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Oh, I’m Sorry, I Thought This Was X also known as their other names Oh, I’m Sorry, I Thought This Was America and Randy Marsh Arrested is a exploitable phrase by South Park character and fan favorite Randy Marsh when he gets arrested every time he fights with a opposite team’s father in S09E05 The Losing Edge.

Origin / Episode

The episode aired April 6th, 2005. In the episode The Losing Edge, the boys desperately wanted to lose a game of Baseball for the summer. During the game, Randy Marsh, father of Stan Marsh, is cheering for the team and trash talking to the opposite team to get a father parent angry. After he threatens to beat Randy up, Randy stands up to take off his shirt and provoke that father, and the fight begins. Every time South Park wins, Randy gets arrested by the cops and complains he thought this was America.

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Randy Marsh is full of surprises waiting to become memes. In June 2009, his phrase Oh, I’m Sorry, I Thought This Was America became a exploitable meme in many meme generating websites as Oh, I’m Sorry, I Thought This Was X.

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Fallout 3: Number’s Station is about radio station in the game with its voice actor “3 Dog” is heard saying weird numbers and sentences such as “Have you watched my YouTube video yet, I uploaded myself kicking bums in the nuts” followed by the numbers 2, 4, 1, 6, 1, 2, 2, 4, 2, 0, 1, 2, . And other sentences such as “The Queen has died today. The world mourns, as on days like these, we are all Brits.” Followed by 4, 2, 3, 1, 9, 2, 0, 1, 4, when looked at closely it is shown the numbers are reveled to be dates the most strangest about this is 1, 2, 0, 5, 5, 2, 8, 2, 0, 1, 0, or 12:05 – May 28, 2010 the date and time of the death of Gary Coleman, The Other numbers are unknown if they can predict the future or not.

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4chan Cup is a series of twitch streams goes with football competitions between the boards on 4chan.
Players are generally associated with popular phrases or memes.

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“Fix EU West” is a popular phrase coming from the League of Legends community that started around 2011.

It comes into play literally all the time, whenever there is an issue with the servers for EU West, ruining people’s experience with the game and making people unable to log in for sometimes hours at a time.

You can almost guarantee every top voted comment on League of Legends Facebook pages is going to be
“Fix EU West!”, as it has gotten to a point where it is beginning to spiral out of control.

It is starting to take over the entirety of the Help and Support forums on the official League of Legends website, and every single post posted by any League of Legends fan page has somebody instantly replying to anything they post with “Fix EUW!” or “Fix EU West!”, which always gets upvoted hundreds of times, staying the top comment, regardless of the current state of the server.

The majority of replies to these posts are either “EU West is fine”, “What a surprise, EU West has problems” and “Welcome to EU West”

Currently the comments are subsiding, but give it a full 5 minutes before the servers are down again and the community backlash with more “Dolan” style comics with what probably happened at the EU West servers.

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First Kiss is a viral video produced by director Tatia Pilieva for the fashion label Wren, featuring 20 actors and models who are filmed under the premise that they are kissing a stranger for the very first time.

Origin

On March 10th, 2014, Pilieva uploaded a video titled “First Kiss” to her YouTube channel, in which 20 people are shown kissing each other with the song “We Might Be Dead by Tomorrow” by Soko playing in the background (shown below). Within the first four days, the video gained over 47.1 million views and 28,000 comments.

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The same day on March 10th, 2014, Redditor tehWKD submitted the video to the /r/videos^[1] subreddit, where it accumulated more than 29,500 up votes and 3,800 comments in the next four days. On March 11th, several news sites highlighted the video, including Gawker,^[2] Mashable^[3] and People Magazine.^[4] The same day, Slate^[5] reported that the cast of the video consisted of actors and models. On March 12th, YouTuber Pimms Girl uploaded a parody titled “First Handjob,” in which people fake being manually masturbated by various strangers (shown below). The same day, the Bosh YouTube channel uploaded a video titled “First Sniff,” in which various dogs are filmed sniffing each other (shown below, right). Within 48 hours, the videos garnered upwards of 3.08 million and 295,000 views respectively.

On March 13th, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon released a parody titled “First Lick,” featuring dogs and cats licking and playing with one another (shown below).

On March 14th, the New York Times^[6] reported that the song “We Might Be Dead Tomorrow” sold 10,000 copies within 48 hours of the video’s release and quoted Wren founder Melissa Coker’s claim that the company’s online store saw a “significant bump” in sales after the video began circulating online.

