4-Panel Exploitable Webcomics Of Things I Don’t Like are webcomics, typically with 4 panels, that can be exploited to make something seem bad.
Examples:
Bobby has Created the Opposite of Art
Firefighters Do Not Disturb
I Don’t Really Have Strong Opinions

About

Baba Vanga (Bulgarian: баба Ванга) (31 January 1911 – 11 August 1996), born Vangeliya Pandeva Dimitrova (Вангелия Пандева Димитрова), known after her marriage as Vangelia Gushterova (Вангелия Гущерова), was a blind Bulgarian mystic, clairvoyant, and herbalist, who spent most of her life in the Rupite area in the Kozhuh mountains in Bulgaria.

Online History

There isn’t much any online history before her death. After her death, her image is particularly popular in the Balkans and in Russia. Numerous Russian publications related to the mysterious prophetess have been published. The Great Encyclopedia of Vanga is a Russian online project, dedicated to her. The Russian social media and conspiracy theorists began documenting these prophecies and predictions, according to the Washington Post^[1].

Newsweek^[2] notes that tabloids have started fixated on the Vanga’s so-called. Conspiracy theorists have flocked to the woman’s long list of predictions, which appear to have no basis in evidence or fact. Though she died in the 1990s, tabloids report that she made claims about future events past the date of her death.

At the time, UK media has been busy documenting the rise of the Kardhasians, avoiding. Nine’s Pickle^[3] noted that she predicted “the rise of ISIS”, and has primed to become pop-culture’s go to psychic. Many conspiracy theorists say that she warned of the rise of an extremist Muslim army that would invade Europe, referring to the rise of ISIS.

According to The Sun^[4], she said that Europe would cease to exist by the end of 2016. Vanga’s fans claim that she was referring to Brexit. This is false either way, since both Europe and the European Union still exist.

However, the Daily Mail^[5] and others claimed she said that Barack Obama would be the “last American president,” which falsely led some to believe Donald Trump would never be sworn in. Although debunked, this prophecy may have been come to pass after all, as Vanga’s supporters pulled a new prediction straight out of their ass which claimed that the 45th president will be a “messianic personality” who will be faced with a crisis that will “bring the country down”, according to Metro UK^[6] and Daily Mirror^[7].

Towards the end of 2017, UK tabloids^[8] said that Vanga had two major predictions for the following year, where she states that China will become the world’s next “superpower,” taking over from the US, and “a new form of energy” will be discovered on Venus.

Reputation

Vanga is best known as a healer and a clairvoyant for her predictions, dubbed the “Nostradamus from the Balkans”.

Journal Metro^[8] claimed that some evidence has also been presented that Baba Vanga did not make many of the predictions now attributed to her, but rather people frequently attribute new fake “prophecies” to her since her death, and the lack of a written record of her prophecies, makes any prediction attributed to her difficult to disprove.

She is said to have predicted the Kursk submarine disaster by saying the city will be under water, and the world would be weeping over it. She is also claimed to have foretold of 9/11 by claiming “two steel birds” would attack the “American brethren.”

She reportedly said: “Horror, horror! The American brethren will fall after being attacked by the steel birds. The wolves will be howling in a bush and innocent blood will be gushing.”

She was also said to have foreseen the failure of the Russian Phobos-Grunt spacecraft among other things when she said numerous disasters will “shake the world,” and “the mentality of the people will change.”

Other future events Vanga warned the world about include the end of world hunger by 2028, Mars’ colonies gaining nuclear weapons by 2256 and Earth becoming unhabitable from 2341. Russian nationalists say that she foretold the rise of Russia under the man she called Vladimir.

She reportedly said on PravdaReport^[10]: “Everything will melt away like ice yet the glory of Vladimir, the glory of Russia are the only things that will remain. Russia will not only survive, it will dominate the world.”

