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The Frollo Show

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The Frollo Show is a YouTube series created by Chincherrinas that focuses on Frollo and Gaston being silly and carefree, also meeting a lot of people in the meanwhile, slowly changing the lives of everyone involved.

Origins

In 2011, the YouTube Poop Frollo Faps to a Firefighters Calendar was released because Chincherrinas wanted to make a Youtube Poop starring Frollo. The reception was positive, and more episodes began popping up, slowly creating a storyline.

After Frollo Sees Dead People, the series merged as its own independent series away from the YouTube Poop format. It evolved into an actual show with conflicting plots and proper character interactions and development. It is still growing strong after 2 years.

Reception

The Frollo Show has been given much positive feedback in the YouTube community, even though people still mistake the series as a YouTube Poop. The episodes before Frollo Sees Dead People are placed amongst some of the best Frollo YouTube Poops by many (Poops like Gaston and Frollo Get a Life, Frollo Opens a Catholic Church, ect.). The modern Frollo Show has been praised for its edits, jokes, and storyline.

Parodies and tributes, like this one and this one were made in honor of the series.

Series’ Creations

The Frollo Show also took to the creative route in intoducing certain unique aspects, like The Bros Pose and the Cousin characters. For more information on both, please visit their respective pages.

The Bros Pose

The Bros Pose is the signature memetic pose of The Frollo Show. The pose originated in Frollo Gets AIDS, where Frollo and Gaston pose to celebrate the purchase of the Magic Fire.

In the words of the creator, Chincherrinas, “It consists of two best buds, the one at the left doing a thumbs up, and the one at the right stretching arms in celebration. Its also customary that the one at the left sports dark colors, while the one at the right bright ones, specially red… still, there can be some exceptions to that ruru. The bros pose is usually used when said buds came up with a stupid solution, or for the hell of expressing companionship.”

The Bros Pose is usually accompanied by the Item Get fanfare from Luigi’s Mansion, although some situations exclude this detail. Also, static images of the pose traditionally use a flashy blue background. The Bros Pose is also traditionally put in the end of every Leet Fighters episode, mainly relating to a character or characters.

Characters

The series revolves around characters from multiple medias, like movies, anime, television, video games and others. Sometimes, custom characters are created.

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Episodes and Plot

Frollo Faps to a Firefighters Calendar



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Frollo Strikes Back

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Frollo Saves The World

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Frollo Reads Mein Kampf

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Frollo Gets AIDS

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Frollo Sees Dead People

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Frollo Misses his Mother

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Frollo Tries to Get Laid

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Frollo Beats Up Evil Residents

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Frollo is Too Young

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Frollo Gets Interrupted by Hitler

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Frollo Enters a Mexican Contest

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Frollo Fucks the Gods

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Frollo Has a Bad Feeling

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Frollo Gets Flashed by a Gothic Lolita

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Frollo Finally Does It

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Fandom

The Frollo Show Fans have to make thier own the Bro’s/Sista’s/Brosista’s Pose






I'm Getting Excited

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About

I’m Getting Excited (Japanese: テンション上がってきた, Tension Agatte Kita) refers to a blurry photo taken from a TV interview with Ichiro Suzuki. Since 2006, this quote with a blurry head has been one of the popular expressions for Japanese internet users’ excitement.

Origin

This meme originated from an interview with Ichiro at Safeco Field, the home stadium of the Seattle Mariners that he was belonging to. A screenshot of Ichiro coincidentally shaking his head was taken by a Japanese internet user. And, the caption in this screenshot is his answer to interviewer “I’m getting excited”.



“I’m getting excited”

In the Japanese language, “Tension” (テンション) is a loanword from English which means degrees of excitement or motivation, and it has no negative nuance. For example, Hi-tension (テンションが高い, Tenshyon ga takai) is meaning of “Excited”, and Low-tension (テンションが低い,Tenshyon ga hikui) is meaning of “Not excited” or “Unmotivated”. However, it’s a casual expression which is seldom heard in interviews with middle-aged athletes like Ichiro even in those days.

Spread

It’s unclear when this interview was aired. But this photo began circulating on the Japanese web in the late of July 2006. The most well-known host of this screenshot is a Japanese image uploader pya! which posted it on 23rd of that month[1], and it was reprinted to many 2channel related blogs’ posts via funny picture threads in that textboard community. Peoples were soon fascinated by surrealistic lulz of this photo, that was caused by the contrast of Ichiro’s quite normal facial expression in strange blurry photo and that catchy remark. Then, a photo collage fad inspired by ichiro’s blurry head started in the Japanese imageboard community Futaba Channel (2chan). “Getting Excited” picture generators were also released in the following years.[2][3]



Before / After

In addition, Ichiro’s blurred headshaking photo became to one of the formulae of expressing excitement in online parodies throughout sharing of his picture and collaged photos. Japanese illustrators community pixiv has over a hundred of illustration tagged under this catchphrase[4], and many of them utilize headshaking to express characters’ extraordinary excitement.

Notable Examples




Search Interest

External References

[1]pya! – キタ━━━━━(゚(゚∀(゚∀゚(☆∀☆)゚∀゚)∀゚)゚)━━━━━!! 旧作品No.30524 / Posted on 07-23-2006 (Japanese)

[2]工学ナビの中の人の研究と周辺 – イチローの「テンション上がってきた」を再現するソフト / Posted on 06-08-2007 (Japanese)

[3]黒羊工房 – テンション上がってきたジェネレーターβ版 / Launched in 2007

[4]pixiv – Search results for the tag テンション上がってきた

I Was Almost Coming

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About

I was Almost Coming” (Japanese: ほぼイキかけました, Hobo ikikake mashita) a catchphrase coined by the Japanese baseball player Ichiro Suzuki. It became to a buzzword shortly after it was uttered in the 2009 World Baseball Classic.[1]