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Merlin is a British fantasy drama that follows the adventure of Merlin and Prince Arthur as young teenagers as they protect Camelot. The show remained popular on Tumblr through its run and continued its popularity after the show’s finale in 2012.

Premise

Merlin is a very powerful sorcerer, but King Uther (Anthony Head) of Camelot has outlawed any kind of magic. Merlin (Colin Morgan) leaves his small village and his mother behind to live with Camelot’s court physician, Gaius (Richard Wilson), thinking it will be easier to hide his abilities in a large community than a small one. After saving Prince Arthur’s (Bradley James) life, Merlin becomes his personal servant. Though they initially clash, the two soon form a close, yet contentious friendship since Merlin must constantly use magic to protect Arthur but must also keep his abilities a secret. Throughout the series Arthur grows closer to a castle maid, Gwen (Angel Coulby), organizes a group of knights, and fights with his father the King, while Arthur learns from the last living dragon that he is destined to help Arthur make Camelot great.

History

The show was created by Johnny Capps, Julian Jones, Jake Michie, and Julian Murphy.^[1] It premiered on BBC One on September 20th, 2008, and its season finale aired on December 24th, 2012 after five season and 65 episodes. The series’ first season was aired on NBC in the US, but moved to SyFy for its second season.

Reception

Merlin earned a score of 7.9 on IMDB and a rating of 59 on Metacritic.^[2] The series was nominated for two BAFTA awards, winning one for Best Visual Effects in 2011.It was also nominated for a Saturn Award in 2013 for Best Youth-Oriented Series on Television.

Online Presence

As of March 2014, Merlin’s official Twitter account^[3] has over 100,000 followers and its Facebook page^[4] has over 1.2 million likes. All five seasons are available to watch for free on Hulu^[5] and for subscribers on Netflix.

Fandom

There are numerous fan-run Tumblr blogs dedicated to the Merlin fandom, including merlin-gifs^[6], whywelovemerlin^[7], and merlinconfessions.^[8] As of March 2014, there are over 17,000 Merlin fanfiction submissions on Fanfic.net^[9] and more than 61,000 fan art submissions for the show on DeviantArt.^[10]

Merthur

The most popular ship for fans of Merlin is Merther (Merlin and Arthur). Though shippers create fan fiction and art to express the ship, it’s also popular to take GIFs from the show that seem to suggest a romantic relationship between the two characters and hold it up as proof the relationship is canon. Fan fiction community Merthur Haven^[11] is dedicated to fics about the pairing, as well as several Tumblr blogs such as oh-merthur^[12] and fyeahbrolinandmerthur.^[13]

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#McConnelling is a video remix fad that involves setting an alternate background music to U.S. Republican senator Mitch McConnell’s election campaign advertisement released in March 2014. Since the introduction of the idea through Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show, numerous remixes of the ad featuring unfitting music have emerged online with the Twitter hashtag.

Origin

On March 11th, 2014, Mitch McConnell released his first campaign ad^[1] titled “McConnell Working for Kentuckians” for this year’s general election, in which the senator and his wife are shown smiling while peppy music plays in the background.

Among many of those who found the video to be a comedy goldmine were the writers of Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show^[2], who decided to pair the video with alternate tracks of all genres and feature them on the program on March 13th, 2014.

Spread

Immediately following the The Daily Show airing, dozens of remixed videos began to flood on to YouTube^[4] and Twitter^[7] under the hashtag #McConnelling (shown below). According to social analytics service Topsy^[8], #McConnelling was mentioned nearly 10,000 times within 24 hours. As previously seen with other hashtag-based political satires launched by TV pundits, the remix meme was instantly picked up by The Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times, Mediate and Talking Point Memo.

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Jealous Husky, also known as Pissed Off Husky, is an advice animal image macro series featuring a photograph of an annoyed-looking Alaskan Malamute dog seated next to a man and a woman on a snow-covered mountain. The captions typically portray the dog as his owner’s overprotective bro with guarded feelings towards his girlfriend.

