Overview

Zamii070’s Harassment Controversy refers to the online backlash against artist Zammi070^[7][8] on Tumblr, who accused her depictions of characters from animated shows, most notably Steven Universe, of promoting race-lifting, transphobia and body shaming. In October 2015, Zamii revealed she had attempted suicide as a result of the online harassment she received.

Background

Leading up to her suicide attempt, Steven Universe fans on Tumblr accused Zamii070 for creating problematic depictions of the characters Rose Quartz and Fluttershy from Steven Universe and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, respectively and among other deviations, for perpetuating bigotry such as racism, transphobia and fatphobia (shown below). Zamii070 is also known for cosplaying, some of which was met with harsh criticisms as well.^[9]

On October 19th, Zamii published a blog post saying that she was “going to sleep forever.”

On October 22nd, Redditor dongerman submitted a post speculating that Zamii had “passed away” to the /r/homestuck.^[5] On October 23rd, Zamii uploaded a video titled “I’m Sorry” in which she revealed that she was in the hospital receiving treatment and that she was going to “get better” (shown below).

Zamii later uploaded an update vlog, urging others with suicidal thoughts to contact a suicide suicide hotline.

Notable Developments

Online Reaction

On October 25th, Steven Universe creators publicly condemned Ziamii’s harassers on Twitter (shown below).

The same day, Redditor heyyouyeahyou55 submitted a post titled “what happened to zami070” to the /r/OutOfTheLoop^[2] subreddit. Meanwhile, a gallery providing background info on the harassment was uploaded to Imgur.^[1] On October 27th, the Tumblr blog Plebcomics posted an illustration of a thin Rose Quartz to show her support to Zamii (shown below, left).^[3] The same day, Tumblr user pessimisticnarcissistic^[4] published a post defending the public shaming of Zamii and Tumblr user gamblingdemontor^[6] urged people to unfollow if they “support people drawing canonly fat characters as skinny” or “whitewashing PoC representation” (shown below, right).

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About

Yahoo! Answers is an online knowledge exchange community where users can ask and/or answer questions about virtually anything, as long as the subject matter does not violate the site’s community guidelines. Since the site launch in 2006, the crowdsourced question-and-answer (Q&A) platform has become a popular target of online ridicule and trolling, due to the prevalence of poor grammar and inaccuracies in the user-generated content.

History

The Q&A community website Yahoo Answers made its online debut on June 28th, 2005, to replace the Ask Yahoo!, a similar Q&A community owned and operated by the multinational Internet technology company Yahoo!, which became discontinued in March 2006 as a result of the rebranded launch. According to Bradley Horowitz, the-then Vice President of Product Strategy at Yahoo, the website was relaunched to focus more on rewarding its users for participation through a point-earning system, which had proven to be an effective incentive model for other successful Q&A communities, most notably the South Korean search portal Naver’s Knowledge Search service.

Features

Similar to other comparable crowdsourced Q&A communities, Yahoo! Answers allows any Yahoo! ID-registered user to answer a pre-existing question and/or submit a new question; prior to the update of the scoring system in 2012, newcomers to the community were required to answer at least one question and maintain a positive score balance of five points or more in order to submit a new question. All questions submitted to the site remain actively open for four days, during which any user may post an answer and the original poster (OP) can highlight a specific response as the “Best Answer.” Prior to another site update in 2014, users other than the OP were able to select the “Best Answer” democratically through an open voting process. Furthermore, exceptionally helpful user contributions are occasionally curated on the official Yahoo! Answers Blog by the staff.

The Point System

Upon registration, each user begins at level 1 after receiving 100 free points and may work his/her way up to level 7 by earning additional points through further participation on the site. When a user’s response to a question gets highlighted by the OP as the “Best Answer,” the contributor is awarded 10 points per post. While accumulating points and leveling up on the site have no real world value, users can unlock access to additional features and moderation privileges as they progress up the ladder (shown below). In addition to the automated system of points and levels, the staff may award extra points to users for outstanding contribution on a case-by-case basis.

Languages

Similar to Wikipedia, the Yahoo! Answers community at large is comprised of 12 localized sites by different languages: Chinese, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai and Vietnamese.

Online Presence

Since its launch in 2005, Yahoo! Answers has gained much online notoriety for its overabundance of humorous and often absurd questions and answers. As a result, the site has been described by many viral media blogs and news outlets as an Internet troll community and a popular source of internet memes, the notable instances of which are disseminated in the form of screenshot images, similar to how funny Google Search Suggestions are spread.

Related Memes

How Is Babby Formed

How Is Babby Formed is a grammatically incorrect question originally submitted by Yahoo! Answers user Kavya in 2006. After the post was featured on Something Awful’s weekly column “Weekend Web,” the question went on to spawn a series of multimedia parodies and tributes all over the Internet.

Penis Inspection Day

Penis Inspection Day refers to a copypasta story about a gym teacher who insists on examining a student’s genitalia for an ostensibly routine health inspection that could be interpreted as a child molestation.

Cover Myself in Vaseline and Pretend I’m a Slug

Cover Myself in Vaseline and Pretend I’m a Slug is a joke statement posted to forums and comment boards to elicit a reaction. It is often used as an example of a Google Search Suggestion, due to the its bait-and-switch nature.

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Graphic Design is My Passion is an expression often used by visual artists or graphic design firms in self-advertisement. On Tumblr, the clichéd phrase has been parodied as the sarcastic slogan for images featuring clip art cartoon characters superimposed over a dark, cloudy background.

Origin

On July 7th, 2014, Tumblr user Yungterra^[1] posted an image of a cloudy sky with a green cartoon frog clip art and the caption “graphic design is my passion” written in the Papyrus typeface (shown below, left). Over the next year, the post gained over 352,000 notes. The cartoon frog can be found on the clipart website Classroom Clipart,^[4] where it displays a copyright date of 2011 (shown below, right).

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On January 29th, 2015, Tumblr user hatchergold posted the image along with the caption “Staff be like,” which gathered more than 131,000 notes in eight months. On April 15th, Tumblr user dreamyacorn^[9] submitted a picture of the updated Tumblr logo above Yungterra’s original image, receiving upwards of 130,000 notes in the next five months (shown below).

On June 7th, the Tumblr blog Meme Archives^[3] added a “graphic design is my passion” tag with several examples of the meme. In July 13th, the AnimatedText Tumblr^[7] blog posted an animated GIF of the phrase “graphic design is my passion” (shown below). Within two months, the post garnered more than 144,000 notes.

On August 10th, Tumblr user kykiske^[6] submitted a text post containing the sentence “tumblr staff: graphic design is my passion.” The following day, the GraphicDesignIsMyPassion^[2] Tumblr blog was launched, which highlights images and posts referencing the phrase. On May 5th, the Meme Documentation^[5] Tumblr blog answered an anonymous question about the meme, noting that it originated in 2014. That day, Tumblr^[8] user pentabulge posted a picture of the original image photoshopped into a frame, which accumulated upwards of 54,000 notes in four months (shown below, left). On August 31st, Tumblr user bowserfucker posted an edited version of the image featuring Pepe the Frog (shown below, right).

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Toast Art refers to the practice of printing a stencil design or pattern on sliced bread by toasting it to varying shades of brown with a blow torch.