Origin

The interview which Ichiro says “I was almost coming” aired after the victory ceremony in the 2009 World Baseball Classic on March 24, 2009. Regardless of the context in dialogue, it was nevertheless seen as an unacceptable expression for broadcasting. Eventually, Ichiro released a public apology by saying “Sāsen”, an easy pronounciation of “Sumimasen” (lit. “I’m sorry.”):



Spread

This superstar’s utterance immediately caught everyone’s heart and became to be dubbed as “The Coolest Dirty Joke in The World” (世界一カッコいい下ネタ). Then, the notorious soundbite became to be utilized in many MAD videos on the Japanes video sharing service Nico Nico Douga (NND) alongside another phrase appearing in the same interview “Azāssu” (アザーッス), an easy pronunciation of “Arigatou Gozaimasu (lit. “Thanks.”).[2] Among those MAD remixes, This video below, “Ichro’s Gourmet Race”, a derivative of Kirby's Gourmet Race Remixes, had been watched over 1million times.[3] It was posted to NND on the same day of Japan’s WBC victory.



As a result of this online frenzy, “I was almost coming” succeeded to be ranked in the 4th in Japanese Internet Vogue’s Word Award of 2009. that was held in November of that year.[4]

Notable Examples


【ニコニコ動画】W.B.C.イチローはほぼイキそうなのか?最終日本代表英雄イチロー・S【ニコニコ動画】【WBC MAD】 野球先進国 ほぼイキローキャニオン【サンドキャニオン】
Left: U.N.Owen was Her? | Right: Sand Canyon
【ニコニコ動画】ほぼイキかけマイム 【イチローxマイムマイム】【ニコニコ動画】【イチロー】イきかけの一朗信仰 ~ Laser Fusion【東方地霊殿】
Left: Mayim Mayim | Right: Nuclear Fusion

Illustrations

As a parody for his utterance, illustrations related to this phrase on illustrators community, pixiv[5] and Nico Nico Seiga[6], often feature Ichiro’s face of “ecstasy”. Additionally, his goodbye pose at the end of the interview is also a subject for tributes.





Search Interest

External References

Editor’s Note: Registration is needed to browse the original videos listed in this section.

[1]Wikipedia – 2009 World Baseball Classic

[2]niconico Douga – Search results for the tag ほぼイキかけました

[3]niconico Douga – ほぼイきかけたイチローのグルメレース / Posted on 03-25-2009 (deleted)

[4]MSN Sankei news – 【Web】2009年のネット世相は? / 11-26-2009 (Internet archive, Japanese)

[5]pixiv – Search results for the tag ほぼイキかけました

[6]Nico Nico Seiga – Search results for the tag ほぼイキかけました

Ichiro Laser Beam

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About

Laser Beam is a nickname given to the throws by Ichiro Suzuki. These phrases for the Japanese baseball superstar became the target of online parodies, including a series of MAD videos on the Japanese video sharing service Nico Nico Douga (NND) in 2007.

Origin

Said by announcer, Rick Rizz[1], on April 11, 2001, and used again in PBS’ documentary, The Tenth Inning[2], the phrase, “Ichiro laser beam!” became quite popular; frequently replayed in Japan. This created some minor controversy in American media, doubting whither Ichiro lived up to his hype.



Spread

Nowadays, “Laser Beam” is a well-known catchphrase of outfielders’ awesome throws among both Japanese people and mass media. Besides, the original footages of “Ichiro Laser Beam” again came to light as a audio/visual resource for online parodies after people became to be able to share it via video-hosting hubsites.

The most well-known instance in the “Ichiro Laser Beam” parodies is this video seen below which was originally titled as “Doom by Ichiro’s Laser Beam”. It was posted to NND on August 8th 2007.[3] The zany BGM heard in this video is “Bon Mawari” (盆周り), and is well-known for being featured on the popular Japanese comedy show in the 70’s. This was also the origin of the popular MAD series on NND, known as the イチロー レーザービーム

David Cameron's Phone Call

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About

David Cameron’s Phone Call refers to a photograph of the British prime minister David Cameron on the phone with U.S. President Barack Obama which became the subject of a parody photo fad on Twitter in March 2014.

Origin

On March 5th, 2014, 3:18 PM (ET), a photograph of British prime minister David Cameron discussing the 2014 Crimean Crisis on the phone with President Obama was tweeted via Cameron’s official Twitter account.[6]




Over the course of the month, the photo has been retweeted over 9,000 times and received over 4,000 favorites.

Spread

The same day at 4:48 PM (ET), Twitter user richrich808[7] tweeted a picture of himself on the phone using the hashtag #davecalls[8] with the caption “Just paid my water bill,” mocking the implied brag of Cameron’s caption “I’ve been speaking to @BarackObama about the situation in Ukraine.”




Soon, numerous celebrities including Rob Delaney[9] and Patrick Stewart[10] joined in on the meme via Twitter.







Also on March 5th, The Mirror[11] and Buzzfeed[12] reported on the meme with some of the best examples.

Notable Examples



Australian PM Tony Abbott’s Phone Call

On April 9th, 2014 5:01 AM EST, Australian prime minister Tony Abbott’s official Twitter account posted a photo of him getting an update on the search for Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 .[1] Within 24 hours, the photo had gained over 120 favorites and over 180 retweets.




Shortly after Abbott’s photo was tweeted out, Australian Twitter users began tweeting their own photos at Abbott pretending to be the person on the other end of the phone. At 5:30 AM (ET), Twitter user Slipperyseal[2] tweeted a photo of himself holding an electric toothbrush to his ear as if he were speaking on the phone with Abbott.




Some participants substituted the phone with an alternate household item, such as a banana, a bottle and a video game controller.



On April 10th, several websites reported on the meme and compared it the one sparked by Cameron including Buzzfeed[3], The Huffington Post UK[4], and The Independent.[5]

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External References

Bullshit Detector

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About

Bullshit Detector is a hypothetical measuring instrument that can supposedly determine the validity of a claim or argument. In online forums and comments, the device is most commonly summoned in response to a dubitable claim in the form of a reaction image.

