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“Haha, Long Boy” refers to an instant message containing a clipart of an orange-colored cylinder that was sent by an anonymous Facebook user to the administrators of the Facebook group Special Meme Fresh in late February 2016. Shortly after receiving the message, the group posted a screenshot of the bizarre exchange to its blog on Tumblr, spawning a series of photoshopped parodies and other forms of shitposts on the microblogging platform.

Origin

On February 24th, 2016, Special Meme Fresh featured a Q&A post via its Tumblr blog^[1] in response to an anonymous user’s question about the layers of irony webcomic, which described a list of ten different levels in understanding ironic humor.

“Could you list the layers of irony? What happens on each level, and when does each layer of irony no longer is fresh plz, thank”

Among the different levels, the description of the fifth layer stood out as exceptionally odd, which read:

“you send your friend a pic of a cylinder and say “haha long boy.” they unfriend you"

Within the first two weeks, the group’s Tumblr blog post^[2] garnered more than 2,400 notes. That same day, Special Meme Fresh posted a screenshot of a Facebook Messenger dialogue fitting the description of the “fifth level” to its Facebook page, where it accrued over 1,300 likes and 163 shares over the same time period.

Spread

On February 26th, 2016, Special Meme Fresh posted a picture of the orange-colored cylinder captioned with the phrase “who are you? im you but longer” to its Tumblr blog.^[3] In less than two weeks, the post gained more than 10,000 notes.^[2]

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Editor’s Note: This entry may be offensive to some users. View it with your own discretion.

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“Designated Shitting Streets” is a catchphrase used to mock India’s open defecation issues, which is employed on some online communities like 4chan in order to make fun of Indian users, also being used as shitposting practise. An associated catchphrase, “Poo in the Loo”, has been used in similar way.

Origin

The earliest use of the phrase comes from a 4chan’s international board /int/ thread submitted on July 13th, 2015, where an Indian user complained about the “India smells bad and is dirty” jokes, claiming that people only defecates on “designated shitting streets” and not everywhere. That statement was consequently mocked in the thread and several compilations of reactions from users were made. The earliest archived use of the phrase can be found on a post from the politicaly incorrect board /pol/ from July 22nd, 2015.^[1]

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Background

India is the lead country in open defecation, with near half of the population not using toilets in order to defecate.^[2][3] During recent years, government from India has tried to find a solution to the issue.

Spread

During the following days, the catchphrase started gaining traction on /pol/, being used as reply to Indian posters and any post related to India, and shitposting practises like vertical posting or Lankyposting.^[5] In late July 2015, a Mehmet, My Son version mocking the catchphrase and a post claiming India would be a “superpower by 2020” started circulating on /int/, being the first archieved use on /pol/ a post from July 25th, 2015.^[4] On September 16th, 2015, reddit user binaryballsbikers submitted to /r/4chan a reaction compilation from the original thread, gaining near 500 points and over 60 comments in the following months.^[6] On December 26th, 2015, reddit user butthole-scientist asked about the meaning of the catchphrase, gaining over 2,200 points and 360 comments in two weeks.^[7]

Poo in the Loo

On February 14th, 2014, UNICEF India released a song titled “Take The Poo To The Loo” and launched a campaign by the same name in order to fight open defecation in the country, with the music video of the song recieving over 900,000 views in less than two years (shown bellow). However, the campaign was mocked on several online communities like /pol/, gaining traction in early July 2015, the time when “designated shitting streets” started being used.^[8] Since then, it has become an equivalent catchphrase, being used to mock India too.

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“WE WUZKINGZ”, also iterated as “KANGZ N SHIET”, is an expression primarily used by users of 4chan’s /pol/ (politically incorrect) board to poke fun at those who adhere to the Black Egyptian Hypothesis, an often disputed theory which postulates that Ancient Egypt was a Black civilization and that some of the most notable royal figures from the Dynastic era were of African ethnicity, including Tutankhamen, Cleopatra and Pharaoh Khafra, who is generally believed to be the face depicted on The Great Sphinx of Giza. In addition to its widespread usage on /pol/, the phrase has been also adopted by detractors of Pan-Africanism on other discussion forums, including white supremacist and nationalist websites.

Origin

The phrase is believed to have been coined on 4chan’s /pol/ (politically incorrect) board sometime around late 2015 by users who began assuming an increasingly skeptical and critical stance towards the new wave of African American civil rights protests surrounding a series of racially charged police brutality controversies, most notably the #blacklivesmatter movement and civil unrest in Baltimore.

Background

The Black Egyptian Hypothesis^[1] is a theory claiming that Ancient Egypt was a Black Civilization, thereby questioning the ethnicity of the Ancient Egyptian population and affirming that the civilization was comprised of a black majority. Upon its introduction during the first half of the 20th century, the theory quickly gained support among several leading African American scholars and became a popular subject of academic studies for historians, though it has been since largely marginalized as inconclusive or anachronistic by most scholars.

Spread

According to Encyclopedia Dramatica,^[3] the phrase was anonymously coined on 4chan sometime around November 2015, which subsequently spread to YouTube with the upload of a video titled “We wuz kings and shit fam” on November 21st (shown below).

The phrase continued to gain momentum through its frequent usage on /pol/, which in turn spawned many iterations driven by shitposting and vertical posting. As a result of the trend, a sizable collection of satirical images featuring made-up facts regarding the ethnic background of White European historical figures subsequently emerged online. Furthermore, the satirical meme has been also used to critique hip hop and rap albums that champion the theme of black pride, most notably Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly and Vince Staple’s Summer ’06, both of which contain numerous lyrical references that portray black people as ancient royalties.

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Zootopia is a 2016 Disney 3D computer-animated comedy film set in a world populated by animals who poseess the level of intelligence comparable to that of humans. The main story follows Judy Hopps, a bunny rookie police officer, and Nick Wilde, a fox con artist, as they attempt to solve a missing persons case together. Since its announcement, the film has been widely discussed online due to its appeal to the furry community.