Personal Life

According to VICE Broadly^[11], the reporter notes that Baba Vanga is very “right-wing and reactionary and xenophobic,” wondering if she is a racist, when asked by a fellow Bulgarian clairvoyant, Madame Vanya.

Her own testimony stated that a turning point in her life occurred when a ‘tornado’ allegedly lifted her into the air and threw her in a nearby field. She was found after a long search. Witnesses described her as very frightened, and her eyes were covered with sand and dust, she was unable to open them because of the pain. There was money only for a partial operation to heal the injuries she had sustained, This resulted in a gradual loss of sight.

In 1925 Vanga was brought to a school for the blind in the city of Zemun, in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, where she spent three years, and was taught to read Braille, play the piano, as well as do knitting, cooking, and cleaning.

In 1939 Vanga contracted pleurisy.

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^[1]Washington Post – Fair warning: Bulgarian prophet predicted Obama would be last U.S. president

^[2]Newsweek – BABA VANGA’S 2018 ‘PREDICTIONS’: WHY WE LOVEPROPHECIESANDDOOMSDAYSTORIES

^[3]Nine Pickle – No, a blind Bulgarian psychic didn’t predict Muslim extremists will start WWIII in 2016

^[4]The Sun – EURKIDDING, RIGHT? Did the blind mystic who predicted 9/11 also predict Brexit… and suggest a WAR in Europe would follow?

^[5]Daily Mail – What does Baba Vanga know? Blind Bulgarian clairvoyant who predicted 9/11 and Islamic State’s rise to power warned Barack Obama will be the ‘last US president’

^[6]Metro UK – Baba Vanga was right about Trump. But will the 45th president be ‘peacemaker’?

^[7]The Daily Mirror – Was blind mystic Baba Vanga’s prediction about Syria conflict, nuclear warfare and WW3 just off by a year?

^[8]The Sun – Who is Baba Vanga? The woman who predicted Brexit, 9/11 and the rise of ISIS has two major predictions for 2018

^[9]Journal Metro – Non, la «voyante» bulgare Baba Vanga n’a pas prédit une guerre mondiale en 2016

^[10]PravdaReport – Legendary Bulgarian prophetess Vanga predicted most horrible catastrophes

^[11]VICE Broadly – We Asked the Spirit of a Famous, Dead Clairvoyant What’s Going to Happen in 2017

Overview

Occupy Silicon Valley will be a forthcoming series of anti-tech Luddite protests in Silicon Valley that seek to resolve inequality across the tech sector. It will be a sequel of sorts to Occupy Silicon Valley.

Background

On May 22th, 2011, CNBC^[1] reports that Bank of America Merrill Lynch released a report titled “Occupy Silicon Valley.”

According to chief investment strategist Michael Hartnett, the tech stock rally “could ultimately lead to populist calls for redistribution of the increasingly concentrated wealth of Silicon Valley,” as more people are being left behind economically despite the massive expansion of global digital technology business.

In August, OZY^[2] published an article and video about activist Van Jones on why they should occupy Silicon Valley. He said that robots are coming to take away jobs, and making humans lazy in the long run.

On January 10th, 2018, the blog of Sinead Bovell^[3] posted an article on why Occupy Silicon Valley is on the horizon. It noted minor ripples of an Occupy Silicon Valley state, namely the backlash against Twitter and Facebook over the election tampering, the increasing concern over privacy, the boycott threatening-calls to tech firms to side with leftist political personnel and social movements.

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^[1]CNBC– Occupy Silicon Valley: The next populist movement may be aimed at tech wealth, report says

^[2]OZY– Van Jones on Why ‘Occupy Silicon Valley’ Could Be Next

^[3]Sinead Bovell – Occupy Silicon Valley: A Tech Lash On The Horizon

Overview

Phobosgate is the name describing the overlooked controversy about the activities surrounding the failed Russian Fobos-Grunt spacecraft on Wikipedia. While it appears to be a deliberate long-term disruptive trolling and vandalism and a conspiracy theory claiming that Fobos-Grunt butterflied into the Donald Trump presidency and everyone is against one, it represents one of the first Russian influence efforts on the Internet and predates the 2016 US election meddling.

