His next most popular song “20% Cooler” is a reference a quote by Rainbow Dash’s(see entry here), and currently has more than 6.3 million views.



On May 25, 2016, he announced his first live show with Mystery Skulls as the headline act. He performed in Anime Expo on July 1, 2016.



Fandom

His channel has a large following online, with currently over 267,000 subscribers,[2] and more than 19,000 likes on his official Facebook page.[5] His fan subreddit, /r/KenAshcorp, has 593 readers.[6] His songs have also received many remixes and mashups.



Kenny

Kenny is an anthropomorphic panda who serves as the channel’s mascot. She appears in all of his album art, thumbnails, and Ken’s profile pictures. There have been several fan arts of her, with more than 1,100 results in DeviantArt.



Reputation

Ken keeps most of his peronal life and other details private, as he doesn’t share them online. Prior to his main channel, he uploaded songs to his former channel foreverpandering, but was later deleted due to many criticisms of being in the furry fandom. This also caused him to close comments on some of his videos, as well as locking his own accounts.[7] Various songs from this channel were reuploaded on YouTube. Compared to his main channel, his older content was less professional, but more mainstream.



Notable Videos




External References

[1]Newgrounds – Vuvu Hero

[2]YouTube – Ken Ashcorp

[3]Apple Music – Ken Ashcorp

[4]Bandcamp – Music | Ken Ashcorp

[5]Facebook – Ken Ashcorp

[6]Reddit – /r/KenAshcorp

[7]TV Tropes – Ken Ashcorp

But can you do this?

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But Can You Do This? refers to line by PewDiePie regarding a gaming chair that he is selling for 399 pounds, the chair became mocked by his fans for its price point leaing to Pewdiepie to jokingly brag about the chair’s reclining capabilities with the line “But can you do this?”. The line has itself become an injokal images and videos joking about amongst Pewdiepie’s fandom leading to several images and videos mocking the line.

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Adam the Creator

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Adam the Creator is the internat alias of Adam Badilla, a brand strategist, marketer, original meme creator and artist.

Online History

On June 9th, 2014, Adam Badilla, a brand stratgist living in New York City, New York posted the first entry of a year long project to post a new, original sketch every day on his personal Instagram[1] page. The first sketch, which featured a man eating a woman’s body, received more than 15 likes. Several days later, he posted it on his alternate account @adam.the.creator,[2] where the post (shown below) received more than 100 likes.



Over the next two years, he continued to post sketches of various cultural figures and memes, such as Heath Ledger’s the Joker (shown below, left)[4] The following year, on January 27th, 2015, he announced that he had received more 7,500 followers (shown below, center).[5] On February 9th, 2016, he posted a sketch of crying Michael Jordan, which received more than 1,200 likes in two years (shown below, right).[3]



On June 24th, 2016, Padilla posted one of his first memes, which he would eventually transition his main focus toward. In an Instagram[6] post, he superimposed a picture of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump onto a Burger King Mac and Cheetos food item. The post (shown below) received more than 1,300 likes in a year and a half.



Several months later, he posted a parody Fisher-Price toy for called “Toddler’s Happy Hour Playset.” Within one year, the post (shown below), received more than 4,000 likes.[9] However, because some thought the toy was real, Fisher-Price mad a statement. They said,[10]“Fisher-Price even issued a release that recognized the humor and assured parents that they are not involved in the parody.”

On December 31st, 2017, Padilla began posting sections of a collage he had made featuring the memes of 2017. These included refrences to Salt Bae, The Ting Goes,Cash Me Ousside,the Weinstein Effect and more. The final section received more than 17,000 likes in less than two weeks on Instagram.[7] (entire collage shown below).