History

Production

In August 2013, The Walt Disney Company announced the production of Zootopia, described as a 3D animated comedy film taking place in a modern-day world where different animal species peacefully coexist without humans.^[3] Marketed in the United States with the tagline “Welcome to the Urban Jungle”,^[4] the film heavily emphasizes both the social relationships between different members and species of the animal kingdom and the urban environment that they inhabit.

Marketing

On June 11th, 2015, the first teaser trailer for the film was unveiled via Walt Disney Animation Studios’ YouTube page, followed by the releases of second teaser trailer on November 23rd and the official theatrical trailer on New Year’s Eve in 2015. On December 10th, 2015, Disney shared a series of Zootopia-themed posters parodying some of the most notable films of the year (shown below), which generated a lot of buzz in the blogosphere and social media.

On February 26th, 2016, just a few days before the 88th Academy Awards ceremony, Disney showcased a parody montage trailer in honor of the 2015 Oscars-nominated films (shown below).

On March 1st, BuzzFeed^[14] and Gizmodo^[13] reported that Disney has been strategically marketing the film to the furry fandom through a digital marketing firm, citing screenshots of the company’s outreach emails in which it asks various furry groups to promote the film on Instagram and Twitter.

Release

In February 2016, the film was released in select European countries, including Belgium, Spain and France, while its release date in North America is slated for March 4th, 2016.^[5]

Reception

Zootopia has received overall positive reviews from the critics. It has received an average of 81% from IMDb with over 6,000 user reviews.^[8] It drew a 9/10 rating from IGN,^[9] which praised it for its world-building and message of breaking stereotypes. Metacritic’s critic review average gave Zootopia 78 out of 100, based on a total of ten critics’ reviews.^[10]

Online Presence

Zootopia’s official Facebook account^[6] has garnered over 330,000 likes, while its Twitter account has gotten over 37,000 followers and 40 likes.^[7]

Fandom

Search queries for the keyword “zootopia” returns over 3,500 instances of fan art illustrations on DeviantArt^[1] and more than 190,000 results on YouTube^[2], as well as several hundreds of posts on Tumblr^[11] and Pinterest.^[12]

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jacksepticeye (Sean “Jack” McLoughlin) is an Irish born let’s-player who is known for his enthusiastic and humble nature. He’s predominately known for his GTA V and Skate 3 videos, however he has branched into other games over time. He is also known for his “Reading Your Comments” series.

Online History

During his days on YouTube, Jack started out almost unnoticeable at first, but due to a shout out from the most subscribed YouTuber. He gained a massive amount of subscribers and it has only grown more and more since. He started making noise in the Let’s Play community when he uploaded his popular GTA V and Happy Wheels videos. The views reach nearly a million each! Along with Jack rising to be a big name, he regularly talks with fans in the comment section right after the videos upload. Also, his humbleness has always been admirable, especially in his Omegle videos where he never acts like he’s some big deal. Currently Jack does single Let’s Plays, and often times collab videos, and hasn’t changed his formula since.

Catchphrases

Top of the morning to ya laddies!

He wouldn’t be an Irish gamer without having an Irish saying. Accompanied with a high five at the beginning of the video. This phrase has been a huge staple in Jack’s videos. Being said in every video currently.

LIKE A BOSS!

“X that like button in the X. Like a boss!, and, high fives all around (simulates high fives), and I will see all you dudes. (screeching) In the next video!” A big saying from Jack that is met with the outro saying said above, but it stands out as a catchphrase by itself and is the name of the people in his fanbase. The phrase no doubt originating from the Lonely Island song with the same name.

Sticky bomb!

Pronounced (S-ticky bamb!). It’s a phrase uttered by Jack in his GTA videos where he throws a sticky bomb at something.

BILLY!

The son character with Bicycle Dad from Happy Wheels. Jack has deep rooted hatred for Billy. The fanbase treats Billy as the ultimate evil, as he is the primary antagonist in many fan games.

Von Dooorf!
The main antagonist in Valiant Hearts. Jack stated this was inspired by Fairly Oddparents meme. Dinkelburg.

Cleverbot Evie

In this series Jack tries his patience with the infamous Cleverbot/Evie conversation simulator. As expected the videos are all about him getting surprised, annoyed, angered, etc. At the simulator for saying confusing and idiotic things. Evie even knew his real name.

Bossitron

Jack often jokes about not being a human, but rather a resident of Bossitron. As a Bossitronian he has access to special abilities and alien weaponry. This concept is a common element in the fan games, as it helps them be unique.

Septiceye Sam

Septiceye Sam is Jack’s mascot. He is often used as a companion to Jack much like Tiny Box Tim is to Markiplier.

His Accent

Jack has an Irish accent, which gets him mixed results as Irish accents aren’t viewed very highly.
Surprisingly enough this is not why it’s so debated. Due to audio quality of his older videos, he sounded a lot more American(save for the little Irish pronunciations). People wonder if Jack’s accent is actually fake. Jack has stated that it is his actual speaking voice, but of course. The debate still rages on, despite Jack and many other YouTubers already confirming that he does.

Reception

Jack has earned 5,000,000+ subscribers, and 34,000+ followers on Twitter. He always tries to find ways to meet fans, and this has earned him a positive reputation among YouTubers.

About

The Yogscast is an online collective of eight gamers who host and produce Let’s Play videos on YouTube. Created by Lewis “Xephos” Brindley and Simon “Honeydew” Lane, the Yogscast is best known for its coverage of Minecraft, but has also featured World of Warcraft, Guild Wars, Diablo III and other popular massively multiplayer online games in their videos.