Origin

On February 19th, 2006, a promotional website was launched for the “universal bullshit detector," a novelty wristwatch that makes a mooing sound when activated by the wearer.



Precursor

In Season 10 Episode 22 of the animated television series The Simpsons, originally aired on May 9th, 1999, the character Professor Frink uses a device to detect sarcasm (shown below).



Spread

On September 18th, 2009, the tech news blog Gizmodo[5] posted an article titled “Scientists Race to Develop Political Bullshit Detector,” which contained an image of a “bullshit amplifier / detector” (shown below). On September 22nd, 2009, the fitness blog T-Nation[4] highlighted the same image in an interview with competitive power lifter Jim Wendler.



On July 15th, 2011, an Android app titled “Bullshit Detector” was submitted to the Google Play Store,[2] which features a needle indicator that responds to the tilt of a mobile device (shown below, left). On September 1st, a bullshit detector app was released on Apple’s iOS store[3] with a similar interface (shown below, right).



On May 1st, 2012, a Facebook[6] page titled “The Bullshit Meter” was launched, which features a userpic of a bullshit detection reader (shown below, left). On July 1st, Paracast Forums[7] member stonehart posted a “B.S. meter” image in a thread about an unidentified flying object (shown below, right).



Notable Examples



Give-A-Fuck-O-Meter

In 2010, following the emergence of Internet slang expressions like “not a single fuck was given” and “look at all the fucks I give”, and the subsequent unitization of the word “fuck," an animated GIF variation of the device dubbed the “Give-A-Fuck-O-Meter” rose to popularity, which exudes a more relaxed, carefree or apathetic attitude towards the claim in question (shown below).



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Finding Neverland

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Editor’s note: Needs more researching and evaluation

About

“Finding Neverland” is an image macro series of a 3 panel image showing a conversation between characters Barrie (played by Johnny Depp) and Peter (played by Freddie Highmore) in the 2004 movie, Finding Neverland[1]. The first panel features a teary eyed Peter telling Barrie why he’s upset, followed by a panel where he looks at him for a moment and a final panel where he gives Peter a sympathetic hug.

Origin

The images are taken from the final scene of the movie, where Barrie promises Peter to always be there for him and assures him that his dead mother has gone to Neverland.



Spread

The images are most popularly shared on the closed social networking service Path[3] among Indonesian users.

Notable Examples



Variations

“What did you study?” “X.”



External References

Boy Meets World

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About

Boy Meets World is a 1990s teen sitcom that follows the Corey Matthews (Ben Savage) as he goes through middle school, high school, and college. The show focuses on his relationships with his best friend Shawn Hunter (Rider Strong), older brother Eric (Will Friedle), girlfriend Topanga Lawrence (Danielle Fishel), and next door neighbor and teach Mr. Feeny (William Daniels). A show following Corey and Toganga’s preteen daughter, Girl Meets World is scheduled to premiere in the summer of 2014.

History

Boy Meets World was created by April Kelly and Michael Jacobs. It premiered on ABC on September 24th, 1993, and aired its series finale on May 5th, 2000, after seven seasons and 158 episodes. It found much of its fans in syndication, running from 2000 to 2007 on the Disney Channel and and from 2004 to 2007 on ABC Family.

Girl Meets World

On November 2nd, 2012, TVline[2] broke news that The Disney Channel was developing a Boy Meets World spinoff titled Girl Meets World that would follow Corey and Topanga’s preteen daughter. On November 26th, Ben Savage confirmed that show was being made and he would reprise his role as Corey Matthews on his Twitter account.[3]




The same day Danielle Fishel confirmed on her Tumblr[4] she would star on the show as Topanga. On January 28th, 2013 actress Rowan Blanchard announced on her Twitter account[5] she would be playing the lead in Girl Meets World, the Matthews’ daughter Riley.

Following speculation as to whether other Boy Meets World cast members, like Rider Strong, would be involved in the project, Savage posted a picture from a future episode on Instagram[6] on March 18th, 2014, which revealed there would be at least one major Boy Meets World reunion on the show featuring Strong, Betsy Randle (who played Cory’s mother Amy Matthews), and William Russ (who played Cory’s father Alan Matthews).



On April 10th, the first trailer for the show was released, featuring Fishel and Savage giving advice to their daughter and her friend.



Premise

Cory Matthews begins the show as a sixth-grader who lives in a suburban area of Philadelphia with his mother (Betsy Randle), father (William Russ), older brother Eric, and younger sister Morgan (originally played by Lily Nicksay, and played by Lindsay Ridgeway from season three unward). He navigates middle school, and high school with the help of his best friend Shawn, friend-turned girlfriend Topanga, and teacher Mr. Feeny. Situations faced by Cory range from the light, like worrying about a test or pulling a prank, to the heavy, like finding out a classmate is being abused by her father. Many of the heavier storylines are driven by Shawn, whose family is much poorer than Corey’s and lives in a trailer park. Throughout the first few seasons’ Shawn’s mom leaves, followed by his dad, leaving him in the care of a young teacher, Mr. Turner (Anthony Tyler Quinn). In the boys’ final year of high school Shawn moves in with his college-age half brother Jack Hunter (Matthew Lawrence). Another main character introduced in their senior year is Angela Moore (Trina McGee), Topanga’s best friend and Shawn’s on-again, off-again girlfriend. A lot of the drama in the show’s college years surrounds their relationship. Another major thread of the show is Cory and Topanga’s relationship. Though Cory is shown as disliking her the first season, they become a couple by the second season, and often refer to their courtship beginning when they were toddlers. Though they go through a few breakups their relationship remains a constant for the show, and in the seventh season the two are married.

Reception

Boy Meets World received a score of 8.1 on IMDB and a rating of 50 on Metacritic.[11] The show was nominated for three Kids’ Choice Awards, winning one in 2000 for Favorite Television Friends (Strong and Savage). It was also nominated for three YoungStar Awards, winning one in 1998 for Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Comedy TV Series (Fishel).

