About

Drake Wearing Dada refers to a photoshop meme based on a photograph of the Canadian rapper and entertainer Drake^[1] taken during the shoot of his upcoming music video “No New Friends” in May 2013. The photograph quickly drew attention from his fans and hip hop music communities alike, mainly for the rapper’s wardrobe choice of Damani Dada, an athletic apparel and shoes company that was once popular among hip hop musicians in the 1990s, as well as his leaning posture

Origin

On May 15th, 2013, several behind-the-scene photographs from Drake’s music video shoot for “No New Friends"^[3] were leaked to a number of music blogs,^[2] including one that showed the entertainer in a leaning pose while dressed in a Dada short suit (shown below, left). Many fans immediately took to Twitter^[4] and rap message boards to point out his throwback fashion style. That same day, a forum thread encouraging people to remix Drake’s photo surfaced on the hip hop message board The Coli^[5], leading to several pages of discussion about the rapper’s outfit as well as photoshopped images (shown below, right).

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On May 18th, another photoshop thread was launched on Boxden’s hip hop forum^[6], resulting in 23 pages of replies within 48 hours. On May 19th, additional threads were posted on Hip Hop Stan^[7] and Kanye To The^[8], each yielding dozens of contributions in photoshopped images. The same day, the momentum behind the photoshop meme continued to snowball on Twitter^[9], where the phrase “Drake photoshop” was mentioned more than 20,000 times according to Topsy Analytics.^[10]

On May 20th, notable examples from the threads were featured on internet culture and hip hop news blogs, such as Rolling Out^[11], The Source^[12], Uproxx^[13], MTV RapFix^[14] and All Hip Hop^[15] among others. Also on the 20th, Drake responded to the frenzy by sharing a photoshopped instance from The Coli thread via Instagram,^[16] (shown below), where it gained more than 135,000 likes and 5,600 comments within seven hours.

Notable Examples

Additional instances can be found on Tumblr^[17] and Instagram^[18] under the #Drake tag.

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GeoCities is a webhosting service founded in 1994 and acquired by Yahoo! in 1999. It was discontinued in 2009, with the service remaining available only in Japan. Geocities websites are archived at the single-topic blog, One Terabyte of a Kilobyte Age.

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The Call of Duty Dog is the nickname given to Colin, a German Shepherd character who was featured in the official trailer for Call of Duty: Ghosts during Microsoft’s Xbox One conference in May 2013.

Origin

The dog was originally showcased towards the end of the Xbox One reveal conference^[1] on May 21st, 2013. During Activision’s presentation of Call of Duty: Ghosts, an exclusive title for the upcoming console, they briefly revisited a canine character from Modern Warfare 3 before introducing the latest canine character as “a member of the team” who aids by sniffing out dangers throughout the missions. The dog was rendered with motion capture technology and modeled after a former member of the Navy SEAL K9 squad.

The announcement quickly became a subject of parodies on Twitter, with video-game blog Kotaku^[2] editor Kirk Hamilton^[3] stating that the announcement of in-game dogs arrived shortly after the developers stated that they wanted to do “the right thing”.

“We didn’t want to do the safe thing, we wanted to do the RIGHT thing,” says guy making the new Call of Duty, before revealing in-game dogs

— Kirk Hamilton (@kirkhamilton) May 21, 2013

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Later that same day, a novelty Twitter account for the Call of Duty Dog was launched under the handle @CollarDog^[4], which gained more than 21,000 followers in its first week.

So glad that the cat is finally out of the bag. My big break is finally revealed #woof

— Call of Duty Dog (@CollarDuty) May 21, 2013

On May 23rd, Redditor Auto_aim1 submitted a post titled “This should be Call of Duty: Ghosts cover”^[5], featuring a photoshopped image of the Call of Duty: Ghosts boxart that included an image of a dog (shown below, far left). The post has received over 1,600 upvotes in five days. Throughout that week, numerous other parodies of the Call of Duty boxart emerged via /r/gaming subreddit.

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“Do She Got a Booty? (She Do)” is an expression that is often paired with images of peeping animals and cartoon characters on the microblogging site Tumblr. The phrase is meant to indicate that the subject is admiring someone’s posterior, in a similar vein to “Dat Ass”.

