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Little Busters! Opening Parodies (Japanese: リトバスOPパロ) refers to a series of parody videos for the opening movie for Japanese visual novel game Little Busters!^[1] produced by a Japanese adult game studio Key.^[2] That movie has been a popular template for parodies on the Japanese video sharing service Nico Nico Douga (NND) since the middle of 2008.

Origin

The video game Little Busters! was initially released for Windows in July 2007, and several other editions had been released in later years. Its opening movies are made in a typical style for adult games, just moving stock character illustrations along with a theme song, and those have been published as a trailer in several months before the release dates. Among those movies, the opening movie of Little Busters! EX, the adult edition of the 1st title, is used in the most of online parodies. That movie was published as a trailer on the web in June 2008.

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Meanwhile, the substantial increase in popularity of this parody video series was triggered by the hit of a video reproducing the EX version by Billy Herrington and Gachimuchi All-Stars in the MAD video style. This video was posted to NND on August 16th, 2008.

【ニコニコ動画】パンツレスラーズ！EX デモムービー
NSFW!!

Since that, this opening movie has been a popular template for parodies as well as that of Figu@mate, Nursery Rhyme and Itadaki Jan-Gari-an R in previous. Behind these backgrounds, it contributes to the popularity of the fads that mimicking adult game’s trailer movies by MAD video’s editing style is quite easy.

About 150 of parody videos had been uploaded by followers in its first year, and the amount of them has been still increasing occasionally on NND.^[3] In addition, some of them are reuploaded to YouTube.^[4]

Notable Examples

【ニコニコ動画】【ＭＡＤ】らき☆すた～ず Little Busters【ニコニコ動画】【ＭＡＤ】涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱 Little Busters！
Left: Lucky Star | Right: The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
【ニコニコ動画】【ジョジョMAD】モリオウバスターズ！クレイジー【ニコニコ動画】ロシアンマスターズ！EX
Left: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure | Right: Vladimir Putin& Soviet/Russia Politicians
【ニコニコ動画】Fateバスターズ！EX(リトバスOPパロ)【ニコニコ動画】【MAD】リトバスOPパロ御坂美琴ver【とある科学の超電磁砲】
Left: Fate/stay night | Right: A Certain Scientific Railgun

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Figu@Mate (Japanese: ふぃぎゅ@メイト, Figyu atto Meito) is a Japanese adult game relased by Escu:de in 2006.^[1] Its opening movie became to a popular video in the earliest days of the Japanese video sharing service Nico Nico Douga (NND) due to the typical “Dempa Song”^[2] style of the theme song, and became to a subject for parodies and a musical resource for MAD videos.

Origin

Figu@Mate was released on November 24th, 2006, and its opening movie including the theme song “Gacha-Gacha Cute Figu@Mate” (ガチャガチャきゅ〜と・ふぃぎゅ@メイト) was uploaded to the official product page for promotion.^[3] This song was composed and performed by Mosaic.wav^[4], a Japanese moe-pop band well-known for its many dempa song works from the rise of the scene in the first half of 2000s.

(NSFW!!)

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This addictive dempa song came to light on February 6th 2007 when the video was submitted to the beta test version of NND which was running the service by hijacking YouTube videos.^[5] It became to one of the hit videos in the earliest days of that video sharing site, alongside Let’s Go! Onmyouji, Kishimen, LoveCheat! and the Prince of Tennis Musical. People had re-created this movie by anime music video (shown below) or classical parody video style, and those much contributed to the chaotic frenzy at the birth of NND. Partly due to the help of the online popularity, this song achieved to release a CD single in April of 2007, and won the Japanese Moe Game Award for best original song in that year.^[6]

AMV style video feat. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

Sadly, there are few historical records archiving the memories of Figu@Mate in those days on NND because most of those instances including the original footage were forced to be removed for violation of the community guidelines for sexual explicit contents in each web services since the opening movie contains girl’s nipples.

Meanwhile, this song again earned a popularity as a musical resource in MAD videos in around the spring of 2010 when this Shuzo Matsuoka edition was posted to NND.^[7] Though its fad was short, dozens of MADs following the style of this video had been created.^[8]

Notable Examples

【ニコニコ動画】鳥羽イチローがふぃぎゅ＠メイトに合わせて人類を滅亡させたようです。【ニコニコ動画】無駄無駄ズキュゥゥゥン～っと・このディオだ！【ふぃぎゅ＠メイト】
Left: Ichiro Suzuki&Doom Series | Right: Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure
【ニコニコ動画】【完成版】 ガチムチぎゅ～っと・ふぃぎゅ＠兄貴 【歪音エナ】【ニコニコ動画】ふぃぎゅ＠ウメハラ
Left: Billy Herrington Gachimuchi Remix | Right: Crazy Live Report feat. Daigo Umehara

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Balsamic Vinegar (Japanese: バルサミコ酢, Barusamiko Su), is a catchphrase coined by Tsukasa Kozue in a Japanese TV anime series Luck Star. The quite cute note of this phrase had been a very popular subject for parodies in the early days of the MAD video phenomena on the Japanese video sharing service Nico Nico Douga (NND).

Origin

The remark “Balsamic Vinegar” is uttered by Tsukasa in the 5th episode of the TV anime aired in May, 2007. In the scene, she got addicted to the feeling of the phrase from a TV informercial which was strangely emphasising "Su"’s accent, and uttered it repeatedly to enjoy its sound.