Origin

On March 9th, 2014, Redditor Stuface submitted a photograph of a couple posing with their Alaskan Malamute in front of a mountain range to the /r/funny^[1] subreddit (shown below, left). In the comments section of the post, Redditors began posting humorous internal monologues attributed to the angry-looking dog. In the first four days, the post gained over 13,600 up votes and 320 comments. On the same day, Redditor Matter1234 submitted the same photograph with the caption “Wait a minute / They weren’t wrestling” to /r/funny^[2] (shown below, right).

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On March 10th, 2014, Redditor Flim_Flams submitted an image macro titled “Pissed Off Husky,” with a caption depicting the dog as envious of his owner’s female companion (shown below, left). The same day, Redditor yemyek submitted another image macro titled “I thought I’d give it a try with Jealous Husky,” which joked about the couple using peanut butter in a sexual context (shown below, right). Also on March 10th, the Internet humor blog Tastefully Offensive^[6] highlighted Reddit Flim_Flams’ image macro. In the next four days, the posts gained over 25,400 and 14,900 up votes on /r/AdviceAnimals^[3][4] respectively. During that same time, there were over 70 new image macros submitted to /r/adviceanimals^[5] containing the word “husky.”

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Kyoto Animation (often abbreviated to KyoAni) is a japanese anime studio based in Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, and is responsible for many popular anime series, most notably The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Lucky Star and K-On!. First founded in 1981, the company gained a significant online following among Otaku, due to the company’s moe styled shows.

History

Kyoto Animation was first founded in 1981, but did not start to produce their own shows until August 26, 2003, starting with the show Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu, a spin-off to the Full Metal Panic anime series produced by Gonzo. The studio did not reach critical acclaim, however, until the creation of their 4th show The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya on April 2, 2006. The show received widespread popularity, both in Japan and in the west, leading to the success of the studio. The show is also credited as being one of the first shows to use a moe art style, as well as being the show which popularised the style. Following this success, the studio proceeded to have continued success, producing many popular shows, most notably Lucky Star and K-On. However, after the release of their show Nichijou, the studio’s productions began to drop in popularity, with the show only being able to sell 924 DVD copies within it’s first week. Following this, the studio began to produce it’s own original shows, most notably Love, Chunibyo and Other Delusions and Free! Iwatobi Swim Club, based on works submitted to the studio via their Kyoto Animation Awards.

Online Relevance

. The company has a significant presence on anime related sites, as well as on sites such as Tumblr^[1], 4chan’s /a/ (Anime and Manga)^[2] and /c/ (Anime/Cute)boards^[3], Fanpop^[4], My Anime List^[5], DeviantART^[6][7]. There are numerous sites holding information of the company, such as the Kyoto Animation wiki^[8], TV Tropes^[9] and Anime News Network^[10]. The Kyoto Animation YouTube Channel also has over 50,000 subscribers^[11].

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The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya

The Melancholy of Haruhi is a slice of life anime which first aired in 2006. The series follows the adventures of Kyon, a high school boy who is forced to join a club dedicated to searching for extra-terrestrial beings (known as the SOS Brigade) by his eccentric classmate Haruhi Suzumiya. The series is widely regarded as one of the most famous anime of all time, and is acknowledged as one of the pioneers of the moe genre.

Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club

*Free! Iwatobi Swim Club* is a sports/slice of life anime which first aired in 2013. First originating as a 30 second promotion for the company, the commercial received significant popularity among female anime fans, known as fujoshi, later becoming known as Swimming Anime. After the announcement of the show, there was both a large amount of praise and criticism aimed towards the company, with many Fujoshi happy at the prospect of a show catering towards them, while many Otaku claiming that the company had betrayed them.

Nichijou

Nichijou is a comedy/slice of life anime series which first aired in 2011. Despite the show garnering a significant online following among Otaku, praising the art style and comedy, the series was not a commercial success, with the DVD only selling 924 copies within it’s first week.

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Serhii Borona aka Comha aka KheDa
A guy who stole Edits, Bootlegs, Remixes and Original Tracks!

He also stoled a track of Elephante called ‘Pretty Lights’ and entered in a contest of Ukraine Best Progressive Track 2013 who won.
The track was released, hope he is prosecuted.

Original Track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6smOjiLwyw

Track released as KheDa: http://www.beatport.com/track/the-lights-original-mix/5040816

Video of the contest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ8f-Mi4KFY#t=135

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“Heard You Were Talking Shit…” is a phrase often used in reaction images where an angry person or an animal glares at something. It is sometimes followed up with “…Like I Wouldn’t Hear It” or a similar variation of it.