This controversy, along with Gamergate, helped create the Internet culture that ultimately propelled Donald Trump into the U.S. presidency as one of the most reactionary and extremist ever elected, and raised the issue of digital technology addiction.

Background

In November 2011, the Russians managed to get a space probe, called Fobos-Grunt into low Earth orbit, just short of their goal of fucking Mars. Thanks to incompetence, coupled with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s corruption and inadvertent sabotage, it plunged shortly thereafter into the ocean like so many Russian mob victims. According to Space.com^[1], the spacecraft’s untimely demise set off a flurry of conflicting media reports and conspiracy theories. One of these, however, surprised nobody and interested at least two people at the most, one of whom was Starkiller88, a sockpuppet of Bryan Seecrets, as the Encyclopedia Dramatica article^[2] pointed out.

Phobosgate appeared on Wikipedia shortly after Fobos-Grunt’s demise. According to the Administrators’ Noticeboard/Incident report on Starkiller88^[3], between late January and early April, a large number of IP users began adding unreferenced OR, speculative and POV statements to the Fobos-Grunt article. In April the page was semi-protected after the issue was raised at AN3 by Wikipedian BatteryIncluded, who is very right-wing and reactionary and xenophobic, and had a long history of incivility, personal attacks and harassment, after he added it with a reference to a state-run news site, part of the Kremlin’s mouthpiece for Putin’s agenda spewing out fake news. When the editor added the fact that no further Fobos missions were planned, Starkiller turned up, and started making similar edits to those the IPs had been, going fucking batshit.

Initially, he seems to have been insistent on adding claims that the Fobos-Grunt mission would not be repeated, and that it’s project team had been disbanded, based on speculation that Russia was about to join the European ExoMars programme. After a while, this effectively came to pass, so he started taking the opposite position; that the mission would be repeated, based on the opinion of a single scientist. He tried desperately to rationalize hope for a future mission, pointing to the fact that the website for the project had yet to be taken down, ignoring the fact that crashing a couple hundred million dollars of government property into the ocean might keep you from updating a webpage for a few days. Statements pointing to the contrary were ignored entirely, or read and forgotten moments later as his claims were repeatedly removed by a number of editors. He kept adding these same claims, and attempts to discuss the issue at the article’s talk page proved fruitless. Eventually, BatteryIncluded made a series of posts on Starkiller’s talk page in an effort to get him to stop claiming that the repeat mission was planned, however this simply caused Starkiller’s imbecile brain to strain itself to make himself the victim in the situation. Incapable of defending his actions, he immediately went into offensive mode, claiming at every possible opportunity and with as much emphasis as possible, that there would never be another mission to Phobos, at any point in the future.

Developments

He decided that this was a case for Anonymous, and proceeded to make a twitter account and a shit LiveJournal clone account, in addition to the obligatory Youtube video and AnonNews posting, making it look like to the Wikipedia community that he was inciting criminal and vigilante activities against third parties (in reality he was planning to conduct a series of anti-Russia and anti-Putin activities) in order to make the claims he is adding to these articles genuine. Surprisingly, Anonymous was too busy working out their high school traumas on a couple of Ohio football players to help Starkiller88 get revenge on a Wikipedia bully. Despite having no support whatsoever, and having done exactly nothing to further the operation, Starkiller88 decided his efforts deserved to be documented on Wikipedia. In addition to the claims about the scientists behind the mission being wanted for treason, he started adding claims about a planned Anonymous operation, entitled “Phobos-Gone” aimed at taking down the Fobos-Grunt website, and conducting vigilante acts to “bring those responsible for the failure to justice”; an anti-Russia campaign to redress the injustice of a Russian rocketry club being closed following a programming error left a $163 million dollar space probe stuck in low earth orbit, a firable offense in most office settings. This campaign was evidenced by only a twitter account and a shit LiveJournal knockoff journal, but that didn’t stop Starkiller88 from adding claims up to cover the whole affair, accompanied by one or two references which linked to user-generated content on Pastebin, to these articles. He also created four redirects relating to the alleged campaign, before admitting in broken, near unreadable prose during the resulting RfD discussion^[4] that he himself made the whole thing up by starting the Twitter feed and the journal the claims were based upon. He said he was forced to do so in retaliation for a mildly incivil post that BatteryIncluded made on his talk page after he had repeatedly stonewalled more polite requests to stop being disruptive. Making this point also appears to have been the cause of his insistence that there would never be another mission to Phobos. Being a figment of Starkiller’s imagination, this article met with the same fate as many of his previous contributions, speedy deletion.