Online Presence

All seven seasons of the series are available to watch for $1.99 each (or $24.99 per season) through Google Play.[10] As of April 2014, Boy Meets World’s official Facebook page[7] has over 1.5 million likes. Fans can also access episode guides and character sketches at the Boy Meets World Wiki[8] and discuss the show on the /r/boymeetsworld[9] Reddit thread.

Fandom

There are numerous fan-run Tumblr blogs dedicated to the Boy Meets World fandom including boymeetsworldgifs[12], boymeetstumblr[13], and boy-meets-world-quotes.[14] Popular Tumblr tags fans use to tag their content include boymeetsworld[15] and bmw.[16] As of April 2014, there are over 14,000 fan art submissions submitted to DeviantArt[17] tagged Boy Meets World and over 600 fan fiction submissions for the show on Fanfiction.net.[18]



Related Memes

Feeny Call

The Feeny Call, refers to the repetitive chanting of Mr. Feeny’s (Daniels) name by Eric Matthews (Friedle) to get his attention. The chant is often performed at the fence that separates the Matthew’s yard from Feeny’s, but is performed in a variety of other places. It was first performed on an episode titled Singled Out[20] which originally aired on November 1st, 1996.

On December 18th, 2006, YouTuber Striker4552[19] uploaded a video titled “The Feeny Call,” which featured a supercut of Eric making the call throughout the seasons. As of April 2014, the video has gained over 1.8 million views.



Notable Examples



Search Interest

External References

[1]IMDBBoy Meets World

[2]TV Line – Exclusive: Disney Channel Eyes Boy Meets World Sequel Series, Ben Savage In Early Talks

[3]Twitter – Ben Savage

[4]Tumblr – dfishel

[5]Twitter – rowblanchard

[6]Instagram – bensavage

[7]Facebook – Boy Meets World

[8]Boy Meets World Wikia – Boy Meets World

[9]Reddit – boymeetsworld

[10]Google Play – Boy Meets World

[11]Metacritic – Boy Meets World

[12]Tumblr – boymeetsworldgifs

[13]Tumblr – boymeetstumblr

[14]Tumblr – boy-meets-world-quotes

[15]Tumblr – /boy+meets+world

[16]Tumblr – /bmw

[17]DeviantArt – boy meets world

[18]Fanfiction.net – Boy Meets World

[19]YouTube – Striker4552

[20]Boy Meets World Wiki – Feeny Call


Heartbleed bug

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please keep in mind that this is a W.I.P, please point my faults out

About
The heartbleed bug is a fault in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic which allows exploters to use the bug to gain acsess to a SSL server private keys by reading its memory

Origin
The bug comes from a fault in the programming of the software, those affected are OpenSSL 1.0.2-beta, and OpenSSL 1.0.1.

Spread
The bug was discovered on April 10, 2014, but audit logs indicate that it was known for about five months prior to re-discovery
Since then most affected sites have patched the issue.
List of the said affected sites (And ones that have fixed it)

Akamai Technologies
Amazon Web Service
Ars Technica
Bitbucket
BrandVerity
GitHub
IFTTT
PeerJ
SoundCloud
SourceForge
SparkFun
Stripe (company)
Tumblr
Wattpad
Wikimedia (including Wikipedia)
Wunderlist
Steam community
Reddit

There is a site that allows user to enter a URL and check if the link is safe from the bug (URL needed)
A official image has been created to help spread awareness

The Madden Curse

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[Work is currently in progress]

About

The Madden Curse is a superstition associated with getting on the cover of any Madden NFL game in the series, similar to the Campbell’s Chunky Soup Curse or the Sports Illustrated Cover Jinx. Players who make the cover often times suffer a serious injury, have a decline in performance, and/or their team does poorly the following season.

Origin

The Madden NFL series, formerly known as John Madden Football, is an American Football video game series developed by Electronic Arts Tiburon that started in 1988. Prior to 1998, John Madden himself was only featured on the cover of each yearly installment of the series. In 1998, John Madden would again be on the cover of Madden NFL 99. However, in the PAL version of the game, San Francisco 49ers’ running back, Garrison Hearst made the cover. After having the best year in his professional career and breaking several franchise records, Hearst twisted his ankle in the Divisional round of the NFL Playoffs against the Atlanta Falcons. The following year, Barry Sanders, running back of the Detroit Lions, would appear on the cover of Madden NFL 2000 along with John Madden, while Dorsey Levens, running back for the Green Bay Packers, would appear on the cover of the PAL version. Before the 1999 season even began, Barry Sanders abruptly retired, leaving the Lions without their star player, and the Packers would fail to make the playoffs despite Levens running for 1,034 yards. The suffering of players and teams associated with making the Madden cover has not go unnoticed by the public. They determined that the Madden cover is “cursed”, thus The Madden Curse was born.

Spread

As the Madden NFL series’ popularity grew to astronomical heights and more players and teams languish after appearing on the Madden cover, The Madden Curse has become a part of video game and sports lore.

SaveLTfromMadden.com

In 2007, Electronic Arts decided to feature San Diego Chargers running back, LaDainian Tomlinson, for the cover of Madden NFL 08. This sparked outrage among Chargers and Tomlinson fans to the point they created the site, SaveLTfromMadden.com, to voice their disdain for the decision. Tomlinson would later turn down the offer citing contract negotiations and Tennessee Titans’ quarterback, Vince Young, would make the cover instead.

Madden Cover Vote

Starting in 2010, Electronic Arts allowed fans to vote on who gets to be on the Madden cover. The following year, Electronic Arts began running a bracket-style tournament where fans vote on which player makes the cover. Fans would commonly vote against players they like and/or plays for their favorite team to avoid the “curse” while voting for players they didn’t like and/or plays for a rival team.