Kaori Fukuhara^[1], the voice actor for Tsukasa, revealed that scene was an ad-lib of her in an interview uploaded to the official information page for Lucky Star in June of that year.^[2]

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Lucky Star the most popular TV anime among Otaku in that year also took the part to bring the first light to the dawn of NND’s MAD video phenomena. NND users had been sampling many remarkable phrases and scenes from the show and utilizing them in video parodies from 2007 to 2008. In those instances, Tsukasa’s “Balsamic Vinegar” was a very popular resource as well as Tsukasa Plays the Recorder scene in the 8th episode and her “Penis” (ちんちん, TinTin; abbr. TNTN) remark in the 15th episode.^[3] Because of this, Tukasa had sometimes triggered fads of new musical resources in NND’s MAD video scene. For example, A Touhou Project song "(K)night of (K)nights" became to a popular musical resource by the help of Tsukasa’s MAD video in late 2008 (shown below).

【ニコニコ動画】バルサ･オブ･ミコス

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【ニコニコ動画】つかさは大変なものをバルサミコス【ニコニコ動画】柊つかさがすっぽんぽんになったようです
Left: Marisa Stole the Precious Thing | Right: Western Show
【ニコニコ動画】バルミコ【ウサテイ×バルサミコ酢】【ニコニコ動画】患部で止まってすぐどんだけー～狂気の柊つかさ(Old ver.)
Left: Usatei | Right: Overdrive

Search Interest

Google insights shows this cooking vinegar (バルサミコ酢) has large peaks during the on-air period of Lucky Star.

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One Piece (Japanese: ワンピース Wan Pīsu) is a Japanese manga and anime series by Eiichiro Oda. The series, which portray a young pirate Monkey D. Luffy’s and his crews’ adventures have become extremely popular both in Japan and worldwide.

History

The first versions of One Piece, oneshots Romance Dawn (ロマンス ドーン Romansu Dōn) and Romance Dawn, Ver. 2 were published August 4, 1996 in Shōnen Jump summer special and September 23, 1996 in Weekly Jump respectively.^[2][3] They already had the concept of a young boy named Monkey D. Luffy with rubber pirates sailing the seas in the quest to become a famous pirate. Oda started writing the actual series to Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in August 4, 1997. Originally the series were supposed to last five years, but the story became longer than Oda expected, and has continued to this day.^[1] The first episode of anime was broadcasted in October 20, 1999.^[4]

Plot

One Piece takes place in a parallel universe, and follows the adventures of the Straw Hat pirates. Their captain and main protagonist is Monkey D. Luffy, also known as “Straw-Hat Luffy”, who has eaten a devil fruit called the Gomu Gomu-fruit, making him a rubber man. The Devil Fruits all grant strange abilities, but also make their user incapable to swim. Luffy’s dream is to find a great treasure called One Piece left by executed Pirate King Gold Roger, and proclaim himself as the new Pirate King. All of Luffy’s crew-mates have their own dreams they wish to achieve by sailing with him. As they travel in the strange world covered mostly by sea, they encounter many enemies and allies, including other pirates and the Marines, who enforce the will of tyrannical World Government, and the seven warlords, pirates who Government has pardoned in exchange of their loyalty.

Reception

One Piece is one of the most successful manga series of all time, being the highest selling manga series in Japan^[1] and being extremely popular worldwide, among all age- and gender groups.

Related memes

No one dies in One Piece

One Piece is noted of it’s very low death toll outside of flashbacks, with almost no named characters dying at all and often miraculously surviving from the most fatal situations. Two most notable examples are Pell from Alabasta arc somehow surviving a bomb that was supposed to wipe out the whole city, and Pagagya from Skypiea arc who “only lost consciousness” after getting hit by a lightning storm that eradicated the ground below him. The Marineford arc, which is halfway trough the series, marked the first two deaths of main characters with Luffy’s adopted brother Portgas D. Ace and his captain Edward “Whitebeard” Newgate.

X is Sabo

After the death of Ace is a flashback arc about how he and Luffy first met and and became adopted brothers along with Ace’s friend Sabo. In the end of the flashback Sabo is apparently killed, which launched a series of theories about him being alive and one of the known characters. They would often go to absurd lengths and became popular a subject of humor and parodies among fans.

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UnderTale is an indie, Role-Playing game created by Toby Fox, and is inspired by games such as earthbound and Mother 3.

History

Kickstarter

UnderTale began when creator, Toby Fox pledged a $5,000 goal on Kickstarter. It later received more than $50,000 and succecfully funded at July 24th. The game will plan on being released in August of 2014.

While still only a demo, UnderTale features multiple endings

Reception among fans
While still in development, the demo has shown great promise and is generally well received by fans, and has the talk by some on 4chan’s /v/ board.

Characters

toriel

Toriel is a character in the game, who is warm and motherly to the player after finding them being attacked. She helps the character by leading them through puzzles and outright doing them for the player.

Flowey

Flowey is first met at the start of the game, he sees the player and acts friendly towards them, then attacking them claiming that in this world is it “Kill or be killed” Toriel then comes to the rescue and saves the player. Flowy also seems to act as the game’s mascot.

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Overview

4chan User’s Suicide Attempt refers to a livestreamed video in which a 4chan user known as “Steven” sets his college dorm room on fire in a self-professed attempt to take his own life in November 2013.

Background

On November 30th, 2013, an anonymous 4chan user started a thread claiming he would be ending his own life on a live video feed.