Origin

The origin of the phrase might be dated back to the song Hollaback Girl by Gwen Stefani, released in 2004. The one part of the song lyrics are: “I heard that you were talking shit and you didn’t think that I would hear it”^[1].

On March 11th, 2013, a Tumblr user wtfbrian posted a picture of a goat answering a cellphone, with comment “i heard you were talking shit and you didnt think that i would hear it”^[2]. Over the year, the post has gotten over 138,000 notes.

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About: DouchebagChocolat (more commonly referred to as Demolition D+) is a popular youtuber who reviews anime.
Online History: His channel was created on 30.05.2007, and his first video was posted on 11.08.2009 titled “MHP2G MHFU– Descendants of the King”

As of today 15.3.2014, he has nearly 60k subscribers.
Reputation: DouchebagChocolat is mainly known for his “Should you watch” series in which he analyzes the prons and cons of animes, which are for the most part recommended by his viewer’s. His most popular reviews are “Should you watch: Shingeki no Kyojin?” and “Should you watch: Mirai Nikki?”

One of his most popular videos titled “You want some Mountain Dew?”, in which his asks his dog if she wants some mt. dew, has been featured on (reddit.com)/r/videos on 16.10.2013

(reddit page-http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1omars/the_dog_does_not_want_mountain_dew/)

When a male has ejaculated but the female counterpart that is responsible for the male’s orgasm does not cease after said event and continues performing fellatio without any regard to prior event.

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Islam is a monotheistic Abrahamic religion which revolves around the worship and submission to God. Islam’s followers are known as Muslims and they believe that God’s final prophet was a man named Muhammad. Islam’s central religious text is the Qur’an which is to believed by Muslims to be God’s direct words.^[1] Muslims commonly practice “The Five Pillars of Islam” which include Shahadah, or announcing that there is no god but God and that Muhammad is his messenger, Salat, or praying towards the holy city of Mecca at five regular intervals throughout the day, Sawm, the ritual of fasting during the holy month of Ramadan, Zakat, or giving 2.5% of you money to people who need it more if financially capable, and Hajj, which is the annual pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca at least once during a Muslim’s lifetime if capable to.^[2] Two major sects of Islam include the Sunni^[3] and the Shia.^[4]

Origin and Spread

Islam began in the Arabian Peninsula around the time of 622 C.E. It was founded around the Qur’an and the teachings of the prophet Muhammad.^[5] The religion slowly but surely spread throughout the Middle East by word of mouth and conquest of land by Muslims who converted the inhabitants of the conquered areas to Islam. With the formation of the Islamic Ottoman Empire in 1299 C.E., Islam spread even farther as the empire grew and became transcontinental.^[6]

Related Memes

Innocence of Muslims

Innocence of Muslims is an anti-Islam film that was allegedly produced by Nakoula Basseley Nakoula and directed by Alan Roberts.^[7] On July 2nd 2012, YouTuber SamBacile uploaded two 13 minute clips of the movie which garnered much attention by the general public. Later that month, a version translated to Arabic was aired on Egyptian television which caused the movie to turn into a viral controversy worldwide. The film pictures Islam in a very negative way and has depictions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad which are not allowed in Islam.

Islamic Rage Boy

Islamic Rage Boy is an image macro series of a photo of an Islamic political activist who appears to have a very enraged expression. His face is often photo-shopped or superimposed over other images for comedic purposes.

Everybody Draw Muhammad Day

Everybody Draw Muhammad Day is a day reserved for an online protest of violent actions by Muslims against people who attempt to make depictions of Muhammad which is strictly against the rules of Islam. To protest this, people as many draw depictions of Muhammad as they can. The first “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day” was on April 20th. This fad originated from when the creators of the show South Park were receiving death threats from Muslims for depicting Muhammad in the episode “201”.

Ordinary Muslim Man

Ordinary Muslim Man is an advice animal image macro series including a picture of a smiling man wearing a Muslim taqiyah hat. The captions placed on the photo often use bait-and-switch tactics and make the first line something that sounds anti-American and make the second line something that is totally innocent for comedy.

“Dude, You Have No Qur’an!”