Origin

One of the first known pieces of toast art was a rendition of The Mona Lisa (shown below) created by Japanese artist Tadahiko Ogawa^[1] in 1983. The work was completed in two weeks using 63 slices of bread.^[2]

Spread

In 1999, Swedish artists Ingrid Falk and Gustavo Aguerre used 3,053 pieces of bread to produce a collage of a toaster for their work The Toaster in Milan, Italy. The work was redone in December 2000 for the First International Art Biennial in Buenos Aires, Argentina, using 2,500 slices of toast (shown below, left), which was subsequently acquired by the Modern Art Museum of Buenos Aires as part of their permanent collection. Sometime prior to May 2004^[3], another toast art tribute to Mona Lisa in the style of pixel art (shown below, right) was put on display at the Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Odditorium in Orlando, Florida.

In April 2005, Andrew Eason uploaded one of the first toast art tutorials to Flickr^[9] using a series of aluminum foil stencils. In March 2006, a third Mona Lisa was made out of 150 toast slices by English artist Emma Green.^[8] The same year, artist Lennie Payne created the website Toast2Art^[5] to show off his toast works (shown below), earning a feature on the BBC’s Inside Out- London^[7] segment in October.

In 2007, New Zealand-based artist Maurice Bennett^[10] began sharing his toast-based work, for which he earned the nickname “The Toastman,” online. His work, along with pieces by other artists, was featured on Neatorama^[11], Make^[12], Trendhunter^[13] and eBaum’s World^[14] throughout 2007 and 2008. Over the next several years, additional compilations of toast art images were shared on The Chive^[15], CNN^[16], Rocket24^[17], BuzzFeed^[18] and Kotaku.^[19]

Notable Examples

The Bread Art Project

In 2011, the Grain Foods Foundation launched The Bread Art Project^[20], allowing people to virtually create works of art on slices of bread. Participants can choose the type of bread, using brushes to “toast” it. Alternatively, they can upload a photo to be turned into a work of toast art. Between April 1st and June 30th of that year, the site donated $1 from every piece of toast art created to Share Our Strength, a organization dedicated to ending child hunger.^[21] By the end of the campaign, the site raised $23,100 for the charity.

Laser Engraved Toasts

On January 20th, 2014, an anonymous 4chan^[22] user posted a thread on the /gd/ (graphic design) board in which he offered to custom print black-and-white images on individual slices of bread with a laser engraver and ship them for free within the United States. Over the course of the following week, the original poster (OP) completed the engraving of more than a dozen of user-requested images, including several homages to well-known internet memes like Breadfriend, Trollface, Dick Butt, Ayy Lamo, Mega Milk and That Feel (from top left, clockwise). On January 27th, a compilation of notable toast prints from the original thread was submitted to the /r/4chan subreddit, where it gained over 8,300 up votes and 300 comments in the first 24 hours, and the story was subsequently picked up by The Daily Dot^[24] later that same day.

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Lil Wayne, also known as Lil Tunechi, Weezy, or Dwayne Carter, is an American rapper and record company mogul from New Orleans, Louisiana. Lil Wayne rose to international stardom based on the success of his breakout records in the early 2000s, and continues to be an important part of the American hip hop landscape.

History

Music Career

Lil Wayne started recording music in 1996 at the age of 15, after dropping out of primary school to join a group called the Hot Boys. The Hot Boy’s debut record Guerrilla Warfare was released in 1999 and reached number one on the Billboard R&B/Hip Hop charts and number five on the Billboard Top 200. Also in 1999, Lil Wayne released his plantinum-selling debut record, Tha Block Is Hot, between 2000 and 2005 he released three more albums, some of which reached gold status. Between 2005 and 2008, Wayne released many mixtapes and collaborations. After Tha Carter III, he released three more records and several mixtapes, but in the mid-2010s he has focused on his record executive career, where he is known for the recruitment and mentorship of Nicki Minaj, Drake, and many other popular rappers as a representative of Cash Money and Young Money records. In 2011, he claimed that he would retire at the age of 35, which is in 2018.

Lil Wayne (left) with his first group, Hot Boys

Tha Carter III

For his fifth studio album, Lil Wayne reportedly recorded over 300 songs, and some of them began to leak on the Internet before the album was to be released, in 2007, causing Wayne to assemble some of the leaked tracks and some other tracks onto a digital album called The Leak. Tha Carter III release was scheduled for June 10, 2008, but the week before, the entirety of the album leaked online and was distributed widely via download services; at the time, it was calculated that Lil Wayne was the most illegally downloaded artist of all time. Despite the thoroughness of the leaks, Tha Carter III was a blockbuster hit for sales, selling over a million copies in its first week and becoming the biggest record of 2008. It was nominated for eight Grammy awards.

Online Presence

Lil Wayne maintains profiles on Facebook, which has over 51 million likes as of August 2015, Twitter, where he has 23.9 million followers as of August 2015, and Instagram, where he has 2.1 million followers as of August 2015. His Instagram and Twitter profiles often feature short videos of him skateboarding, and both use derivations on his alternate pseudonym, Lil Tunechi as the account handle.^[6][7][8] There are many fan sites devoted to Lil Wayne, including Lil Wayne HQ, Young Money HQ, and ThaLilWayne.com.^[8][9][10] Lil Wayne is a co-owner of Tidal]

Personal Life

Wayne has four children; his oldest, Reginae, was born when he was 15 years old. Reginae is famous in her own right; she has a large social media following on Twitter and Instagram for her glamorous lifestyle.^[12][13] In March 2015, Lil Wayne’s home in Florida was swatted in one of the most high-profile instances of the prank ever; the star wasn’t home at the time.^[14]

Death Rumors

Lil Wayne has several times been the subject of death hoaxes, which have spread easily, especially after he was hospitalized several times. In 2011, a rumor circulated that he had overdosed on PCP; this same rumor resurfaced in late 2013 on Twitter and elsewhere.^[15][16] In 2013, after a bout of epileptic seizures had hospitalized the musician several times, he was hospitalized again at LA’s Cedars-Sinai, and rumored to be in a medically-induced coma. His family, however, claimed that he was not in critical condition, and he was released shortly after.^[17]

Birdman Feud and Assassination Attempt

Lil Wayne’s newest album, Tha Carter V, was initially scheduled to come out in 2014 via Cash Money Records, Lil Wayne’s longtime label, which is run by his mentor since youth, the rapper Birdman. When it didn’t due to disagreements between Wayne and Birdman, Lil Wayne released a mixtape entitled Sorry 4 Tha Wait 2, which insulted Birdman and Cash Money Records throughout.^[1] In July of 2015, Wayne released Free Weezy Album via the music streaming service Tidal, which caused Birdman to sue him for $50 million dollars for breach of contract. Wayne countersued for $51 million, accusing Cash Money of shelving his record without his consent.