Tonight I will be ending my own life. I’ve been spending the last hour making the preparations and I’m ready to go through with it. As an oldfag who’s been on 4chan since 2004, I thought I would finally give back to the community in the best way possible: I am willing to an hero on cam for you all.

The user subsequently joined a video chatroom on the website Chateen, which quickly filled up to 200 viewers. In front of the online audience, he swallowed several unidentified pills with vodka and set a fire in the corner of the room before crawling under his bed. At the end of the video,^[1] firefighters can be seen entering the room and pulling him out to safety.

Notable Developments

Identity Speculation

On November 30th, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette^[4] published an article that a man had been pronounced dead at the scene of a fire in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On the following day, the @YourAnonNews Twitter feed posted a link to the article, speculating that the deceased man was the suicidal 4chan user.

Suicidal 4chan user killed himself yesterday by setting his room on fire. Event streamed online. 200 people watched http://t.co/vYgi9lFlw5

— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) December 1, 2013

Also on December 1st, the Guelph Mercury^[2] reported that a 20-year-old man had been injured in a dorm room fire at the University of Guelph campus in Ontario, Canada. The same day, CBC News^[3] published an article about the incident, quoting the university’s vice president of student affairs who revealed the fire had been deliberately set by the injured student.

News Media Coverage

In the coming days, several news sites published article about the livestreamed suicide attempting, including The Daily Dot,^[5] The Independent,^[6] The Daily Mail,^[7]Gawker,^[8]IBI Times^[9] and Complex.^[10]

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Black Friday is an annual shopping event observed in the United States on the Friday after Thanksgiving, during which most major retailers open early and offer a variety of promotional sales and discounts, to mark the beginning of the holiday shopping season. Since 2005, it has remained the busiest shopping day of the entire year.

Background

The earliest known use of the term “Black Friday” in the context of the holiday shopping season can be found in a December 1961 newsletter describing the heavy traffic jam in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania^[1] as a result of the sudden influx of shoppers in the area.

Notable Developments

Black Friday Fights

On November 24th, 2006, YouTube xkatykx uploaded a video titled “Black Friday Fight,” featuring several shoppers fighting over computers in a retail store (shown below, left). In the first seven years, the video gained over 850,000 views and 1,300 comments. On July 17th, 2007, YouTuber kopret uploaded a news segment about a Black Friday stampede in which several people were injured (shown below, right), gathering more than 790,000 views and 2,200 comments in the following six years.

On November 26th, 2010, YouTuber talltravis79 published a video showing a fight taking place at a Target shopping center on Black Friday (shown below, left). In the first three years, the video gained more than 870,000 views and 2,600 comments. On November 26th, 2013, the RSVLTS YouTube channel uploaded a montage of Black Friday fighting videos (shown below, right). In the first week, the video garnered more than 1.98 million views and 8,300 comments.

On November 28th, YouTuber TheBlackhawk715 uploaded a video showing women fighting over a television in a Walmart store on Thanksgiving day (shown below, left). Meanwhile, YouTuber So IDecidedTo uploaded a video showing Walmart shoppers shoving each other while waiting in line (shown below, right). In the first five days, the videos gained over 6.4 million and 13 million views respectively. During Black Friday the following day, the hashtag #Walmartfights began trending on Twitter with reports of violence occurring at Walmart stores across the United States.^[2]

Black Friday Pranks

On December 8th, 2008, YouTuber Brad Carter uploaded a prank video in which customers are harassed on the phone at a Walmart shopping center (shown below, left). Within five years, the video accumulated upwards of 960,000 views and 2,000 comments. On November 28th, 2011, the MediocreFilms YouTuber channel released a prank video in which employees at Target are asked for help in finding nonsensical shopping items (shown below, right), gathering upwards of 4.96 million views and 4,200 comments in two years.

On November 23rd, 2012, YouTube PrankvsPrank uploaded a video in which two men pretend to be Target employees (shown below, left). On November 26th, the Improv Everywhere YouTube channel uploaded footage of a group of pranksters camping out in front of a dollar store for Black Friday (shown below, right). In the first year, the videos accumulated over 13 million and 5.1 million views respectively.

Black Friday Death Count

For Black Friday in 2013, the single serving site Black Friday Death Count^[4] was launched, which features a counter that updates with the total number of deaths and injuries associated with Black Friday sales (shown below).

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Expand Dong is a series of images featuring Nintendo character Donkey Kong with the text at the bottom, similar to Tony Kornheiser’s “Why”. Many similar images have been made, with a common theme between them being a sexually suggestive caption.

Origin

The original image comes from the North American box art of a Nintendo 64 game Donkey Kong 64^[4] released in 1999. Many years later, the image of Donkey Kong’s head with the text at the bottom “Expand Dong” was created, though it’s uncertain where the image first surfaced. The earliest documented usage was in January 6th 2013 on 4chan /vg/ (Video Games – General) board^[1].

Spread

Over time the image has spread on other sites. On April 2013 it found it’s way to Funnyjunk^[2], and on June the image surfaced on Tumblr^[3]. Similar images have surfaced over time and videos related to the meme have been made. The images might necessarily be unrelated to Donkey Kong but they all share the same sexually suggestive naming theme.

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About

Amazon Prime Air is a future product delivery service using unmanned aerial vehicles to deliver small packages within 30 minutes from a fulfillment center for the online retailer Amazon. After the service was announced in November 2013, it quickly became the subject of numerous parodies online.