Online History

Lewis Brindley and Simon Lane created the YouTube channel BlueXephos^[1] on July 9th, 2008, using the acronym Y.O.G.S. from the name of their former Something Awful-organized World of Warcraft guild, Ye Olde Goone Squade.^[4] According to the Yogscast FAQ^[8], they came up with the idea after Brindley took notice of Lane’s ability to provide unique commentary while playing games and wanted to share his humor with a broader audience through YouTube. Their first video was a play-through guide for conquering the World of Warcraft boss Kalecgos.^[9] As of August 2012, the video has more than 384,000 views. This video was later hidden.

Podcast

On Feburary 5th, 2009, the group began a spinoff podcast^[7] series titled “YoGPoD,” featuring discussion of world events and personal news, as well as fan questions and answers.^[11] In 2011, YouTuber FredMalm^[12] began animating some of the stories told during the podcasts. As of August 2012, there are nearly 50 animations^[13] for the 88 recorded episodes.

Shadow of Israphel

Shadow of Israphel is a separate comedy-drama series^[27], in which Lewis and Simon play a spaceman named Xephos and a Honeydew the dwarf who find themselves stranded in a fictional world called Minecraftia. The characters are faced with a mission to save the world from Israphel^[28], a Creeper-like character out to destroy the world. As of August 2012, the show has 42 episodes^[29] split across three seasons.

Yogventures

On April 6th, 2012, the Yogscast launched a Kickstarter campaign^[30] to create their own open world sandbox adventure game, Yogventures. It surpassed its goal of $250,000 on May 6th, 2012, raising $567,665 to fund the creation of the game. At E3 2012, the group had a booth where they revealed the first demo of the game. Planned features for the game include zombies, crystal harvesting, carnivorous plants, ice and fire biomes and character customization.^[31] As of August 2012, the game is still in development but their official website^[32] is accepting pre-orders for the open beta, scheduled to be released in January 2013. However, on July 7th, 2014 the Yogscast announced that the game was stopping development due to several complications including the rising costs, difficulties in programming the game, and many of the developers leaving the project. After the announcement, many took to Youtube comments to protest the decision, citing the large amount of funds put into the game development via Kickstarter that would not be returned.

Notable Episodes

Reputation

On October 8th, 2011, Yogscast published a video to celebrate the milestone of breaking 1 million subscribers. On July 9th, 2012, which marked the channel’s 4th anniversary of launch, the channel broke 2 million subscribers.^[10] As of August 2012, BlueXephos has 2,201,441 subscribers and 1,204,071,283 views across their 1619 videos, averaging out to approximately 806,478 views per day. The Facebook fan page^[5] has almost 75,000 likes while the fan page for their podcast^[6] has 194,000 likes. The group also maintains an official Twitter^[3], which has nearly 252,000 followers. There is also a YogWiki^[14] and a forum^[15] where fans, known as Yognauts^[16], convene.

Issues With Notch

At the second annual Minecon in November 2011, several members of The Yogscast were invited as special guests to host a panel on their show. Instead of doing a Q&A, the crew chose to show videos instead. On November 21st, 2011, Notch made several tweets^[17] stating that he was disappointed in the behavior of the Yogscast crew, noting that they were the only people who demanded to be paid to attend the convention, calling them “an isolated island of egos.” The same day, a Minecon staff member submitted a Reddit post^[18], calling the team “self-entitled pricks” who “acted like they were the Kings of Minecraft.” However, these reports were refuted by another Minecon staffer in the comments^[19], who was supposedly escorting the team around the event. These accusations were covered by gaming site Edge^[20], Nerd-Age^[21], Crafthub^[23] and appeared in discussion threads on the Yogscast Forum^[22] and Neogaf.^[24]

Due to their travelling from the convention in Las Vegas back home to England, the Yogscast was not able to issue an official response to the tweets until two days later on November 23rd via Reddit^[25] and YouTube (shown above). In the video, Brindley and Lane stated that they were not paid, nor did they demand to be, and that the things Notch attributed to them in the tweets were not said or published by them. Following their response, Notch apologized via Twitter, calling his initial response a “stress related misunderstanding.”^[26]

Related Memes

Diggy Diggy Hole

In Shadow of Israphel’s eighth episode (shown below, left), posted in February 2011, Lewis and Simon must dig to proceed on their quest. While doing so, Simon begins repeating “diggy diggy hole” in a singsong manner. The phrase caught on with fans of the series and six months later, other YouTubers began posting their own versions of the song, either via animation or recreated in Minecraft (shown below, right).

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“I’m Ethan Bradberry” is a memorable quote uttered by YouTuber Ethan Bradberry during the introduction to a prank video uploaded to the channel MoeAndET. After YouTuber h3h3 Productions posted a reaction to the video, a clip of Bradberry’s intro was used in numerous remix videos.

Origin

On November 25th, 2015, the MoeAndET channel uploaded a video titled “Would Your Child Know How To Escape A House Fire!? (Social Experiment)”, in which Moe and Ethan Bradberry use a fog machine to test how a child would react to a house fire (shown below, left). On December 24th, 2015, YouTuber Watch My Videos?! posted a remix video of Bradberry’s aggressive introduction repeated several times (shown below, right).

One of MoeAndETs pranks were later revealed to be fake.

Spread

On March 3rd, 2016, YouTuber h3h3 Productions uploaded a reaction to the original prank video, in which hosts Ethan and Hila Klein mocked the menacing and aggressive tone of the intro. In less than two weeks, the video garnered more than 600,000 views.

The following day YouTuber VinnytotheK uploaded an edited version of the prank video, featuring Bradberry repeatedly introducing himself (shown below, left). Also on March 4th, YouTuber Nela uploaded a greenscreen of Ethan shouting his name (shown below, right). As March 13th, searching “i’m ethan bradberry” on YouTube leads to over 1,000 results.^[1] On March 10th, the /r/imethanbradberry^[3] subreddit was launched, featuring remix videos of using the audio clip. On March 12th, a button for the audio clip was added to the web app My Instants.^[2]

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“It’s Time to Stop" is a memorable quote uttered by YouTube personality Filthy Frank in an exploitable green screen video that was uploaded in late December 2015. The video, which shows Filthy Frank walking into a green screen set with an oversized clock and yelling out the phrase, has inspired a series of remix videos from his fans.

