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Stoner Comics, also known as Tree Comics, are a series of MS Paint-styled web comics that use psychedelic drugs as a comedic plot device, mostly cannabis. The comics illustrate various commonly shared experiences or sensations while under the influence of marijuana, with each pane carrying more colors as the story progresses.

Origin

Though is rumored that the first stoner comics appeared on the drug-centric imageboard 420chan in 2009, the earliest archived comics can be found on 4chan’s random board /b/ in early 2010, being one of the earliest references to them a post on the marijuana entusiasts subreddit /r/trees on April 19th, 2010,^[11] linking to a /b/ thread archived on the now defunct chanarchive.

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On May 10th, 2010, a tumblr blog dedicated to the comics was created,^[4][8] being followed by other blogs with similar theme.^[3][5] On July 14th, 2010, a /r/trees^[1] spin-off subreddit dedicated to tree comics was created, gaining over 31,000 subscribers on 5 years.^[10] Stoner comics can also be found on dedicated pages,^[2][12] Tumblr^[9] and 4chan.^[6][7]

Widdly Scuds

Widdly Scuds is a slang term used by members of the stoner subculture in order to refer to a desperate but incoherent attempt at ordering fast food due munchies, adopted from a stoner comic where the main character attempts to order a bacon burrito from Taco Bell, wording “Widdly scuds?” at the end of his command (shown bellow). On April 5th, 2010, user ontario submitted a definition for “Widdly Scuds” on Urban Dictionary, gaining over 1000 in five years.^[14] Uses of the term can also be found on communities like Tumblr^[13] or 4chan.^[15]

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The Bielefeld Conspiracy (German: Die Bielefeld Verschwörung) is a satirical conspiracy theory which claims that the city of Bielefeld* in Regierungsbezirk Detmold, Germany is a geographically nonexistent entity and* an illusion perpetuated by a secret organization known only as SIE , which translates to “THEM” in English, and therefore anyone who contradicts the notion is in on the conspiracy. Since its introduction through a Usenet newsgroup in May 1994, the Bielefeld Conspiracy has grown into a classic Internet joke among Germans to mock the absurdity of conspiracy theories in general.

Origin

On May 16th, 1994, computer science student Achim Held of the University of Kiel submitted a message to the de.talk.bizarre^[7] newsgroup on Usenet, in which he claimed that he and a small group of friends discovered that the city of Bielefeld did not actually exist. Held speculated that a secret society may be behind the conspiracy, which may have infilitrated the German government. According to a 2004 interview with Held, the joke was inspired by a conversation with an avid reader of New Age magaziines at a student party in 1993.^[8][6]

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The joke circulated widely throughout the German web over the next several years. On April 1st, 1999, the city of Bielfeld released a press statement in response to the story, titled Bielefeld gibt es doch! (Bielefeld is real!). In 2009, a film depicting the background behind the fictional conspiracy was made by students at Bielefeld University(shown below, left). The movie, titled Die Bielefeld Verschwörung, was a low budget action/thriller, financed by the university itself and several local sponsors from the city of Bielefeld. On May 20th, 2011, an article about the conspiracy was created on Rational Wiki.^[9] On November 14th, 2012, the Goethe-Institut YouTube channel uploaded a video explaining the Bielefeld conspiracy (shown below, right).

On November 12th, 2013, YouTuber rewboss uploaded a video titled “10 things you might not have known about Germany,” which listed the Bielefeld conspiracy among other interesting factoids about Germany (shown below, left). On June 3rd, 2014, the DW (English) YouTube channel uploaded a video about the Bielefeld conspiracy (shown below, right). On July 24th, Redditor l_v_r submitted a post about the conspiracy to the /r/todayilearned^[11] subreddit, where it gained over 3,900 notes and 630 comments prior to being archived.

On April 10th, 2015, Redditor JoNe96 submitted a post titled “Anybody from Bielefeld?” to the /r/germany^[12] subreddit, where many users replied that the city does not exist. On July 6th, the news blog ModernNotion^[10] published an article about the history of the Bielefeld conspiracy.

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“Carl!” is a quote often shouted by the character Rick Grimes when addressing his son Carl in the horror drama television series The Walking Dead, which is often mocked online for the frequency with which it occurs on the show and for Grimes’ variable pronunciation of his son’s name.

Origin

The show’s protagonist Rick Grimes and his son Carl were introduced in Season 1 Episode 1 of The Walking Dead titled “Days Gone Bye,” which originally aired on October 31st, 2010. Grimes is a former police officer who awakens to find himself in the middle of a zombie apocalypse and begins traveling with his son after rescuing him in Atlanta, Georgia. Grimes is frequently shown yelling “Carl” when attempting to get his son’s attention.

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On November 14th, 2012, YouTuber MichiganSt35 uploaded a clip from The Walking Dead of Rick Grimes bawling after his wife dies titled “Rick finds out Carl is gay” (shown below).

On December 3rd, 2013, BuzzFeed^[2] highlighted several multi-pane comics featuring Grimes telling his son Carl various dad jokes (shown below).

On January 26th, 2014, YouTuber Infinitify uploaded a supercut of Rick Grimes saying his son’s name in the first four seasons of the show (shown below).

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Coral

Many Internet users have mocked the many instances Grimes has pronounced the name “Carl” as “Coral.” On April 15th, 2014, the pop culture blog Wet Paint^[3] published an article on The Walking Dead, which listed “Coral!” as a glossary term for when Grimes yells his sons name repeatedly. On May 3rd, Tumblr^[1] user carlsburnbook posted a photoshopped promotional image for the 2003 animated film Finding Nemo Rick and Carl Grimes superimposed in the frame and the title “Finding Coral” (shown below).

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Godzilla is a fictional Japanese giant monster most-well known as the main subject of the 1954 Japanese science-fiction film with the same name, as well as dozens of other films, video games, comic books and television series. The amphibious reptilian character has been since credited with pioneering the Kaiju subgenre in Japanese sci-fi films and it is one of the most internationally recognizable symbols of Japanese pop culture.

History

Godzilla first appeared in the 1954 Japanese science fiction film Godzilla, in which a giant reptilian monster destroys parts of Japan after being mutated by nuclear radiation.

Several sequels were made during the Shōwa period of Japan from 1954 to 1975, including Godzilla Raids Again, King Kong vs. Godzilla and Mothra vs. Godzilla. During the Heisi period of Japan from 1984 to 1995, the timeline of the series was revamped starting with The Return of Godzilla and ending with Godzilla vs. Destoroyah after seven films. In 1998, the American remake of Godzilla was released. From 1999 to 2004, the films Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack and Godzilla: Final Wars were released.