Reputation

Padilla is known as a successful brand strategist, who has consulted for celebrities, startups and Fortune 500 luxury brands. In 2016, Business Insider named him one of the 29 best people in advertising to follow on Instagram.[8]

Search Interest

External References

[1]Instagram – @adampadilla’s Post

[2]Instagram – "@adam.the.creator’s Post:https://www.instagram.com/p/pQIY87RdlE/

[3]Instagram – "@adam.the.creator’s Post:https://www.instagram.com/p/BBlbSB-xdmg/

[4]Instagram – "@adam.the.creator’s Post:https://www.instagram.com/p/yX_VmxxdjW/

[5]Instagram – @adam.the.creator’s Post

[6]Instagram – @adam.the.creator’s Post

[7]instagram – @adam.the.creator’s Post

[8]Business Insider – The 29 best people in advertising to follow on Instagram

[9]Instagram – @adam.the.creator’s Post

[10]Mashable – No, this Fisher-Price Happy Hour Playset isn’t real

Bad Teacher

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About

Bad Teacher refers to a snowclone spread on Twitter in which an initially unidentified speaker offers to teach a lesson on a certain topic. Then, experts in that topic respond with nervous actions. The punchline is the reveal of who is teaching the lesson.

Origin

On December 31st, 2017, Twitter user @holiday805[1] wrote the first variation of the meme, using memebers of the K-pop girl group Girls’ Generation, gaining over 280 retweets and 480 likes (shown below).

Spread

Various Examples

Search Interest

External References

[1]Twitter – holiday805

Kids Describe God to an Illustrator

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Kids Describe God to an Illustrator is a series of exploitable images based on a viral video in which kids tell an illustrator what they believe God’s appearance to be and the illustrator sketches their description. Online, people photoshop images of different cultural figures over the illustrator’s work for humorous effect.

Origin

On April 21st, 2017, the YouTube[1] account Cut published a video entitled “Kids Describe God to an Illustrator.” The video (shown below) features a series of children envisioning God’s appearance, telling an illustrator and having the artist draw their descriptions. As of January 2018, the video has received more than 7 millions views.



The earliest iteration of the video being used as an exploitable occurred on April 22nd. That day, Redditor[2] LuxurySpaVirtual posted a moment from the video with Daniel from the Damn Daniel viral video as the illustration (shown below) in the /r/dank_meme subreddit.[2]



Spread

Three days later, on April 25th, Instagram user @leagueofnicolai posted to variations of the meme featuring League of Legends players Tyler1 and Faker (shown below, left and center, resepectively. The second, featuring Faker, received more than 400 likes as of January 2018.[3][4]

Four months later on August 9th, Redditor ZajdiPaji posted a variation featuring Filthy Frank. Within five months, the post (shown below, right) received more tahn 220 points (91% upvoted).



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Stream Sniping

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Stream Sniping, sometimes referred to as Ghosting, are internet slang terms referring to the practice of viewing a video game player’s livestream to gain an advantage or discover them in game in order to prank, harass or kill them.

Origin

The exact origin of the term “stream sniping” is unknown. On November 13th, 2011, a post titled “What Is Stream Sniping?” was submitted to the Battle.net Forums.[5] In response, user Harharwa defined the term as the practice of viewing an opponent’s livestream in order to gain an advantage in a multiplayer video game.

Spread

On January 1st, 2014, Urban Dictionary[1] user TheGIR submitted an entry for “stream sniping,” defining it as the practice of using a video game streamer’s livestream in order “to find and harass them” (shown below).



On May 26th, 2016, YouTuber Vertiigo Gaming released a video titled “Raw Rust: Stream Sniping the Stream Snipers,” in which he discussed stream snipers raiding his base in the game Rust (shown below).



PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds

On July 26th, 2017, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds":http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/playerunknowns-battlegrounds (PUBG) streamers Shroud accused streamer Lotoe of stream sniping him in the game, leading to Lotoe being banned from the game. Lotoe subsequently disputed the ban, leading others to question how PUBG can prove that stream sniping had occurred.

On July 28th, Sammie Kang, the lead community manager for PUBG, published a forum post noting that stream sniping was against the game’s official rules of conduct, but noting that it was difficult to prove.[2] That day, YouTuber TotalBiscuit tweeted thoughts about the stream sniping controversy, arguing that streamers should play with a delay to solve the problem (shown below).[3]



On September 4th, YouTuber Cr1tikal uploaded a video titled “PUBG Stream Sniping,” in which he showed clips of stream sniping in the game against video of streamer Forsen sniped by people mic spamming references to ZULULWho Killed Captain Alex? in the game (shown below).



