Starbucks "Beaner" Cup Controversy refers to the public reaction toward the Starbucks coffee chain restaurant after a Latino customer reportedly received a cup with a racial slur written in place of his name. The company has apologized for the incident, but many compared the incident to another in which two African American men were arrested for sitting in a Starbucks restaurant.
Read MoreHip Cleavage is a style trend based around the exposure of a woman's hips and the area of a woman's body between the thigh and the hip.
Read MoreThe Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markel took place on May 19th, 2018 in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in the United Kingdom. More than 29 million people in the United States watched the marriage of Prince Harry of Sussex, the third in the line of succession in the British monarchy, and American actor Meghan Markel.
Read MoreThundercats Roar is an upcoming reboot of the Thundercats animated series which aired in the 1980s. The series is being produced by Warner Brothers and will air on Cartoon Network. After its trailer was posted online, it generated backlash as the trailer seemed to promise a much more family-friendly tone in the reboot than in the original, and fans noticed the show's animation seemed to employ the "CalArts" style, a style used in shows like Adventure Time and Steven Universe, that in itself has drawn criticism from animators and fans.
Read MoreI'm Gonna Kick Your Son In the Ribs refers to an exploitable Facebook thread in which a woman shows an image of her child dressed up in a specific outfit. Another user replies "Why would your son enjoy being dressed like X? I'm gonna kick your son in the ribs."
Read MoreMerula Snyde is a witch introduced in the Harry Potter mobile game Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery. Following the game's release in late April 2018, Snyde gained a fan following within various communities online.
Read MoreChinese Names for NBA Players refers to nicknames for athletes in the National Basketball Association given by Chinese fans. When translated to English, the names tend to amuse western audiences. After sporadically appearing online for several years, a May 2018 thread compiling the Chinese nicknames for basketball players went viral.
Read MoreMeme Day refers to an annual event started at Olympian High School in California in which students dress up as characters from viral videos and images for a day. After the success of the first day, other high schools took up the practice.
Read MoreHypers is a Twitch emote of a celebrating Pepe the Frog. It is generally associated with the streamer GreekGodX.
Read MoreFridging is a term used in cultural criticism, primarily in regards to comic books, to describe the act of killing, harming or incapacitating female characters for the purpose of motivating the plot. The term references an issue of Green Lantern in which the character's girlfriend was killed and stuffed into a refrigerator as a plot device. Cultural critics use the term to examine why the plot device has been disproportionately associated with female characters.
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