Notable Examples

  • Madden NFL 99 (PAL Version), Garrison Hearst of the San Francisco 49ers: The first “victim”, twisted his ankle in the playoffs and missed the following two seasons. He would win NFL Comeback Player of the Year in 2001.
  • Madden NFL 2000, Barry Sanders of the Detroit Lions: Retired before the start of the 1999 season, leaving the Lions without their star player.
  • Madden NFL 2000 (PAL Version), Dorsey Levens of the Green Bay Packers: Ran for 1,034 yards. However, his team, the Green Bay Packers, would miss the playoffs. Levens’ role on the team would later diminished and he was eventually released in 2001.
  • Madden NFL 2001, Eddie George of the Tennessee Titans: The Titans would lose to the Baltimore Ravens in the Divisional round of the 2000–01 NFL playoffs after making it to Super Bowl XXXIV the previous season. George’s numbers steadily declined and the Titans released him in 2003. George would later play for the Dallas Cowboys before retiring the next year.
  • Madden NFL 2002, Daunte Culpepper of the Minnesota Vikings: Threw 23 interceptions and tied the NFL record for most fumbles in a season. The Vikings finished the season 5-11. After a good 2004 season, Culpepper blew out both his knees in 2005 in a loss to the Carolina Panthers. That same year, he was charged for his involvement in the Minnesota Vikings boat party scandal. The charges were later dropped in 2006.
  • Madden NFL 2003, Marshall Faulk of the St. Louis Rams: Never recorded another 1,000-yard rushing season and suffered from recurring knee injuries which forced him to retire in 2005.
  • Madden NFL 2004, Michael Vick of the Atlanta Falcons: Broke his fibula in a pre-season game against the Baltimore Ravens. Without their star quarterback for most of the season, the Falcons went 5-11. In 2007, Vick was convicted of operating an illegal dog fighting and served 21 months in prison and two months home confinement.
  • Madden NFL 2005, Ray Lewis of the Baltimore Ravens: Injured his wrist in Week 15 of the 2004 season was placed on injured reserved. This was also the first season Lewis failed to record an interception.
  • Madden NFL 06, Donavon McNabb of the Philadelphia Eagles: Placed on injured reserved after injuring his groin in a Monday night loss to the Dallas Cowboys during the 2005 season. On top of that, McNabb was in the middle of an off-field dispute with wide receiver and teammate, Terrell Owens, that started during the off-season. The T.O. Saga and injuries devastated the Eagles and they finished 2005 6-10 after reaching Super Bowl XXXIX the previous season.
  • Madden NFL 07, Shaun Alexander of the Seattle Seahawks: The first player to be featured the cover of NCAA Football (NCAA Football 2001), EA Sports’ other American Football video game series, and Madden NFL. After winning NFLMVP in the previous season, Alexander suffered a foot injury in 2006 and missed six games. He was never the same after the injury and was released by the Seahawks in 2008. Alexander played the 2008 season with the Washington Redskins where he suffered a knee injury was later released.
  • Madden NFL 08, Vince Young of the Tennessee Titans:

Microsoft XP Bliss Wallpaper

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About

Microsoft XP Bliss Wallpaper refers to edits and parodies made to the image of a rolling green hill and a blue sky that acts at the default Microsoft XP wallpaper.

Origin

The original photograph was taken of a hill in Napa, California on June 24th, 1996, by photographer American photographer Charles O’Rear.[1] Window XP was first released to the public, with the default wallpaper, on October 25, 2001. The first parody was published on a message board thread on Getpaint.net[2] titled “The Bliss Parody Gallery,” which was started on July 19th, 2006. The first edited image was submitted by forum user wontstoptalkinga on July 20th and featured fighter jets flying through the sky.



Spread

The trend quickly spread to fan art community DeviantArt. On October 2nd, 2006, DeviantArt artist Mahochan[3] submitted an imaged titled “Windows Invasion by Osaka” which featured the anime character resting her head on the hill. As of April 2014, the image has gained over 3,000 views.



On June 25th, 2007, DeviantArt artist fallowbuck[4] submitted an image that featured Bliss with a Tardis from Doctor Who sitting on the hill. As of April 2014, the image has gained over 15,000 views.



The photo editing trend moved to Tumblr in 2013. On August 23rd, 2013, Tumblr blog badpicsofbrendonryandpete[5] posted Bliss with the head of Panic at the Disco vocalist Ryan Ross poking out over the hill.



Other Bliss edits uploaded to Tumblr in 2013 include blimeyisagreatword’s[6] Doctor Who edit which gained over 200 notes as of April 2014.



Notable Examples



Search Interest

External References

[1]Napa Valley Register – Windows XP desktop screen is a Napa image

[2]TV Line – The Bliss Parody Gallery

[3]DeviantArt – mahochan

[4]DeviantArt – fallowbuck

[5]Tumblr – badpicsofbrendonryandpete

[6]Tumblr – blimeyisagreatword

Smile HD

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Smile HD is a YouTube Video was been Uploaded by MisterDavie in Aug 24, 2013 that was been use of a Popular Cartoon Animated called My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and a Same Music by Foozogz. This Video have a Blood, Gore and Horror Scenes that Pinkie Pie is Killing at her Friends after the Video it got’s a 5 Million Views and 60,000 Likes. The video starts with a fake disclaimer. According to the video description, the premise is that after having her friends always laughing at her, Pinkie Pie finally decides to show them how much they mean to her.



Plot

The Video Starts with Pinkie running through a field to get to her friends, Twilight, Rarity and Applejack, who are relaxing on a checkered blanket. Twilight spots her and does a friendly wave. After getting close enough, Pinkie jumps up and kicks Twilight’s head clean off. Rarity and Applejack watch in horror. Pinkie then leaps in the air and smashes Rarity’s head, exposing her brain.