Origin

On December 1st, 2013, the Amazon Prime Air drone-based delivery system was announced by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on the American television news program 60 Minutes as a service in development which can ship any product weighing five pounds or less to a customer within a 10 mile radius in less than 30 minutes. The same day, the online retailer released a promotional video featuring a drone test flight on YouTube (shown below). In the first 72 hours, the video gained over 7.9 million views and 6,800 comments.

Precursor

On June 3rd, 2013, the Domino’s Pizza restaurant chain released a video showing an unmanned aerial vehicle delivering a pizza to the walkway of a residential home (shown below). In the following six months, the video gathered more than 1.45 million views and 1,200 comments.

Spread

On December 1st, 2013, Redditor suckingalemon posted the Amazon Prime Air promotional video to the /r/videos^[1] subreddit, where it received upwards of 24,100 up votes and 4,000 comments in the next 48 hours. The same day, comedy blogger Tim Siedell^[2] tweeted a “that awkward moment” joke about an Amazon drone, the @AmazonDrone^[3] Twitter feed was launched and several Twitter users posted photoshopped images featuring Amazon drones.

That awkward moment when your Amazon delivery drone just hovers there, waiting for a tip.

— Tim Siedell (@badbanana) December 2, 2013

No, I won't bring you tacos, stop asking.

— Amazon Drone (@AmazonDrone) December 2, 2013

You knew this was coming: Amazon Prime Air Drone Hunt. Playable HTML5 game. https://t.co/gJv22Q4Y4vpic.twitter.com/uu831WHAx6

— Leon Zandman (@leonzandman) December 2, 2013

On December 2nd, the marketing blog HubSpot^[4] published an article about Amazon’s announcement, which accused Prime Air of being an elaborate promotion for the Cyber Monday online sales event. The same day, YouTuber FinalCutKing uploaded a parody video for a service which delivers packages via rockets within five minutes (shown below).

Also on December 2nd, Redditor cheeseypoofs_ftw posted an Insanity Wolf image macro to the /r/AdviceAnimals^[5] subreddit about Amazon using missiles to deliver packages (shown below, left). In the first 24 hours, the post gathered over 1,900 up votes and 20 comments. On December 3rd, Redditor fish500 submitted an image macro to /r/AdviceAnimals,^[6] joking that his cat would destroy drones landing on his property (shown below, right). In the following nine hours, the post accumulated more than 28,500 up votes and 900 comments.

Notable Examples

Tweets

60 Mins devotes show to "concept" that's: 1. Currently illegal 2. Involves sending 1000s of spinning blades thru residential communities

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) December 2, 2013

So many problems with Amazon drones. How will they navigate the various FAA regs, hackers, populated areas, crashes, giants nets, etc.?

— Drones (@drones) December 2, 2013

Bezos news really overshadowed the White House’s announcement that Obamacare insurance cards will be delivered by Segway sometime in 2023.

— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) December 2, 2013

Driverless trucks unload at warehouses sorted by robots to ship Chinese-made goods by unmanned drones to the last middle class family.

— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) December 2, 2013

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“Diane in 7A” Hoax refers to a live-tweeted feud widely believed to have taken place on a flight between TV show producer Elan Gale and a middle-aged female passenger only identified as “Diane” on the day of Thanksgiving in late November 2013. Gale’s live-tweets, which included various quotes and photographs of hand-written notes attributed to “Diane,” instantly went viral on Twitter over the following weekend, though her identity was soon revealed to be an elaborate hoax staged by Gale.

Background

On November 28th, 2013, Elan Gale, a producer for ABC’s reality dating show The Bachelor, began tweeting^[1] about a rowdy passenger on his homebound flight:

Our flight is delayed. A woman on here is very upset because she has Thanksgiving plans. She is the only one obviously. Praying for her

— elan gale (@theyearofelan) November 28, 2013

According to Gale’s account, he then approached the woman with a handwritten note criticizing her for being self-centered and causing nuance to others, triggering a back-and-forth exchange of passive-aggressive remarks between them (shown below, from left to right). Gale continued to bring the latest developments in real-time via Twitter.

Notable Developments

On Twitter

Gale’s live-tweeting operation instantly went viral as it happened, and in the following hours, his Twitter following skyrocketed by 140,000 people while his tweets racked up several thousands of retweets and favorites. According to the Twitter analytics service Topsy, Gale’s handle @theyearofelan was mentioned more than 66,000 times and the hashtags #TeamElan and #DianeCanEatMyD were mentioned at least 9,900 times and 4,100 times, respectively. In addition, Gale’s tweets were also compiled into a Storify article titled “This Man is Hilariously Live-Tweeting His Flight-And-Feud With The Woman in #7A,” accruing almost 5.5 million views in less than a week.

News Media Coverage

By 4 p.m. (ET), BuzzFeed had picked up on the story in an article titled “This Epic Note-Passing War On A Delayed Flight Won Thanksgiving,” and throughout the rest of the day, Elan’s tweets continued to make rounds across many Internet news sites and mainstream news publications, including ABC, The Huffington Post, The Guardian, The San Francisco Chronicle and E! Online, among many others.

Diane’s Rumored Cancer

On the following day, someone claiming to be a cousin of Diane came to her defense by posting a comment in the Storify article, which chastised Gale for harassing a stranger without knowing her circumstances and revealed a shocking detail that their reunion was going to be the last chance for Diane to spend time with the entire family due to her stage IV small cell lung cancer.