Online Presence

On May 10th, 2006, YouTuber gojirasan uploaded a montage dedicated to Godzilla films from the past 50 years (shown below, left), which garnered more than 2.92 million views and 1,700 comments in the following eight years. On September 1st, the Godzilla Wiki^[3] was launched. On August 4th, 2007, YouTuber JMlovesGreenday uploaded a computer animation video in which Godzilla fights the giant ape monster King Kong (shown below, right). In the next seven years, the video gathered upwards of 4.15 million views and 2,100 comments.

On February 4th, 2009, a Facebook^[2] page titled “Godzilla” was launched, which accumulated more than 96,000 likes in five years. On March 20th, YouTuber Sic’s Space uploaded a music video featuring clips from Godzilla films accompanied by the track “Godzilla” by Blue Oyster Cult (shown below, left). In the first five years, the video gained over 2.48 million views and 1,300 comments. On July 25th, 2010, the Internet humor site Cracked^[1] published an article listing several factoids about the Godzilla franchise. On April 14th, 2011, YouTuber The Angry Video Game Nerd posted a video in which he reviews several games in Godzilla franchise (shown below, right).

On June 27th, 2013, YouTuber VenturianTale uploaded footage from the indie sandbox game Garry’s Mod featuring custom Godzilla 3D models. In the first four months, the video received over 960,000 views and 5,000 comments. On July 9th, YouTuber CinemaSins uploaded a video criticizing the 1998 American remake film Godzilla (shown below, right), garnering more than 1.22 million views and 5,600 comments in the next three months.

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Godzilla Bukkake

Godzilla Bukkake is a series of image macros in which a photograph is covered by water or a white substance of some kind, joking that the giant monster has ejaculated.

Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny

Godzilla is prominently featured in the flash animation music video “The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny”, in which several real celebrities and fictional characters compete in a brawl to the death.

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Baneposting refers to referencing and parodying an awkward dialogue between a CIA agent and the captive villain Bane from the opening scene of the 2012 DC superhero action film The Dark Knight Rises, the final installment of the Batman film trilogy directed by Christopher Nolan.

Origin

In early December 2011, a video clip of the prologue sequence from the then-upcoming 2012 superhero film The Dark Knight Rises was leaked online.^[10] The prologue features a CIA agent (played by Aidan Gillen) threatening three men with sacks over their heads aboard a moving airplane, explaining the first one to give up information would not be thrown out of the plane. The first two men are silent, but the third begins to talk with a muffled sounding voice. When the sack is pulled off, the man is revealed as Bane (played by Tom Hardy). He then reveals he plans to crash the plane, which he does with the help of his associates, before escaping himself.

On December 11th, 2011, an audio file of the leaked scene was posted to 4chan’s /tv/ (Television & Film) board,^[1] featuring the following dialogue between Bane and the CIA agent (shown below). Soon, commenters in the thread began scrutinizing the last two lines in the dialogue, as some misinterpreted Bane’s interspersed quote “[it would be extremely painful] …for you” as a double-entendre with suggestive connotations, i.e., “[I’m a big guy] …for you.”

CIA agent:“If I pull that [mask] off, will you die?”
Bane:“It would be extremely painful…”
CIA agent:“You’re a big guy.”
Bane:“…for you.”

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On July 23rd, 2012, a user started a thread on a forum hosted on GameFAQs^[11] titled “Bane: It would be extremely painful….” discussing the quote and exchange. On August 9th, 2012, Reddit user captinc added a thread titled “Settle a stupid argument about Bane’s line for me please!” to the r/Batman^[12] subreddit, explaining he questioned the subtext of the exchange, saying:

“In the opening scene of TDKR when the man asks Bane if he dies if the mask comes off Bane says “it will be very painful” the man follows it up with “Youre a big guy” When of course Bane says “For You.” So my friends seem to think Bane is saying “im a big guy for you” where as I claim he is saying “It will be very painful, for you”
can someone please clear this up for me!"

On January 24th, 2014, YouTuber Muh Waifu^[9] uploaded a video titled “The Dark Tyrone Roges,” which features two testimonal spokespersons known as Rog & Tyrone reciting the scene’s dialog in a monotone style. As of September 2014, the video has gained over 90,000 views. On April 3rd, 2014, YouTuber Real Human Bean^[7] uploaded a video titled “/tv/ dubs The Dark Knight Rises” which featured the scene dubbed with cartoonish sound effects. As of September 2014, the video has gained over 35,000 videos.

On April 23rd, 2014, it was announced that Tom Hardy would be joining in an Ask Me Anything with director Steven Knight on Reddit^[2] to promote their film LOCKE. When 4chan users discovered that Tom was partaking in the thread, users decided to “raid” the interview by asking him questions pertaining to the now-infamous scene from The Dark Knight Rises, while users were encouraged to downvote legitimate questions about the subject of the interview and only upvote questions featuring references to that opening scene. The thread received more than 1,000 upvotes and over 1,200 replies. By the next day, the AMA thread was featured on several sites including Yahoo Canada^[3] and the Daily Dot^[4], and a screenshot collage of the thread was later submitted to /r/4chan subreddit,^[5] which received over 100 upvotes.

The AMA raid renewed interest in the scene and corresponding meme. On May 12th, 2014, SoundCloud user Masketta Man released a four-part musical tribute titled “UUUU”, which utilizes lines taken from the film. As of September 2014, the most listened to track has received over 20,000 plays.

On June 25th, 2014, YouTuber kekallday^[8] uploaded a video titled “Bane Star (Big Guy For You) ft. CIA” which features the scene with a cover of the Smash Mouth song “All Star” layered over it. As of September 2014, the video has gained over 62,000 views.

Association With Germanwings Flight 9525

On March 24, 2015, Germanwings Flight 9525 crashed in the French Alps after French air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane less than an hour after takeoff. In the days following the crash, users on 8chan’s /bane/ board began to note several similarities between the crash and the opening scene of The Dark Knight Rises (shown below).

CIAss

On March 31st, 2014, an anonymous user on /tv/ posted a still from the plane scene of the CIA agent’s backside.^[13] The image has since been reposted on [s4s] and /tv/ multiple times.

