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Yes, We Exist refers to a snowclone jokes which grew popular on Twitter in late February of 2018. In the snowclone, a person states a facet of their identity, then says they do something which completely contradicts that identity, and ends the tweet with “We exist.”

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On February 25th, 2018, Twitter user @KelseyFionaBich^[1] posted a tweet which read “yes i’m vegan. yes i eat meat. we exist.”

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“Only One Business in the Galaxy Gets You This Rich” is a memorable quote uttered by the character Rose Tico (played by Kelly Marie Tran) in the 2017 science fiction opera film Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Online, a screen-capture from the scene has been used in an exploitable featuring the quote as a set up to various jokes about absurd professions.

Origin

On December 14th, 2017, the film Star Wars: The Last Jedi was released in theaters in the United States. In the film, the character Rose Tico tells one of the film’s protagonists Finn (played by John Boyega) “only one business in the galaxy gets you this rich,” when discussing the planet Canto Bight’s industry of war profiteering.

Two weeks later, on December 28th, HugeLOL^[1] user SeniorTacos posted a screen-capture of the moment above an image from the 1999 film Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace. The post (shown below) received more than 230 points in two months.

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Two days, later a variation of the meme was posted on the /r/CODZombiessubreddit. On December 30th, Redditor^[2] duducukier posted the image above of the Call of Duty“double points” image. The post (shown below, left) received more than 865 points (96% upvoted) and 30 comments in two months.

That day, an anonymous 9GAG^[3] user posted a version of the image with a photoshopped image of Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi at a strip club in the bottom panel. The post (shown below, center) received more than 4,900 points in two months.

The following month, on February 23rd, Redditor^[4] Jsherry21 posted the image above a still from a commercial for “Jones BBQ and Foot Massage” in the /r/MemeEconomy subreddit. The post (shown below, right) received more than 21,600 points (91% upvoted) and 150 comments.

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Coconut Gun refers to a line from the “DK Rap” from the video game Donkey Kong64 that reads ""His Coconut Gun can fire in spurts // If he shoots ya, it’s gonna hurt." The line started becoming a meme after it was featured in a popular video by SiIvaGunner.

Origin

Donkey Kong 64 was released on November 22nd, 2009.^[1] The game plays a rap at the beginning which became famous after its release (shown below). The line appears in the song in reference to the title character.

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The line became a meme following a video by SiIvaGunner from May 24th, 2016 which repeated and emphasized the line about the coconut gun. The video gained over 1.2 million views (shown below).

On June 24th, 2016, YouTuber Chirbeef uploaded a video pairing the song with the video for the song, gaining over 76,000 views (shown below, left). On November 30th, 2016, YouTuber Burgoton uploaded a remix of the song with “Feel Good Inc.” by the Gorillaz that gained over 28,000 views.

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Starco is the shipping name for the fan-speculated and discussed romantic relationship between the characters Star and Marco from the animated television series Star vs. The Forces of Evil.

Origin

On July 24th, 2014, Star Vs. The Forces of Evil was announced at San Diego Comic-Con. ^[1] Shortly after the preview, fans began producing fan art of the characters.

Less than a month later, on August 23rd, DeviantArt^[2] user markmak posted one of the earliest images of the characters Star Butterfly and Marco Diaz together. The image “Star Butterfly and Marco Diaz” (shown below, left) received more than 24,000 views in less than four years.

Weeks later on September 13th, markmak posted^[3] another image called “Starco” in which Star, who is carrying Marco, asks, “He followed me home, can I keep him?” The image (shown below, right) is the earliest known usage of the ship name “Starco” and received more than 34,000 views in less than four years.

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On January 13th, 2015, Wattpad^[4] user published a shipping fan-fiction story entitled "Memorable Family First Impressions. The story as of February 2018 has been read more than 7,500 times.

Two days later, Wattpad^[5] user KietLyanh published the story “Starco – Một Câu Chuyện Tình,” which translates from Vietnamese to “Starco – A Love Story.” Within three years, the story has been read more than 1,000 times.

Within days of the show’s premiere on January 18th, 2015, fans began posting compilations of the two character together. On January 20th, 2015, YouTuber^[6] Kiwikat posted a compilation of moments from the first episode, “Star Comes to Earth,” set to the Katy Perry song “E.T.” The video (shown below) received more than 4,400 views as of February 2018.

Several months later, YouTuber^[7] Denise Butterfly published another compilation entitled “Starco- I think i’m in love.” The post (shown below, right) received more than 921,000 views in over two years.