Pinkie then kicks Applejack into a tree and brutally beats her (to the point where her face looks puffed up and bloody), Applejack doing nothing but crying. Rainbow Dash spots Pinkie and zooms in the air and back picking Pinkie in the head at Sonic Rainboom power. As Pinkie seemingly is dead, her Kill-O-Meter rises to “You’re F**ked” as she gets up and vaporizes Applejack in a beam of energy. Pinkie then uppercuts Rainbow in the air and hits her down to the ground, she then races down to Rainbow and lands on her stomach, causing Rainbow’s guts and organs to pour from her mouth in an ironic Rainbow fashion, killing her. Fluttershy then arrives and gasps in horror. Pinkie then shoots a blast at Fluttershy, seemingly killing her. At that moment, Pinkie’s smile turns into a distorted tearful frown, it’s unknown if the tears where because of remorse or the undying urge to kill aging.

However, Fluttershy pops out and gives Pinkie a viscous, brutal beat down. Just as it seems she is going to win, Pinkie grabs the song’s text and whacks Fluttershy to the ground. Pinkie then makes a Spirit Bomb (Dubbed "Smile Bomb by fans) type energy ball and hurls it at Fluttershy. Fluttershy screams in agony as her flesh melts, exposing her tissues and veins. Pinkie smiles one more time as the entire Earth explodes, killing all of them, including Pinkie and the Video End.

Reception

Smile HD have a Mix to Positive or Negative Views that Pinkie is been Brutally Killing at Twilight Sparkle, Rarity, Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy that all the Bronies was Scared for this Video so their give it a Negative Response at MisterDavie for what he was Done.

Do You Want Ants?

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“Do you want ants? Because that’s how you get ants” is a memorable quote said by the character Malory Archer from the American animated TV series Archer while explaining the dangers of leaving sugary food products uncovered in an office. Online, the phrasal template“Do you want X? Because that’s how you get X" is typically used as a reaction image to warn against the potentially negative consequences of acting upon a decision.

Origin

In the closing scene of the pilot episode of the animated television series Archer, originally aired on September 17th, 2009, Malory Archer, the mother and supervisor of the titular character Sterling, notices several donuts scattered across the floor and scolds her son, “Do you want ants? Because that’s how you get ants!” (shown below). On January 23rd, 2010, a Facebook[1] page titled “Do you want ants? Because that’s how you get ants!” was launched.



Malory: …And why are there donuts everywhere?!

Sterling: Lana did that.

Lana: I --

Malory: Do you want ants?! Because that’s how you get ants!

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On July 8th, 2013, Redditor SunnyDeligh submitted a two-panel image macro featuring a photograph of a love note written in candy pieces and a screenshot of Sterling Archer with the caption “This is how / we get ants” to the /r/funny[4] subreddit (shown below, left). Prior to being archived, the post gathered more than 21,200 up votes and 260 comments. On February 8th, 2014, Redditor existenjoy posted an Archer image macro poking fun at a woman’s online dating profile to /r/AdviceAnimals,[5] which accumulated upwards of 9,000 up votes and 150 comments within two months (shown below, right).



On February 17th, Redditor myowngalactus submitted a two-panel image macro of Archer chastising Willy Wonka from the 1970 musical film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory to /r/funny[3] (shown below, left). In the next month, the post gained over 6,800 up votes and 50 comments. On April 13th, Reddit LibonatiJT submitted an Archer image macro complaining about his mother ripping off his blanket in the morning to /r/AdviceAnimals[2] (shown below, right). In the first 24 hours, the post garnered upwards of 9,400 up votes and 400 comments.



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Birdemic

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Birdemic: Shock and Terror is 2009 horror film about large groups of acid filled, explosive eagles and vultures that attack Silicon Valley. Though universally panned by critics, the film gained a cult following, leading to more widespread distribution in 2010.

History

Birdemic was written and directed by James Nguyen.[1] The film was loosely based on the 1963 Alfred Hitchcock classic The Birds. The film follows a young couple as they try to escape a large groups of homicidal birds. After promoting his film during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, in January of 2009, Nguyen sold the film to Severin Films in early 2010. The film premiered in LA on February 27th, 2010. The film had its UK premiere[8] in London on May 28th, 2010, after showing in several US cities throughout the spring. Its sequel Birdemic 2: The Resurrection[4], which follows a filmmaker and actress trying to survive a deadly bird attack, was released online on April 16th, 2013.



Reception

The film was panned by critics, earning it a rating of 20% on Rotten Tomatoes[5] and a score of 1.9 on IMDB. The criticism covered almost every aspect of the movie, though critics were especially critical of the CGI birds, which appeared highly unrealistic but when the birds will appeared after in 40 Minutes.



On Jun 27th, 2012, YouTuber and movie reviewer JonTronShow[7] uploaded a video titled “Birdemic: The Best Worst Movie Ever” examining why the movie, in spite of its flaws, had merit much like The Room.



On April 8, 2014, Cinema Sins uploaded a video to their YouTube channel[6] titled “Everything Wrong With Birdemic: Shock & Terror.” While their series normally indicates a specific time frame the video will work within (for example in five minutes or less) this video is set it fill “an awful lot of minutes,” indicating the film has many more issues than normal. The video gained over 590,000 views in less than a week.



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[1]IMDBBirdemic

[2]Twitter – #Sharknado

[3]CNNOh no, it’s “Sharknado” and it’s ravaging Twitter

[4]This is Birdemic – Birdemic

[5]Rotten Tomatoes – Birdemic

[6]YouTube – Cinema Sins

[7]YouTube – JonTronShow

[8]Dread Central – Birdemic Flocks to the UK

Muh X

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This is my first entry, and I’m not very good with textile, despite the guide that’s available. I’ve started this entry in the hopes that someone more experienced can help me out, thanks.


About

Muh X is a snowclone phrase used by people in order to trivialize a certain topic with the intentional misspelling of the word “my”.

Origin

While the origins of Muh X are unclear, the earliest instance of a phrase using “muh” in the context of Muh X appears to be from a BodyBuilding.com forum thread[1] dating back to 2011 where a forum user asked as to whether or not his cutting routine will “ruin muh gains” (muscle gains).