A cropped version of the image, uploaded to /tv/ first on June 5th, 2014^[14], has been reuploaded for more than 2000 times on [s4s], making it the most reposted image on the board.^[15] There are also numerous photoshop parodies of the image. There are also single serving sites dedicated to the meme.^[16]

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#CuttingForBieber (also known as #Cut4Bieber) is an online hoax and Twitter hashtag campaign launched by members of 4chan in trying to spread a rumor that fans of Justin Bieber are cutting themselves in response to the leaked photographs of the singer allegedly smoking marijuana. The hoax involved creating numerous fake Twitter accounts and spreading pictures of supposedly self-inflicted scars with the hashtag, similar to misinformation techniques used in the #BaldForBieber campaign.

Background

The entertainment news blog TMZ^[1] published several photographs of Justin Bieber allegedly smoking marijuana at a party in a Newport Beach hotel room (shown below) on January 4th, 2013. Within four days, the post received over 15,000 Facebook shares and 12,000 tweets.

On January 7th, 2013, a thread was posted to the /b/ (random) board on 4chan,^[2] which urged other users to create Twitter accounts and post images of scarred arms to spread a rumor that Bieber’s fans have begun harming themselves in response to the allegations of Bieber smoking marijuana (shown below).

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On January 7th, 2013, several fake Twitter accounts were created for the hashtag campaign, including the @brittanyscrapma feed which tweeted several photographs of arms that had been supposedly cut with a razor accompanied by the hashtag “#CuttingForBieber.”

#cuttingforbieber stop the drugs and we’ll stop cutting.

— brittany scrapman (@brittanyscrapma) January 7, 2013

The same day, a Facebook^[5] page titled “Cutting For Bieber” was created, featuring image macros related to the campaign. Within 24 hours, the page received over 70 likes. Also on January 7th, YouTuber Wildhoglogging uploaded a video titled “Leader of Anonymous talks about cutting for Bieber,” in which a man hidden under a sweatshirt calling himself “Commander X” claimed to be the “leader of the 9gag Anonymous movement” and took responsibility for the #CuttingForBieber hoax (shown below)

News Media Coverage

Shortly after #CuttingForBieber began trending nationwide on January 7th, the Internet news sites BuzzFeed^[6]and Twitchy^[7] initially reported on the hashtag without any mentions of 4chan’s involvement, but both articles were later updated with details of the actual scheme. The same day, the entertainment news blog Complex^[8] described #CuttingForBieber as “the most disturbing hashtag of all time,” but subsequently updated the post after discovering the campaign’s true origins. Throughout the day, similar articles revealing the campaign as a hoax were published by Gawker^[10] and the men’s interest blog Brobible.^[9] On the following day, The Huffington Post^[11] published an article noting that the hashtag #SelfHarmIsNotAJoke began appearing on Twitter in response to the hoax.

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#Boobs4Bieber

On January 30th, 2013, a new thread was started on 4chan’s /b/ (random) board, asking readers to create and spread photoshopped images of nude women with the hashtag #boobs4bieber, all in an attempt to convince unsuspecting women into getting naked for the pop idol. The thread was met by a handful of responses featuring doctored images of nude women, while the hashtag was mentioned more than 400 times via Twitter within hours of the post on 4chan, according to The Daily Dot.^[12]

However, in contrast to the previous two hashtag campaigns aimed at Justin Bieber, the launch of #boobs4bieber was met by criticisms on /b/, with some commenting on the triteness of targeting Justin Bieber for the third time with the same joke and others alerting people on Twitter to disregard the hashtag altogether. Among the watchdogs against 4chan’s prank was John Mallamas (@JinSaotome), whose personal information was subsequently doxxed on Encyclopedia Dramatica.

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The Fappening, a portmanteau of the words “happening” and “fap”, refers to a nude photograph leak featuring various high profile celebrities that were posted on 4chan in late August 2014. Many of speculated that the images were stolen via Apple’s iCloud service, which hosts photographs taken with iPhone mobile devices online.

Background

On August 26th, a user on the imageboard AnonIB^[9] replied to a thread about actress Jennifer Lawrence claiming that users on the site’s /stol/ board for hacked nude photos had obtained “explicit vids and pics.” Meanwhile, a user on /stol/ announced he was “trading celebs and ripping iClouds.”

On August 31st, nude photographs of over 100 female celebrities were posted to 4chan’s /b/ (random) board, including pictures of Jennifer Lawrence, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kate Upton, Kirsten Dunst, Rihanna, Hillary Duff, Kaley Cuoco, Kim Kardashian, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Kate Bosworth and Victoria Justice.

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/r/thefappening

That day, the subreddit /r/thefappening^[1] was creator by Redditor johnsmcjohn for submissions of leaked celebrity nude photos, which gathered upwards of 50,900 subscribers in the first ten hours, becoming that day’s fastest growing subreddit according to the Reddit analytics site Reddit Metrics.^[5]

#LeakForJLaw

Also on August 31st, 4chan users launched the hoax hashtag #LeakForJLaw to encourage female Twitter users to post topless photographs of themselves in solidarity with Jennifer Lawrence under the banner of social justice.

That same evening, Twitter user @Boogie2988^[2] posted a topless photograph of himself accompanied by the hashtag, garnering upwards of 1,700 retweets in 15 hours.

#IfMyPhoneGotHacked

#IfMyPhoneGotHacked^[16] is a Twitter hashtag where people made light of the situation surrounding the Fappening by sharing embaressing, often photoshopped, pictures present on their mobile devices that would be released to the public in the theoretical scenario should their phone or iCloud got hacked similarly to the victims of The Fappening. Various websites and news outlets documented the hashtag on the first days of September, such as NBC News,^[12] the Dailymail,^[13] the Huffington Post^[14] and the Daily Dot.^[15]

Celebrity Reactions

On August 31st, a spokesperson for Jennifer Lawrence issued a statement to the tech news blog Mashable^[4] revealing the celebrity’s intent to sue whomever is responsible for the leak, calling it a “flagrant violation of privacy.”

That same day, Mary E. Winstead posted two tweets shaming the person responsible for the hack and those who were viewing them.^[6]

Meanwhile, singer-songwriter Victoria Justice posted a tweet denying that the topless photographs of her were authentic.^[7]

On September 1st, Olympian gymnast McKayla Maroney posted a tweet insisting her alleged nude pictures were fake, along with a Buddy Christ image macro (shown below).^[3]

Fundraiser Campaigns

On September 1st, 2014, Redditor FappeningHero submitted a thread urging other Redditor’s to donate to the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) as a token of gratitude to actress Jennifer Lawrence, claiming the actress had donated to prostate cancer research in the past. In the first 24 hours, the post gained over 3,900 votes (93% upvoted) on the /r/thefappening^[10] subreddit. The following day, Redditor THX-1138 submitted a screenshot from the PCF homepage, showing “Reddit The Fappening” as the top fundraiser for the foundation (shown below).^[11]

On September 2nd, The Prostate Cancer Foundation released an official statement^[17] in which they shared that they don’t condone with the manner of fund raising of The Fappening, and that they would return all donations that originated from Reddit.