On July 18th, 2016, the episode “Mr Candle Cares” aired on Disney XD. In the episode, the school guidance counselor mentions Starco by name, referring to his plan to break up the “smooch buddies” Marco and Star (clip below).^[8]

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AR-15 Stands For refers to a snowclone parodying pro-gun advocates following the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting who corrected those that believed the “AR” in AR 15 stands for “Assault Rifle” when in fact it stands for “ArmaLite rifle.” In parodies, people claim various absurd things “AR” could stand for.

Origin

Discussions about banning the AR-15 grew prevalent after its use in several mass shootings, leading to a misconception that “AR” stood for “assault rifle.” Pro-gun advocates on Twitter corrected the misnomer by stating it stands for “Armalite,” the company that manufactured the gun. The increased discussion of the weapon after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting, in which the killer used an AR-15, saw further misnaming of the weapon, and in turn, increased corrections from pro-gun advocates. Many of these advocates made the point that people who don’t know the correct name of the gun should not be attempting to regulate it.

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https://twitter.com/BuckyIsotope/status/965432009253203968

https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/965311491149893633

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Teacher Guns is a series of image macros featuring jokes about the types of firearms a variety of firearms are designed for. The series references a debate over whether school teachers should be armed to prevent mass shootings, which began circulating online in February 2018 following the Marjory Stoneman Douglass High School shooting in Parkland, Florida.

Origin

On February 21st, 2018, United States President Donald Trump held a “listening session” with survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. During the event, a parent raised the question of arming teachers with concealed firearms, to which Trump responded that it was “certainly a point we will discuss.” The following day, Trump tweeted that he “never said ‘give teachers guns’,” claimed he only and referred to the news outlets CNN and NBC as “fake news” (shown below).^[2]

On February 25th, 2018, Redditor Rulesy submitted a photograph of a man screwing a silencer on a pistol with the caption “When you start your job as the school librarian” in a post titled “Arm the teachers” (shown below). Within four days, the post gathered upwards of 33,300 points (89% upvoted) and 300 comments on /r/dankmemes.^[6]

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On February 25th, Redditor kremor submitted a post asking “What’s the deal with all the post/memes about teachers with guns?” to /r/OutOfTheLoop.^[3] On February 27th, Redditor Under_Score submitted an image macro titled “Arming School Staff,” featuring a pistol labeled “Teachers” above a pistol with a silencer labeled “Librarians” to /r/memes^[7] (shown below).

On February 28th, Redditor tbsgrave uploaded an image featuring a picture of a man flexing his bicep labeled “P.E. teacher” to /r/dankmemes,^[5] where it gathered upwards of 1,900 points (94% upvoted) within 24 hours (shown below, left). Meanwhile, the @DankMemes^[1] Twitter feed tweeted a variation of the image featuring a laser gun labeled “science teacher” (shown below, right). Over the next day, the tweet garnered more than 15,600 likes and 6,500 retweets.

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#ArmMeWith

On February 22nd, 2018, BuzzFeed^[4] published an article highlighting social media posts by teachers suggesting they be armed with educational tools and resources rather than firearms, along with the hashtag “#ArmMeWith” (shown below).

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Pink Rabbit Eating Pancakes refers to an object labelingimage macro series of an inflated rabbit eating pancakes wherein the rabbit and pancakes are labeled different things.

Origin

On February 28th, 2018, Disney UK released the trailer for the Wreck-It Ralph sequel, Wreck-it Ralph 2: Ralph Breaks The Internet (shown below). In the trailer, Ralph invades a mobile game for children in which the player feeds a rabbit pancakes and a cat a drink. The rabbit, after having ingested many pancakes, grows extremely fat.

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The moment quickly became an object labeling image macro series. The day the trailer was released, an image appeared on /r/pcmasterrace^[1] with the rabbit labeled “Steam” and the pancakes labeled “My savings,” gaining over 380 upvotes (shown below, left). The following day, a pedophilia joke with the format posted in /r/dankmemes^[2] gained over 760 upvotes (shown below, right). The format took off in the subreddit, with several posts featuring the template gaining hundreds of upvotes.

The format also grew popular in /r/MemeEconomy,^[3] where a meme with the template gained over 19,000 upvotes (shown below).

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Hippity Hoppity refers to a snowclone often paired with images of frogs that opens with “Hippity Hoppity” and ends with something that rhymes with “hoppity.” The meme was most prevalent in the first half of 2017 and bears similarities to the You Mess With Crabo You Get a Stabo meme.