Origin

On October 26th, 2012, FunnyJunk^[1] user pocoloco submitted two photographs of a chihuahua in a post titled “creepy chihuahua is pleased” (shown below, left), which gained over 28,600 views and 990 up votes in the following seven months. On February 25th, 2013, an edited version of the photo with the caption “Do she got a booty / she doooo” (shown below, right) was posted via Twitter^[3] by user @robbybeackman.

Spread

On March 6th, 2013, Redditor turtlefrown reposted the chihuahua image macro to the /r/funny^[7] subreddit, where it received more than 6,600 up votes and 65 comments in the first two months. On March 10th, YouTuber itsKarlwithaC uploaded a video featuring the chihuahua image macro, accompanied by a looped audio track of two men singing “do she got a booty?” in the background (shown below).

On April 23rd, Tumblr^[2] user fukkkres posted the chihuahua image macro, which accumulated upwards of 155,300 notes within five weeks. On May 21st, Tumblr^[8] user Crispyweave highlighted screen captures of the character Squidward from the children’s animated television show SpongeBob Squarepants with the caption “do she got a booty? she dooooooooooooooo” (shown below). In the following week, the post garnered more than 15,900 notes.

On May 23rd, Tumblr user obeseblackguy posted a photograph of a green snake with the caption “do she got a booty”^[4] (shown below, left) immediately followed by a close up of the snake’s head with the caption “she dooooo” (shown below, right).^[5] In the next five days, the posts gained over 57,000 and 36,000 notes respectively.

On May 25th, Yahoo Answers^[6] user Laine submitted a question asking “What the heck is this ‘Do she got a booty? She dooo’ thing?”, to which user Anna cited the obeseblackguy snake post as the source of the meme’s resurgence in popularity.

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“Instructions Unclear” is an expression used as a preface when joking about accidentally performing a dangerous or inappropriate action due to an absurd misunderstanding of directions. The phrase is typically used in comment sections on the social news site Reddit and in titles on the image hosting site Imgur.

Origin

On May 1st, 2012, YouTuber kawnra replied to a faux-instructional video demonstrating how to touch an apple to a wall with the following comment: “The instructions weren’t clear enough. I got my dick caught in the ceiling fan.” Within the next year, the comment received over 14,200 up votes.

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On July 25th, 2012, Redditor JustAnotherIndie submitted a screenshot of YouTuber kawnra’s comment to the /r/funny^[8]subreddit, where it gained more than 26,000 up votes and 520 comments before it was archived. On November 14th, Redditor I_Demand_A_Water replied with an “instructions unclear” joke to a diagram explaining how to use a body pillow to comfortably spoon with a partner in bed (shown below).^[4] Prior to being archived, the comment received over 60 up votes.

On February 6th, 2013, Imgur^[7] user dcotruta uploaded an image macro titled “Instructions unclear, married cat,” which featured a woman and cat with a caption indicating that the feline had delivered an engagement ring (shown below). In the next four months, the post accumulated upwards of 2,400 points and 60 comments.

On April 5th, Cyanide and Happiness artist Rob DenBleyker submitted a post to his Facebook^[2] page asking fans to suggest topics for a comic, to which Daniele Latella suggested “And that’s how I got my junk trapped in a ceiling fan.” The same day, DenBleyker posted^[3] a comic based on Latella’s suggestion about a man who goes to see a doctor after injuring his genitalia in a ceiling fan (shown below).

On April 8th, Redditor GDmofo replied^[5] to a comment about preventing a bird from excreting on a car saying “Instructions unclear, got dick stuck in bird.” In the first two months, the comment gained more than 950 up votes. On April 10th, Redditor Grammar_Sith responded^[6] to a list of instructions for eating a banana by joking that he mistakenly ate his penis (shown below), garnering upwards of 900 up votes in the following month.

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(W.I.P.)

About

Mystery Science Theater 3000 (usually abbreviated MST3K) is a cult television show that went from 1988 to 1999. The show is about an average guy (Joel or Mike) who is launched into space by his evil scientist boss (Dr. Clayton Forester) and is forced to watch bad movies. To stay sane he and his robot friends (Tom Servo & Crow T. Robot) make fun at the films or “riff” the films.

Fans of the show have been known to call themselves “Msties” (pronounced “Misty”).

Msting

Msting is a way of mocking a form of media (film, tv, ect) in the style of Mystery Science Theater 3000, and a form of fan fiction where writers mock other works by adding their own humorous comments into the story.

About

“Throwback Thursday” is a theme day mostly found on social networking sites in which people post an old photo or video of themselves.