During the debate, Starkiller admitted to BatteryIncluded that he had concocted the operation to get back at him. BatteryIncluded told him to double or triple his medication intake, sage advice given the circumstances. Starkiller88 took it personal. He started vandalizing Battery’s page, calling him stupid and comparing him to a computer virus, and then pleading with same user to save his ass before engaging in serious nonsensical harassment in which he said to have claimed a compulsion to vandalize and blamed him for infecting his computer with malware. He was banned shortly thereafter by administrators Boing! said Zebedee and Dennis Brown, both of which use personal attacks and lies, in other words, Russian propaganda laced with dark statements, to justify the ban. BatteryIncluded gave him a kitten, with a death threat disguised as a message to “get well”, which means “go die”.

Phobosgate didn’t end on Wikipedia, but continued to be the influence on not only the encyclopedia, but also the entire Internet.

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^[1]Space.com – Russian Mars Probe Crash Sets Off Confusion

^[2]Starkiller88 – Encyclopedia Dramatica

^[3]User:Starkiller88 ANI

^[4]Redirects for Discussion: Operation Fobos-Gone

Paid by Steve is a popular meme in LoLESports, originating from Twitch chat. On June 10th, 2017 one Team Liquid fan decided to repeatedly cheer for his favorite team, despite that they were losing in the series. Other viewers mocked the fan by claiming he was ‘paid’ to cheer for Team Liquid. The actual phrase “Paid by Steve” was used later that year, and was then parroted on Twitter by Cloud 9 CEO Jack Etienne. The idea that everything in the universe is actually ‘paid by steve’ now has legitimate credence, as Team Liquid has signed more players to their roster than the total number of decent players in the EU LCS and the LPL combined.

Super Bow Halftime Show entertainment featuring Justin Timberlake and the tide pod eating selfie kid.

Its a king dawid meme, nothing much to see here…

About

Justin Timberlake’s Super Bowl Halftime Show Selfie Kid refers to a child who became involved in pop singer Justin Timberlake’s halftime show at Super Bowl LII when Timberlake went into the crowd and stood next to the child for the remainder of his set. During the performance, the child went to take a selfie with Timberlake, leading to a series of jokes on Twitter featuring the child looking at his phone and people imagine what he might be looking at.

Origin

On February 4th, 2018, Justin Timberlake performed the halftime show at Super Bowl LII. During his final song, “Can’t Stop the Feeling,” Timberlake went into the crowd and sang next to a young boy. Viewers felt the boy seemed awkward and unsure of what to do with himself next to Timberlake. At one point during the song, the boy pulled out his phone, apparently to open his camera to get a selfie of himself with Timberlake.

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Bobby Has Created the Opposite of Art is an exploitablewebcomics created by Extra Fabulous Comics in which an art teacher tells a class that anything can be art. He then looks at a character named Bobby’s drawing and declares “Bobby has created the opposite of art.” What Bobby has drawn is changed in the variations.

Origin

On November 20th, 2017, Extra Fabulous Comics creator “Zach” uploaded a black-and-white drawing of the comic to /r/comics,^[1] where it gained over 7,100 upvotes (shown below).