Search Interest

External References

[1]Urban Dictionary – stream sniping

[2]PlayBattleground – Regarding the current ban process

[3]Twitter – @TotalBiscuit

[4]Hackerbot.net Wiki – Ghosting and Stream Sniping

[5]Battle.net – What Is Stream Sniping


VanossGaming

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About

VanossGaming is the handle of internet personality, music producer, and video game commentator Evan Fong. He is most popular on YouTube, where he has over 22 million subscribers, the 26th highest total of subscribers on YouTube as of January 10th, 2018.

History

Fong was born in Toronto, Canada on May 31st, 1992.[1] According to Wikipedia, Fong launched his channel on September 15th, 2011. However, the oldest extant video on his channel is dated June 27th, 2012, gaining over 4.7 million views (shown below, left). A typical VanossGaming video features him going through funny moments of popular video games such as Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty. In July of 2013, Fong appeared on camera for the first time as a celebration of getting 1 million subscribers.



In 2014, Fong was nominated at The Game Awards for the Trending Gamer award. In January of 2015, Fong was profiled by CBC[2] as one of the most popular members of the YouTube Let’s Play community. It was estimated that at the time, Fong was making over $300,000 per month. In July of 2015, the game Dead Realm, for which Fong served as creative director, was released on Steam. In November of 2016, Fong starred in the YouTube Red series Paranormal Action Squad alongside other YouTubers Adam Montoya and Scott Robinson.



As a musician, Fong has produced under the name Rynx. He has a dedicated channel for his music work.



Online Presence

Outside of YouTube, Fong also has a large following on Twitter, where he has over 2.88 million followers.[3] The Vanossgaming subreddit[4] has over 790 subscribers.

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Here Lies Beavis. He Never Scored.

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Here Lies Beavis. He Never Scored. is an exploitable image based on a scene from the 6th season of the 1992 MTV television series Beavis and Butt-Head.

Origin

On December 19, 1995, MTV aired the the seventh episode of the 6th season of Beavis and Butt-Head entitled “Huh-Huh-Humbug”.[1] The episode, a parody of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, sees Beavis, the Ebenezer Scrooge-like manager of local fast-food restaurant Burger World, being visited by 3 ghosts protrayed by Tom Anderson, Mr. Van Driessen and Coach Buzzcut as he attempts to watch a pornographic film. In one scene, set in a graveyard, Beavis reads his own tombstone’s epitaph witch says “Here Lies Beavis. He Never Scored”.

Spread

On October 25, 2011, Jeff Wysaski posted 18 Halloween-themed gifs on his blog Pleated Jeans, one of which was a gif of the scene.[2]

On May 26, 2014, YouTube user Jim Jesus posted a video mashing up the scene with the video posted by the perpertrator of the 2014 Isla Vista killings, Elliot Rodgers with the text on the tombstone changed to read “Here Lies Elliot. He Never Scored”. As of January 10, 2018, the video has received 11,866 views 191 likes and 23 dislikes.[3]

Various examples


External References

[1]Wikipedia – List of Beavis and Butt-Head episodes

[2]Pleated Jeans – GIF Dump: Halloween Edition

[3][YTP] HERELIESELLIOT. HE NEVERSCORED.

MF DOOM

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About

MF DOOM is the alter ego and stage name of English-born rapper and producer Daniel Dumile. He is mostly known for his “super villain” persona and distinct lyrical style.

History

Dumile first appeared as Zed Love X in the rap trio KMD (“Kausing Much Damage”, or “A positive Kause in a Much Damaged society”). Their second album, Black Bastards (or Bl_ck B_st_rds), came out in 1993, but was quickly shelved afterwards due to its controversial album art and lyrics. KMD was dropped by their label in the same year, along with Dumile departing from the hip-hop scene.[1]


He returned as MF DOOM in 1999, together with his debut solo album Operation: Doomsday. The record received critical acclaim from music reviewers and numerous album reissues.[2] From the album art, his character wears a mask and costume similar to the popular Marvel Comics super villain Doctor Doom.