Diane is my cousin. I want to thank you for not pressing charges against her for slapping you. She would have been arrested for that, and spending a few days in jail would have been a particularly cruel irony under the circumstances. I am a bit surprised you said you could hear her breathing, because Diane has stage IV small cell lung cancer. This would have been her last Thanksgiving with us. I say “would have” because she did miss her connecting flight. She arrived this morning, having spent the night in a hotel in Phoenix. Admittedly, Diane hasn’t been handling her imminent death very well, but she really was looking forward to being with us and the rest of her family- all of whom were flying in for one last Thanksgiving with her. In her defense, she was very contrite and upset about her behavior on the plane. Certainly everybody wanted to get where they were going, but perhaps she can be forgiven for thinking that her need was more pressing than most. Thanksgiving has always been Diane’s favorite holiday, and her comment about the stuffing is true- she was the “keeper of the family recipe” and all of her nieces were planning to be instructed (one more time) in the mysterious ways of Auntie Diane’s stuffing. Since she missed her connecting flight, this did not occur. We are going to try to get as many of the family together as we can tomorrow, but that is up in the air. The plans were all for yesterday. I wish you had known her before she got cancer. You would have loved her. She was bright, funny, and compassionate, and had a self-deprecating sense of humor. She taught elementary music. She loved kids. She loved to laugh. She was everybody’s favorite aunt. Actually, she still is.

Hoax Revealed

Then on December 2nd, Elan Gale tweeted a picture of an empty chair with the message “Here is Diana sitting in a chair,” implying that the woman he tweeted about had been an elaborate scheme.

Here is Diana sitting in a chair pic.twitter.com/OE5q7j8dhr

— elan gale (@theyearofelan) December 3, 2013

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About

Live-tweeting refers to the practice of reporting on a developing story through a series of real-time status updates on the microblogging network Twitter. While the term “live-tweeting” can be used to describe citizen journalism in the event of a crisis, it has become increasingly associated with eavesdropping on private conversations for the purpose of comedy and entertainment.

Origin

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The earliest known instance of “live-tweeting” can be attributed to Pakistani IT specialist Sohaib Athar, who tweeted about a helicopter flying near his residence in Abbottabad, Pakistan as the United States special forces prepared to raid the compound of Osama bin Laden on the early morning of May 2nd, 2001.

Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event).

— Sohaib Athar (@ReallyVirtual) May 1, 2011

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Rooftop Breakup

Airline Passenger

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^[1]TIME– Man Live-Tweets U.S. Raid on Osama bin Laden Without Knowing It

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Ugly Children Lawsuit Hoax is a fabricated story about a Chinese man who divorced and successfully sued his ex-wife for birthing ugly children. The story began circulating online as early as 2004 and saw a significant resurgence in November of 2013.

Origin

According to the hoax investigation website Snopes,^[1] a story about a Chinese man named Jian Feng who sued his wife for bearing unattractive offspring was published as early as June 2004, when it was published in the Heilongjian Morning Post.^[2] The article claimed that Feng won a lawsuit against his wife after she confessed to having plastic surgery following the birth of their “ugly baby daughter.”

A Chinese man has divorced and sued his wife for £55,000 after discovering she’d had plastic surgery before they met. Jian Feng, 38, was said to have been “horrified” when she gave birth to an ugly baby daughter. He suspected her of having an affair. His wife then confessed to having plastic surgery costing £70,000 in South Korea before they met and showed him a picture of how she used to look. He filed for divorce two years after marrying her following a whirlwind romance. The Heilongjiang Morning Post said Jian successfully sued for deceit.

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Tuna is a chihuahua-dachsund mix known for his prominent overbite and lower jaw dysfunction, who gained notoriety online after his owner launched an Instagram feed in November 2011.

Origin

On November 22nd, 2011, the “TunaMeltsMyHeart” Instagram^[2] feed was launched, featuring photographs of Tuna, a chihuahua-dachsund mix with an “agressive overbite/lower jawline-dysfunction” (shown below). Within the first two years, the feed received more than 603,000 followers. According to Tuna’s owner Courtney Dasher, the dog was adopted at a local Farmer’s Market where his rescuer claimed he was found on the side of a road near San Diego, California.^[8]

Spread

On September 16th, 2012, the Tuna MeltsMyHeart YouTube channel uploaded a video of Tuna trying to walk while wearing dog shoes (shown below).

On December 10th, the domain for the site TunaMeltsMyHeart^[3] was registered, which features a store and links to press coverage related to the dog. On the following day, the tech news blog Mashable^[6] published an article about Tuna, noting that he had received upwards of 46,000 Instagram followers. On December 12th, a Facebook^[7] page titled “Tuna Melts My Heart” was created. On January 9th, the women’s interest blog Darling Magazine^[8] published a piece by Dasher in which she recounted Tuna’s rescue. On January 18th, 2013, Tuna appeared on the American morning talk show Today (shown below).

On June 3rd, The Daily Mail^[10] published an article about Tuna. On June 5th, MSN^[9] highlighted several notable photographs of the dog. On June 7th, the GeoBeats News YouTube channel posted a video about Tuna’s Internet fame (shown below). On August 1st, the viral content site BuzzFeed^[5] highlighted several of Tuna’s notable Instagram photographs in honor of his third birthday.