Origin

The term “throwback” has been associated with things that are classic or vintage since as early as 2003, when it was first defined on Urban Dictionary.^[1] The first Throwback Thursday appeared as a series on animator Saxton Moore’s blog^[2] in which he redrew retro cartoon characters. Though the first few in the series have since been removed, the earliest of Moore’s Throwback Thursday posts was made on January 25th, 2006 and featured the characters Henry Cabot Henhaus III and Fred from the late 1960s animated series Super Chicken.

Spread

In July 2006, the sneaker fan blog Nice Kicks launched their own Throwback Thursday series^[3], highlighting vintage sneakers. The first post was dedicated to the Nike Air Trainer SCII^[4], originally released in 1991. The series continued through June 2012. Also in July 2006, a Throwback Thursday-themed football game was held at Georgia Tech in which players wore 1970s-style uniforms.^[5] The phrase began to gain more popularity on blogs in 2011, when it was used to discuss events and objects that were no longer recent on the Ustream blog^[6], The Baltimore Sun^[7] and American celebrity Nicole Richie’s personal blog.^[8]

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Baguetting is a photo fad in which people photograph themselves while holding a baguette bread in substitute of everyday objects, such as household goods or food products, for comedic effect.

Origin

The fad began with the launch of the single topic blog Baguette Me Nots^[4] on October 8th, 2012, which was started by Tim Bierbaum^[1] and John Milhiser^[2] of the Brooklyn-based sketch comedy group Serious Lunch.^[3] That day, the bloggers posted 12 photos of people carrying out everyday tasks, such as weightlifting (shown below, left), watering the lawn (shown below, center) and shaving (shown below, right), with baguettes instead of ordinary objects and tools that are more appropriate in context.

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Over the next several months, the blog continued to run photographs of actors and comedians partaking in the fad, including Jim O’Heir from NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation (shown below, left), Oscar-winning actress Marcia Gay Harden (shown below, center) and Star Trek actor George Takei (shown below, right). On December 31st, 2012, Baugette Me Nots was featured on The Daily Mail^[5], who called it “planking with bread sticks.” The following day, Baguetting was featured on local Boston news channel WHDH.^[6]

During the first week of January 2013, two separate Facebook fan pages^[7][8] were created for the photo fad, gaining approximately 460 likes between them as of May 2013. On January 17th, compilations of Baguetting images were featured on humor sites Acid Cow^[9], Damn Cool Pictures^[10] and Daily Dawdle.^[11] On January 18th, 20 images from Baguette Me Nots were compiled into an Imgur gallery^[12] and subsequently picked up by Sad and Useless^[13] the same day.

In March, Baguetting was explained on Australian photo fad site Little Big Trend.^[14] On May 31st, Baguetting saw a major resurgence after a gallery of images from Baguette Me Nots was submitted to the /r/Funny subreddit^[15], where it gained more than 16,00 upvotes, 3,600 points overall and 1,300 comments within four hours.

Notable Examples

Additional images can be found on Tumblr^[16], Twitter^[17] and Instagram^[18] with the hashtag #Baguetting.

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(W.I.P.)

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Pass Me The Controller, Bro is a common subject from 4chan’s /v/ board that’s about a hand covered in Cheetos dust that ask someone to pass over the controller.

Spread?

Even though Pass Me The Controller, Bro doesn’t have much of a spread, it can be found on meme sites like funnyjunk.

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I Watch It For The Plot is a statement used online to falsely state one likes a specific show or series due to the story and plot development, while in reality they actually like the show due to the looks of the characters or actors and the fanservice. Through this, the word “plot” has also gained a synonymous meaning with the posterior and chest area.

Origin

[Researching]

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[Researching]

In the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, the word “plot” became synonymous with the pony posterior due to a viral image (shown below, left) initially posted on the Smack Jeeves Forums on Januarty 20th, 2011. Following this combinations with “dat ass” became a common occurance, resulting in variations such as “dat plot” and “dat flank”.

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Attack on Titan (Japanese: 進撃の巨人 Shingeki no Kyojin, lit. “Advancing Giants”) is a manga series first created by author Hajime Isayama, and later adapted into an anime series by anime studio Production I.G. The story is set in an alternate version of the past, where giant human-like creatures named Titans suddenly appeared and started to kill off humans by eating them. The series follows the story of Eren, who is motivated to enlist in the military with his friends Mikasa and Armin, after witnessing a Titan eat his mother during an attack from the Titans on Wall Maria, one of the three walls created to help protect humans from the Titans.