Origin

The green screen videos come from a video uploaded on December 24, 2015 by one of the alternate channels of Filthy Frank, saying that many people had asked him for greenscreens, leading to him uploading various greenscene shots to the channel and to his website for free use. The most popular greenscreen is the “It’s Time to Stop” shot, which has Frank shaking a large clock repeatedly saying “It’s time to stop”, which received over 900,000 views in the following two months.

Spread

The first videos regarding the meme were both uploaded on December 25, 2015 by YouTubers Popsicle Juice and Creepypasta Archives (shown below, respectively), both compilations of all the greenscreens available for download from Frank’s website. Within the days following, multiple edits of the scenes were uploaded to YouTube^[1] as well as multiple edits of the “It’s time to stop” shot^[2], with the most popular video featuring the shot uploaded by YouTuber Pyrocynical on January 1 2016, garnering a little over 400,000 as of February 2016. The phrase “it’s time to stop” also has multiple results on Tumblr relating to the greenscreen shot^[3].

An image macro of the scene featuring Filthy Frank holding the clock with the overlaying text reading “It’s time to stop” also gained usage as a reaction image, in a similar way as the Stop Posting meme. The image was also combined with various fictional characters whose abilities revolve around time, including various characters from Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure.

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A Hideo Kojima Entry

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A Hideo Kojima Game is a brand name on the box cover and titles of video games that were directed by famed game designer Hideo Kojima. The brand gained notability online after video game publisher Konami removed Kojima’s name from his studio, the box cover and all promotional ads for Metal Gear Soild V: The Phantom Pain as part of the rumored fracture between the two.

Origin

On March 19th, 2015, several gaming news sites including Kotaku,^[1] PC Gamer,^[4] Polygon,^[5] and Eurogamer^[6] reported about the rumor that Hideo Kojima might be leaving Konami, among the evidence include the renaming of Kojima Productions Los Angeles into Konami Los Angeles Studio and the removal of Hideo Kojima’s name from Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain’s title on the official Konami website (shown below, top was before the change).

On July 14th, 2015, a NeoGAF thread was submitted by user Love Deterrence that shows the final version of the official box art for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain which reveals Kojima’s brand being completely removed.^[7]

Spread

The brand name has become the subject of discussion on a number of websites including Tumblr^[8] and 4chan.^[9] Over on Twitter^[10] and Tumblr,^[11] the hashtag #AHideoKojimaGame was launched by fans in response to the removal of the brand by Konami and to show their support towards Hideo Kojima.

On August 4th, 2015, Konami announced the release date for Metal Gear Solid V for the PC on the game’s Steam community page.^[12] On the same day, users began spamming the comment section of the announcement with the brand name as part of their protest towards the removal of Kojima’s name.

On August 19th, 2015, JB Hi-Fi, an electronic retail store in Australia, began placing their stock of Metal Gear Solid V on display. Among the promotional campaigns include adding Kojima’s brand name on game display shelves across all stores in Australia. On the same day, Twitter user and JB employee Jasmin Lee tweeted a photo of one of the stores. in the coming days, the tweet gained over 400 favorites and was retweeted more than 350 times, among them by Hideo Kojima himself.^[12] In the coming days, news of the promotional campaign was covered by a number of gaming news sites including Kotaku,^[13] Polygon,^[14] Metro,^[15] and IGN.^[16]

On august 31st, 2015, an image was submitted to the image sharing site Imgur which shows the PSN cover for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain that still has Kojima’s brand name on the title.^[17] The image gathered over 62.300 views and was shared on r/MetalGearSolid where it gathered over 1.260 points (98% upvoted) and over 150 comments.^[18]

On September 1st, 2015, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain was released. On the game’s steam page, users began spamming the Steam reviews with Kojima’s brand name. On the same day, news of the steam reviews was covered by Kotaku.^[19]

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Demi Tuhan (roughly translate as For God’s Sake) refers to a memorable quote uttered by Arya Wiguna, former follower of controversial spiritual teacher Eyang Subur during a statement he made in front of the press against him. Due to the over the top and emotional delivery of his promise, the video became the subject of parody and remixes by the Indonesian online community.

Origin

In 2013, Spiritual Teacher Eyang Subur was accused by Adi Bing Slamet and a number of celebrities for spreading heresy in his teachings. On March 25th, 2013, Arya Wiguna, one of Eyang Subur’s former followers, released a statement in front of the press where he challenges his ex-mentor “for God’s sake”. On the same day, a video containing the statement was uploaded to Youtube by news site KapanLagi.com which gathered over 680.600 views within 3 years(shown below).

On April 17th, 2013, Youtube user Calengklik uploaded one of the first remix videos titled Arya Wiguna – Demi Tuhan which uses clips from various movies with the Guile theme playing as background music. The video gathered over 2,7 million views within 3 years.

The popularity of the remixes became the subject of news by a number of sites such as SoloPos,^[2] Bingkai Berita,^[3] CiriCara,^[4] and KapanLagi.^[5]

Spread

On April 20th, 2013, a thread started on the indonesian forum site Kaskus where users shared edited images of Arya Gunawan yelling out the quote. Within 3 years, the thread gathered over 688 replies.^[1] On April 22nd, 2013, Youtube user fluxcup Demi Tuhan Style – PSY feat. Arya Wiguna (LIATMUKASAYA Remix) which remixes the video with the song Gangnam Style. The video gathered over 1.6 million views within 3 years (shown below, left). On April 23rd, 2013, Youtube user Eka Gustiwana uploaded a video titled Speech Composing Arya Wiguna – Demi Tuhan which remixes the video into a song. The video gathered over 5.1 million views within 3 years (shown below, right).