Origin

The snowclone first saw use in Anarcho-Capitalist memes. On January 17th, 2017, Facebook page “There’s a War on For Your Memes”^[1] posted one of the earliest variations which read “Hippity Hoppity get off my property,” gaining over 300 likes and reactions (shown below).

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Haydee is a third-person role-playing game in the style of Metroid and Castlevania notable for its protagonist, a robot with a human’s body and scant clothing.

History

Haydee was developed by Haydee Interactive and approved through Steam’s Greenlight program. On July 31st, 2016, a trailer for the game was released on YouTube (shown below).

The game was approved and released on September 26th, 2016 and retails at $15.^[1] The game’s page promises to challenge the player with “no handholding” “regeneration,” or “checkpoints.”

Reception

Early Steam reviews were very positive about the game despite its outwardly salacious appearance. As of March 1st, 2018, the game has a 9/10 rating on Steam with mostly positive user reviews. Kotaku^[2] pointed out that the game had “terrible” breast physics and difficult controls. The latter point was echoed in several Steam reviews.

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Haydee is most notable for its vast modding community. There are dozens of mods allowing the player to play as different characters in different outfits, including a nude mod.^[3] The game has a lighter presence on social media. It’s Facebook page^[4] has about 670 likes. The game also has pages on TV Tropes^[5] and its own Wiki.^[6]

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Internet Censorship in China refers to the strict provisions and restrictions placed on the Internet by the Chinese government in the People’s Republic of China.

Background

In 1994, the Internet arrived in China and has since become a powerful tool for sharing information and communication.

Three years later, in 1997, the Ministry of Public Security attempted to secure control of the internet, instituting regulations on the web (excerpt of regulations below).^[1]

“Individuals are prohibited from using the Internet to: harm national security; disclose state secrets; or injure the interests of the state or society. Users are prohibited from using the Internet to create, replicate, retrieve, or transmit information that incites resistance to the PRC Constitution, laws, or administrative regulations; promoting the overthrow of the government or socialist system; undermining national unification; distorting the truth, spreading rumors, or destroying social order; or providing sexually suggestive material or encouraging gambling, violence, or murder. Users are prohibited from engaging in activities that harm the security of computer information networks and from using networks or changing network resources without prior approval.”

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The Great Firewall of China

On June 1st, 1997, Wired^[4] magazine published an article entitled “The Great Firewall of China,” which is often credited as coining the colloquial name for the Golden Shield Project’s efforts to censor the Internet. The article begins:

“At ISPs, Internet cafés, even state censorship committees, we meet the wired of China – and discover that the technology China needs to build the most powerful country on Earth in the 21st Century threatens to undermine the institutions that rule the nation. And Beijing’s control freaks are worried.”

In 1998, to stifle the growing opposition parties found in China, the Communist Party of China banned the China Democracy Party.

In addition, the government founded the Golden Shield Project that year. Its purpose is to provide nationwide network security but also manages the Bureau of Public Information and Network Security Supervision, which many believe to operate the Great Firewall of China (GFW), a censorship and surveillance project designed to block political dissent and opposition.^[2]

The GFW’s primary role is to block access to foreign or politically opposing websites in China as well as to slow down cross-border traffic. This has resulted in the the blocking and censorship of some of the world’s most widely-used websites and wildely-read news sources.^[3] These include:

• Google
• Facebook
• YouTube
• Twitter
• Blogspot
• Github
• Tumblr
• BBC
• Reuters
• The New York Times

Some of the GFW’s techniques for censorship include: IP blocking, DNS filtering and redirection, URL filter, connection reset and more. As a result, many in China attempt to circumvent the program by using secure VPNs. However, in 2017, VPNs were outlawed in China.^[5]

Examples of Censorship

Big Yellow Duck

“*Big Yellow Duck*” is a nickname given to a series of giant floating rubber duck sculptures designed by Dutch artist Florentijin Hofman. In June 2013, the phrase was banned by Chinese censors after an image of several giant rubber ducks photoshopped into the famous “Tank Man” photograph began circulating online in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.^[6]

On May 2nd, 2013, one of Hofman’s 54-foot high yellow inflatable ducks was launched in Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor (shown below, left). On May 15th, the sculpture mysteriously deflated (shown below, right), which resulted in the hashtag “#bigyellowduck” rising to the top searched keyword on the Chinese microblogging and social networking site Weibo.^[7]

Sina Weibo user Weiblog^[8] subsequently posted a photoshopped version of the 1989 photograph “Tank Man”^[9] (shown below, left) from the Tiananmen Square protests, in which the tanks were replaced with the large duck sculptures (shown below, right). Leading up to the anniversary of the protests on June 4th, several words were censored on Sina Weibo, including “1989,” “In today,” “anniversary” and “big yellow duck."