Dude, You Have No Qur’an! is a quote by 23 year old Jacob Isom from Amarillo, Texas. In response to the 9/11 attacks in 2001, the Christian priest David Grisham local to Amarillo, Texas led a group of Christians to burn a copy of the Qur’an. Jacob Isom allegedly rescued the Qur’an from being burned while the priest wasn’t looking. When asked by reporters about the incident, he had this to say:

“[I] Snuck up behind him and took his Quran. He said something about burning the Quran, and I was like ‘Dude, you have no Quran!’”

The phrase "Dude, You Have No Qur’an quickly turned into an internet meme and has seen multiple auto-tune parodies and is often quoted as a copypasta

Online Presence

Islam is currently the second largest religion in the world.^[8] Various pages on social networking sites have been made for Islam including on Twitter,^[9][10][11]Facebook,^[12][13][14]Tumblr,^[15][16][17] and Reddit.^[18]

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“Shut Up Your Mouse Obama” is a memorable quote said by a middle-aged Egyptian woman in accusing U.S. President Barack Obama and the American government of meddling in her country’s affairs during an interview with a TV news crew at a protest in February 2014. Partially delivered in broken English, the woman’s rant went viral in the Middle East after the news clip was uploaded to YouTube on March 6th, 2014.

Origin

During the February 2014 Egyptian parliamentary elections, a local news channel interviewed an unidentified woman who immediately began telling Barack Obama to “shut up your mouse” before voicing her support for Egyptian military commander Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and denouncing former President Mohammad Al-Morsi. On February 26th, 2014, the شبكة يقين الإخبارية YouTube channel uploaded the interview to YouTube (shown below).

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“Listen your Obama. We are Egyptian women. You are listen, Obama? Shut up your mouse, Obama. Shut your mouse, Obama! Sisi yes, Sisi yes. Morsi no, Morsi no. Sisi yes, Sisi yes. Morsi no, Morsi no.”

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On March 1st, Viner Shourouk Abdalla^[9] uploaded several clips of the Egyptian news video. On the same day, YouTuber yourbodyxtina reuploaded the video with the title “Shut up your MOUSE Obama,”^[8] which accumulated over 180,000 views and 240 comments in the next two weeks. On March 2nd, the video was submitted to the /r/Egypt^[10] subreddit by Redditor Wazzaahhh. On March 6th, 2014, YouTuber AI MUJmusic uploaded a dubstep remix track using the audio from the viral video, gathering more than 256,000 views and 270 comments in the first week (shown below). On March 10th, the Saudi Arabian news agency Al Arabiya^[4] highlighted a clip from the remix.

On the following day, Al Arabiya’s editor in chief Faisal J. Abbas tweeted photographs of two T-shirts with a screen captured image of the unidentified Egyptian woman above the caption “Shut Up Your Mouse Obama!” In the coming days, several other English-speaking news sites published articles about the video, including The Blaze,^[5] VC Post^[6] and The Washington Times.^[7]

'Shut up your mouse #Obama' t-shirts made in #Egypt after viral internet rant gets remixed – http://t.co/LW1X0NPlclpic.twitter.com/jZ32iiE947

— Faisal J. Abbas (@FaisalJAbbas) March 11, 2014

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READ ME! Before you start this “I haven’t seen it before, therefore it is not a meme. +1 Deadpool” mentality, I do think that this is sub-worthy, so if anyone can help me out, just request editorship.

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“What a time to be alive” is a term often mentioned when (researching this)

Origin

The term “What a time to be alive” originated from the simpsons scene, where Jasper believes he is in the future, after being frozen in the Kwik E-Mart. He walks out and sees a moon pie, thinking “What a time to be alive”

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The term “What a time to be alive” has been mentioned on numerous sites, such as the comment section of Reddit, or numerous Tumblr posts.

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Overview

The DFTBA Sexual Abuse Scandal refer to a series of accusations of sexual misconducts made against several musicians who were or are signed to the Don’t Forget To Be Awesome (DFTBA) Records, a digital music label launched by the Vlogbrothers for a group of independent recording artists on YouTube. Since the outbreak of the allegations, which emerged between November 2008 and March 2014, all three musicians involved in the scandal have had their music and merchandise removed from the official DFTBA website.^[2]

Background

DFTBA Records, which is named after the initialism of one of the Vlogbrothers’ catchphrases “Don’t Forget To Be Awesome,” was founded by Hank Green and musician Alan Lastufka^[3] in November 2008.