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Klinik Tong Fang refers to an exploitable quote which aims to mock Klinik Tong Fang, a traditional Chinese medicinal clinic which has been criticized for breaking ethical laws in Indonesian Television broadcasting by airing alleged patient testimonies in their commercial. The quote usually followis a consistent pattern, being “Dulu saya X. Tetapi setelah ke klinik Tong Fang, saya jadi X” (I used to be X. But after going to Tong Fang Clinic, i became X).

Origin

Klinik Tong Fang began operating in the Indonesian capital city of Jakarta around 2010. Between 2011 to 2012, the clinic began promoting their services via commercial on a number of television stations.

The commercial has been heavily criticized for its use of allege patient testimonies which has been considered deceptive about curing illnesses and breaking ethical laws in Indonesian Television broadcasting. On August 14th, 2012, the clinic received penalty from the North Jakarta Public Health Office for violating the Indonesian constitution regarding publication of health services and advertising traditional medicine.^[5]

Spread

On July 17th, 2012, one of the first variation of the Klinik Tong Fang image macro was submitted to meme generator.^[1] On August 3rd, 2012, a thread titled “[NGAKAK PIC+] Serba KLINIKTONGFANG” ([FUNNY PIC+] TONGFANG Edition) was submitted to the Indonesian Internet Forum site Kaskus. The thread highlights several examples of the image macro and has since gathered 466 posts in 2 years.^[2] On August 9th, 2012, a thread titled “Kumpulan Lelucon Kalimat Iklan Klinik Tong Fang” (Compilation of the Tong Fang Clinic Joke) was submitted to Kaskus which gained 106 replies in 2 years.^[3] On august 22nd, 2012, an entry regarding Tong Fang was submitted to Tolololpedia which is the Indonesia Equivalent of Encyclopedia Dramatica.^[4]
On September 7th, 2012, Youtuber Daniel Pories submitted a Hitler Reacts video which pokes fun at the Clinic. The video gained over 46.400 views in 2 years.

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You better not be watching any porn, dasar mesum~!

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Ipo-chan is a moeanthropomorphized character for the Indonesian web filtering service Internet Positif originally designed by illustrator Rouzille Erzabalna and unveiled in July 2015.

Origin

On July 26th, 2015, the Indonesian doujin circle Spring Roll posted two illustrations of an anthropomorphic character embodying the country’s web content-filtering service, which was subsequently nicknamed “Ipo-chan” on its offical Facebook page.^[1]

“If Internet Positif had a Gijinka version. Her name is I.Po-chan. Her hobby is blocking websites. She may look intimidating from the outside, but she can be easily bullied.”

The original design of Ipo-chan is credited to Indonesian illustrator and DeviantART user Rouzille Erzabalna.^[10] According to Jurnal Otaku’s interview with Rouzille Erzabalna,^[2] the artist originally conceived the idea behind Ipo-chan shortly after Tifatul Sembiring, then-the Minister of Communication and Information of Indonesia who had overseen the implementation of filters for online censorship across the country, stepped down from his office in October 2014.^[9] However, Rouzille didn’t publicly unveil the character until after seeing the positive feedback over another Gijinka of two popular Indonesian instant noodle brands created by pixiv user Valoreins.^[3]

Ipo-chan prototype design

On August 10th, 2015, Spring Roll submitted a full biography for Ipo-chan on their facebook page.^[16]

“Ipo-chan
Age 20, Single
B-W-H: 84 -64 -89
Height: 157 cm
Weight: This information is blocked by Internet Positif
Hobbies: Blocking Websites, surveillance on netizens, browsing the web
Personalities:
- Tsundere but can be bullied
- Very sensitive, especially towards lewd content
- Disciplined and loyal to the Minister
- Messes up when blocking websites which causes controversy among netizens
Things she likes:
- The Minister
- Educational Websites
Things she doesn’t like:
- Bad websites especially the lewd ones
- Manga, Hentai, Japanese Adult Videos
- Proxy
- Immoral and perverted netizens
- Hamster
Short Explanation:
Ipo-chan is a program created to filter negative websites. Ipo-chan began operating on July 26th, 2015, but after running for two weeks, Ipo-chan is surprised to discover a big phenomena that has happened to her…”

Internet Censorship in Indonesia

Internet Positif^[15] is an online content-filtering service developed by the Indonesian Ministry of Communication and Information and widely used by major internet service providers in Indonesia, mainly for the purpose of censoring certain types of digital media content that are officially deemed as inappropriate or immoral by the government. The service, which relies on methods like IP blocking and DNS hijacking filter and censor content, has been a long-standing topic of controversy and debate since the legislation of the Law on Information and Electronic Transactions (ITE Law) in March 2008, which broadened the authority of the Indonesian authorities to regulate the flow of information and censor a wide range of online content that fall under vaguely worded categories, such as pornography, gambling, hate incitement, exposure of private information, intellectual property, false information, and other miscellaneous content that “degrades a person or group on the basis of a physical or nonphysical attribute,” such as a disability.

Spread

Throughout July 2015, the popularity of Ipo-chan was picked up by several Indonesian news sites such as Alfido,^[4] Duniaku,^[5] MetroTV,^[6] and Kaori Nusantara.^[7] On July 30th, a discussion thread regarding Ipo-chan was submitted to the Indonesian forum site Kaskus,^[8] which garnered more than 680 posts and 423 shares in less than a week. On July 31st, Jurnal Otaku published an interview with Ipo-chan creator Rouzille Erzabalna.^[2] There are at least two Facebook pages dedicated to Ipo-chan, with each iteration commanding more than 3,000 likes.^[11][12] On August 2nd, YouTuber Ace Yoen uploaded a Miku Miku Dance remix video titled “Ipo-chan – Marine Dreamin’” (shown below), which gained more than 19,000 views in less than a week.