Notable Examples

Phteven

On September 25th, 2013, Redditor Eli2cute submitted a post titled “Phteven? Is that you Phteven?” to the /r/funny^[1] subreddit, featuring a two-pane image containing a photograph of a note with the name “Stephen” misspelled as “Phteven” followed by a picture of Tuna (shown below). In the first two months, the post gained over 11,200 up votes and 270 comments.

On September 29th, the two-pane image was reposted to the Internet humor site 9gag.^[4] Beginning in October, other photographs of Tuna began circulating on the microblogging site Tumblr,^[11][12] with captions phonetically written to sound like a speech impediment caused by an overbite (shown below).

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Former South Africa president & anti-aparthied icon Nelson Mandela has passed away at the age of 95 years old… R.I.P (Work in progress.)

Editor’s note: This article describes not the song itself, but a MAD video fad for the song which is deeply influenced by dirty gay porn videos.

About

Big Blue MADs refers to a series of MAD videos featuring the song “Decide in the Eyes”, better known by the course name Big Blue, a popular soundtrack in Nintendo’s video game series F-Zero.^[1]

This hard rock tune featuring shred guitar sound has been suffering a cult following from annoying Japanese internet users, Inmufags or fans of the Japanese gay porn meme A Midsummer Night’s Lewd Dream, and has been set to a subject for their favorite dirty MAD videos on the Japanese video sharing service Nico Nico Douga (NND) since 2010.

Origin

“Big Blue” first appears as the second course of the original F-Zero released in 1990. Its theme song, “Decide in the Eyes” written by Japanese game composer Naoto Ishida, is one of the most famous tunes representing this video game series, and its arranged versions have continued to be included in almost all of subsequent F-Zero series. This stage and the song also have made guest appearances with Captain Falcon, the main character in the series, in Super Smash Brothers series and 2013 game Nintendo Land.^[2]

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This song had been occasionally set to a subject for musical covers by guitar freaks, or used in handful of MAD videos on NND. But the increase of unwanted popularity to the song was suddenly triggered by MAD editors addicted to the gay porn meme, A midsummer Night’s Lewd Dream, and the video “Big Yajue” (shown below, left) which featured the SSBB version of “Big Blue” and their favorite actor Yajuu Senpai (野獣先輩, lit. Beastly Senior). It was posted on August 10th, 2010^[3], where “8.10” can be read as “Hatten”, a Japanese slang meaning of “Gay Sex”, and “Yajuu” in Japanese. This video has derived to a series of bait and switch videos pretending beautiful four seasons videos, which is called “Four Seasons Video Series” (四季の映像シリーズ). And its form of beauty was completed by the Cookie☆MAD titled “Big Cookie” posted on April 24th, 2011 (shown below, right). This video itself also has tens of followers tagged under “Big Cookie Series” (BigCookieシリーズ).

【ニコニコ動画】【復活】Big Yajue【モザイク追加】【ニコニコ動画】Big cookie
Editor’s note: This “BigYajue” is not the original, but a censored version.

Since after, over a hundred of “Big Blue” MAD videos influenced by the dirty gay porn tastes are uploaded to NND.^[4] Moreover, even normal game videos for F-zero series or “Big Blue”^[5] has also been suffering on dirty in-jokes by Inmufags. This Inmufag’s rude behavior in the outside of their commune is one of the reasons why they have continued earning hatred from many Japanese internet users.

Notable Examples

【ニコニコ動画】BIG SHAKE【ニコニコ動画】Big Yulue【再修正増量版】
Left: Nichijou | Right: Yuruyuri
【ニコニコ動画】Big Blueberry【ニコニコ動画】【艦これ】Big Fleet【音MAD】
Left: Strike Witches | Right: Kantai Collection

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Shining Spiral Shit (Japanese: シャイニングスパイラルウンコ, Shining Spiral Unko, abbr. SSU) is a catchphrase coming from phonetic translations in “Heavenly Star”, a song for PlaystationPotable’s puzzle game LuminesII^[1] released by Q entertainment in 2006. It was written by a music and visual project Genki Rockets^[2] organized by Japanese game desinger Tetsuya Mizuguchi^[3], and nominated for the best song category at the 2006 Spike TV Video Game Awards.^[4]

In the middle of 2008, a glitch ocurred on the daily popular video chart in the Japanese video sharing service Nico Nico Douga (NND), and it accidentally led a cult following from Japanese internet users to the song, who were addicted to the phonetic translation lyrics coined by comments in the official music video on NND.

Origin

The music video for “Heavenly Star” was uploaded to NND not only by a user in July 2007^[5], but also by the official in November of that year^[6] as the part of a partnership campaign of NND and Japanese recording company AVEX, NND’s largest stockholder where Genki Rockets had been belonged to in those days. And the phonetic translation line “Shining Spiral Shit” had been mentioned in both of videos in before, but it was a minor in-joke.

On June 10th, 2008. NND’s daily popular video chart occurred a glitch of displaying video rankings not by popularity but by alphabetical order of video’s ID.^[7] In this accident, top 100 in the chart were hijacked by AVEX’s official videos since those had IDs beginning from “ax”, different from that of usual NND videos beginning from “sm” or “nm”. And because the video ranked into the 1st place by this glitch was “Heavenly Star”, it forced to become the target of criticism against the glitch, and drew much negative attention.

Meanwhile, it also made many NND users be inspired by that silly one liner. Then they quickly created the complete version of funny phonetic translation lyrics on the floating comments of the video on the same day.