On July 16th, 2015, TMZ reported that Birdman and another Cash Money recording artist named Young Thug were connected to a plot to shoot at Lil Wayne’s tour bus; Young Thug was later arrested for an unrelated shooting and also indicted on conspiracy to kill Lil Wayne.^[18][19] On July 28th, 2015, Birdman told Angie Martinez, a radio DJ, that “Wayne is forever my son. I think that what’s going on is just some business."^[20]

Related Memes

No Homo

No Homo is a slang term meaning “not in a homosexual way.” The expression is typically used with a statement that could potentially be interpreted as either seductive or homoerotic, in order to avoid any confusion or skepticism of others regarding one’s sexuality. Lil Wayne helped to popularize the term by using it frequently in his lyrics.

YOLO

“YOLO”:http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/yolo is an acronym for the phrase “you only live once”, which is often used as a hashtag on Twitter to bring attention to exciting events or excuse irresponsible behaviors. The acronym was popularized in 2011 after being featured in the hip hop single “The Motto” by Drake featuring Lil Wayne. In November 2012, the Oxford American Dictionaries included the slang term “YOLO” in its shortlist for the 2012 English Word of the Year.

Purple Drank

Purple Drank, also known as “syrup” or “sizzurp,” is a slang term for an illegal recreational beverage that is most popularly used in the southern hip hop community of the United States. The drink consists of prescription-strength cough syrup containing codeine and promethazine, which is typically mixed with a soft drink prior to ingestion. The name “Purple Drank” is derived from the purple color dyes used in codeine-based cough syrups.

On March 15th, 2013, the celebrity news blog TMZ published an article claiming that rapper Lil Wayne had been hospitalized and was in critical condition after overdosing on purple drank. The hospital reportedly found large amounts of codeine in the rapper’s system and had to pump his stomach three times. The following day, Lil Wayne tweeted that he was doing well and thanked his fans.

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Editor’s Note: The majority of videos highlighted in this entry are currently unavailable for playback as a result of the author’s decision to close down the channel indefinitely.

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Sam Pepper is a British YouTube personality perhaps best known for his street prank videos centered around the theme of interacting with strangers. In late September 2014, the prankster came under criticism after he conducted a supposed prank which involved touching women without their consent.

Online History

Sam Pepper created his YouTube channel, OFFICIALsampepper^[1] on September 8th, 2010. His first video uploaded to the channel, titled “What Sam Pepper does when he’s bored!” features Pepper playing with a funhouse effect on his camera, and was uploaded on October 25th.

As of September 2014, Pepper’s most popular videos are “How to Make Out with Strangers,” which was uploaded on July 27th, 2013, and has gained over 15.6 million views and “Lift Pranks” which was uploaded on June 25h, 2012, and has gained over 5.6 million views.

Social Media Presence

As of September 2014, Pepper’s Facebook account^[2] has gained over 690,000 likes and his Twitter account^[3] has gained over 1.6 million followers. His Instagram account has gained over 870,000 followers.

Notable Examples

Criticism

On September 20th, 2014, Pepper posted a video, which was removed two days later by YouTube, titled “Fake Hand Ass Pinch” which featured Pepper touching women’s butt’s with a fake hand (shown below).^[5] On September 21st, YouTuber Laci Green published an open letter to Pepper on her Tumblr blog.^[6] A bolded section of the letter reads:

“We are deeply disturbed by this trend and would like to ask you, from one creator to another, to please stop. Please stop violating women and making them uncomfortable on the street for views. Please stop physically restraining them and pressuring them to be sexual when they are uncomfortable. Please show some respect for women’s right to their own bodies. While it may seem like harmless fun, a simple prank, or a “social experiment”, these videos encourage millions of young men and women to see this violation as a normal way to interact with women. 1 in 6 young women (real life ones, just like the ones in your video) are sexually assaulted, and sadly, videos like these will only further increase those numbers.

The letter has been cosigned by many prominent YouTubers including John Green,Tyler Oakley and Grace Helbig.

Also on September 21st, Hank Green of the Vlogbrothers sent out a tweet implying Pepper would not be welcome at future VidCons. Within 24 hours the tweet gained over 26,000 favorites and over 13,000 retweets.

On September 22nd, Cosmopolitan^[7] published a post titled “YouTubers react to the Sam Pepper video, as it’s removed by actual YouTube” which featured a round-up of tweets against Pepper sent by popular YouTubers and other internet personalities. The same day the controversy was covered by Twitchy.^[8]

Social Experiment Reveal

On September 22nd, Pepper uploaded a second video to YouTube in which a woman pinches several men’s rear ends (shown below). The video was subsequently removed for violating YouTube’s terms of service.

That day, Pepper posted a video titled “Fake Hand Ass Pinch Prank – THEREVEAL”, in which he claims both videos were scripted with willing participants and that he was attempting to "highlight the difference between abuse towards a man and abuse towards a woman.”

Sexual Assault Allegations

On September 23rd, 2014, YouTuber Dottie Martin uploaded a video titled “A Cautionary Tale,” in which she describes an incident at a movie theater claiming that Pepper attempted to engage with her sexually when she was 16-years-old and he was 23 (shown below, left). On September 24th, an anonymous YouTuber uploaded a video titled "Sam Pepper – The Real “Reveal” in which she describes being sexually assaulted by Pepper with her face obscured from view (shown below, right).

Meanwhile, BuzzFeed^[10] posted screenshots from United Kingdom resident Bryony Harris, who claimed they were from a conversation between her and Pepper when she was 15 and he was 22 in which he asks for her to provide nude photos of herself.

Also on September 24th, the social media news blog New Media Rockstars^[9] reported that Pepper had been officially dropped by the multichannel YouTube network Collective Digital Studio. The next day, YouTuber Laci Green uploaded a video titled “Sam Pepper Exposed,” in which she claims to have spoken with several women who alleged Pepper had groped and otherwise assaulted them.

Channel Closure

On December 11th, 2015, Pepper created a GoFundMe^[12] page asking for $1.5 in donations to delete his YouTube channel. That day, he appeared on the YouTube show DramaAlert, where he explained why he created the crowdfunding campaign (shown below). The following day, the campaign was removed for violating GodFundMe requirements.^[13] In late February 2016, Pepper removed all of the videos uploaded to his channel.

Prank Staging Admission

On February 24th, 2016, Pepper uploaded a video titled “I’m Sorry,” in which he admitted to staging prank videos and apologized for manipulating his viewers (shown below, left). That day, the apology video was posted on the /r/h3h3productions^[11] subreddit, where many praised Pepper for his honesty. The same day, Pepper appeared on the YouTube channel DramaAlert, where he discussed sexual assault allegations against him (shown below, right).^[14]

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“Get a Load of this Guy” is an idiomatic expression that can either be used to acknowledge a witty remark made by another person or poke fun at the complacency of such remark. In online discussion forums and comments, the phrase is most often iterated in the form of reaction images in which various characters are making a pointing gesture.

Origin

On May 3rd, 2007, an entry^[5] for the phrase was submitted to Urban Dictionary, defining it as:

[a] phrase to describe someone who thinks he/she has a lot of clams, and is therefore exceptionally witty, jaunty, and/or extravagant

One of the earliest and most widely used base photographs for the reaction image series originates from a scene in the 1992 American comedy film Wayne’s World^[4], wherein the titular character Wayne Campbell looks directly at the camera while gesturing his thumb towards his friend Garth Algar in a fit of laughter and the subtitle reads “Get-A-Load-of-This-Guy.”