Spread

After the initial sighting of “muh gains” on the Bodybuilding forums, Muh X quickly spread to other sites such as FunnyJunk, Tumblr, and 4chan, with the phrase being used as a means to either humorously defend one’s own point or to mock another poster’s argument or motivations[2]. “Muh gains” is a phrase still commonly used on the BodyBuilding.com forums when referring to muscular gains, whether in jest or in seriousness. Muh X is most commonly used in its image-less phrase form.

Poster 1: I love mass gainer shakes! They work so great!
Poster 2: Mass gainer is a shitty waste of money. Dat dere celltech on the other hand…
Poster 1: But m-muh carbs….

Muh X is also associated with images containing an intricate explanation of what “Muh (insert concept/topic to be trivialized)” means and the logo of an American publishing company Scholastic[3].

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[1]bodybuilding.com – Origin

[2]foolz – example 1

[3]Scholastic – Main Page


Cat Band

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Cat Band is an Instagram video fad in which the participant pets a cat as if it were a musical instrument to a fitting audio track in the background.

Origin

On March 31st, 2014, Instagram user Julieamalone[1] uploaded a video in which she strums the stomach of her cat like a string instrument with a guitar instrumental track playing in the background. In two weeks, the video has gained over 90 likes.



Spread

On April 2nd, the single topic Tumblr blog cat-band[2] was launched with Julieamalone’s cat-strumming video as its first featured post and an instruction on “How to Audition for #CatBand.” According to the guideline[3]:

“1. Play a song that features a prominent instrument. TURN UP YOURVOLUME. The more creative the instrument, the better.
2. Go get your cat
3. Play your cat (Please don’t hurt your cat. That would be super lame.)
4. Tag your Instagram videos with #CatBand and we will review your submissions. If you end up on the site, You’re in the band!


During the first half of April 2014, the band was joined by a keyboardist, guitarist, saxophonist, jazz trumpeter and violinist and the hashtag #catband[4] was mentioned in at least 27 video posts on Instagram[3] and 190 tweets on Twitter.[4] On April 3rd, Buzzfeed[5] published a post titled “People Playing Their Cats As Instruments Is The New Best Thing.” On April 13th, the fad was covered by The Daily Dot[6] in a post titled “People are playing their cats like instruments for ‘Cat Band’.”

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Promposals

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Promposal

A Promposal refers to a surprise event that is organized by a student and presented to his/her romantic interest as an invitation to a prom dance. Similar to the phenomenon of marriage proposal videos on YouTube, these elaborately staged events are documented in photographs or videos and shared online, most notably on Instagram.

Origin

On June 28th, 2012, Instagram user mandy1657[8] posted a photo of her boyfriend’s promposal in which his friends spell out the question “will you go to prom with me?” using their bodies with the hashtag #promposal, a portmanteau word derived from “prom” and “proposal.”



Precursors

The first definition for promposal on Urban Dictionary[1] was submitted on January 22nd, 2006, by user TexanJackass who defined it as:

“a proposal from one person asking another person to the prom; is the combination of the words ‘prom’ and ‘proposal.’”


Throughout the late 2000s promposal reaction videos, in the style of marriage proposal reaction videos, spread on YouTube and other video sharing sites. One of the oldest was uploaded to EbaumsWorld[2] on July 3rd, 2006, which featured a teenage girl covering Hellogoodbye’s “Jesse Buy Nothing… Go To Prom Anyways!” As of April 2014, the video has gained over 250,000 views.



On April 5th, 2013, YouTube McKane Andrus[3] uploaded a video which represented a backlash against elaborate promposals titled “The Senn Way of Asking Someone to Prom,” which featured a teenage boy describing promposals as over the top and describing his own video as satire, before twerking on a girl wearing gold short-shorts with “prom” written on the butt. As of April 2014, the video has gained over 7.7 million views.



Spread

In 2013, there were over 100 photos uploaded to Instagram tagged #promposals[9] including promposals written in ketchup, on baseballs, and on pizza boxes. The first entry of 2014 was submitted on January 10th, 2014, by user madi_paiige15[10], who posted a photo of a promposal based on Disney’s Up.



On March 19th, 2014, the official Instagram blog[7] highlighted #promposals in a post, which gained over 7,000 notes by April 2014. Several websites published roundups of the most impressive and extravagant promposals in March of 2014, including Mashable[5] and Buzzfeed.[6] As of April 2014, there are over 39,000 Instagram photos tagged #promposal.[4]

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[1]Urban Dictionary – promposal

[2]Ebaums World – Will You Go To Prom With Me?

[3]YouTube – McKane Andrus

[4]Statigram – promposal

[5]Mashable – 21 Clever Promposals You’d Never Turn Down

[6]Buzzfeed – 21 Clever Promposals You’d Never Turn Down

[7]Instagram – Hashtag Highlight: #promposals on Instagram

[8]Instagram – mandy1657

[8]Gramfeed – promposals

American Airlines Terrorism Tweet

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Overview

The American Airlines Terrorism Tweet was a fake forewarning of a purported terrorist plot sent by a Dutch teenager to the major U.S. airline company American Airlines via Twitter in April 2014. The tweet, which hinted at an imminent attack to be carried out by an agent of the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda, quickly prompted the airline company to report the teenager’s IP address to the authorities and the F.B.I, ultimately leading to her arrest in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Background

On April 13th, 2014, at 10:37 a.m. (ET), a 14-year-old Dutch teenager who goes by the Twitter handle @QueenDemetriax_ tweeted the following message at @AmericanAirlines:



Within five hours, the tweet garnered more than 7,400 retweets and 2,600 favorites prior to its removal and the suspension of the account from Twitter.

Notable Developments

Within minutes of receiving the tweet, American Airlines replied to the teenager stating that they take these type of threats really seriously and that they “forwarded her IP address to the authorities and the F.B.I.”



Frightened by the serious tone of American Airlines’ response, the teenager immediately began explaining that it was only meant to be a joke, with quotable tweets like “omfg i was kidding”, “I’m so sorry, I’m scared now”, “I was joking and it was my friend, not me, take her IP address, not mine”, and lastly, “I was kidding pls don’t i’m just a girl pls.”



h4. The Arrest

On the following day, it was reported that the teenager lived in Rotterdam in the Netherlands and she was promptly arrested by the Dutch police authorities.