We would never condone raising funds for cancer research in this manner. Out of respect for everyone involved and in keeping with our own standards, we are returning all donations that resulted from this post.

Users on /r/thefappening subsequently attempted to raise money for the organization water.org, which provides aid to developing countries that do not have access to safe drinking water and sanitation. On September 3rd, Business Insider^[18] reported that Water.org shut down the charity page Redditors were using to donate to the nonprofit organization.

Hacker’s Identity

Following the release of the photographs, 4chan users identified software engineer Bryan Hamade as the hacker responsible for the leak. On September 1st, The Daily Mail^[8] published an interview with Hamade, who denied being involved with the leak.

Criticisms

On August 31st, The Guardian published an article by writer Van Badham titled “If you click on Jennifer Lawrence’s naked pictures, you’re perpetuating her abuse.” On September 3rd, The Daily Beast^[19] published an article by writer Amanda Marcotte, arguing that the fappening demonstrates how misogynistic attitudes are pervasive in culture, with men who feel “they are entitled to own and control female bodies.” The same day, Vice^[20] published an article titled “The Fappening Has Revealed a New Type of Pervert.” Also on September 3rd, YouTuber The Amazing Atheist uploaded a video accusing the media of hypocrisy in their coverage of the leak, providing examples of blog coverage for leaked nudes of men which failed to condemn those spreading the photos online (shown below).

On September 4th, Redditor SlipperyThong submitted a post titled “Oh Gawker Media. You So silly,”^[21] featuring a comparison of Gawker articles about a leaked sex tape of former pro wrestler Hulk Hogan and the leaked nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence (shown below). In the first 24 hours, the post gained over 4,400 votes (96% upvoted) and 1,000 comments on the /r/TumblrInAction subreddit.

EmmaYouAreNext.com Hoax

On September 22nd, the single serving site EmmaYouAreNext.com^[25] was created with a photograph of Emma Watson and a countdown clock implying that the actress, who is no stranger to being the subject of sexually explicit photoshopped images, has been targeted as the next victim as part of the ongoing leaks of celebrity nude photographs. presumably in retaliation for announcing the launch of the international feminist campaign He for She at the U.N. Headquarters earlier that same week.

Meanwhile, the hashtag #RIPEmmaWatson was introduced on Twitter in an attempt to disseminate Watson’s death hoax. Within a week, the hashtag was tweeted out over 500 times. Within hours of reports linking 4chan to the threat of nude leaks of Emma Watson, some of the site’s users managed to track back the website’s server status and identify a company called Rantic Marketing as the owner of the domain. Furthermore, others soon uncovered evidence linking Rantic with Fox Weekly, an online news site that has previously gained notoriety for running hoaxes as news stories in order to generate traffic. After the countdown reached the deadline on September 23rd, the website redirected to Rantic.com^[13], which provided a statement detailing the true intentions behind the stunt, mainly to shut down 4chan in retaliation for the celebrity nude photo leaks. Furthermore, Rantic.com was revealed to be a “fake viral marketing firm” created by Social VEVO founders Jacob Povolotski, Yasha Swag, Swenzy and Joey B.

Dear Barack Obama,

“We have been hired by celebrity publicists to bring this disgusting issue to attention. The recent 4chan celebrity nude leaks in the past 2 months have been an invasion of privacy and is also clear indication that the internet NEEDS to be censored. Every Facebook like, share & Twitter mention will count as a social signature -- and will be one step closer to shutting down www.4chan.org. "

Sincerely,
Rantic.com

Apple’s Response

On September 2nd, Apple released an official statement denying widespread speculations that the leaks resulted from an unauthorized breach in the company’s iCloud data storage service, including a particular rumor about a security vulnerability in Apple’s Find My iPhone service. The company further determined that the victims of the leaks were specifically targeted by the hackers who focused on compromising their usernames, passwords and security questions.

Online Censorship

On September 6th, the /r/thefappening subreddit was banned. That day, the official Reddit blog^[22] published a post titled “Every Man is Responsible for his Own Soul,” which explained the reasoning behind the site’s approach to banning subreddits. Meanwhile, a Reddit thread regarding the blog post on /r/blog^[2] contained many comments criticizing the company for its approach to /r/thefappening. On September 7th, Reddit admin alienth submitted a post to the /r/announcements^[24] subreddit informing the community about how staff had reacted to the fappening and why they ended up banning the subreddit.

Subsequent Leaks

On September 20th, 2014, a second batch of nude photos of additional celebrities were leaked online, including Kim Kardashian, Hayden Panettiere (Nashville), Mary-Kate Olsen, Avril Lavigne, Vanessa Hudgens (Spring Breakers), Kaley Cuoco (The Big Bang Theory) and U.S. Women’s Soccer team goalie Hope Solo, as well as even more nude photographs of Jennifer Lawrence. Less than a week later, on September 26th, 2014, the third wave of celebrity nudes were leaked by the same hackers, which included private photographs of actresses Anna Kendrick, Kelli Garner, Alexandra Chando, Lauren O’Neil, Brooke Burns and Mena Suvari. On October 5th, 2014, the fourth batch of additional nudes emerged, which included private images of actresses Winona Ryder, Nina Dobrev, AnnaLynne McCord, Zoe Kazan, model Erin Heatherton and Nick Hogan, the son of Hulk Hogan and the first male victim of the leaks to date.

The List of Alleged Victims

Note: this list has been most recently updated as of October 6th, 2014.

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Steam User Reviews are tongue-in-cheek customer reviews of various video games titles that are available for purchase on Valve’s online marketplace platform Steam, in a very similar vein to the facetious reviews that are posted by users on Amazon and eBay.

Origin

In late 2013, Valve introduced a user ratings and review system on Steam, allowing users to rate and write reviews of any video game titles they have purchased on their product pages. Within the first fe weeks, multiple satirical reviews were written for universally-panned titles, including Bad Rats^[11](shown below, left) and Infestation: Survivor Stories^[12] (shown below, right).