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The following day, the comic was posted to /r/MemeEconomy,^[2] where it gained 22 upvotes. On January 31st, 2018, Zach published a colorized version of the comic to each of his social media outlets (shown below).

The following day, the comic was turned into an exploitable. On February 1st, Redditor Razgrl277^[3] uploaded a variation that gained 3,300 upvotes (shown below, left). The same day, Imgur user FHM4^[4] uploaded a template for the image.

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Piers Morgan Rimming Donald Trump Cartoon refers to an illustration of British talk show host Piers Morgan which his face buried in the bare butt of President Donald Trump that Morgan tweeted several times in outrage, claiming it was a double standard that the BBC could broadcast that image but would not do the same if it was of high-profile women. That Morgan repeatedly tweeted the image drew reactions online, as people found the event humorous.

Background

On February 2nd, 2018, British satirical news television show The Mash ran a segment about Morgan’s interview with Trump prior to the President’s State of the Union address. Commentator Rachel Parris showed the body language in a typical political interview with an illustration of a politician and journalist talking to each other face to face, then compared it to Morgan’s interview with Trump with a picture of Morgan’s face in Trump’s butt.

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Adam Warski is a nickname given to YouTuber Andy Warski in tweets falsely claiming he would be attacking the Hasbro over rumors that the company was employing pedophiles.

Origin

On December 31st, 2017, YouTuber Andywarski uploaded a clip from a live podcast in which several other YouTubers discussed sending tweets directed to the @HasbroNews Twitter feed over accusations of pedophilia by Wizards of the Coast judges employed by the company levied by YouTuber Jeremy Hambly (shown below).

After urging viewers to tweet at the company, YouTuber Mister Metokur stated that viewers should post false tweets claiming that Warski was “coming to kill them.” The guests subsequently began reading the tweets, which included an example that incorrectly named Andy as “Adam.” That day, Warski tweeted “I am… Adam Warski” (shown below).^[2]

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That evening, Warski posted a tweet to @HasbroNews^[4] claiming “I am not planning anything” and that he was “being memed by @WeWuzMetokur” (shown below).

Also on December 31st, Twitter user @WildSmiled^[3] posted a photoshop of Sam Hyde superimposed with Warski’s face (shown below).

On January 1st, 2018, a thread about the Adam Warski meme was submitted to 4chan’s /pol/ board. On February 4th, YouTuber Ken Ashcorp uploaded a parody music video referencing the meme (shown below).

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#WithABuckFiftyAWeek refers to tweets making fun of a tweet by Paul Ryan in which he celebrated a story about a public high school employee seeing a raise of $1.50 a week as a result of Ryan’s signature legislation, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. The tweet was mocked with the hashtag #WithABuckFiftyAWeek, in which people stated the various different, inconsequential things they could accomplish with an extra dollar and fifty cents a week.

Origin

On February 3rd, 2018, Ryan tweeted^[1] a link to a story from AP News saying workers were starting to see larger paychecks following the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (shown below).^[2] Ryan celebrated a tidbit in the story about Julia Ketchum, a secretary at a public high school in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who said her pay went up $1.50 a week, or $78 a year, “which she said will more than cover her Costco membership for the year.” Ryan’s tweet has since been deleted.

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Online, people quickly mocked the tweet for its boastfulness about the modest gain while economists still believe it will add $1.5 trillion to the national debt while giving tax breaks to billionaires. Twitter user @nickiknowsnada^[3] tweeted that with the extra money she could take a bus to a Panera, then busk outside that Panera until she has enough money to eat at that Panera (shown below, left). Twitter user @Darlene40968981^[4] said that the extra dollar-fifty would help her pay off her mortgage in 29 years and 11 months instead of 30 years, gaining over 270 retweets (shown below, right).

The tweets were covered by Daily Dot^[5] and Uproxx.^[6] Ryan’s primary challenger in Wisconsin Randy Bryce used the opportunity to call for donations of $1.50 to his campaign (shown below).