Lombardo’s Arrest

On February 12th, 2012, The Smoking Gun^[4] reported F.B.I agents has seized Mike Lombardo’s computers after several teenagers came forward saying they had exchanged sexually explicit photos with the DFTBA-signed artist. In July 2012, Lombardo was arrested on charges of soliciting explicit photos from minors^[1] and subsequently sentenced to five years in federal prison on the charge of possessing child pornography^[5] on February 28th, 2014. Shortly after news of the FBI investigation on Lombardo broke, Hank Green issued a statement on behalf of himself, his brother John, and DFTBA records on his Tumblr blog^[11] on February 18th, 2012, explaining he had taken down Lombardo’s page from the label’s official website.

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Allegations Against Tom Milsom

On March 11th, 2014, Tumblr user Olga^[6][7] wrote a blog post in which she accused YouTube musician Tom Milsom of emotionally abusing and manipulating her during the course of their relationship. On March 13th, Olga posted another update with more details about her accusations, including their age difference at the time they had first met. The relationship began when she was 15 years old and he was 21.

Allegations Against Alex Day

On March 12th, an anonymous Tumblr blog post accused yet another DFTBA artist Alex Day of pressuring her into a sexual relationship with him.^[8] In the following days, additional allegations of misconduct were made against Day by both anonymous and self-claimed victims.^[9][10] That same day, Day addressed the allegations on his Tumblr blog in a post titled “On Mistakes.”^[19] In it he states:

“Until yesterday, I thought that I had had only appropriate, though occasionally manipulative relationships with women. However, the model of consent that I followed, not that I specifically thought about it at the time – was that only “no” meant “no.” That is not what consent is.The result of that belief that ‘only no means no’, is that I spent a long part of my life doing shitty things to good people and barely ever realising or acknowledging that I was doing the shitty things.”

Hank Green’s Response

Green addressed the allegations against Milsom in a post on his Tumblr^[13] in which he explained he was sad and angry over the revelation Milsom had had a relationship with a minor. Green posted a response to the allegations regarding Milsom and Day on March 14th, 2014.^[12] In his post titled “WTF Is Going On” he explains:

“This probably goes without saying but I am both furious and saddened that people in my community would have these manipulative, unhealthy, and even abusive relationships. I do not know all of the details of these relationships, nor do I believe it is my place to know, but I have no doubt that Alex and Tom took advantage of people and I am so tired of being angry that now I’m just sad.”

The same day he uploaded a video to the Vlogbrothers^[14] channel titled “Sexual Abuse, Consent, and Culture” which explored those issues. As of March 17th, the video has gained more than 310,000 views.

News Media Coverage

On March 14th, 2014, New Media Rockstars^[15] published a post titled “Alex Day Now Involved In ‘Sexual Misconduct’ Allegations, Asked To Be Pulled From DFTBA Records As Well” which covered the allegations against Day and his response. That same day, New York University’s student publication NYU Local^[16] detailed a brief history of sexual charges and allegations made against the DFTBA artists in a post titled “Sexual Abuse Allegations Rock YouTube Community,” while The Daily Dot^[17][18] reported on the troubling implications of YouTube artist-an interactions in the light of the DFTBA scandal.

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Waluigi is a character from the Mario video game franchise. Despite having appeared mainly in spinoffs of the franchise, he has gained popularity in the Mario fandom due to his mischievous, cunning nature.

Origin

Waluigi’s first appearance in the Mario franchise was in the Nintendo 64 game Mario Tennis, released in 2000. he was designed to be the Luigi’s rival in the way that Wario is to Mario, with exaggerated physical traits.
His name comes from a pun based on “Warui”, The Japanese word for Bad, and “Ruigi”, since Japan substitutes the letter L for R, which makes his name literally “Bad Luigi”.

Waluigi has also appeared in other Mario spinoffs, such as Mario Kart, Mario Golf, and Mario Party, as well as an assist trophy in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

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Waluigi gained popularity in the fandom thanks to his over-the-top appearance and voice. Several Tumblr Ask Blogs have impersonated Waluigi, such as WAAAAAAAH and Ask Waluigi.

On TV Tropes, Waluigi is listed as an example of an Ensemble Darkhorse character; one who becomes very popular despite not being in the main cast.