History

The original Manga series first started serialization in Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine in September 2009, and first published in tankōbon on March 17 2010. The popularity of the series soon paved way for an anime series to be created, published by Production I.G and directed by Tetsurō Araki, most well known for his work on series such as Highschool of the Dead and Death Note, and began serialization on April 6 2013. As well as this, a live-action movie is stated to be in production,with no release date disclosed as of yet, as well as four visual novels in production for the PS3, with one to be released on September 18 2013, and the rest on December 18 2013.

Online Relevance

Since the creation of the anime series, Attack on Titan has garnered a significant online following. The show has a significant presence on sites such as Tumblr^[1], Reddit^[2], 4chan’s /a/ Anime and Manga board^[3], Fanpop^[4], My Anime List^[5] and FanFictiion.net^[6]. There are numerous sites holding information of the series, such as the Shigeki no Kyojin wiki^[7], TV Tropes^[8] and Anime News Network^[9]. DeviantArt also has over 6000 deviations based of the series^[10].

Notable sub-memes

Guren no Yumiya parodies

Guren no Yumiya parodies refers to a number of anime opening MADs based on the opening titles of the show. The song has gained popularity on Youtube^[11] and Nico Nico Douga^[12], being paired with clips of other TV shows for dramatic effect.

Attack on Titan photo fad

The Attack on Titan photo fad is a forced perspective series of images, which originated in April 2013, when Japanese Twitter users began sharing photos of themselves acting out scenes from the Attack on Titan introduction. One of the first images was posted by @2525_1919^[13] on April 27th, 2013 depicting a young male jumping in the air, appearing as if he was about to jump on to the back of the person in the foreground.On May 9th, more of these pictures^[14] began to surface on the microblogging site, resulting in it becoming a trending topic.^[15] On May 10th, compilations of these staged photographs where posted on Korean site Inven^[16] and anime blog Yaraon.^[17] The photos made their way to the English-speaking web that afternoon, where they were shared in a NeoGAF^[18] thread about the show. Approximately 90 minutes later, a photo collection was featured on Japanese culture fansite Crunchyroll.^[19]

Moe Titans

Moe Titans refers to a number of background Titans from within the show who have gained popularity within the fandom, due to looking significantly less intimidating than other titans from within the show, instead seeming more moe in appearance. These moe Titans have gained popularity on Tumblr^[20], spawning a number of fan art.

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Editor’s note: Work in Progress

About

Calne Ca (Japanese: 骸音シーエ)^[1] is an officially reconsigned Vocaloid“Subspecies^[2] created by 3D CG artist and sculptor Kotaro Maeda (前田幸太郎) also known as Deino.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8]} She is essentially a robotic female skeleton named Calcium (シーエ)^[9] cosplaying Hatsune Miku.^[10] She has interchangeable parts and here “skin” is a casing that as much a part of the cosplay as her clothing so her appearance can vary from skeletal, to cybernetic (her most common appearance), to insectoid, to human. She almost always has a stylized Isopoda (either a Ligia oceanica^[11] or a Ligia exotica^[12]) named Sodium Sulfite (ナトくん)^[11] living on top of her head.

She is of May 2013 the face for the Nightmare Fuel subsection of the Vocaloid entry on TV Tropes.^[13]

Origin

The first illustration to feature Calne Ca was uploaded to pixiv on March 15th, 2009^[14] previewing a model Deino was working on for an upcoming music video.

The music video was uploaded to Deino’s Nico Nico Douga (NND) account on July 2nd, 2009^[15]; it was for the song “Machine Muzik” by Ding Saya (鼎沙耶).^[16]

A day later a music video with only a few illustrations and some limited animation was released for “Corpse Attack!” by Utsu-P (鬱P) on Utsu-P’s niconico VideoDouga channel.^[17]

Further Works

Deino continued to periodically provide illustrations often featuring Calne Ca (or Calcium as other Vocaloids or Utauloids) for various songs and album covers. The most regular series of collaborations seems to be with Sime-Saba Twister (シメサバツイスターズ) creating the cover illustrations for several of Sime-Saba Twister’s albums.^[18][19][20]

In March of 2010 Deino along with his friend Hinoi released a lower polygon model of Calne Ca for Miku Miku Dance. The MMD model has been periodically updated.^[21][22]

Two additional full music video featuring Calne Ca have been created:

“Nehanshika” (ネハンシカ) by Nehanshika-P^[23](August 10th, 2010)^[24]

“Bacterial Contamination” (細菌汚染) by Kanimiso-P (カニミソP) a.k.a. mathru^[25] (February 12th, 2012)^[26]

Spread

As of May 2013 there are over 1300 results with the “骸音シーエ” tag on pixiv; the majority of the work were uploaded after the release of “Bacterial Contamination”.^[27]

Official Recognition

On January 21st, 2011 Sega announced that Calne Ca would be one of the characters featured in Project Diva Aracade skins.^[28][29]

An animation of Calne Ca was among the videos shown during a mural painting by Doppel as part of the Snow Miku for Sapporo 2011 event held on February 21st, 2011.^[30]

The card “Broken Virus” for the virtual card Alteil was included as part of a Hatsune Miku event held in October of 2011.^[31][32]

Notable Examples

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Cosplay

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The Attack on Titan Photo Fad (Japanese: 進撃の巨人ごっこ, Shingeki no Koyjin Gokko; lit. The Attack on Titan Game), refers to a photo fad of forced perspective images inspired by the Japanese TV anime series Attack on Titan.

In the spring of 2013, many young Japanese Twitter users had participated onto this as a following photo fad of Hadoukening.

Origin

The first instance of this fad was posted by Twitter user おーきぽょ (@2525_1919)^[1] on April 27th, 2013^[2], which depicted a young male jumping in the air, appearing as if he was about to jump on to the back of the person in the foreground. This tweet had earned over 4,800 retweets and 2,000 favs in its first month.

進撃の巨人ごっこしたよ twitter.com/2525_1919/stat…

— おーきぽょ (@2525_1919) April 27, 2013

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On May 9th, more of these pictures began to surface on the microblogging site, resulting in it becoming a trending topic.^[3] Some of those images also utilized an official smartphone app of Attack on Titan which decorates user photos by the original illustrations.

On May 10th, compilations of these staged photographs where posted on Korean site Inven^[4] and Japanese online news site ITmedia.^[5] The photos made their way to the English-speaking web that afternoon, where they were shared in a NeoGAF^[6] thread about the show. Approximately 90 minutes later, a photo collection was featured on Japanese culture fansite Crunchyroll.^[7] This online phenomena was also reported by Kotaku on May 13th^[8] and IGN’s video news on May 16th.^[9]

Besides, this internet fad was reported in a morning TV news show by the Japanese mainstream media on May 27th.

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Total Urination is a meme started by a famous brazilian youtuber.It was created by Marcos Castro and Mauricio Meirelles.According to Marcos castro it was created to substitue the meme LOL.The name is total urination because it represents something that will make you laugh so much that you will urinate your pants.

Origin

Marcos Castro proposed the meme in a video of his channel,the vlog “Idiotices”, what mean Stupidities.

Spread

Marcos Castro proposed in his video to people who watch his videos say “Total Urination” instead of “LOL”,“kkkkkkk”,etc.Then people start commenting in videos,sites,blogs,etc. “Total Urination”.

About
This is a copy-pasta about a person telling that that he/she wants to become a walrus.

Origin
On 5 April, 2013 a topic on http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=153071361&page=1 saying that he wants to become a walrus:

“Hello, I am currently 15 years old and I want to become a walrus. I know there’s a million people out there just like me, but I promise you I’m different. On December 14th, I’m moving to Antartica; home of the greatest walruses. I’ve already cut off my arms, and now slide on my stomach everywhere I go as training. I may not be a walrus yet, but I promise you if you give me a chance and the support I need, I will become the greatest walrus.”

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On Youtube there are many popular videos using this copy-pasta.

Variation
A variation comes out but about penguins and it has been used in Youtube a lot and it’s first known comment was posted by x21FunSize21x on 2nd May, 2013 on “If” video by Vsauce :
“Hello, I am currently 13 years old and I want to become a penguin. I know there’s a million people out there just like me, but I promise you I’m different. On December 14th, I’m moving to Antarctica; home of the greatest penguins. I’ve already cut off my arms, and now slide on my stomach everywhere I go as training. I may not be a penguin yet, but I promise you if you give me a chance and the support I need by subscribing to my channel, I will become the greatest penguin ever.
Thanks”

About

Occupygezi (aka. Taksim Gezi Park Protests) is the protests which is still proceed in Turkey by anti-goverment organizations and political parties against the Islam partizan goverment.