Winnie the Pooh

On July 17th, 2017, Chinese censors blocked memes featuring Winnie the Pooh after several viral images began circulating online that suggested a resemblance between the bear and Chinese president Xi Jinping (example below).

The Letter “N”

Following reports that the Chinese government would be discard term limits for presidents, allowing President Xi Jinping to remain in power,

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Freddie Freaker (more commonly known as Freddy Freaker) is a toy character created in the 1980s by L.A. Toys advertising a telephone number one could call, “1-900-490-FREAK,” whereupon the character would tell jokes. The character’s bizarre appearance and lack of known background made it an object of fascination on internet forums and the commercial was often referenced and remixed.

Origin

While concrete information about the character is sparse, anecdotal evidence points to the character being created in 1987. On November 10th, 2008, YouTuber Sylvacute84 posted the commercial featuring the character, gaining over 505,000 views (shown below).

In the comments section of that video, a YouTube commenter named Patrick Simmons took credit for creating the character, writing:^[1]

Ok dude, you just made my day. I was the artist who designed and created this puppet for this commercial back in 1987 and until this moment I had never seen the final video for it. I was a very young buck at the time, just getting my start in the FX industry, so it was a pretty big deal to create something for a national ad. Thanks for posting it, my coworker and I laughed our asses off. By the way, the arms were designed to move and bend, so I have no idea why they left him in a Jesus pose. Peace.

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A fascination with the character began spreading online, particularly in the mid-2000s. In July of 2013, a Tumblr page devoted to the character, fuckyeafreddyfreaker,^[4] launched. On July 31st, 2014, Breaker.com^[2] wrote about the character and spoke to Simmons about what he knew of the project. There, it was revealed that the terms “The Party Freak” and “Freddie Freaker” were trademarked in 1988 and cancelled in the mid-90s. Simmons also said he believed the toy was supposed to tell college-age jokes and it was advertised on MTV. In a small Facebook group devoted to the character,^[3] it was revealed that the admin of that group, Kevin Leto, was the likely CEO of LA Toys, the company that made Freddie Freaker. On March 21st, 2015, the commercial was posted to /r/NotTimandEric,^[5] where a commenter said they had called the number once and were told jokes in a free-form grumbly voice. A Wikia^[6] has been created documenting all known information about the character.

The character began seeing use in remix videos around 2016. On October 3rd, 2016, YouTuber BluShades uploaded a video of himself watching a long playlist of Freddie Freaker remixes and YouTube Poops, gaining over 24,000 views (shown below, left). The character gained more popularity after being mentioned by the Oney PlaysLet’s Play channel on December 25th, 2017 (shown below, right), which in turn inspired popular animations of their Freddie Freaker scenes.

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GirlWithNoJob Instagram Controversy refers to a report by The Daily Beast that outlined the relationship between Claudia Oshry, better known as the popular Instagrammer @GirlWithNoJob and her sisters and their mother, right-wing provocateur Pamela Geller. After the report was published, a number of since-deleted tweets made by Oshry, which some have called offensive and racist. As a resulte, Oshry’s talkshow has been canceled and she has been dropped by her talent agency.

Background

On February 28th, 2018, the Daily Beast^[1] published an article entitled “The Instagram Stars Hiding Their Famous, Muslim-Hating Mom, Pamela Geller.” The piece focused on the popularity of the family’s various Instagram accounts, which include the handles @GirlWithNoJob and @JackieOProblems, and their attempts to distance themselves from their mother, Pamela Geller. Geller, a right-wing provocateur who has book published by Milo Yiannopoulos, is infamous for her Islamophobic stances and politics.

Developments

The article also included several since-deleted tweets made by Claudia (@GirlWithNoJob). The article’s author Taylor Lorenz posted the tweets on Twitter, ^[3] and they feature various Islamophobic and anti-Muslim sentiments, as well as calling former President Barack Obama a Muslim, a popular conspiracy theory. The tweet (shown below) received more than 400 retweets and 1,100 likes.