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Saleel al-Sawarim / Salil Sawarim (“Clashing of the Swords”) is an Arabic propaganda song created by the Islamic jihadist extremist militant group ISIS. Due to its frequent usage by the ISIS in their propaganda videos, the song has been sampled in a variety of parodies and remixes on YouTube.

Origin

The nasheed is believed to have been written by an anonymous ISIS member who goes by the pseudonym Abu Yasir^[1] in affiliation with the group’s propaganda recording label, the Ajnad Media Foundation (AMF). As the title “Clashing / Clanging Of The Swords”^[10] suggests, the song calls upon its listeners to take up arms and “wage a war against the enemy.” The song was first introduced as the musical accompaniment to the fourth installment of the ISIS propaganda video series with the same name, released via Twitter on March 17th, 2014.

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On June 12th, 2014, YouTuber Swerg Swig uploaded a chipmunk rendition of the song, the earliest known remix of the nasheed to date, garnering over 132,500 views in the following year.

On September 14th, YouTuber FaQ uploaded a hardcore EDM remix of the song in its entirety. On September 25th, YouTuber UgandaPizzaPolice uploaded a parody video featuring the song with a snippet clip from Discovery’s space educational TV series Through the Wormhole.

On November 15th, YouTuber Oṁkāra Dāsa uploaded a Hank Hill parody of the song, which garnered over 167,000 views in about nine months (shown below, left). On December 28th, an MLG montage parody was uploaded by redditor Mtnraccoondew to the r/montageparodies subreddit^[2], where the song was featured in the video.

Through the first half of 2015, the song continued to gain exposure on YouTube as it became used as the unofficial background music for the Unexpected Jihad remixes, along with the well-known Arabic expression “Allahu Akbar”.

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I cri evrytiem, also spelled “i cri evry tiem” and “i cri evrytim”, is an intentionally misspelled catchphrase typically used in discussion threads and comments to convey sadness in an ironic manner.

Origin

The misspelling of “cry” stems from a copypasta about a short teenage romance story known as 5ever, which was posted by Tumblr user Deathray-Deathray^[13] on March 10th, 2011. Written in Comic Sans, the post ends with a note encouraging readers to reblog or like if they “crey.”

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Throughout March 2011, similar variations of the copypasta surfaced on other blogs and social networking platforms including Blogspot^[3], 4chan, Reddit^[14] and YouTube. One of the earliest archived instances of the copypasta on 4chan was posted to the /v/ (video games)^[4] board on July 13th, 2011. The same day, it showed up in a thread on OperatorChan^[5]’s /cp/ (Copypasta) board.

On August 20th, 2011, Redditor NickDigger submitted a screenshot of a similar copypasta from a YouTube comment in an /r/funny post titled “And the winner for Youtube Comment of the Year goes to..” The post quickly reached the frontpage after garnering more than 1,287 points (87% upvotes).

On January 13th, 2012, YouTuber Stuff By David uploaded an animation video titled “The Poptart Tragedy,” which features a dramatic reading of a copypasta story that ends with the phrase “Lik Dis If U Cry Evertim.” Within three years, the video has garnered more than 2.5 million views.

In the following years, the expression became widely used as a sarcastic descriptor for trollpastas and badfics in post titles and comments, with various instances found on FunnyJunk, Imgur, 9gag and GamesFAQ. On April 19th, 2013, YouTuber Jacksfilms featured the phrase “I Cry everytiem” in the 50th episode of “Your Grammar Sucks.” On July 10th, 2014, YouTuber KSI uploaded a video called “I CRIEVERYTIEM.”

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Closing the Curtains is a multi-panel exploitable comic series featuring an overweight man who closes his curtains to prevent being distracted from his computer. The character is often depicted as an anti-social example of the neckbeard stereotype.

Origin

On November 27th, 2005, Something Awful user CrumFUNist submitted a thread titled “Lego_Robot sucks ass,”^[9] which criticized forum user Lego_Robot (webcomic artist Bob Averill) for creating poor MSPaint comics and trolling the forums. Over the next two years, the thread gained over 1,500 responses. In May 2007, Averill posted a comic titled “This one’s not funny” on the website Lego Robot Comics (now named PlasticBrickAutomaton),^[1] which depicts an overweight Something Awful user mocking Lego_Robot in a discussion thread before closing his window when distracted by two women playing volleyball outside (shown below).^[11]

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In September 2007, Averill was banned from the Something Awful Forums.^[8] On November 15th, a cropped version of the original comic featuring the final three panels was uploaded to the “kuvia” folder on the domain MBnet^[3] (shown below, left). On December 31st, 2010, Redditor byxekaka submitted a post titled “This is how I will celebrate New Years” featuring an edited version of the comic with fireworks exploding outside of the window (shown below, right). Prior to being archived, the post garnered upwards of 2,100 votes (91% upvoted) and 480 comments on the /r/pics^[12] subreddit.

In May, Redditor notthatjesus submitted a photoshopped comic titled “I was three hours into surfing Reddit and I noticed there was a solar eclipse going on” to /r/funny,^[13] receiving more than 1,400 votes (91% upvoted) before it was archived (shown below, left). On December 19th, 2012, Redditor FazeKross posted a comic with a mushroom cloud exploding outside of the window titled “What I’ll be doing December 21st,” in reference to a Mayan calendar doomsday prediction (shown below, right). Prior to being archived, the post gained upwards of 2,700 votes (94% upvoted) and 200 comments on /r/funny.^[15] In December 2014, Redditor TwistedFisters reposted the fireworks comic with the title “How I imagine most of Reddit will celebrate new year’s eve” to /r/funny,^[14] where it garnered over 3,900 votes (89% upvoted) and 560 comments in two months.

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Dad Jokes is a pejorative label typically used to describe a variety of failed attempts at humor involving corny puns, anti-jokes or predictable punchlines, some of the prime examples being Trolldad, Bad Joke Eel and Lame Pun Coon.