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Since as early as 2010, the screen capture of the scene (pictured below) has been used as a reaction image on various image boards, with the earliest known archived instance dating back to a 4chan thread^[1] posted on August 17th, 2010.

In the following years, a number of other derivatives entered widespread usage on 4chan. On January 12th, 2011, an image macro of Patrick Bateman, better known as the Dubs Guy) from the 2000 American black comedy film American Psycho(shown below, left), was posted in a discussion thread^[4] on /a/ (anime) board. On March 31st, another iteration based on an image of Ross Geller, one of the main characters from the 90s American TV sitcom Friends, was posted in a thread^[3] on /a/ (anime) board (pictured below, right).

In addition, the expression has been also used as the title of dozens of posts on Reddit^[8] and #get a load of this guy remains an active hashtag on Tumblr.^[6]

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#TheDress, also known as What Color Is This Dress?, refers to a Tumblr post in which viewers were asked to identify the color of a dress, which appeared to be either white and gold or black and blue. The question sparked an Internet-wide debate in late February 2015, launching the competing hashtags “#WhiteAndGold” and “#BlackAndBlue.”

Origin

On February 25th, 2015, Tumblr user swiked^[1] posted a photograph of a dress asking the science side of Tumblr to help identify its colors, noting that her friends were torn between it being white and gold or black and blue. Within 48 hours, the post gained over 400,000 notes.

Spread

On February 26th, BuzzFeed^[2] posted a poll asking readers to decide what color the dress really was. Within 10 hours the poll received more than 1.8 million votes, with 72% selecting “white and gold” (shown below).

Later that evening, BuzzFeed published a second post^[7] revealing that the dress was actually blue after finding it available for purchase on United Kingdom-based online retailer Roman Originals,^[8] which listed it as a “Royal-Blue Lace Detail Bodycon Dress” (shown below).

On February 27th, Redditor AskScienceModerator submitted a post about the dress to the /r/AskScience^[15] subreddit, where experts from a variety of fields offered explanations of the color perception phenomenon. In the first 12 hours, it gained over 2700 votes (84% upvoted), 3,600 comments and reached the front page of the social news site. Meanwhile, Redditor Sooprman posted an image of the Black and Blue Power Rangers to /r/Funny^[16] with the accompanying caption “The White Ranger / and Gold Ranger,” garnering upwards of 3,000 votes (86% upvoted) in the first five hours (shown below).

On the same day, XKCD webcomic author, Randall Munroe, used his Friday update to illustrate the differences that background lighting effects had on the perception of the dress’ color and included the following statement as the comic’s alt-text:

“This white-balance illusion hit so hard because it felt like someone had been playing through the Monty Hall scenario and opened their chosen door, only to find there was unexpectedly disagreement over whether the thing they’d revealed was a goat or a car.”^[21]

In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the dress debate, including Gawker,^[3] Wired,^[4]CNBC,^[5] Business Insider,^[6] Mashable^[17] and Time.^[18] Several celebrities also commented on the dress on Twitter, including Taylor Swift,^[9] Melissa Joan Hart,^[10] Kim Kardashian,^[11] Anna Kendrick,^[12] Ellen DeGeneres^[13] and many more.^[14]

#TheDress

On Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, users chimed in on the color of the garment using the hashtag “#TheDress,” with the opposing sides using the accompanying hashtags “#WhiteAndGold” or “#BlackAndBlue.” Within 12 hours, #TheDress had reached over 400,000 tweets, and #WhiteAndGold lead with a ratio of 3:1 tweets over #BlackAndBlue. By the end of 24 hours, tweets containing #TheDress had jumped to over 1.2 million while the competing sides maintained a similar ratio.

Scientific Explanation

Many experts have cited the color constancy^[19] feature of the human color perception system, which attempts to make colors appear consistent under varying types of illumination, as being responsible for the different colors identified in the photograph.^[4][20] If the viewer assumes a white illuminant, the dress appears blue and black, but if a blue illuminant is assumed, the dress appears white and gold.

#StopAbuseAgainstWomen Twitter Ad

On March 6th, 2014, the Twitter feed for the South African branch of The Salvation Army^[2] posted an advertisement made by the creative agency Ireland/Davenport as part a “#StopAbuseAgainstWomen” campaign, which featured a battered woman wearing a white and gold dress with the caption “Why is it so hard / to see black and blue” (shown below). In less than 24 hours, the tweet gained over 7,300 retweets and 3,200 favorites.

That morning, ABC News^[23] published an interview with Ireland/Davenport creative director Wihan Meerhloz, who stated that the agency was attempting to use the meme’s popularity to raise awareness about abuse against women:

“We wanted to take advantage of the hype of the meme to spread awareness for something important. Our creative team brainstormed ways to send a greater message about overlooked abuse against women using the dress.”

Meanwhile, Redditor DavidTheHumanzee posted the tweet to the /r/AdPorn^[24] subreddit, where it gathered upwards of 400 votes (87% upvoted) in the first seven hours. In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the ad, including The Guardian,^[25] The Huffington Post,^[26] The Washington Post^[27] and The Daily Dot.^[28]

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#TheShoe

On July 8th, 2015, Twitter user @totallymendes^[29] tweeted a photograph of a woman’s high-heeled shoe next to two bottles of nail polish in different shades of violet, asking “which color matches the shoe best?” (shown below). Within a week, the tweet gained over 9,000 favorites and 8,200 retweets.

The same day, Twitter users began debating which nail polish color matched the shoe with the hashtag #TheShoe,^[31] with many comparing the image to #TheDress (shown below). According to the Twitter analytics site Topsy,^[32] the hashtag was mentioned more than 62,500 times over the next week.

On July 10th, the science news blog Inside Science^[30] published an article explaining the optical illusion, claiming that people who fail to see two different color bottles lacked “the peripheral color vision to reliably distinguish between the two shades.” Additionally, the article contained an analysis of the RGB values in the image, which determined that the shoe’s hue was slightly closer to the polish on the right (shown below).

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“Put ’Em In a Coffin” is a Vine video fad in which the participant hurls oneself onto the flat surface of an object or fixture, most typically on a crowded table or hood of a car, while facing the opposite direction with both arms crossed.

Origin

The trend was born in late May 2014 when VonMar, a member of the rap group ThotBoyz, began uploading a series of Vine videos demonstrating the move. On June 11th, one of VonMar’s “put ’em in a coffin” videos went viral on Vine (shown below, accumulating more than 2.9 million views, 62,300 likes and 62,000 shares in the following six months. As of December 2014, this Vine clip remains the most popular instance of the series.

Spread

On June 10th, OMGVines submitted a YouTube video compilation of “Put ’Em in a Coffin” Vine videos (shown below). In the next six months, the video racked up over 782,000 views on YouTube, further boosting the exposure of the fad in the social media. The video has since been removed. On June 12th, Viner Matthew Espinosa 2 uploaded a video of him saying “put em in a coffin” before jumping on to a table crowded by his friends (shown below). Within the first six months, the video gained over 2.87 million views, 127,800 likes and 49,000 shares.

Notable Examples

Between June and August 2014, the fad continued to grow on the video-sharing platform, leading to the creation of more than 500 videos under the hashtags #PutEmInACoffin and #PutEmInTheCoffin in which various participants yell out the catchphrase before performing the stunt.