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After the release of this feature, more tongue-in-cheek reviews continued to surface for a wider range of titles, including AAA popular releases as well as controversial games. With the increase in popularity of the reviews, a number of video game review sites like Kotaku^[2] and PC Gamer^[4] soon caught on with the joke and published facetious reviews of video games based on user feedback found on Steam. On January 14th, 2014, a link to a compilation of humorous Dota 2 reviews was posted to the /Dota2 subreddit^[5], where it gathered 1,001 upvotes and 169 comments prior to archival. In late December 2013, a Tumblr blog titled Steam-Reviews^[6] was made, as well as another one titled quality steam reviews^[7] in late June 2014, both compiling a series of funny steam reviews taking from a variety of games.

On January 25th, 2014, a discussion on the Steam subreddit r/Steam^[10] was posted discussing whether or not Steam Joke Reviews were funny or were hindering the ability to get actual information on the game from real reviews. On January 14th, 2015, Valve added a “funny” button alongside the upvote and downvote button on Steam reviews to acknowledge the use of the reviews for satire.^[8]

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Smug Anime Face refers to a variety of reaction images featuring anime characters with a smug smile on their faces that are often used in manga and anime-related discussions.

Origin

The first known usage of the term “Smug Anime Face” can be traced to a reply post to a Greentext thread on 4chan’s /v/ Video Games board on August 3, 2012, featuring the character Yozora Mikazuki from the 2011 comedy anime series Haganai, or Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai, chastising the author for his post.^[1] Later that same day, another user in turn criticised the response, primarily for it’s use of a generic GIF in response, featuring the term “smug anime face”.^[2]

Spread

Soon after the first thread, the term “smug anime face” began to appear over 4chan, as well as on other sites, with the first Smug Anime Face image thread being posted to 4chan’s /a/ Anime & Manga board on May 12, 2013^[3]. As well as this, there are also a Smug Anime Face Tumblr^[4] and Facebook page^[5], featuring images of characters from a variety of different anime series.

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Hurricane Irene is a tropical cyclone that landed on the coast of North Carolina on August 28th, 2011 and moved across the eastern coastline of the United States. Due to the strength of the storm and its historical nature as the first hurricane to make landfall on the east coast since the 1930s, onilne discussions and gossips about Hurricane Irene dominated the U.S. news media as well as social networking sites and blogs on the web.

Background

Hurricane Irene originally developed in the Caribbean on August 20th, 2011, which prompted the National Hurricane Center to initiate U.S. public advisories on the tropical cyclone. The storm consecutively grew in scale and size as it travelled across the region, inflicting sizable destruction and damages. On August 22nd, the storm was upgraded to a Hurricane Category 1 and escalated into a Hurricane Category 3 on August 24th as it approached the U.S. coast.

Developments

Internet Tracking Tools

NASA^[5] provided images of the hurricane captured by their satellite controlled Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer. Google enabled the images to be viewed in an overlay KML^[6] file for their Google Earth software that could be used with other Google Earth weather tools to track the hurricane in real-time.^[7]

On Twitter

Beginning on August 26th, 2011, numerous states across the country issued hurricane warnings and state of emergency while the news media reported on the hurricane’s expected route along the major cities in the east coast. On August 27th, seven out of nine tweets in New York region were related to Hurricane Irene, including #HurricanePlaylist, #followMeIrene, Category 1, Con Ed, Virginia Beach, Mayor Bloomberg and Zone C. According to The Daily Mail^[1], several fake Twitter accounts emerged purporting to be the dreadful Hurricane Irene as well, such as @Irene^[2] which gained nearly 36,000 followers since its debut; many of them requested follow-backs from @Irene with the hashtag #FollowMeIrene.

Met a cute guy downtown…. #ireneyfrog.com/g0u6hkj

— Irene Tien (@irene) August 28, 2011

Other Hurricane-related hastag trends included #ReplaceMovieTitleWithIrene (ex: “There’s Something About Irene”) and #HurricaneIrenePlaylist (ex: “Umbrella” by Rhianna / “You Spin Me Right Round” by Dead or Alive).

“Come On, Irene”

On August 25th, 2011, YouTuber PajaroLTD^[3] posted a musical tribute to the impending Hurricane Irene with a parody rendition of Dexy’s Midnight Runners’ 80s popular hit “Come on, Eileen.” Meanwhile, the phrase was also used as headlines for several news articles reporting on the hurricane. As of 9:30pm August 28th, the video has gained over 110,900 views:

Chris Christie’s News Conference

On August 26th, 2011, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie gave a news conference concerning Hurricane Irene. He advised all to “…don’t react – think. Think about what you need to do to protect your life and the life of your family.” However, after many stern warnings, Christie told those who were still on the beach at Asbury Park:

“Get the hell off the beach in Asbury Park and get out. You’re done, it’s 4:30, you’ve maximized your tan. Get off the beach.”

The footage of the conference was uploaded onto his YouTube account GovChristie^[4] and he also made this announcement via his Twitter handle @govchristie, which quickly began trending.

Weather Channel Streaker

On August 27th, a Weather Channel news reporter was video-bombed by a group of streakers during a live report from Virginia Beach on the impending hurricane. The footage was subsequently uploaded by YouTuber BlackIrish44 and has been covered by BoingBoing. In less than 24 hours of its upload, the video has gained over 177,000 views.

CBS News Drunk Girl Interview

On August 28th, the Huffington Post^[8] posted an article featuring a video of an inebriated young woman being interviewed by CBS news during the hurricane. The video was uploaded to YouTube by PantlessSuperstar83, and received 113,863 views as of August 29th.

Laundry Room Viking

Laundry Room Viking is an advice animal image macro series based on a Facebook photograph of a guy treading his way through a flooded laundry room following the landfall of Hurricane Irene in August 2011. Echoing the original caption “do the laundry they said, it will be fun they said,” the series usually juxtaposes an overly optimistic statement quoted by someone else against the undesirable conditions in reality.

News Media Analysis

Several articles questioning whether or not the hurricane had been overhyped were published on various blogs and news outlets. Prior to the arrival of Irene on August 26th, Forbes^[10] writer Patrick Michaels wrote an article outlining how the storm became a media sensation after the Weather Channel’s advertising rates started rapidly increasing. Immediately after the storm, The Daily Beast^[11] criticized cable news outlets for frightening the public:

Someone has to say it: cable news was utterly swept away by the notion that Irene would turn out to be Armageddon. National news organizations morphed into local eyewitness-news operations, going wall to wall for days with dire warnings about what would turn out to be a Category 1 hurricane, the lowest possible ranking.