Since then, he has released solo albums under the MF DOOM name along with many other aliases, such as King Geedorah (from Take Me to Your Leader) [shown below, left] and Viktor Vaughn (from Vaudeville Villain and Venomous Villain). He also has several collaborative projects with artists such as Danger Mouse (as DANGERDOOM) [shown below, right] and Ghostface Killah (as DOOMSTARKS).


During his appearances and performances, he would wear a mask based on a prop helmet from the movie Gladiator to conceal his identity.[3] This later became a staple to his character.




Madvillainy

Madvillainy is the debut album of the collaborative group Madvillain, comprising of MF DOOM (as MC) and Madlib (as producer). It is considered to be one of the most critically acclaimed undergroup hip-hop & rap albums of all time, according to both critics and fans of either artists.



Online Presence

The rapper has a high following on social media, with over 745,000 likes on his official Facebook page[4] and 105,000 followers on his Instagram account.[5] His subreddit, /r/MFDOOM, has more than 7,000 subscribers.[6] He also has several posts on 4chan’s/mu/ board,[7]Tumblr, [8] and Reddit[8] related to him.



Many of his albums have gained critical acclaim not only from critics and fans, but also from other rappers, often being called “your favorite rapper’s favorite rapper.” Famous music critic Anthony Fantano claims Madvillainy to be the “most celebrated abstract hip-hop album ever,” and very influential to future emcees. Vox featured his songs in their video essay on the deconstruction of rap music, stating that he uses his verses “like a villain would use his super power.”



Reputation

MF DOOM keeps his personal life and appearance very private, with only little to no footage of his actual face. He was also known to intentionally send impostors to perform for him in live shows.[1] His son, Malachi Ezekiel Dumile, died on December 18, 2017 (picture below).[10]



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Get Out of My Car

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About

Get Out of My Car is a series of video remixes based on the animated short (of the same name) by Zach Hadel, also known by his online handle PsychicPebbles.

Origin

The animation was based on an earlier video posted on July 7, 2016 (below, right), where the woman was recording the driver screaming at her, with his reasons being her lack of punctuality and cooperation. The recording currently has over 1.68 million views and 57,000 dislikes, as she was the one who posted the recording herself.



Zach uploaded the animated version of the clip on his YouTube channel on November 25, 2017, and was later reuploaded on his other accounts. The video currently has over 7.47 million views on YouTube, along with 371,000 views on Facebook[1] and 76,800 views on Newgrounds. [2]


Spread

The video has spawned several remixes and edits on YouTube. The earliest known and most viewed remix was posted on December 5, 2017 by YouTube user Wowtiy, gaining over 1.43 million views. On December, Things & Stuff uploaded an edited version of the video getting louder every time the driver says “car”, getting more than 615,000 views.



A Polish dub of the video was uploaded on December 31, 2017 by user Pawlikowe Fanduby, and currently has over 550,000 views.



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Search Interest

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[1]Facebook – psychicpebbles

[2]Newgrounds – GETOUT OF MY CAR

Obvious Plant

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About

Obvious Plant is a project created by Jeff Wysaski, in which he plants fake items such as posters, brochures, and products in various places.

History

Obvious Plant started as a Tumblr blog on January 4, 2015, with a “Wanted” poster for people to watch one “do sick judo moves in the park.” The post has over 94,000 notes as of January 2018.[1] The image was later posted in other accounts under the same name.[2][3] The project was officially announced on January 27, 2015 via Wysaski’s website Pleated Jeans, along with a fake brochure for a dad-themed amusement park called “Dad Land” being put in a tourist kiosk on Hollywood Boulevard.[4]




Some of the posters from his project have recently become available for sale in their official store in print and PDF.[12]




Reception

Since then, the project has gained a significant following with over 174,000 likes on its Facebook page,[5] along with 25,100 followers on Twitter[6] and more than 57,600 followers on Instagram. [7] His photos are frequently featured in the r/funny subreddit under the project’s name.[8] It has been features in several news articles and interviews from sites such as Fast Company,[9]NPR,[10] and BuzzFeed. [11]

Related Memes

Bernie or Hillary?

Bernie or Hillary? refers to a series of fake campaign posters supporting Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic Presidential Primary against Hillary Clinton in which Sanders is depicted as being more knowledgable than Clinton on a series of popular but apolitical topics.



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