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9+10=21 is the wrong answer to a math problem that was posted on Vine and quickly became a fad within the Vine community, later spreading to various other internet communities.

Origin

The first Vine was uploaded around July 2014 by an unknown Viner. The content of the Vine features a man talking to a little boy saying he’s stupid. The boy replies that he isn’t, then the man asks him “what’s 9+10?”, and the kid answers “21”. The man then reaffirms his statement by saying “you stupid.”

Although the original Vine was lost, the video was uploaded to YouTube on July 7th, 2014, by Alondra Morelos^[1] (seen below), and then again on July 9th by YouTuber Shadow Subscribe.^[2]

By December 14, 2014, Morelos’ upload had received 5.7 million views and 37,000 likes, and Shadow’s upload had received 3.7 million views and 28,000 likes.

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The original vine was then re-uploaded to vine by Ridiculous Vines on August 17, 2014,^[3] (seen below) after the original was lost. As of December 2014, the vine has gained 3.38 million loops, 79.8 thousand likes, and 66.6 thousand revines.

Later, on August 29th, YouTube user SwiftStar352 uploaded^[4] a song featuring audio from the vine (seen below). The song reached 14.6 million views and 108,000 likes by December 2014.

The Vine then went viral and by September became the subject of multiple parodies and other vine recreations.

21 Kid / Hoax

“21 Kid” is the nickname used for the child in the video. On October 13th, the website huzlers.comreleased a hoax article detailing how the child had run away. It had fooled some, however the site in mention, is consists of hoaxes, and the idea was shot down quickly.

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Is It Porn? is a web application designed to analyze the visual and textual content within any user-submitted image and determine whether it is pornography, more specifically, the degree of its likelihood in percentage. In early September 2015, the app gained a lot of traction on 4chan for its poor accuracy in performance, in similar vein to the popularity of the website How-Old.net.

History

The website,^[1] which is powered by a content filter made of machine learning algorithms, was launched in July 2015. However, the site mostly went unnoticed until late August, when a Facebook page for the app was created on August 27th, 2015 featuring a picture of a guy in a speedo (shown bellow, left).^[6] The same day, a Touhou thread on /v/ also used the app (shown bellow, right).^[7]

In the following days, the site still remained little known and din’t gain traction until September 5th, 2015, when a dedicated thread about the site was created on /v/ (video games) board,^[8] with the original post featuring a screencap of the videogame Dead or Alive. Soon, other boards from the site also started threads about the app,^[2] including /h/,^[9] /vp/,^[10]/co/^[11] and /mlp/,^[12] before spreading to other memetic hubsites like Tumblr,^[4]Twitter^[3] and reddit.^[13] As of September 11th, 2015, the website has received over 40,000 submissions.

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Nick Young is an NBA athlete who currently plays as a shooting guard for the Los Angeles Lakers. He has gained traction for his style of shooting over passing as well as a reaction image of him which has spread across Twitter as well as other social media.

History

Career

Young grew up in Los Angeles and was drafted 16th overall by the Washington Wizards in 2007. He then played with the Clippers and the 76ers; in 2013, he signed with the Los Angeles Lakers, where he is generally regarded as a valuable shooting guard and small forward.

Online Presence

Young gained the nickname “Swaggy P” after his twitter handle, @nickswagypyoung, where he has 308,000 followers. He also uses a similar handle on Instagram, swaggyp1, where he has 1.6 million followers. He’s known for his interest in fashion and is a noted sneakerhead.

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Confused Nick Young

Confused Nick Young is a reaction image of Nick Young, where he looks confusedly at the camera, with question marks surrounding his face. The image originally comes from the YouTube series Thru The Lens^[1] which depicts a day in the life of Nick Young.

The image is often used in situations of confusion as well as annoyance in others; the meme is popular on Black Twitter and was heavily employed during the Drake and Meek Mill Feud. In addition, images of Nick Young playing basketball, paired with a quite where his ego is being ridiculed, are also common.

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The Solo Jazz Pattern is the name given to an iconic blue, purple and white sketch pattern found on a type of waxed paper cup manufactured at first by Sweetheart Cup Company, beginning in 1992, and later acquired by the Solo Cup Company in 2004. The pattern, which has a long-standing fan base online, rose to mainstream popularity during a Reddit campaign to find its designer in 2015.

The Solo Jazz Pattern

Origin

The Solo Jazz pattern was created in the art department of the Sweetheart Cup Company in the early 1991 and began production across a variety of waxed paper products in 1992.^[1] In 2012, users of the photo-sharing website dump.fm began re-appropriating the pattern and photoshopping it into different environments – some users estimate that over 100,000 different images using the pattern were created.^[4][5] These images spread across Tumblr and Reddit, often used in reference to nostalgia for the 1990s. A dedicated Facebook page was created on February 6th, 2012; as of June 2015, the page had more than 4,000 fans.^[2] A Tumblr was created the same day, and posted continuously until October 2014.^[3] The earliest known mention of the cups on Reddit was an image post in the subreddit /r/nostalgia on November 14th, 2013, which received 86 points (93% upvoted).^[6]

In April of 2015, clothing company 1991Inc created a line of clothing featuring the pattern, which quickly sold out after being featured in notable blogs like those of the Laughing Squid^[7] and Pee Wee Herman.^[8]

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Reddit AMA Request and Springfield News-Leader Article

On June 9th, 2015, reddit user mcglaven posted in /r/IAmA looking for the designer of the Solo Jazz pattern with five questions and claiming that Google searches had turned up nothing about their identity.^[1]

1. Did you get paid well for your work? Did you get royalties?
2. Did you anticipate how ubiquitous this image would become?
3. How long did you spend on this design?
4. What does it feel like to have something you designed become a part of 90s culture that will be remembered for generations?
5. Where were you in your career when you came up with this design? Did it hurt or help it?"

One reply was from user pdschatz, who claimed to have been one of the original re-appropriators of the image on dump.fm; the user claimed that he had emailed Solo Cup to find out more, and had learned that it was designed by a woman named Gina in 1991 in a design contest.

From there, a journalist named Thomas Gounley picked up the search for a newspaper called the Springfield News-Leader, in Springfield Missouri, the region in which the cups were manufactured. He was able to track Gina down to Aurora, Illinois, and interview her for his story. He began with the five questions asked by mcglaven on Reddit.

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Monster Girls are a special type of Gijinka (擬人化) / Humanization where the anthropomorphic character is a mix between a creature (both real and fictional) and a human. Which means some body parts/limbs of a creature has generally been added or switched on a human body.
The human is usually a female, though some rare male examples exist. Monster Girls can also refer to moe versions of already existing monsters, such as vampires or trolls. Fetishism of monster girls is referred to as teraphilia, and is a common form of internet paraphilia.

Definition

Since monster girl is such a broad and vague term, creators and fans often argues about its clear definition.
The general consensus is that a monster girl is a mix between a human being and a monster or an animal.
Most of them are an human torso on the top of a monster bottom body. One of the general rule is to keep the face and torso area human, with exception of cyclops and something spider, who get either only one eye or more of them.
Also, independent and more mainstream genre like Succubus and Cat Girls are sometime excluded.