As a result of the article, The Morning Breath, a morning talk show hosted by Claudia Oshry and her sister Jackie, has been canceled. In a statement, the Oath, who airs the online show said, “The Morning Breath, an Oath social-media show, is being canceled immediately and we have launched an internal investigation and will take other appropriate steps based on the results of the investigation.”^[2]

Additionally, Claudia Oshry was dropped from her talent agency, The Creative Artists Agency (CAA).^[5]

Claudia Oshry’s Statement

After the article was published, Claudia Oshry made a statement to The Daily Beast, expressing her disappointment. She said:

“We want to be clear to our audience and fans that our political and cultural beliefs are not anti-Muslim or anti-anyone. Our views are separate from our mother’s. Being raised by a single parent, we were taught to make our own choices based on our personal beliefs. We are inspired to think for ourselves and we do. We do not condone discrimination or racist beliefs of any kind.”

Following the publishing of the tweets, on February 28th, she posted a video on Instagram in which she apologizes for the tweets. The post (shown below) received more than 900,000 views and 40,000 likes in 24 hours.^[4]

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*God's Plan Starts Playing* is a series of image macros in which a screen capture from the music video for Drake’s song “God’s Plan” and the phrase “*God’s Plan starts playing*” serves as the punchline to a joke about a small act of kindness.

Origin

On February 16th, 2017, Drake premiered the music video for his song “God’s Plan” on YouTube. ^[1] As of March 1st, the video (shown below) has received more than 90 million views.

Eight days later, on February 24th, Twitter^[2] user @deliberatedaily tweeted a screenshot of Drake hugging a person from the video with the caption, "@chipotle worker: ‘your change will be $2.25’ me: ‘you can keep it’ *God's Plan starts playing* The post (shown below) received more than 41,000 retweets and 126,000 likes in five days.

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Over the next week, people began to post variations meme, adding different acts of kindness.

On February 27th, Twitter^[3] user @ianharris tweeted, “Barber: it’s $25 Me: *hands barber $30 Barber: here’s $5 Me: Keep it. *God’s plan starts playing.” The post (shown below, left) received more than 23,000 retweets and 53,000 likes in three days.

That day, Twitter^[4] user @fejay3 tweeted the gif with the caption, "’Alright sir, your total today is $72.65’ *hands cashier money* ‘Keep the change.’ *God’s Plan starts playing* ‘I will…… sir you still owe another seventy do-’ *Volume increases*. The post (shown below, center) received more than 64,000 retweets and 153,000 likes in three days.

On February 28th, Twitter^[5] user @LifeAsPat posted the gif with the caption, "Me: *thinking about skipping class today*
Professor: “hello everyone, something has come up and will have to cancel class today” *God’s plan starts playing*. The post (shown below, right) received more than 770 retweets and 2,100 likes in two days.

Several media outlets published articles about the popularity of the meme, including TIME.^[6]

Additionally, on February 28th, Twitter^[7] published a Moments page on the popularity of the meme.

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Savage Patrick refers to a still image of Patrick Star from Spongebob Squarepants looking as though he’s in the midst of a maniacally evil chuckle.

Origin

The still comes from the Season 1 episode of Spongebob Squarepants, “Nature Pants” (shown below at around 7:10), which aired September 11th, 1999.^[1]

The still began becoming a meme in late February of 2018. One of the earliest known posts to use the image was posted February 26th, 2018 by Twitter user @bvercetti__^[2] in a tweet that gained over 4,600 retweets and 18,000 likes.

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Time Is A Man Made Concept refers to a series of tweets that use a tweet by musician and artist Yoko Ono to serve as the punchline to jokes about time.

Origin

On February 23rd, 2018, artist and musician Yoko Ono tweeted,^[1]“Time is a man made concept. Therefore, ‘when’ is not a relevant thing to think about. Just know that it will happen, yesterday or tomorrow.” The post (shown below) received more than 3,400 retweets and 9,500 likes in one week.

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Dear Boys, Dress Like This refers to a series of jokes popular on Twitter where a person writes “Dear boys, dress like this” and then supplies a humorous, absurd picture of a person in an outfit.

Origin

On October 12th, 2014, Twitter user @briemckinnon^[1] tweeted an image of a boy in a long-sleeve shirt and jeans and captioned it “dear boys, DRESSLIKETHIS,” gaining over 8,900 retweets and 27,000 likes (shown below).

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The Hulk GIF refers to an NSFW animated GIF which combines an edited scene from the 2012 superhero film The Avengers with a pornographic anal sex scene.