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By the help of NND’s floating comment feature working like subtitles, the lyrics of “Shining Spiral Shit” immediately spread to the whole over the web site. This story was soon summarized into a video posted on the following day.^[10] Then, the video finally had gathered more than 30 thousands comments of praising the silly lyrics within that year, a single service website “ShiningSpriral.com”^[11] was launched, and even niconico staffs showed an approval to the song in their blog posts.^[12]

In addtion, dozens of parodies for the music video^[13] were created under the influence of this MAD videos titled “Tokachi’s Shining Spiral Shit”^[14] by Wakamura-P, the famous creator in THE iDOLM@STER meme (shown below). And this weird popularity among NND users has put this song into many niconico medleys including “The 7 colors of Nico Nico Douga”.^[15]

However, all comments on the video was hidden when avex launched its official channel on NND in December of that year.^[16] Now, there is nothing left on NND that tells us the frenzy for the video.

Notable Examples

【ニコニコ動画】おじいさんがシャイニングスパイラルウンコ　ＰＶ風【ニコニコ動画】ゲイドルマスター あにきのシャイニングスパイラルウンコ GV風(G2)
Left: Werther's Original | Right: Billy Herrington
【ニコニコ動画】テロリストは便所に追い詰めてシャイニングスパイラルウンコしてやる【ニコニコ動画】シャイニングスパイダーウンコ
Left: Vladimir Putin | Right: Toei Spider-Man
【ニコニコ動画】修造がバーニングスパイラルウンコ【完成版】【ニコニコ動画】Windowsの効果音たちがスパイラルウンコ
Left: Shuzo Matsuoka | Right: OS Sound Effect Remixes

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“Mori! Mori!” (Japanese: ┌(^o^)┘モリ!┌(^o^)┘モリ!) refers to a weird movement with a strange call for Karate practise in a TV anime series for Japanese manga Kotoura-san.^[1] It became to a subject for MAD videos in the Japanes video sharing service Nico Nico Douga (NND) in the beginning of 2013.

Origin

The TV anime series aired 12 episodes from January to March of 2013. And “Mori! Mori!” appeared in the 2nd episode, where people were training at a Karate Dojo run by the parents of the protagonist’s classmate called Moritani.

This weird exercise which isn’t seem at all to a karate training is a homage to the original manga. In the anime, Moritani family’s business has been changed from a new religious group to a karate dojo for various reasons. And, the original “Mori! Mori!” posing in the manga was that religious group’s solicitation poster in past (shown, below, left) and its catch copy was “Mori Mori Hairou Moritani-kyo!!” (モリモリ入ろう 森谷教!!, lit. “Let’s heartily join onto Moritani group!!”). This ridiculous posing in the solicitation poster was also parodied into the dojo’s poster in the 5th episode (shown below, right).

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This quite short scene caught an attention among anime freaks and several MAD editors who were seeking new resources for their works in that season. Then, a MAD video fad was triggered by a Masked DeDeDe remix video posted to NND on January 20th, 2013 (shown below). And over 130 videos parodying the scene had been uploaded to NND during the running period of the anime series.^[2] Especially, this call has been often associated with forest songs in Pokemon because Moritani’s “Mori” means “Forest” in Japanese.

【ニコニコ動画】vsマスクドカラテ

Notable Examples

【ニコニコ動画】┌(^o^)┘マル!┌(^o^)┘マル!┌(^o^)┘モリ!┌(^o^)┘モリ!
Left: “Viridian Forest” from Pokemon^[3] | Right: J-pop song “Maru Maru Mori Mori”^[4]
【ニコニコ動画】どうぶつの┌(^o^)┘モリ!【ニコニコ動画】危険な┌(^o^)┘モリ!┌(^o^)┘モリ!
Left: Animal Crossing | Right: Dangerous Series

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Kill Me Dance (Japannese: キルミーダンス) is an incoherent choreograph dance invented in a Japanese 4-panel manga Kill Me Baby.^[1] This crazy dance became to a subject for dancing covers and hand-drawn animated videos on the Japanese web in 2012.

Origin

The first appearance of “Kill Me Dance” was on the first comic book cover’s backside which was released in January 2009. It shows 16 “discontinuous” movements with the caption “Let’s make a flipbook by clipping each panels and sorting them along the numbers! Make an anime by yourself!”.

Then, the TV anime series for this manga aired from January to March of 2012 visualized this joke into the real dance in the ending movie with the theme song “The True Secrets of the Pair’s Feelings” (ふたりのきもちのほんとのひみつ Futari no Kimochi no Honto no Himitsu) sung by voice actors Mutsumi Tamura^[2] and Chinatsu Akasaki.^[3]

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By given the animated version, “Kill Me Dance” succeeded to catch an attention among anime otakus. They soon began mimicking this crazy dance by hand-drawn animation or Miku Miku DanceCGI characters. In addition, some challengers had tried dancing “Kill Me Dance” in real. The momentum of those fanworks was triggered by these earliest instances posted to the Japanese video sharing service Nico Nico Douga (NND) in late January/early February of that year.