The umbrella terminology of monster girl can include certain types of personifications of monsters from video games, movies, books and so forth. Mythological creatures such as fox girls or other types of humanoid creatures are often included and so forth. However while succubus and nekomimi/cat girls are mainstream it is common for succubus and cat girls to be included.

History

While the origins of the modern Monster Girl can be debated the idea of non-human seductresses can be traced back to antiquity. Many ancient cultures, such as the Greeks, have tales of men (and women) being seduced by mythical and mystical creatures, such as the sirens from Homer’s Odyssey. Even in the eastern hemisphere there are mythological stories about would be considered monster girls seducing individuals. Examples include beings such as the Kumiho and Jorōgumo. The former is a fox who lore wise lived to a thousand years and gained the ability to shape shift into human form. It can become human by not killing humans for a thousand days or other means. The Jorōgumo is a spider that is 400 years old that similarly gains magic powers, including shape shifting. Legends about it often portray it turning into a seductive women to marry a samurai.

Majors Type of Monster Girls

Although Monster Girls come in many forms these Girls presented have the largest sub-species count and can be seen as the “parent” group. However be aware that these only represent the most popular niches of the monster girl umbrella terminology; there are well over thousands of different types based anywhere from mythology to personification of popular media and so forth.

Harpy

A harpy are a mix of a human and a bird. They usually have bird legs instead of humans legs and wings instead of arms. They almost always lays eggs. They are one of the most famous and representative monster girls, second only to lamia.

Lamia

A lamia is composed of an human torso and the tail of a snake. It may also come with a forked tongue. It is seen as the most popular monster girls and is often used to represent the whole genre, similar to how ‘Space Invaders’ is representative of video games.

Centaur

A centaur is a human torso implanted on the neck of a horse. They are more commonly seen outside the fandom in mythology.

Slime/Goo Girl

These monster girls are quite an oddball among others as they are not a clear mix of an human and a monster. Instead, they are a regular slime monster shaped like a girl. They are sometime portrayed as stupid kinda akin to slime monster often being weak early game mook.

Arachne

Also know as spider girl, an arachne is a human torso on top of what would be the spider’s head or sometimes the abdomen. They sometimes have multiple eyes similar to the many eyes of a real spider. The mandible of a real spider are almost always absent if the torso is on the head.

Alraune

An Alraune is a cross between a human woman and a plant, typically of a flowering variety. Alongside Slimes, Alraunes are one of the major non-animal monster girls.

Mainstream types

These types while not considered to be necessarily exclusive to the monster girl niche these types of monster girls are still monster girls and highly popular whether they are outside the niche or not:

Mermaid

Mermaid are an human upper body on a fish’s tail. Much like the centaur, they are much more popular in mainstream media than in the fandom. A similar but less known monster girls is the Scylla, an human torso with tentacle for legs.

Vampire

Vampire lore drastically changes from culture to culture with extensive amounts of stories and such based around them. The concept of vampires has been around since the days of the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Mesopotamian culture. The kitsune of Japanese folklore, a mythical fox quite similar to the Kumiho, can be considered a vampire due to the trait of requiring life force to survive.

“Zombie”

Zombies are by far the most diverse lore type of monsters; they range from the generic horror movie kind to essentially just reanimated people. Trying to pin a singular type as a means of summarizing the lore is impossible. The only similar trait held by all of them is that they are reanimated individuals post mortem.

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Daily Life with Monster Girl

Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou (モンスター娘のいる日常 or Daily Life with Monster Girl),is a Japanese manga created by Takemaru “Okayado” Inui.. The story is set in modern day Japan; Monster girls have recently had their existence revealed to the world and the main character, Kurusu Kimihito, is a “volunteer” for a homestay program to integrate monsters into human society with Miia, a lamia, but over time more and more monster girls come to live with her and they wish to be with him, basically it’s a harem comedy.

Monster Girl Encyclopedia

The Monster Girl Encyclopedia is a database about all the Monster Girls (know as Manamo) created by the Japanese artist know as Kenkou Cross. Monster girls profile are posted on his site and are released as books, along with the books describing the setting. The setting is that of a undescript mythological land being taken over by essentially culturally assimilating other nations into it by using monster girls to seduce people; the backstory is that of a fictional documentary writer cataloging the different types of monster girls. In this world monsters and humans have been at war for centuries, to bring an end to this the Demon lord plans to create a unified race where all the women are monsters and the men are incubi.

Monster Girl Quest

Monster Girl Questis a Japanese erotic visual novel developed by the the dōjin company Torotoro Resistance. It has gained a sizable fandom thanks to its graphic sex scenes and it’s non-generic storyline. Monster Girl Quest is said to have been inspired by the aforementioned Monster Girl Encyclopedia and has creator of the latter Kenkou Cross as one of the artists of the series, responsible for the design of Alice Fateburn and several other monsters. The story follows the journey of Luka, a boy who believes in the possibility of coexistence between humans and monsters. Thanks to a certain chain of events, Luka meets Alice, a lamia monster girl. After Luka tells her about his dream, she decides to join him on his journey in where, at the end, they both aim to bring coexistence to the monster world.

Monster girl quest was such a hit that a sequel called “Monster Girl Quest: Paradox” is slated to come out at a later date. The immediate difference is that it no longer will be a visual novel and instead will be a fully fledged game whose gameplay so far is massively resembling of Dragon Quest. A crowdfunded three-dimensional adaptation of Monster Girl Quest titled Hero is being produced by NtelliwareGames with the blessing of Torotoro Resistance, the makers of Monster Girl Quest. The Kickstarter campaign ran from March 7th to April 6th, 2013 and raised $10,068 out of the $5,000 goal.

30 Day Monster Girl Challenge

The 30 Day Monster Girl Challenge is a type of 30 Day Challenge where people illustrate a different monster girl a day for 30 days. These are frequently done on websites such as DeviantArt^[1] and Tumblr.^[2]

Fandom

The fandom largely remains to be a subniche fandom, but is growing in popularity. There’s fan songs that have been made, costumes, fan content and so forth. Over the last couple years it has been slowly been moving from a subniche to it’s own fandom and has grown fairly large with plenty of content created by individuals.

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“Awaken, My Masters” is a quote from a Japanese manga JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure uttered by a character named Wamuu during his and his masters’ bombastic awakening.

Origin

The original scene comes from chapter 64 of the manga, released on March 28th, 1988, which was during the events of Part 2, Battle Tendency^[1]. In the scene, the Nazis are guarding the site of sleeping Pillar Men, the Part’s antagonists, and are trying to subdue them. One of them, named Wamuu, awakens from his slumber, kills the Nazis, and after uttering the quote, awakens the rest of Pillar Men, his superiors, Esidisi and Kars^[2].

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For the longest time, the scene has been popular within the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure community, the earliest known archived mentions of it existing on February 21, 2008^[3]. On January 11th, 2013, the scene gained even more popularity due to episode 14 of Part 2 anime adaptation^[4], where it was featured. The theme that was playing during the awakening scene, named “Awake”^[4], became associated with the Pillar Men and the quote ever since.