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Funny Exam Answers

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Funny Exam Answers are photographs of humorous responses to questions on student tests that typically obfuscate or misinterpret the intended meaning.

Origin

The earliest known funny exam answers posted online were highlighted on the BBC News[5] Lancanshire blog on August 28th, 2002, which cited a reader named Sam as the source of the answers.


  • Monotony means being married to the same person for all your life.
  • Use the word “judicious” in a sentence to show you understand its meaning – "Hands that judicious can be as soft as your face..
  • How important are elections to a democratic society? – Sex can only happen when a male gets an election



  • What is Britain’s highest award for valour in war?
    Nelson’s Column
  • What’s a Hindu?
    It lays eggs
  • Name the four seasons
    Salt, mustard, pepper, vinegar
  • What changes happen to your body as you age?
    When you get old, so do your bowels and you get inter-continental
  • What guarantees may a mortgage company insist on? They’ll insist you’re well endowed if you’re buying a house
  • What is a co-operative? It’s a kind of shop that is not as dear as places like Marks and Spencer
  • What is artificial respiration commonly known as?
    The Kiss of Death
  • What are steroids?
    Things for keeping the carpet on the stairs
  • What is a common treatment for a badly bleeding nose? Circumcision
  • “I’ve said goodbye to my boyhood, now I’m looking forward to my adultery.”
  • “I always know when its time to get up when I hear my mother sharpening the toast.”
  • “Christians go on pilgrimage to Lord’s.”
  • “A major disease associated with smoking is premature death.”
  • “The equator is a menagerie lion running around the earth through Africa.”
  • “Artificial insemination is when the farmer does it to the cow instead of the bull.”
  • “Cows produce large amounts of methane, so the problem could be solved by fitting them with catalytic converters.”
  • “The process of flirtation makes water safe to drink because it removes large pollutants like grit, sand, dead sheep and canoeists.”
  • “The moon is a planet just like the earth, only it is even deader”
  • “Dew is formed on leaves when the sun shines down on them and makes them perspire.”
  • “A super-saturated solution is one that holds more than it can hold.”
  • “Mushrooms always grow in damp places and so they look like umbrellas.”
  • “The body consists of three parts – the brainium, the borax and the abominable cavity. The brainium contains the brain, the borax contains
    the heart and lungs, and the abominable cavity contains the bowels, of which there are five – a, e, i, o and u.”
  • “Momentum: What you give a person when they are going away.”
  • “Planet: A body of earth surrounded by sky.”
  • “Rhubarb: A kind of celery gone bloodshot.”
  • “Before giving a blood transfusion find out if the blood is affirmative or negative.”
  • “To remove dust from the eye, pull the eye down over the nose.”
  • “For a nosebleed: put the nose much lower than the body until the heart stops.”
  • “For drowning: climb on top of the person and move up and down to make Artificial Perspiration.”

“For Fainting: Rub the person’s chest or, if a lady, rub her arm above the hand instead. Or put the head between the knees of the nearest
medical doctor.”

  • “To prevent contraception: wear a condominium.”
  • “For head cold: use an agonizer to spray the nose until it drops in your throat.”
  • “To keep milk from turning sour: keep it in the cow.”
  • “The pistol of a flower is its only protection against insects.”
  • “The alimentary canal is located in the northern part of Indiana.”
  • “The skeleton is what is left after the insides have been taken out and the outsides have been taken off. The purpose of the skeleton is
    something to hitch meat to.”
  • “A permanent set of teeth consists of eight canines, eight cuspids, two molars, and eight cuspidors.”
  • “The tides are a fight between the Earth and Moon. All water tends towards the moon, because there is no water in the moon, and nature abhors a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins in this fight.”
  • “A fossil is an extinct animal. The older it is, the more extinct it is.”


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On May 19th, 2004, Red and White KOP Forums[1] member Roger reposted many of the same answers from the BBC blog post in a thread claiming they were collected from the previous year’s General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) exam in Swindon, England. On November 30th, 2005, Blogspot[6] user JustSomeGibberish highlighted several pictures of funny exam answers (shown below).



On June 12th, 2006, Snopes Forums[8] member Midgard_Dragon posted a thread questioning the authenticity off an email forward containing purported funny exam answers. On January 24th, 2007, eBaum’s World[7] user ebaum uploaded a picture of a math exam question with an elephant drawn on the visual aid (shown below).



On February 15th, 2009, the exam answer photo site FunnyExam[4] was launched, which collected upwards of 450 submissions in the next six years. On March 9th, a photograph of a math exam answer joking that a woman’s gender prevented her from providing being correct was submitted to the 4chan image archive Chan4chan[9] (shown below).



On May 31st, 2010, a Facebook[2] page titled “Funny Exam Answers” was launched, which highlights notable examples of funny exam answer photographs. On December 1st, 2011, Redditor madcowrocks submitted a picture of a test question asking for “an example of a risk” to the /r/funny[3] subreddit, where it gathered more than 10,900 up votes and 440 comments prior to being archived (shown below).



On September 5th, 2012, CollegeHumor[11] posted a compilation of joke test answers titled “13 Pictures of Smart-Ass Answers.” On May 19th, 2013, Redditor allenme213 posted a picture of a young child’s answer to a question about earning money at home to /r/funny,[12] gaining over 25,700 up votes and 400 comments prior to being archived (shown below).



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Titanic

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Titanic is an American romantic drama film

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“Draw me like one of your French girls.”

“Draw Me Like One of Your French Girls” is an expression Titanic which is often used to caption photos of people or animals laying down in an alluring pose. In a scene in the film after seeing nude drawings Jack Dawson (DiCaprio) had done, Rose (Winslet) tells him, “Jack, I want you to draw me like one of your French girls” (shown below).[2]




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