Waluigi started out as a character solely to mirror Mario & Wario’s rivalry by giving Luigi an enemy and completely lacking a personality beyond being overconfident and narcissistic. Since then, Waluigi has steadily increased in popularity over the years, even earning himself an appearance in Super Smash Bros. Brawl as an Assist Trophy. The biggest reason he’s so popular is thanks to Brawl in the Family, where the fans of the series were able to see Waluigi in a different (crazier and funnier) look. He also became more of a mischievous trickster with some bits of Tragic Villain and Butt Monkey as more games came out, giving him an overall better characterization other than just being a “rival to Luigi”, got awesome music and stages to his name (particularly Waluigi Pinball in Mario Kart DS), and got more hilarious animations and roles in the games he appeared in. All of this with the Mario series constantly pulling in new fans who didn’t have to deal with his early Scrappy moments, have been responsible for his more positive reception, even if he still is a Base Breaker.

Waluigi Time

A popular quote from Waluigi is “Too Bad, Waluigi Time”, which originates from the Super Smash Bros. Webcomic Brawl In The Family, which shows his crazier side. The quote is often used in the context of Waluigi threads.

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Waluigi- Super Mario Wiki
Waluigi- Brawl in the Family
Posts tagged with waluigi on Tumblr

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The Bechdel Test is a collection of three questions that can be posed to a film to see how it handles its female characters (or lack thereof). It originally comes from the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For created by American comic artist Alison Bechdel. The test can also be applied to other forms of visual media such as television and video games.

Origin

The test can originally be found in a strip published in 1985 titled “The Rule.” The strip shows two friends walking past a movie theater as one explains to the other the three things a film must have for her to see the film:

“One, it has to have a least two women in it, who, two talk to each other, about, three, something besides a man.”

She then explains the last movie she was able to see based on her rules was Alien, which had been released six years prior in 1979.

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On June 30th, 2008, Jennifer Kesler published a post titled “Why film schools teach screenwriters not to pass the Bechdel test” on the film blog The Hathor Legacy.^[7]

The first entry for The Bechdel Test on Urban Dictionary^[1] was entered by user AutumnDevi on May 9th, 2009, which defines the term as:

“A test for movies. In order to “pass” a movie must have

1) At least two named female characters who

2) talk to each other about

3) something other than a man"

On December 7th, 2009, the YouTube channel feministfrequency^[4] uploaded a video titled “The Bechdel Test for Women in Movies” that examined the standard and listen many films that don’t pass the test such as Bruno, Ghostbusters, and Clerks. As of March 2014, the video has gained over 730,000 views.

On April 11th, 2010, bechdeltest.com^[3] was created, which hosts a list of movies that indicates if they pass the test, or if they pass certain points but not others.^[5]

In 2013 a handful of movie theaters in Sweden began issuing “A” ratings to movies that passed the test.^[2]

Several film lists of major films that past the test were compiled in 2013 and 2014 including ones on Total Film^[6] and Vocativ.^[8]

Criticism

On November 13th, 2013, IndieCritic^[10] ran a post titled "Does It Matter If the Bechdel Test “Fails” Feminist Films?" that suggests the test can let films that do not treat women well slide, while ignoring female dominated films like Sex and the City: 2. On January 7th, 2014, Slate^[9] published a post titled “The Bechdel Test Sets the Bar Too Low. Let’s Write a New One” that discussed the tests shortcomings.

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About

American Horror Story is an American horror television drama that consists of mini-series-like season that each have their own theme and characters, though multiple season employ many of the same actors. Three seasons have aired as of March 2014, including Murder House, Asylum, and Coven, with a fourth season set to premiere in fall 2014.

Premise

Murder House

Ben (Dylan McDermott), Vivien (Connie Britton) and their teenage daughter Violet (Taissa Farmiga) move into a house where the previous occupants died in a murder suicide. Violet quickly develops a relationship with her father’s teenage psychiatric patient Tate (Evan Peters), while her parents become friendly with their neighbor Constance (Jessica Lange) and her daughter Addie (Jamie Brewer). The house is full of the ghosts of the people who have died there, including Tate, who was a high school shooter. Tate rapes Vivien, who becomes pregnant with twins, only one of which was fathered by Tate. Another ghost that joins the house is Hayden (Kate Mara), a woman Ben had an affair with who is murdered by one of the house ghosts when she comes to confront Ben. Violet becomes a house ghost after she commits suicide, Vivien becomes a house ghost when she and one of the twins die in childbirth, and Ben becomes a house ghost when he’s murdered by Hayden. They remain in the house to scare off other potential buyers, while the live twin is raised by Constance, who was Tate’s mother and thus the boy’s grandmother. The series ends with her discovery the three-year-old boy, prophesized to be the anti-christ, had murdered his nanny.