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Doritos “Lady-friendly” Chips Controversy refers to the backlash and discussion around a planned release of Doritos chips from PepsiCo that will crunch quieter, not have flavoring that stick to fingers, and not have as many crumbs in the bottom of the bag. The reasoning behind the product is that it is more socially acceptable for men to eat Doritos in a more grotesque manner, involving licking their fingers and pouring crumbs into their mouth, and PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi wished to repackage the product so that women would not have to engage in that traditionally unfeminine behavior.

Background

On January 31st, 2018, PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi interviewed with Freakonomics^[1] and discussed the introduction of “lady-friendly” Doritos. Speaking to Stephen Dubner, Nooyi said:

DUBNER: I understand that men and women eat chips very differently. Can you tell us the differences?

NOOYI: When you eat out of a flex bag -- one of our single-serve bags -- especially as you watch a lot of the young guys eat the chips, they love their Doritos, and they lick their fingers with great glee, and when they reach the bottom of the bag they pour the little broken pieces into their mouth, because they don’t want to lose that taste of the flavor, and the broken chips in the bottom. Women would love to do the same, but they don’t. They don’t like to crunch too loudly in public. And they don’t lick their fingers generously and they don’t like to pour the little broken pieces and the flavor into their mouth.

DUBNER: So is there a male and female version of chips that you’re playing with, or no?

NOOYI: It’s not a male and female as much as “are there snacks for women that can be designed and packaged differently?” And yes, we are looking at it, and we’re getting ready to launch a bunch of them soon. For women, low-crunch, the full taste profile, not have so much of the flavor stick on the fingers, and how can you put it in a purse? Because women love to carry a snack in their purse. The whole design capability we built in PepsiCo was to allow design to work with innovation. Not just on packaging colors, but to go through the entire cycle, and say, “All the way to the product in the pantry, or how it’s being carried around, or how they eat it in the car, or drink it in the car, what should be the design of the product, the package, the experience, so that we can influence the entire chain?”

Developments

The interview did not start spreading online until it was covered by The New York Post on February 5th, 2018.^[2] After the New York Post tweeted a link to their article,^[3] the link was shared with commentary from people who found the product insulting. It reminded some of the Bic’s For Her Pen controversy when Bic created pens that were needlessly sorted by gender. Twitter user @Manglewood joked that she would be writing an angry letter to Doritos using the Bic For Her pen, gaining over 230 retweets and 1,500 likes (shown below, left). Twitter user @Moj_kobe tweeted an image of uncooked tortillas, demonstrating what “less crunchy chips” would look like, gaining over 40 retweets and 240 likes (shown below, right).

Most coverage focused on the outraged reactions to the news. Buzzfeed,^[4] Chicago Tribune,^[5] Independent,^[6] and others covered the reactions.

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“We Were on the Verge of Greatness” is a memorable quote from the 2016 space opera film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which spawned an image macro series featuring a screenshot of the scene.

Origin

In the film Rogue One, which premiered on December 10th, 2016, the character Galen Orso is confronted by the character Orson Krennic, who attempts to persuade Orso by saying "We were on the verge of greatness, we were this close to providing peace and security for the galaxy (shown below).

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On September 20th, 2017, Redditor XGonGiveItToYaX submitted a screenshot of a Reddit post with 69 upvotes and 421 comments, followed by the screencap of Krennic speaking the line to /r/PrequelMemes^[2] (shown below).

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Bahb the Tomeetoo is a parody of the VeggieTales character, Bob the tomato, voiced by Phil Vischer. From the Christmas special, The Star of Christmas, Bob and Larry are portrayed as English playwrights finishing a script for a play, The Princess and the Plumber. During the events of the episode, a local church is putting on a children’s Christmas Pagent featuring the fabled Star of Christmas. As Bob and Larry are attempting to draw Prince Fredrick to their musical, he won’t come unless he sees the Star of Christmas. Bob then grins a mischievous smile across his mug, giving the smirk face.