Spreading Of Occupy

At first in 28 May 2013 the initial Istanbul protests were only led by about 50 environmentalists against replacing Taksim Gezi Park with a reconstruction of the historic Taksim Military Barracks , with the possibility of housing a shopping mall.^[1] During the protests Turkish police used violently force and this caused the simple protest into a country-wide riot.

Summary Of Event

After the attack of the Turkish Police(with high pressure water, tear gaz and even with the Agent Orange*); protesters used Twitter hashtags and facebook shares to call people over the protest. Police forces violently tried to prevent the protest against the mall. The violent actions of Turkish Police attracted more protestans. Then the protest turned into a hatred against the goverment and the protest turned into a riot.

After the huge amound groups of protestors have been accumilated in Taksim Gezi Park, police forces cannot prevented almost one million protestants and falled back.

After the succeed in Taksim, protest spread around the country. In all district, Taksim protest has been supported by the other protests and fascist groups.

Goverment’s Manner

Noted by the foreign media, Turkish media coveraged a little about the protest. Turkish Telecommunication also tried to censor social media and networks.

PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan dismissed the protest in all around the country and called the protesters “bunch of looters”.

From Reddit^[7]

The inflammatory speeches of the PM have caused quite an interesting change of mind in a bunch of his former supporters who have seen their relatives, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters hurt by the police brutality. They now back up the youths, I don’t know if he’s really stupid or too confident in his power but it certainly is not going as expected for him. The demonstrations are now all over the country.

Support from Anonymous

.@mfaturkey When can we expect an end to your state’s terrorism against its own people? & your resignation? (Not a matter of if, but when)

— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) 1 Haziran 2013

Spread In World-wide

BBC^[5], Aljazeera^[6], Guardian^[7] mentioned this news in first pages. Turkish hashtags against the project and the turkish goverment became the most discussed hashtags on twitter. On Reddit^[4] the crime against the humanity has been frontpaged. Few 4chan threads have been opened on /b/ or /pol/.

Search Interest

Sources

^[1] Wikipedia

^[2] Imgur archive

^[3] #dayangeziparkı

^[4] /r/news

^[5]BBC News

^[6] Aljazeera’s Turkey Report

^[7] Reddit : Turkish PM implies we are “few”

About

Fate/stay night is a Japanese visual novel developed by Type-Moon,^[1] which was originally released as an adult game for Windows on January 30, 2004. While never officially released in English, a fan translation was made by mirror moon for free.^[2] The game is about Shirou Emiya, a high school student who unwittingly enters a to-the-death tournament called The Fifth Holy Grail War, where combatants fight with magic and heroes throughout history for a chance to have their wishes granted by the Holy Grail. He must defeat the other six combatants in order to win.

Memes

People Die If They Are Killed

People Die If They Are Killed is a meme originating from episode 23 of the anime adaption when Shirou is overcome by emotion and says, “People die if they are killed.” to his Servant, Saber. In actuality, the phrase itself comes from a play on an idiom that describes incredibly tough people who “won’t die if they’re killed”.

Jam It In!

Jam It In is an exploitable phrase (Along with VagOOO and POnOS) originating from an awkwardly-translated hentai doujin in which Saber asks Shirou to restore her magic by telling him to “please put your… that! y…your pOnOs! to my… my… here! my vagOOO!!! and j… j… JAM IT IN!” Shriou’s reply of, “You lost me…” has also reached memetic status, due to the situations in which it can be used to respond to a sexual innuendo.

Sakurafish

Sakurafish/Every Day Until You Like It is a daily dose type image mainly posted on 4chan’s /a/ (anime & manga) and /jp/ (otaku culture) boards. It shows one of the main heroines, Sakura, forcefully biting into a fish, with the idea being that posting them on such a regular basis will lead to even those that initially hate it to grow used to it and like it. Due to this, threads featuring Sakurafish are commonly accompanied with the text “I’m going to post this every day until you like it.” Although initially seen as widespread trolling in 2007 and 2008, through 2009 and later opinions about Sakurafish became more positive, resulting in the image seeing frequent usage in photoshops.

GAR

GAR is an anime-related term that is associated with “manly” and “badass” characters. Though once a popular and widely-used slang, in recent years its usage has died down. The term is more or less inspired by the character Archer. It originated from an /a/nonymous user who meant to post “I am Gay for Archer” accidentally posted “I am Gar for Archer”. The typo quickly caught on in popularity and was widely used on /a/ and other anime-related internet forums. The term also became popular on /m/ (Mecha board) due to the popularity of the series GaoGaiGar.