Mediaite^[9] reported that the storm resulted in $7 billion dollars worth in economic losses, and a substantial amount may have been related to wasteful preparations.

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PornHub Comments On Stock Photos is a single topic blog featuring stock photographs of people posing in front of notebook computers and captioned with lewd comments that are found on the adult video site PornHub.

Origin

On October 22nd, 2013, the “PornHub Comments On Stock Photos” Tumblr blog was created by comedian Jason Mustian,^[8] with the first post featuring a photograph of a tuxedo-wearing man seated at a laptop with a caption complimenting the quality of an adult film (shown below). In the first three months, the post gained over 800 notes.

Precursor

On September 8th, 2013, the Tumblr blog “Porn Comments on Instagram Pics” was launched, which features pictures taken from the photo-sharing site Instagram with captions of comments from unknown adult entertainment sites (shown below), in a similar vein to Instagram Quote Rebuttals.

Spread

On October 30th, the blog was linked on the /r/InternetIsBeautiful^[5] subreddit, where it received upwards of 4,500 up votes and 150 comments in the following two months. On October 31st, 2013, the Internet news blog The Daily Dot^[4] published an article about the blog, followed by the Internet humor blog UpRoxx^[6] the next week. On December 30th, Redditor DapperConch submitted a post titled “Nice Comment” to the /r/Unexpected^[3] subreddit, which contained a photo of a man using a laptop captioned with a fantasy about a female adult film star (shown below). In the following four days, the post received more than 9,300 up votes and 230 comments.

Various Examples

Pornhub Comments on Valentines

On January 19th, 2014, Mustian launched the “Pornhub Comments on Valentines” Tumblr blog, which highlights Valentine’s Day ecards with captions taken from PornHub comments. In addition, each post contains a link to the relevant source material (shown below).

On February 5th, Redditor sociopaths-anonymous submitted the Tumblr blog to the /r/InternetIsBeautiful^[7] subreddit, where it gained over 4,400 up votes and 170 comments in the first 24 hours. On the same day, several news blogs highlighted notable examples from the blog, including Death and Taxes, UpRoxx,^[10] Kotaku,^[11] The Daily Dot,^[12] Hyper Vocal^[13] and Nerve.^[14]

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Deez Nuts is a video remix series containing a clip of Internet personality WelvenDaGreat saying the phrase “deez nuts” into a phone, which is often added as the punchline into a variety of videos on Instagram and Vine.

Origin

On March 20th, 2015, Instagram user WelvenDaGreat^[1] posted a video clip of himself speaking to a friend on the phone, in which he tells a joke that “deez nuts” arrived in the mail (shown below). In the first month, the video gained over 58,000 likes.

Precursor

On December 15th, 1992, hip hop artist Dr. Dre released his debut studio album The Chronic, which featured a track titled “Deeez Nuuuts.” During the song’s intro, rapper Warren G can be heard telling a “deez nuts” joke to a woman on the phone (shown below).

On September 21st, 2004, Urban Dictionary^[4] user Dee Loc submitted an entry for “deez nuts.”

Spread

On March 24th, 2015, YouTuber Javalicius uploaded an extended version of WelvenDaGreat’s video, garnering upwards of 490,000 views and 290 comments in the next three weeks (shown below).

On April 4th, the Mykleeproduction Instagram^[3] feed posted an edited clip from the children’s television series Blue’s Clues with the “deez nuts” video added at the end (shown below).

On April 11th, Viner Khadi Don posted a scene from the 2002 superhero film Spider-Man with the “deez nuts” clip dubbed over the original audio (shown below, left). The same day, the Co Vines YouTube channel uploaded a compilation of notable “deez nuts” Vine remixes, accumulating more than 126,000 views and 70 comments in 48 hours (shown below, right).

2016 U.S Presidential Election

On July 28th, 2015, CBS News^[12] reported that an independent named Deez Nuts filed a statement for candidacy with the Federal Election Commission in the 2016 Republican Presidential Primary.

On August 19th, the United States polling firm Public Policy Polling (PPP) released the results of a new survey on the primary candidates, which found that Donald Trump was leading in polls for the by 24%. Additionally, the firm revealed that Deez Nuts was polling at 9% in North Carolina, 8% in Minnesota and 7% in Iowa.^[5] That day, the North Carolina news station ABC 11 tweeted^[6] about the polling data, assuring readers they “were not hacked” (shown below).

In the first 24 hours, the tweet gained over 9,000 retweets and 4,400 favorites. That day, several news sites reported on the gag name’s polling appearance, including The Week,^[7]IBI Times,^[8] The Daily Beast,^[9] NY Mag^[10] and The Daily Caller.^[11]

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Tombstone Parodies refer to various images of gag names or epitaphs inscribed on gravestones that are often shared online, including both untouched photographs and photoshopped images.

Origin

The earliest known examples of humorous tombstone epitaph were highlighted on Colorado resident June Shaputis’ personal website Webpanda^[1] in 1998 (shown below).

Spread

On October 3rd, 2006, The Magic Cafe Forums^[2] member Marvello submitted a thread containing “funny Halloween tombstone names.” On July 19th, 2007, the pop culture blog Oddee^[7] published a round-up of notable joke tombstone pictures. On March 2nd, 2008, the facts and trivia website Mental Floss^[3] highlighted 10 photos of humorous celebrity tombstones (shown below).

On January 27th, 2010, the Internet humor site Holy Taco^[6] published a compilation of 25 humorous tombstone photographs. On February 28th, 2011, Funny or Die^[4] featured a slideshow titled “The Most Badass Tombstones Ever.” On September 19th, 2012, the Internet humor blog Mandatory^[5] published a photo gallery of humorous tombstones. On July 29th, 2013, Redditor thumz submitted a photograph of a tombstone for the Red Power Ranger to the /r/pics^[8] subreddit, where it gained over 3,200 votes (96% upvoted) prior to being archived.

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Search Interest

According to Google Trends, the search interest for “funny tombstone” seeks a spike around October every year, mainly due to its cultural association with the celebration of Halloween in the United States.

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Guy Fieri is an American television personality known for hosting the food reality shows Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Guy Off the Hook and Guy’s Grocery Games on the Food Network. Online, he is often mocked for his signature spiked-bleached hairstyle, his conspicuously American mannerisms and his New York City restaurant Guy’s American Kitchen and Bar, which received an extremely critical New York Times review in November 2012.