YouTuber Schaffrillas Productions uploaded a YouTube Poop Chrismas special, titled “YTP: Bahb and Lahree Resurrect Prince With the Power of the Holy Grail”:
https://youtu.be/fOVErX-cM-M
The video above is what provided the meme its takeoff point and climbed into the internet.

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Finally, Some Good Fucking Food refers to an image macro of Gordon Ramsay from his television show Kitchen Nightmares in which he says, “Delicious. Finally some good fucking food.” The image is usually paired with what appears to be inedible or gross things to eat. Additionally, letters in the text can be blacked out to create a new phrase.

Origin

The line comes from Season 5, Episode 1 of Kitchen Nightmares in which Ramsay attends Blackberry’s. The episode aired September 23rd, 2011.^[1] In the episode, Ramsay takes a bite of red velvet cake before saying the line (shown below).

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The line did not become a meme until several years later, starting in the summer of 2017. One of the earliest known posts to use the line in an image macro appeared August 4th, 2017 on /r/dankmemes. On that day, user CautionVeryDank^[2] uploaded the line next to a picture of plastic food, gaining over 2,100 points.

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Parody Donald Trump “Dow Joans” Tweet refers to a viral image of a parody of United States President Donald Trump’s Twitter account. The tweet, which referenced a stock market crash from February 2018, parodies the frequent contradictions found between President Trump’s prior tweets and his current-day positions.

Origin

On February 5th, 2018, Twitter user @ShaunUsher tweeted,^[1]“There’s *always* a tweet.” Underneath the caption, he posted a mock tweet by President Donald Turmp that reads, " If the Dow Joans ever falls more than 1000 ‘points’ in a Single Day the sitting president should be ‘loaded’ into a very big cannon and Shot into the sun at TREMENDOUSSPEED! No excuses!" The post (shown below) received more than 22,000 retweets and 48,000 likes in 24 hours.

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Shortly after @ShaunUsher tweeted the image, people believed the tweet to be real. That day, Twitter^[2] user @jmdono60 tweeted (shown below, left), “OMG, did the dumb SOB really spell it ‘Joans’?” Others joked with @ShaunUsher’s tweet. Twitter^[3] user @tldevaney tweeted (shown below, center), “He was talking about the Dow Joans though. Joan Dow and her sister-in-law Joan Dow will not be let down!”

However, some online commented on how the fact the people believe this tweet is a testament to the trend of Trump’s tweets contradicting his position. Twitter^[4] user @jules_su tweeted, “imagine living in such a fucked up reality that you absolutely HAVE TO look up this tweet to make sure its fake.” The tweet (shown below, right) received more than 745 retweets and 153,000 likes in 24 hours.

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“Nod to the Rhythm” refers to a song by musician Das Anders used to promote an app where one can upload a photo and through digital manipulation make it appear as though the photo is nodding along to the song. The site has inspired many variations featuring different characters.

Origin

In late January, 2018, musician Das Anders created NodToTheRhythm.com,^[1] a website where one can upload a photo and watch it “nod along” to the automatically-playing titular song. That day, he uploaded footage of an old man moving to the song to show off the software (shown below).

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In the following days, more animations using the software appeared on YouTube. An edit featuring Pope John Paul II gained over 5,700 views (shown below, left). Another featuring a digitally altered photo of a man gained 3,200 views (shown below, right).

The meme has grown popular on Reddit, where several creators have uploaded edits featuring different characters. For example, an edit featuring Ben Swolo gained 15 upvotes.^[3] An edit featuring a League of Legends bard gained 49 upvotes. The Daily Dot^[2] covered the videos on February 6th, 2018.

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Kian Lawley N-Word Controversy refers to the firing of actor and YouTuber Kian Lawley from the 20th Century Fox film The Hate U Give, after a YouTube video of the actor saying the N-word and other racists comments resurfaced.

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