External references

^[1]TYPE-MOON Official Web Site

^[2]mirror moon – Fate/stay night

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Prancercise is an exercise developed by Florida resident Joanna Rohrback that involves dancing in a similar fashion to a horse’s gait.^[5] The regimen gained notoriety when a demonstration video began circulating online in May of 2013.

Origin

On December 12th, 2012, the Prancercise YouTube channel uploaded a video titled “Prancercise: A Fitness Workout,” which featured Rohrback performing various dance moves while walking down a pathway in a park. As of June 2013, the video has received over five million views and 200 comments.

Spread

The video remained relatively obscure until May 25th, 2013, when it was posted to the /r/videos^[1] subreddit. On May 28th, the video was highlighted on the viral content site BuzzFeed,^[2] where it received over 38,700 views and 6,500 Facebook likes in the first six days. On the following day, Redditor jhangel77 reposted the video to the /r/cringe^[10] subreddit. Also on May 29th, the Seattle-based novelty store Archie McPhee uploaded a video to YouTube featuring a man Prancercising while wearing a unicorn-themed horse head mask (shown below). In the following five days, the video accumulated upwards of 73,000 views and 100 comments.

On May 30th, The Week^[4] published an article about the exercise, revealing that Rohrback invented the regimen back in 1989. That same day, CNBC^[6] published an interview with Rohrback, who responded to those making fun of her video saying, “Let them laugh.” Also on May 30th, The Daily Beast^[8] published another interview with Rohrback in which she explained that she invented the exercise while walking down the street in the late 1980s.

“I must have heard a really good song I liked on the radio. I started moving in a rhythmic way, using ankle weights. And it just evolved.”

On May 31st, Time Magazine^[3] highlighted the video on their Newsfeed blog. On the following day, Rohrback appeared on Inside Edition to promote and demonstrate her exercise (shown below). Also on June 1st, ABC News^[9] published an article comparing Prancercise to other bizarre workouts, including “treadmill dancing” and the “heel hop workout.”

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About

Ratboy Genius is a character created by Ryan Dorin in 2007. The digitally created human-like creature is depicted with oversized rat ears and a human body. The character is used in a number of different video series on Dorin’s personal homepage^[1] and YouTube channel.^[2]

Origin

The first Ratboy Genius video was uploaded to YouTube on July 23rd, 2007. The video was the first chapter in the Ratboy Kingdom series, describing the absurd events of the character’s every day life. The video places the animated characters over on scenic photographs, depicting Ratboy Genius turning into a fish and going for a swim. As of June 2013, the video has more than 14,000 views.

Spread

As the series progressed, Ratboy Genius evolved in to a 3D animation and by October 2007, the series began to incorporate animated scenery elements as well as music sung by the character (shown below, left). In 2009, Dorin began a blog for Ratboy Genius^[3] to accompany the video series. The character began seeing attention outside of YouTube in 2010, when a thread about the Happyman series (shown below, right) was posted on the Tip of the Hat forums^[4] that September. The same month, a "Facebook:/memes/facebook fan page^[9] for the character was created, gaining 680 likes as of June 2013. The first mention of Ratboy Genius on 4chan appeared that November in a thread on /tv/ (Television and Film).^[16] In December 2010, an in-character Ratboy Genius Twitter account^[8] was created.

In August 2011, fan art of the character began to appear on Newgrounds.^[5] In September 2011, additional fan art began to appear on deviantART^[6] and another discussion thread was posted on the Bungie forums.^[7] In January 2012, Ratboy Genius appeared in a screenshot from Left 4 Dead 2 posted to the Steam Community.^[10] In October 2012, the subreddit /r/RatboyGenius^[11] launched, accruing 24 readers as of June 2013. In February 2013, one of the Happyman episodes was submitted to /r/Cringe^[12], pointing out its “terrible CGI” and “nightmarish voice filters.” The video gained 387 upvotes, 302 points overall and 92 comments. The following month, the first single topic Tumblr blog dedicated to Ratboy Genius^[13] launched, averaging 75 posts per month. Throughout 2013, the fandom grew on Tumblr resulting in an anonymous confession blog^[14] and an ask blog^[15] dedicated to the character. Additional posts can be found under the tag “ratboy genius.”^[16]

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