Television Career

In 2006, Fieri won first place on the Food Network cooking challenge reality show The Next Food Network. In 2007, Fieri began hosting the Food Network reality show Diners, Drive-Ins, & Dives, showcasing various diners, drive-in restaurants and dive bars across North America. In 2008, Fieri hosted the cooking show Guy Off the Hook, which ran until October that year. In October 2013, the Food Network launched the game show Guy’s Grocery Games, featuring four competing chefs who must complete various challenges in a grocery store.

Online Presence

In 2011, the CollegeHumor YouTube channel uploaded a video titled “Guy Fieri at Hogwarts,” featuring a parody of Fieri’s show Diners, Drive-Ins, & Dives set in the Harry Potter universe (shown below, left). On November 13th, 2012, The New York Times^[6] published a scathing review of the Fieri’s New York City restaurant Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar. On December 16th, CollegeHumor released a video in which a Fieri impersonator responds to the restaurant review (shown below, right).

On April 11th, 2013, the Jaboody Dubs YouTube channel uploaded a video titled “Guy Fieri Dub: Fedora Feast,” featuring footage from Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives with dubbed audio matching Fieri’s lip movements (shown below, left). Over the next two years, the channel released four additional Fieri dub videos.

In February 2013, a parody single serving site was launched at GuysAmericanKitchenAndBar.com,^[2] which contained a fake menu for Fieri’s Times Square restaurant (shown below, left). On March 9th, 2014, Redditor kdanson posted a picture of a fake television guide description for Diners, Drive-Ins, & Dives to /r/funny,^[3] where it gained over 3,500 upvotes in the next year (shown below, right).

In Homestuck

Guy Fieri has appeared in the webcomic series Homestuck as a homicidal tyrant who installs a fascist government and commits a genocide knowns as the “hilarocaust.”

Personal Life

Guy Fieri was born on January 22nd, 1968 in Columbus, Ohio.^[1] Fieri currently lives with his wife and two children in North California where he collects classic American cars.

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Brazilian Fart Porn is a shock site featuring a video clip of two adult film models farting on each other’s faces and inhaling for pleasure, a type of sexual fetishism and a niche genre of adult fetish films.

Origin

According to Google search, adult films associated with the keyword “fart porn” have been cached as early as 2004. However, the genre remained little known outside of online fetish sites until the launch of FartBrazil.com^[1] on January 27th, 2005. Despite the domain name, similar fetish videos have been shared in other language zones of the Internet.

Spread

In the following years, the video was occasionally mentioned in various forums^[8] and blogs^[4], with the earliest discussion thread posted on the international message board Bluelight^[7] in November 2005. More than a year later on November 11th, 2006, the particular instance hosted on FartBrazil.com was re-uploaded to the video-sharing site LiveLeak^[2], where it gained more than 1.5 million views in six years.

The mainstream exposure of the video eventually came on April 16th, 2008 with the airing of the South Park episode titled “Over Logging”^[3], in which Randy Marsh discovers bizarre sexual fetishes while surfing the Internet, including Brazilian Fart Porn along with “Japanese girls puking in mouth” and bestiality.

Soon after the original broadcast, YouTuber SkeetyPeety uploaded a video^[5] of himself watching the clip on April 19th (shown below), followed by many other ones recorded in the style of 2 Girls 1 Cup reaction videos. As of September 2012, there are more than 150 videos associated with the keyword “Brazilian Fart Porn” and more than 480 linked to “fart porn” on YouTube.^[6] On March 19th, 2009, they released a second video titled Brazilian Fart Porn Part 2^[9]. This second video of Brazilian Fart Porn is grosser than the first video.

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DEUUEAUGH is a descriptive noise from a blue fish in SpongeBob SquarePants that spawned many Youtube Poops due to the absurdity of the sound. Additionally, many Photoshop parodies were created with the fish’s face, which are often used as reaction images for disgust similar to Do Not Want.

Origin

The source of this footage can be seen in in the Spongebob Squarepants episode “Something Smells” first aired on October 28th, 2000. The scene with the distinctive noise was uploaded to Youtube on November 15th, 2010, gaining 220,000 views (shown below, left). On October 6th, 2007, a video was uploaded exclusively of the sound, gaining 1.3 million views (shown below, right).

Spread

In late 2011, a Facebook page^[1] was created for the fish gaining 2,000 likes. On Tumblr searching^[2] for the tag brings up several examples of the fish being used as a tag in disgust for a post. On December 9th, 2009, Youtuber SmashLuigi25 uploaded a Sonic The Hedgehog version of the scene, gaining 1.4 million views (shown below, left). On September 30th, 2011, Youtuber MrExctbhj uploaded a video showcasing the meme in 8 different languages, gaining 1.3 million views (shown below, right).

On March 4th, 2010, SmashLuigi25 uploaded another parody of the scene using Pikachu from Pokémon gaining 1 million views (shown below, left). On July 23rd, 2010, Youtuber Bros Before Giraffes 2 uploaded a 10 minute version of the scene gaining 1.2 million views (shown below, right).

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Videos

On Youtube a search^[3] for DEUUEAUGH brings up over 12,000 results of various parodies, YTPMVs, and reenactments.

Images

On DeviantArt a search^[4] for DEUUEAUGH yields 200 results for fanart and other creations with the fish.

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“It’s an Older Meme, But it Checks Out” is an expression derived from a quote featured in the 1983 science fiction film Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. In discussion threads and comments, the reaction image is typically used to validate the authenticity of an Internet meme reference that is outdated or culturally relevant.

Origin

On May 25th, 1983, the film Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi was released. in which a strike team led by the character Han Solo manages to sneak past Empire’s security under the guise of being an engineering crew. After Solo’s shuttle communicates with an Empire official, Admiral Piett, on the way to the planet Endor, the antagonist Darth Vader asks if they provided a “code clearance,” to which Piett replies “it’s an older code, but it checks out” (shown below).

On July 17th, 2012, Redditor iwan_w replied to a joke referencing the “I Herd U Like Mudkips” meme with the phrase “It’s an older meme, sir, but it checks out” (shown below).^[1]

Spread

On July 28th, 2013, Imgur^[2] user Valkor submitted a screen capture from the Star Wars scene with the caption “It’s an older meme, sir / but it checks out” (shown below).

On June 26th, 2014, George Takei tweeted^[4] a Star Trek-themed image macro with the description “It’s an older meme, but it checks out” (shown below). Within nine months, the tweet accumulated more than 1,300 favorites and 760 retweets.

On September 13th, Redditor pdmcmahon submitted an animated GIF of the Star Wars scene captioned with a parody dialogue between Vader and the Empire official to the /r/gifs^[3] subreddit (shown below). Within five months, the post gathered upwards of 4,100 votes (94% upvoted) and 300 comments.