Origin

While the exact origin of the term “dad joke” is unknown, the earliest known use of the term online was posted in a thread by B3ta Forums^[5] member rob on December 10th, 2003, which asked other members to submit “lame jokes” made by their fathers. In the first 48 hours, the thread received 15 pages worth of replies.

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On January 20th, 2004, Urban Dictionary^[6] user Bunny submitted an entry for the term “dad joke,” defining it as an “embarassingly bad joke.” That year, the joke book Dad – This Joke’s For You^[8] was published by Ronnie Sellers Productions. On November 15th, 2005, Civilization Fanatics Forums^[9] member Parmenion submitted a thread containing notable dad jokes. As early as March 2006, the website Dads Bad Jokes^[10] was created, highlighting notable “terrible jokes your father makes.” On October 5th, 2007, Ice in Space Forums^[11] member ving posted a thread calling for other to share their favorite dad jokes. On July 14th, 2008, Yahoo Answers^[12] member lilly.rade posted a request for links to sites containing fatherly humor. On January 29th, 2009, a Facebook^[7] page titled “Dad Jokes” was launched, gaining more than 34,000 likes in the next five years. On August 30th, YouTuber zombieshoes uploaded a clip from the British television show Spics and Specks, in which host Adam Hills is called “dad” after delivering several bad jokes (shown below).

On October 23rd, 2011, the /r/dadjokes^[2] subreddit was launched, containing notable examples of dad humor. On August 24th, 2012, YouTuber Jono and Ben at Ten posted a “shit people say” parody video featuring bad jokes told my fathers (shown below). The video contained jokes bearing many similarities to the Shit My Dad Says Twitter feed, consisting of various quotes attributed to comedy writer Justin Halpern’s father.

On January 8th, 2013, Redditor mattkwish submitted a comic illustrating a typical “dad joke” that involves deliberate misunderstanding or “playing the fool.” Prior to being archived, the post garnered upwards of 2,400 up votes and 40 comments. (shown below)

On August 6th, the viral content site BuzzFeed^[4] published a compilation of photographs of fathers captioned with notable dad jokes (shown below).

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Pornhub is a pornographic video hosting website owned by the global IT company MindGeek and is part of a large network of adult entertainment websites, including YouPorn, Redtube and XTube.

History

Pornhub was launched by online developer Matt Keezer on May 24th, 2007. In 2010, the company MindGeek (formerly known as Manwin) purchased Pornhub for an undisclosed amount. On September 4th, 2014, Pornhub announced it would be joining the online Internet Slowdown Day protests in support of net neutrality. As of March 2015, the site maintains offices and servers in San Francisco, Houston, New Orleans and London.

Ad Contest

In May 2014, Pornhub launched a contest for participants to submit non-pornographic ads for the site. In October that year, the winning ad was announced and placed up on a large billboard in Times Square, New York City, featuring two hands forming a heart around a Pornhub logo and the caption “All you need is a hand” (shown below). On October 8th, Pornhub announce that the billboard had been taken down.

Pornhub Space Program – Sexploration

On June 10th, 2015 Pornhub announced a crowdfunding campaign via Indiegogo that would seek to launch two porn stars, Eva Lovia and Johnny Sins, into space to create the first pornographic film in space. The site asked its users and other interested parties to help it raise $3.4 million dollars, most of which would be used for space flight, training and equipment for their stars.^[15]

The day after its release, the funding campaign video had over 424,000 views and 512 people had donated more than $9,000 towards its goal. The type of crowdfunding used indicated that if the goal was not met, the mission would not be completed. About its lofty mission, Pornhub explained:

Social Media Presence

Pornhub is known for having a significant online presence in social media,^[6] with accounts for the site maintained by community community coordinator Katie Kenzi on Reddit,^[7] Instagram,^[8] Twitter^[9] and Tumblr.^[10] On September 13th, 2011, a former lead developer for Pornhub participated in an “ask me anything” (AMA) thread on the /r/IAmA^[11] subreddit. On January 7th, 2014, the Pornhub team launched another AMA on /r/IAmA,^[3] gaining over 3,500 votes (94% upvoted) and 15,400 comments prior to being archived.

Features

Pornhub allows users to view and rate pornographic videos in a variety of categories, share videos on social media sites and post comments on media uploaded to the site. In October 2013, Pornhub launched the “Pornhub Select” service allowing users to view high-definition videos with reduced advertisements.

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Give Her the Dick

“Give Her The Dick” is an expression used on image boards and discussion forums in reference to an infamous comment left on Pornhub by user ross53545 in 2009, which is often associated with the user’s avatar featuring a portrait of the French philosopher René Descartes.

Pornhub Comments on Stock Photos

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 Pornhub comments.

Joke Video Uploads

Many users have uploaded clean videos to the site for pranking purposes. On July 8th, 2014, the @Pornhub Twitter feed asked users to stop uploading game highlights from Germany’s victory over Brazil during the 2014 FIFA World Cup (shown below).Within eight months, the tweets gained over 42,000 retweets and 22,000 favorites. The following month, a montage parody video titled “Meme Orgy Gets Nasty” was submitted to the site,^[14] which garnered more than 30,000 views and 250 upvotes in nine months.

Mia Khalifa

On December 28th, 2014, Pornhub announced that actress Mia Khalifa had become the most popular adult film star on the website (shown below).

Traffic

On January 7th, 2015, Pornhub^[13] released an annual traffic report, revealing that a total of 78.9 billion videos were viewed on the site over the course of 2014. As of March 2015, Pornhub.com holds a global rank of 75 and a United States rank of 73 on the traffic analytics site Alexa.^[12]

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Tom Brady’s Courtroom Sketch is a photoshop meme based on a coarsely drawn portrait of the New England Patriots’ star quarterback in a courtroom sketch produced at the first court appearance of Brady in a settlement lawsuit against the National Football League (NFL) for his four-game suspension penalty in the aftermath of Deflategate.