Origin

On April 11th, 2012, the film The Avengers premiered, which featured a scene in which the character the Hulk is ordered to “smash” by Captain America (shown below).

On March 3rd, 2013, a post titled “Hulk SMASH” was submitted to /r/WTF,^[1] featuring an edited version of the scene in which the Hulk leers at the Black Widow before cutting to a pornographic sex scene. That day, Redditor QuatrMaster replied to the post claiming to have made the GIF, linking to a 4chan post where he previously submitted it. The 4chan thread has since been deleted.

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On July 21st, 2014, Redditor papi_chulo reposted the GIF to /r/NSFW_GIF,^[3] where it accumulated more than 4,700 points (88% upvoted) and 130 comments prior to being archived.

On March 4th, 2017, a censored version of the GIF featuring Dwayne Johnson was uploaded to Imgur (shown below).

On August 4th, Redditor devnullkicked posted a similar GIF titled “Hulk Jizz!”, featuring the first part of the image followed by a clip of a crowd sprayed with a green substance to /r/combinedgifs.^[4] The same day, a parody GIF featuring plastic containers with superhero stickers on the outside was uploaded to Imgur (shown below).

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Haunted Astolfo bean plushie that sucks your dick and calls you gay

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Valid Dumbass Nerd Bastard refers to an Alignment Chart refers to a chart popular on Tumblr wherein people place characters on a four-section grid with two axes which go between “dumbass and nerd” and “valid and bastard.”

Origin

On February 24th, 2018, Tumblr user dinothunder^[1] posted the chart, gaining over 28,000 notes (shown below).

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Chrome Music Lab is an experimental music creation website made by Google.. The site features a series of applications that allow users to learn about and play with sound, rhythm, melody, composition and more.

Online History

On March 9th, 2016, Google announced Chrome Music Lab on their blog, posting a series of experiments that allow people to play and create music on the web. ^[1] According to the post, they wrote, “the experiments are all built with the Web Audio API, a freely-accessible, open web standard that lets developers create and manipulate sound right in the browser. We’re also providing open-source code so that others can build new experiments based on what we’ve started.”

That day, they released a video (shown below) to introduce the experiements. The video^[2] received more than 100,000 views in two years.

Features

Chrome Music Lab is a website that features a series of interactive “Experiments,” with each one focusing on a different aspect of music.

Strings

Strings^[3] is an experiment that allows users to “explore the natural mathematical relationship between a string’s length and its pitch.” When the user clicks and drags the cursor across the digital strings, various tones and pitches play.

Oscillators

Oscillators is a series of animated, anthropomorphic shapes that make various noises when clicked and dragged across the screen.

Piano Roll

Piano Roll is a digital player piano. The site describes it, “Originally, a piano roll was a roll of paper that you fed into a self-playing piano to make it play a piece. This experiment is inspired by piano rolls. You can watch the notes flow by, scrub it back and forth, and change the sounds.”^[4]

Harmonics

Harmonics is an experiment to test how speed effects harmonic frequencies. Users can drag their mouse across the various frequencies to hear the differences.

Voice Spinner

Voice Spinner is a vocal recording experiment that allows users to change the pitch and speed of their own recorded voice. Users spin the digital wheel to hear the changes in pitch.

Melody Maker

Melody Maker is a digital grid that when users click the boxes, they can record, edit and play various notes.

Kandinsky

Kandisky combines drawing and music. Users draw on a blank canvas, and when they press the play button, a melody is played based upon where on the canvas the drawing sits. There is also a button to change the colors of the drawing, which changes the instruments that are playing.

Arpeggios

Arpeggios is designed to teach note names and how they build chords. Users click the note names and hear the musical scale associated with note name.

Sound Waves

Sound Waves features a digital keyboard that when pressed, a series of dots, representing sound waves, phyically moves. There is also the ability to zoom in to see a line connecting the dots.

Chords

Chords is a digital piano that, when a key is pressed, plays chords. Users can switch between major and minor chords to hear the difference.

Spectogram

Spectogram is an experiment that puts a picture to sounds. Users can drag their cursor over the screen to hear and see difference sounds, as well as select different instruments to see how they look when played.

Rhythms

Rhythms uses a series of digital characters to teach people about the patterns of sound in time. Click the grid to create different rhythms.

Song Maker

Song Maker allows users to click different notes on a grid to build a song. Users can also change the instruments, tempo and style of instrument used.

To launch Song Maker, Google posted a video about the experiment (shown below).

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