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Grieve-tan is an alternate interpretation of the character General Grievous from the Star Wars franchise as a Japanese schoolgirl. The character has risen in popularity on 4chan’s/co/ (Comics and Cartoons) board.

Origin

General Grievous first appeared in the 2003 animated series Star Wars:Clone Wars as one of the major antagonists.^[1] On March 24th, 2012, pixiv user Hikorou (ヒコロウ) uploaded an image of a humanized version of Grievous represented by a girl with four arms, glasses, and braces.^[2]

Spread

The first thread on /co/ focusing on Grieve-tan was posted on September 26, 2012.^[3] Fans of the character soon began creating fanfiction, including an expanded alternate universe based off of the character. A page on The /co/nservatory Wiki was created on September 28th, 2012.^[4]

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“CoCo” is a 2014 trap single by Belizean-American hip hop artist O.T Genasis, which has garnered viral attention on Vine and elsewhere in the social media for explicit references to illicit drugs and humorous mondegreens upon its release in October 2014.

Origin

The song “CoCo,” the lyrics of which almost entirely consist of allusions to the cocaine-trafficking business, was written by Odis Flores, a Belizean-American rapper from Long Beach, California (better known by the stage name O.T. Genasis), and first unveiled online as a music video via the artist’s YouTube channel on October 13th, 2014. Upon its official release on October 27th, the rapper’s first major-label debut single performed remarkably well in terms of both record sales and viewership, peaking at #26 on Billboard’s Top 100 chart and its music video accumulating over 50 million views on YouTube within the first three months of upload.

Following the release of the song in October 2014, a number of parody videos featuring excerpts from the song began to surface on Vine under the tags #Coco and #Iminlovewiththecoco, with most instances specifically poking fun at the repetitive chorus (“I got baking soda”) and the rapper’s emphatic utterance of “CoCo,” a slang term for “cocaine,” by replacing the word with allusions to cocoa, the powdery ingredient used to make hot chocolate, instead (shown below).

On November 26th, 2014, internet music reviewer Anthony Fantano released a parody of the song under his alter ego Cal Chuchesta, in which he talks about cocoa (shown below), along with a remix featuring internet celebrity Filthy Frank and his alter ego Pink Guy.^[2]

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Skeletons are the internal framework that support the structure of an animal. In popular media and online, undead creatures are often depicted as animated skeletons and are associated with the annual Halloween celebration.

Online History

On YouTube

On October 10th, 2005, YouTuber lethaledge25 uploaded a video titled “Skeleton Dance,” in which a skeleton puppet performs a dance orchestrated by a street performer (shown below, left). In nine years, the video received upwards of 2.7 million views and 630 comments. On September 7th, 2009, YouTuber Super Simple Songs uploaded an animated music video titled “The Skeleton Dance”, which gathered over 30 million views and 1,300 comments in the next five years (shown below, right).

On October 20th, 2011, the “Will it Blend” web series uploaded a video in which a skeleton Halloween prop is pureed in a blender (shown below, left). In four years, the video received more than 2.4 million views and 10,100 comments. On October 1st, 2013, YouTuber MagicofRahat uploaded a video titled “Drive Thru Skeleton Prank,” in which he drives up to fast food restaurants with a skeleton in the driver’s seat (shown below, right). In the first year, the video gained over 10.6 million views and 12,000 comments.

On Tumblr

On Tumblr, many users post photos and animated GIFs featuring skeletons under the tag “#420sc” short for “420 Skeleton Collective.” A Facebook^[8] page titled “420sc” was launched on April 24th, 2014. Several single topic blogs dedicated to skeleton-related media have been launched, including “Spooky Skeleton Pics,”^[3]“Fuck Yeah Skeleton Pics,”^[4]“Skeleton TV”^[5] and “Skeleton Meme.”^[6] The Tumblr Jerry Seinfeld’s Skeleton^[7] uploads screenshots of 3D modeled skeletons reenacting scenes from the television sitcom Seinfeld.

Related Memes

2Spooky

2Spooky is an abbreviation of the phrase “too spooky” that is typically associated with pictures and animated GIFs of skeletons and the song “Spooky, Scary Skeletons” by Andrew Gold.

And Then A Skeleton Popped Out

And Then A Skeleton Popped Outis a parody creepypasta and sarcastic expression used to mock creepypastas that are too predictable in outcome or troll pastas that are poorly written on purpose.

Mr. Bones’ Wild Ride

Mr. Bones’ Wild Ride is a custom-designed ride from the computer simulation game Roller Coaster Tycoon 2. The ride purportedly lasted four years of game time for each virtual passenger and included an exit path that led back to the entrance of the ride, creating a never ending loop.

Skull Trumpet

Skull Trumpet is an animated sprite image of a skull-faced character playing the trumpet. Due to its poor, outdated quality of graphics, the image has spawned a variety of remixes and parodies in both video and GIF formats on media-sharing YouTube and Tumblr.

Fuckboy

Fuckboy used as a pejorative toward men who are perceived as oversexed or disrespectful toward women. On Tumblr, the term has also spawned a derivative phrase “en garde (English: on your guard), fuckboy," which is often accompanied with images of skeletons in a similar vein to 2Spooky.

Spooky Scary Skeletons

“Spooky Scary Skeletons” is the name of a children’s Halloween song written and preformed by Andrew Gold. Online, the song is often used as background music for skeleton-themed media.

Skeleton War

Skeleton War is tag that widely circulated on Tumblr in 2014 along with images of skeletons in anticipation of Halloween.

Wake Me Up Inside

“Wake Me Up Inside” is a lyric from the 2003 alternative rock song “Bring Me To Life” by Evanescence, which is often associated with a picture of an edited picture of a skeleton uploaded by Tumblr user maoshounen (shown below).

Waiting for OP

Waiting for OP and “OP will surely deliver”, are expressions associated with image macros featuring people, animals or skeletons posed in front of computer screens as if they had been waiting for the original poster’s response for a very long time.

Lewis the Skeleton

Lewis The Skeleton is the name given to the fictional skeleton character in the music video “Ghost” by Mystery Skulls. The character gained a significant fandom on DeviantART and Tumblr, where numerous images containing fan arts, cosplays and plush toys are posted.

Papyrus’ Spaghetti

“Papyrus’ Spaghetti” is a series of jokes about the skeleton character Papyrus from the video game Undertale, referencing a line of dialogue from the game in which he mentions spaghetti.

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