On May 15th, 2014, Tumblr user BotanicSage posted a remix titled “Pillar Men Hype Theme”, which mixed the Pillar Men theme with songs of Lil Jon, like “Turn Down For What”, “Snap Your Fingers”, and “Throw It Up”. As of August 2015, the Tumblr post managed to get over 5,60 notes,^[6] with its Youtube upload (shown below, left) having received over 567,000 views. On June 5th, 2015, Youtuber kanashiipanda uploaded an animation to Youtube based on My Little Pony: Equestria Girls combined with the awakening scene (shown below, right), which managed to receive nearly 2.5 million views in the following 2 months.

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Jimmy Kimmel is an American comedian and actor who is best known as a co-host of Comedy Central’s The Man Show and the host of ABC’s late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live!. The comedian has been credited with producing a number of viral videos and recurring segments that involve audience participation through social media channels.

Online History

On January 16th, 2009, the Jimmy Kimmel Live YouTube channel was launched. In the first five years, the channel gathered more than 3.43 million subscribers and 789,000 video views. On March 2nd, 2010, Kimmel arranged a meeting between Cody, then a three-year-old Justin Bieber fan whose crying video had gone viral earlier that week, and the pop star himself (shown below, left). In the next four years, the clip gained upwards of 52.9 million views and 84,000 comments. On June 18th, Kimmel released a music video for the comedy song “Channing All Over Your Tatum” (shown below, right), garnering 12.7 million views and 16,000 comments in the following five months.

Social Media Presence

On December 8th, 2009, the official Jimmy Kimmel Live Facebook^[1] page was launched, garnering upwards of 630,000 likes in the first four years. As of November 2013, the @JimmyKimmel Twitter^[2] feed has accumulated over 3.2 million followers.

Highlights

I Told My Kids I Ate All Their Halloween Candy

On November 2nd, 2011, the channel uploaded a montage of fan-filmed videos of parents fooling their children into thinking they ate all their Halloween candy (shown below). Within two years, the video accumulated over 45 million views and 66,000 comments.

I Gave My Kids a Terrible Present

On December 12th, 2011, the channel featured a montage of fan-filmed footage in which parents give their children undesirable presents (shown below), gathering more than 26 million views and 27,400 comments in the following 23 months. On March 22nd, 2012, Kimmel introduced a segment with various celebrities reading aloud insulting tweets directed at them (shown below, right). Within the first 20 months, the video gained upwards of 12 million views and 7,400 comments.

Celebrities Read Mean Tweets

On March 22nd, 2012, Kimmel introduced a segment with various celebrities reading aloud insulting tweets directed at them (shown below). Within the first 20 months, the video gained upwards of 12 million views and 7,400 comments.

Lie Witness News

On April 23rd, 2013, Kimmel aired an episode of the segment “Lie Witness News,” in which attendees at the music festival Coachella were asked what they thought about bands that do not exist (shown below). In the next seven months, the video received over 12.5 million views and 9,100 comments.

Twerk Fail Hoax

On September 3rd, 2013, YouTuber Caitlin Heller uploaded a video titled “Worst Twerk Fail Ever – Girl Catches Fire!”, in which a young woman’s pants appear to catch fire after being knocked over while performing a twerk dance move (shown below, left). Within 13 weeks, the video received over 14 million views and 22,300 comments. On September 9th, Kimmel revealed that the video was a hoax orchestrated by the talk show (shown below, right).

Sochi Wolf Hoax

On February 20th, 2014, United States Olympic luger Kate Hansen tweeted a link to a YouTube video of a wolf wandering the hall of her hotel in Sochi, Russia during the 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Games. In the first two weeks, the video gained over 5.7 million views and 4,000 comments.

On the following day, Kimmel showed the video on his late-night program, in which he revealed he had orchestrated the viral video with Hansen and highlighted several news segments reporting on the hoax (shown below).

Viral Video Remake Trailers

Coinciding with the 86th Academy Award ceremony on March 2nd, 2014, Jimmy Kimmel Live broadcast four different movie trailers inspired by different viral videos. The “Bitman Begins” trailer featured a Batman trailer based on the Charlie Bit Me video, starring actors Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Chris Hemsworth and Liam Hemsworth (shown below, left). The “Sweet Brown: Ain’t Nobody Got Time For That” trailer stars actress Queen Latifah as Sweet Brown from the 2012 news report clip (shown below, right).

Actors Christoph Waltz and Kevin Spacey appeared in the “Ameowadeus” trailer, featuring a rivalry between Keyboard Cat and Hamster on a Piano (shown below, left). The “David After Dentist Double Rainbow Oh My God! in 3D” trailer stars actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt as David DeVore Jr. from the David After Dentist video and Seth Rogen as Paul Vasquez from the Double Rainbow video (shown below, right).

Controversies

Feud With Kanye West

In September of 2013, Kimmel participated in a feud with rapper Kanye West after mocking a BBCRadio 1 interview with the performer (shown below, left) along with a clip of two children parodying the video (shown below, right).

China Genocide Skit

On October 16th, 2013, a segment titled “Kids’ Table” aired on Jimmy Kimmel Live, in which a child suggested that the United States “kill everyone in China” in order to solve its debt problem (shown below).

On October 19th, a petition was created on the White House’s We the People^[6] website calling for the Obama administration to shutdown the show (shown below, left). On the following day, another petition was created on the website Change.org^[5] calling for ABC to terminate Kimmel’s employment (shown below, right).

On October 28th, ABC an official apology for the statement:

“We offer our sincere apology. We would never purposefully broadcast anything to upset the Chinese community, Asian community, anyone of Chinese descent or any community at large. Our objective is to entertain. We took swift action to minimize the distribution of the skit by removing it from all public platforms available to us and editing it out of any future airings of the show. We hope our actions and our apology effectively address your concerns. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.”

On November 1st, Kimmel released an apology letter^[4] claiming he did not intend to upset anyone for the “Kids’ Table” segment, noting that the comment was unscripted and made by a six-year-old child. On November 8th, ABC^[3] issued another apology for the segment, claiming that the television station’s systems “did not function properly” and that they had taken steps to avoid similar mistakes. On the following day, hundreds of protesters reportedly gathered at ABC Studios in several locations in the United States, calling for ABC to fire Kimmel and holding signs containing a photoshopped picture of the talk show host as deceased German dictator Adolf Hitler (shown below).

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Skitt’s Law is an Internet axiom which states that people who correct other’s spelling or grammar are likely to commit errors themselves. It is often used as a humorous critique of the pedantic Internet users known as Grammar Nazis. Several similar laws referring to the same principle have arisen independently, but Skitt’s Law is the most prevailing term.

Origin

On April 26th, 1999, a member of the Usenet group alt.usage.english^[3] G. Bryan Lord (a.k.a. Skitt) coined the term in a thread discussing the nuances of using the titles "Ms. and “Miss.” When user Perchprism replied remarking that the group’s rules may make some users to be overly self-conscious, Skitt replied with the definition of “Skitt’s Law”:

“You’ve entered my vocabulary: Skitt’s Law, a corollary of Murphy’s Law, variously expressed as “any post correcting an error in another post will contain at least one error itself” or “the likelihood of an error in a post is directly proportional to the embarrassment it will cause the poster.” The effect is, of course, magnified a hundredfold if the post is in reply to Skitt himself."