Origin

On August 12th, Tom Brady appeared at a public hearing in a New York City courtroom to discuss a potential settlement with the NFL regarding his involvement in Deflategate and the penalty of a four-game suspension. During the proceedings, several sketches of the both parties were drawn by New York City courtroom sketch artist Jane Rosenberg, one of which featured a moody and self-resigned looking portrait of Tom Brady.

At 10:11 a.m. (EST), Boston-based reporter Jim Armstrong^[16] for CBS-affiliate WBZ tweeted the images of Brady from the courthouse.

Background

On May 11th, 2015, the NFL announced the suspension of Tom Brady for the first four games in the upcoming season after ruling the athlete was involved in the intentional deflation of regulation footballs towards the team’s advantage. The decision was promptly appealed by the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) on behalf of Brady, however, on July 28th, it was upheld by the NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. The next day, Tom Brady and the NFL Players Association (NFLPA) filed an injunction against the NFL in federal court in order to prevent the league from enforcing the four-game suspension of the Patriots’ star quarterback.

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By early afternoon, shortly after the adjournment of the public portion of the hearing, football fans and others following the news story began poking fun at the hand-drawn depiction of Brady in one of the courtroom sketches, particularly for his skeletal appearance and saddened facial expression. At 1:36 p.m. (ET), SB Nation^[3] highlighted the courtroom sketch in an article titled “Tom Brady’s face melted at the DeflateGate hearing, according to this courtroom sketch,” which included the original drawing and a couple of photoshopped parodies that emerged on Twitter shortly after its publication. In the following hours, dozens of photoshopped parodies featuring the portrait of Tom Brady continued to surface on the microblogging platform.

News Media Coverage

Several sports news blogs,^{[1][2][7][8][9]} viral news sites^[3][4][5][6] and major U.S. news publications^{[10][11][12][13][15]} covered the courtroom sketch as a side story spun off from the NFL court hearing with many comparisons made to the Botched Ecce Homo painting that went viral in 2012. Later that same day, Vice^[11] and The Boston Globe^[14] interviewed the courtroom sketch artist Jane Rosenberg about her drawing, during which she was quoted as saying:

“Tell Tom Brady, I’m sorry. He’s a very good looking guy and if I didn’t make him look good enough, I’ll try harder next time.”

“I don’t tend to flatter people and make them look beautiful.”

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“Welcome to Chili’s” is an expression uttered in a short video by Viner Adam Perkins which inspired a series of parody and remix videos on YouTube and Vine starting in late March 2015.

Origin

As early as 2007, the chain restaurant Chili’s Grill & Bar began airing commercials featuring a jingle with the phrase “welcome to Chili’s!” (shown below).

On March 21st, 2015, Viner Adam Perkins uploaded a video titled “I’m really proud of this one,” in which he approaches the mirror in his bathroom while wearing boxer underwear and says “Hi, welcome to Chili’s” (shown below). In the first month, the video gained over 8.05 million loops, 104,000 likes, 59,000 revines and 13,000 comments. Over a year, the vine gained over 20 million loops.

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On March 29th, 2015, YouTuber TheRareD reuploaded Perkins Vine.^[3] On April 10th, Viner irham uploaded a video in which Perkins is edited on to an image of a Chili’s restaurant, garnering more than 4.1 million loops and 64,00 likes in the next week (shown below, left). On the following day, Viner Wallum Cray uploaded a clip of himself reenacting the original Perkins video (shown below, right). On April 12th, YouTuber Osiris^[4] reuploaded irham’s remix, which was submitted to the /r/youtubehaiku^[5] subreddit on April 15th.

On the following day, Tumblr^[6] user death--420 posted a picture of an iPhone background featuring a screenshot of the Perkins Vine, which gained over 4,900 notes in the next 72 hours (shown below).

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Other Viners have submitted parodies of the Perkins video under the tag “#Welcometochilis.”^[2]

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Moonbase Alpha is a simulation video game developed by Army Game Studio in conjunction with NASA Learning Technologies.^[1] The game became popular due to its text-to-speech (TTS) engine, which was humorously used in gameplay videos on YouTube.

Origin

Moonbase Alpha was released for free download via the Steam^[2] digital distribution service July 6th, 2010. On July 7th, 2010, a YouTube user named ABadFeeling uploaded a video of several players using the game’s TTS engine to say humorous phrases (shown at 1:50 below). Within two years, the video received over 103,000 views and 230 comments.

The TTS engine used in the game is a modified version of DECTalk. DECTalk was a speech synthesizer and text-to-speech technology developed by Digital Equipment Corporation in the early 1980s. DECTalk was made popular by Stephen Hawking and, of course, Moonbase Alpha. DECTalk is also capable of singing by a specific set of instructions based on phonemes and frequencies.^[3]

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On July 17th, 2010, when YouTuber motdef uploaded a video titled “Moonbase Alpha Provides a Realistic Simulation of Life on a Natural Satellite”, featuring three players using the TTS engine to shout random phrases using the monikers mot, mastergir, and Horatio. Within two years, the video received over 1.6 million views.

“AIEOU”

“UUUUUUUUUU…”

“John Madden!”

“Football!”

“!?!?!?!?!?!?!?…”

“brbrbrbrbrbrbr…”

“Holla Holla Get Dollar!”

“Snake? Snake?! Sake!”

“Here Comes Another Chinese Earthquake!”

On August 16th, Redditor TorpedoJones submitted a post titled “Moonbase Alpha: The Pinnacle of Online Gaming” to the /r/gaming^[4] subreddit, which linked to a Moonbase TTS video by YouTuber BenCJoker titled “Moonbase Alpha: The Astronaut Chronicles” (shown below).

On February 15, 2011, YouTuber MrYaridovich uploaded a My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic parody of the original Moonbase Alpha video titled “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Provides a Realistic Simulation of Life in Ponyville”, which received over 1.8 million views within 18 months.

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