【ニコニコ動画】【手書き】キルミーダンスを描いてみた【けいおん】【ニコニコ動画】【M☆B】キルミーダンスを踊ってみた【漢二人で】
Left: Hand-drawn animation feat. K-ON! | Right: IRL Dance Cover

During the anime period, about 100 videos for “Kill Me Dance” had been uploaded to NND, and those fan works have continued been posted occasionally since after that.^[4] The Japanese illustrators community pixiv has a hundred of parody illustrations for the dance.^[5] Besides, several “Kill Me Dance” videos by non-Japanese people can be found on YouTube.^[6]

Notable Examples

【ニコニコ動画】まどマギでキルミーダンス【ニコニコ動画】【ゆるゆり】　あかりと京子でキルミーダンス　【キルミーベイベー】
Left: Puella Magi Madoka Magica /w "We have no choice but to die!" | Right: Yuruyuri
【ニコニコ動画】【第8回MMD杯本選】キルミーヒーロー
Left: MMD cover by Tiger & Bunny | Right: IRL Dance Cover

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Xepher is a popular soundtrack from a Japanese arcade music rhythm video game beatmania IIDX, which is produced by KONAMI as a part of BEMANI line. This song had been featured due to its funny phonetic translations, and also utilized as a musical resource for MAD videos in the early days of the Japanese video sharing service Nico Nico Douga (NND).

Origin

Xehpher is written by a Japanese compoer Tatsuya Shimizu, the creator of another popular BEMANI song REDZONE and better known as his alias Tatsh. This song was first included in beatmania IIDX 12 Happy Sky^[1] released for Japanese arcade in July 13th, 2005. As shown by its genre “MEDIEVALCHOIR”, the feature of this song is its solemn chorus sung by Japanese singers Junko Hirata and Tomomi Natori.

This song has been also imported to other BEMANI titles: DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA, Toy’s March 2 and Sound VOLTEX.

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When the song caught an attention on the web for the first time, its subject was the funny phonetic translated lyrics coined by a website mundane BM.^[2] That nonsensical lyrics spread on the web via a flash movie made by an amateur flash creator hecipu in November 2005.^[3]

After NND’s launch in 2007, this song was closed up again as a musical resource for MAD videos that had been rapidly growing up on that video sharing service in those days. That momentum was led by “Xepher-WAWAWAMix”^[6], a MAD video in a catch phrase fad WaWaWa Wasuremono that was derived from Japanese TV anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.

Since then, Xepher had been one of the well-used musical resources in MAD videos till around 2009.^[7]

Notable Examples

【ニコニコ動画】Xepher-SHUZOMix【ニコニコ動画】【みさおMAD】Xepher-VAVAVAMix　らき☆すた
Left: Shuzo Matsuoka | Right: Lucky Star
【ニコニコ動画】Hepher【ニコニコ動画】Xepher TAKENAKA Mix【のびのびサロンシップ】
Left: Japanese Fart Porn[NSFW!!] | Right: Japanese TVCM for a Poultice

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Japanese Fart Porn MADs, known as “Puri-Puri-Pu! Series” (Japanse: プリップリップーッ!シリーズ), refers to a series of MAD videos sampling a fetish fart porn video of Japanese ladies farting to a man looking like an American. Those kinky MAD videos are also called by “Dr. Nishikawa” (西川先生) on the Japanese video sharing service Nico Nico Douga (NND), which name comes from a nickname given to an actress in this video.

Origin

The fart porn video, Farting Punishment, was released by a Japanese minor porn production company Fart FeTish Club (FTC) on August 18th, 2004.^[1] In the story, a man looking like an American tried to steal a lady’s pantie, but got found and subdued by ladies. Then he forces to smell their fresh farts for punishment. The well-known footage in this video is a part where a lady calling herself Lisa is straddling onto his face and mercilessly continues farting with refusing his pleading. A Lisa’s remark in this scene, “Puri-Puri-Pu!”, is a Japanese onomatopoeia for farting sounds.

【ニコニコ動画】嗅ぎなさい！大好物のプリップリップーッを！！！

Transcript

Lisa: Smell your favorite… your favorite Puri-Puri-Pu! Smell it!
(Fart)
Man: Ohaa… Please Stop it!
Lisa: Stop it? I can’t stop it! Go! Go!
(Fart)
Man: Oh, it’s terrible.
Lisa: You like this, huh?
(Fart)
Man: I want to go home…
Lisa: No, you’re far from over. Oh, it’s getting more fragrant. You like this fragrant thing, right?

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This video came to light when it was uploaded on January 8th, 2008^[2], though it had appeared on NND for the first time on May 20th, 2007.^[3]NND users were fascinated with its strange combination of a quite kinky fart porn and a foreigner actor, its situation where they establish a conversation even though speaking different languages each other and Lisa’s punchline “Puri-Puri-Pu!”. Lisa got a nickname “Dr. Nishikawa” from NND users since she resembles to a Japanese celebrity doctor Ayako Nishikawa^[4], and became to one of the icons in the early days of NND. In addition, she is also called by an alias “The Fairy of Wind” (風の妖精), which is given in the same manner to Billy Herrington‘s “The fairy of Forest” and Shuzo Matsuoka’s “The Fairy of Fire”.

Then, this video became to a popular visual resource for MAD videos in the spring of 2008.^[5] However, those instances in the early exciting days have been lost since FTC had removed those NND videos by claiming copyright or portrait right infringements in the middle of that year.

Notable Examples

【ニコニコ動画】西川先生のお尻がボンバーマンの曲に合わせて爆発したようです。
Left: Bomberman MAD | Right: REDZONE^[6]
【ニコニコ動画】屁戦【ニコニコ動画】【合作】ファミコン放屁玉
Left: "Decisive Battle" from Final Fantasy VI | Right: Collabrationg MAD feat. “Famicom Genkidama” by Prof. Sakamoto

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