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On May 15th, 1990, alt.sex^[17] user Andrew Bell replied to a thread regarding grammar corrections that are incorrect with “Bell’s First Law of Usenet”:

“Bell’s First Law of USENET: Flames of spelling and/or grammar will
have spelling and/or grammatical errors.”

In March of 1992, Austrilian John Bangsund of the Victorian Society of Editors coined “Muphry’s Law” in the Society of Editors Newsletter^[10] as an editorial version of Murphy’s Law.

“Muphry’s Law dictates that (a) if you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written; (b) if an author thanks you in a book for your editing or proofreading, there will be mistakes in the book; (c) the stronger the sentiment expressed in (a) and (b), the greater the fault; (d) any book devoted to editing or style will be internally inconsistent.

On April 20th, 1999, just six days prior to Skitt’s Usenet post, Kith.org webmaster Jed Hartman posted an article titled “Nitpickers R Us”, which introduced “Hartman’s Law of Precriptivist Retaliation.”

“Hartman’s Law of Prescriptivist Retaliation states that any article or statement about correct grammar, punctuation, or spelling is bound to contain at least one eror.”

In the October 2001 issue of the language quarterly publication Verbatim^[9], American lexicographer Erin McKean was quoted describing what she referred to as “McKean’s Law.”

“Any correction of the speech or writing of others will contain at least one grammatical, spelling, or typographical error.”

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On December 3rd, 2003, Skitt’s Law was referenced in a thread on the English Forums^[12] regarding the nuances of sex and gender rules. On November 10th, 2004, Vocaboly^[13] forums member Maria Conlon mentioned the adage in a thread regarding the correct usage of the responses “me too” and “you too.” On August 8th, 2005, The Straight Dope^[15] forums member Mops posted a thread questioning if there was a law for spelling corrections that contained spelling mistakes, to which user Catalyst replied that it was known as “Gaudere’s Law” on Straight Dope and “Skit’s Law” and “Tober’s Lor” elsewhere. On October 23rd, 2009 The Telegraph^[14] published an article tittled “Internet rules and laws: the top 10, from Godwin to Poe”, listing Skitt’s Law as the fourth Internet rule in the top ten list. On the following day, an entry for Skitt’s Law was created on the Rational Wiki^[11], which pointed out its similarities to Muphry’s Law and McKean’s Law. On December 10th, the blog Net Culture Talk^[4] published a post titled “Internet Meme: Skitt’s Law”, claiming the point of the law was to point out that “everyone makes typos.”

Examples

In addition to the comments and texts that are found online and fall under the definition of Skitt’s Law, numerous images of xenophobic picket signs and bumper sticker messages advocating the proper use of the English language in faulty grammar have gone viral during the height of the Tea Party Movement between 2010 and 2011, which subsequently became a popular subject of online ridicule under the neologism “Teabonics”.

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Aesthetic refers to a series of abstract images, photos and art that are known for feeling oddly perfect, either by having a running theme, following certain patterns or having color palettes that blend well with each other, it is normally described by outsiders as 2deep4u due to the abstract natures of it.

Aesthetic images tend to have a nostalgic underwater pattern, often including objects from the past (specifically the 80’s and 90’s graphic styled) video-game consoles, windows 98´s icons and desktop, as well as busts and columns with japanese letters and 80´s filters, however this is only one form of aesthethic (as well as the most common one) popularized by the music movement Vaporwave

Origin

The earliest instance of the use of the word aesthetic in that certain context dates back to 2010^[1] with the start of the vaporwave music movement, a genre that includes 80´s elevator music slowed down, as well as certain covers that consist of Japanese characters, busts and windows icons,which were then called aesthetics.

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After the increase in popularity of vaporwave, multiple blogs on tumblr appeared^[2][3], taking pictures within the same branch of vaporwave covers, soon they started to branch off to create their own types of aesthetic images, which could be described as oddly satisfactory and nostalgic.

This popularity was seen as more types of music outside of vaporwave would take on to its trends and bear similarities, one of which would include Swedish rapper Yung Lean (shown below, left)

Soon after, multiple images parodying the original aesthetic started appearing on 4chan and tumblr^[4][5], mainly where the vaporwave movement started, normally mocking it with an overload of its own characteristics

On Jul 21, 2014, Youtube user FrankJavCee uploaded a satirical video on how to make Vaporwave, in which he heavily mentions the use of aesthetics, and describes it as a “pretentious hipster way of saying beautiful” (shown below).

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“That’s Enough Internet for Today” is an expression typically used in comment sections of online communities to emphasize the disturbing, bizarre or offensive nature of a particular media content uploaded by the original poster, in similar vein to the use of the phrases like what has been seen cannot be unseen and I’m in that weird part of YouTube.

Origin

While the exact origin of the idiomatic expression “that’s enough for today” remains unknown, the earliest recorded use of the phrase in the context of Internet browsing can be found in the title of a video uploaded by Vimeo user Ionut Puiu on August 20th, 2009. Dubbed “Trust me… You had enough Internet for today,” the video shows a cat pawing its owner’s typing hand on the keyboard in the style reminescent of Stop Posting reaction images (shown below).

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On September 21st, 2011, Redditor GodOfAtheism launched the /r/EnoughInternet^[2] subreddit for bizarre NSFW images and video. On November 9th, 2012, Redditor Lugozi submitted an animated GIF of Jerry Seinfeld with the caption “Well, that’s enough Internet for today” to the /r/funny^[5] subreddit, where it received more than 1,100 votes (82% upvoted) before it was archived.

On September 11th, 2013, BuzzFeed^[1] published a compilation of animated GIFs titled “68 GIFs That Prove You’ve Had Enough Internet For Today.” On February 22nd, 2014, a photoshopped image of Side Eyeing Chloe and Doge titled “Enough Internet for today” was submitted to the /r/funny^[4] subreddit, where it gained over 2,800 votes (87% upvoted) prior to being archived (shown below).

On June 20th, a Facebook^[3] page titled “That’s Enough Internet For Today” was launched, which garnered upwards of 180,000 likes within the next year. On December 12th, 9gag^[6] user Tobelebo9 submitted a webcomic titled “Enough Internet for today…,” in which a man demonstrates how to perform various types of farts (shown below).

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“Coincidence? I think NOT!” is a phrase which originates from the 2004 animated family film The Incredibles. The scene became a popular reaction GIF and the phrase is often added to other images and GIFs to convey suspicion over the link between two incidents.

Origin

On November 5th, 2004, The Incredibles was released. The movie includes a scene in which Dash Parr’s teacher Bernie Kropp tries to prove that he has been putting tacks on his chair during classes. He notes that in the recording of the class, Dash moves suspiciously right at the moment he sits down, leading to the memorable quote.

On March 10th, 2011, YouTuber Thecommet^[2] uploaded the clip, as of September 2014, the video has gained over 180,000 views.

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On August 22nd, 2007, Yahoo Answers^[3] user Matt N asked "Where did the quote “Coincidence? I think not.” first come from?"

On September 13th, 2013, Tumblr user diamondofblack^[4] tagged a post about Harry Potter“Coincidence? I think not.” As of September 2014, the post has gained over 200 notes.

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