Asylum

Sister Jude (Jessica Lange) and Sister Mary Eunice (Lily Rabe) run Briarcliff Mental Institution in 1964 with Dr. Oliver Thredson (Zachary Quinto) and scientist Dr. Arthur Arden (James Cromwell). Thredson is a serial killer who pins his murders on Briarcliff patient Kit Walker (Evan Peters), who is accused of murdering his wife Alma Walker (Britne Oldford), who he believes was abducted by aliens. Arden is a former Nazi who performs medical experiments on the patients. Another patient is journalist Lana Winters (Sarah Paulson), who is committed by her girlfriend Wendy (Clea Duvall) when Sister Jude threatens to make their relationship public. Walker begins a relationship with accused murder Grace Bertrand (Lizzie Brocheré). Bertrand and Walker have a child together and the family is released, when they find out Kit’s wife is alive and they also have a child. Winters is able to expose Thredson as the serial killer, but not before he rapes her. In the present day she is a successful reporter, and the season ends with her child by Thredson, Johnny (Dylan McDermott), who she gave up for adoption, holding her at gunpoint, though she’s able to take charge of the situation and kills him instead.

Coven

Cordelia Foxx (Sarah Paulson) runs a school for young witches in New Orleans, where she lives with her mother, Fiona Goode (Jessica Lange), who is the coven’s Supreme, or most powerful witch. As the season begins four new witches arrive-Zoe Benson (Taissa Farmiga), who can cause men to have brain hemorrhages by sleeping with them, Queenie (Gabourey Sidibe), a human voodoo doll, Madison Montgomery (Emma Roberts), who can move things with her thoughts, and Nan (Jamie Brewer), who can hear other’s thoughts. Goode is desperate to beat her incurable cancer, which is seen as a sign that a new Supreme will rise soon, as the old Supreme’s power weakens as the new one rises. Goode resurrects Delphine LaLaurie (Kathy Bates), who killed and tortured slaves in the 1800s, to annoy Marie Laveau (Angela Bassett), a voodoo priestess who cursed LaLaurie. LaLaurie becomes a maid at the school as the girls develop their powers while waiting to see who will emerge as the next supreme. When it appears Goode has been murdered they hold a competition among the girls to see who the next supreme is, but during the competition it becomes clear Foxx is the new supreme. Goode returns briefly before dying of cancer, while Foxx makes the Coven public and continues to run the school with the girls who survived the test (Queenie and Benson).

History

The show was created by Brad Falchuk and Ryan Murphy. It premiered on FX on October 5th, 2011. As of March 2014, three seasons and a total of 38 episodes have aired. It was renewed for a fourth season, which will take place in a carnival, on November 6th, 2013.^[5]

Reception

American Horror Story received a score of 8.5 on IMDB^[1] and a rating of 65 on Metacritic.^[2] It has been nominated for four Golden Globes, winning one in 2012 for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television (Jessica Lange). It has also won four Primetime Emmys including ones for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie (Jessica Lange), Outstanding Hairstyling for a Miniseries or a Movie, Outstanding Sound Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special, and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie (James Cromwell).

Online Presence

As of March 2014, American Horror Story’s official Twitter^[3] account has over 490,000 followers and its Facebook^[4] page has over 6.9 million likes. The first two seasons are available to watch for subscribers on Netflix.

Fandom

There are numerous fan-run Tumblr blogs dedicated to the American Horror Story fandom including ahsconfessions,^[6] f-yeah-americanhorrorstory,^[7] and americanhorrorstoryahs.^[8] As of March 2014, there are over 790 American Horror Story fanfiction submissions on Fanfic.net^[9] and more than 5,400 fan art submissions for the show on DeviantArt.^[10]

Related Memes

Surprise, Bitch

“Surprise, Bitch,” not to be confused with James Doakes’ “Surprise, Motherf**ker”, is a catchphrase associated with the character Madison Montgomery (played by Emma Roberts) in American Horror Story: Coven.

On Tumblr, the phrase has been paired with GIFs depicting the return of a character once thought to be dead.

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