About

Pyrocynical is a YouTuber known for for creating montage parodies and making commentary videos in similar vein to LeafyIsHere.

Online History

Pyrocynical created his YouTube channel back to July 27th, 2013, but didn’t upload his first video until March 2014. On March 30th, he uploaded “how to pizza”, a montage parody-styled video that gained over 420,000 views in the following two years. During the following months, Pyro uploaded several MLG videos, which got positive reception. On May 26th, he uploaded a montage parody video featuring the Teletubbies, which got over 9 million views in the following two years.

During the following months he kept making montage parody videos, but also uploading heavily edited gameplay videos. However, after a hiatus, Pyro started uploading gameplays in late September and early October 2015, being the most popular one of the batch a Counter Strike: Global Offensive video uploaded on October 4th, which gained over 900,000 views in the following five months. On October 9th, Pyro uploaded a commentary video talking about the content change, claiming that he didn’t enjoy making montage parodies anymore and would try to do more content. In the following five months, the video gained over 182,000 views.

On October 30th, Pyrocynical uploaded a commentary video where he talks about pranking channels that do abusive or unethical pranks, gaining over 765,000 views in the following four months. On November 4th, he uploaded another commentary discussing about Donald Trump’s “Small Loan of a Million Dollars” quote, mocking Trump’s statement for being out of touch and gaining over 783,000 views in the following months. Due the success of those videos, Pyro made commentaries the main focus of his channel.

On March 10th, 2016, Pyrocynical uploaded a video where he praises the vlogger LtCorbis in a video regarding inauthentic vloggers on the site, gaining over 453,000 views in the following ten days and promoting LtCorbis’ channel.

Sam Pepper Copyright Claims

On November 30th, 2015, Pyrocynical uploaded a video where he reacts to the infamous “Killing Best Friend” prank by prankster Sam Pepper, gaining over 467,000 views in the following months. On December 5th, Pyro uploaded another commentary regarding a Sam Pepper prank, this time featuring the prankster SoFloAntonio taking revenge on him. In the following months, the video gained over 452,000 views.

On December 28th, Pyro uploaded a video where he explains he got two copyright strikes, one of them from Sam Pepper and another from the prank channel VJamahh, and complains about the misuse of the copyright system to shut down negative opinions regarding those channels. In the following three months, the video gained over 320,000 views and inspired the use of the hashtag #FreePyro for popular support to the channel.^[4] The next day, he uploaded a video explaining that he discussed with Sam and VJamahh and the strikes would be removed in the following hours, also thanking his fans for the support and gaining over 307,000 views.

Reception

As March 20th, 2016, Pyrocynical has over 27,000 likes in his Facebook page,^[1] over 42,000 followers on Twitter^[2] and over 9,500 subscribed users on his subreddit.^[3]Searching his name on Deviantart^[4] would also bring up over a hundred and fifty results. He has also inspired fans to create fictional items such as the Stattrak Fedora, which he had mentioned at the end of one of his videos. Many of his fans have also created custom steam workshop items for the game “Counter Strike: Global Offensive” such as the Pyrocynical P90 skin and a map called Aim_Pyrocynical.

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Somebody Ring The Dinkster

“Somebody Ring The Dinkster” is a quote from the Spy Kids character Dinky Winks uttered after he descends from the sky with a parasol, which gained popularity after Pyrocynical used the clip in a video, the clip has been remixed frequently.

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An imageboard is a type of forum that focuses on images embedded into posts. The first imageboards were Japanese, but today there are imageboards in many other languages, as well, such as English.

Most English-language imageboards are centered on Japanese culture.

Some of the most well-known imageboards include – but are not limited to – 2ちゃんねる / 2channel (often abbreviated as “2ch”), ふたば(双葉)☆ちゃんねる / Futaba Channel (a.k.a. 2chan), 4chan, 8chan, Krautchan, and 420chan.

The imageboard 4chan has more than 2 billion posts as of 2016. Nearly 3 million posts are posted to 2channel every day.

Features

Most imageboards out there allow their users to send messages anonymously, and no registration is necessary. In some cases, logging in is not even possible.

Links to some of the most popular imageboards

• 2channel
• Futaba Channel (2chan)
• 4chan
• 8chan

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Alan Resnick is a Baltimore based comedian and psychological horror writer, most notably known for his work done with Adult Swim, creating infomercials and shorts such as This House Has People In It, and Unedited Footage of a Bear, among others. He has also created a popular YouTube series titled alantutorial, a video series in the eyes of a man with autism entirely through tutorials, which slowly becomes more disturbed.

Online History

Alan is based in Baltimore, Maryland, where he formed the comedy group, Wham City Comedy^[1], with other fellow comedians. In 2012, Resnick pitched the idea of the parody informercial, Live Forever As You Are Now With Alan Resnick. The idea was accepted, and was shown on the 4 A.M. block of Adult Swim, and later uploaded onto the Adult Swim YouTube channel. The video received half a million views, and 6000 likes.

Live Forever As You Are Now

Live Forever As You Are Now With Alan Resnick is Alan Resnick’s debut short with Adult Swim. In the video, Resnick plays a young technical whiz, who has created an application to build an AI around your personality. Despite seemingly unintelligent, the AI based off of Alan (who has renamed itself Teddy), has created his own wife, a tan colored ball. The video gained half a million views, and has a 6.7/10 average rating on IMDB.^[2]

Unedited Footage of a Bear

Unedited Footage of a Bear is the 2nd Adult Swim short made by Resnick. The video starts with an 11 second clip of a bear in the wilderness. After the clip, the second portion of the clip begins, pretending to be an ad for the fake over the counter medicine, Claridryl. The ad features a single mother, who is brutally assaulted by an abusive duplicate of herself. This duplicate then takes over the woman’s household, and physically and mentally attacks her children. The video is supposed to represent the damage drug abuse of some over the counter drugs can cause, and the affect abuse does to your body. The video gained 2 million views, and 15,000 likes. Along with the video was an ARG on the Adult Swim site, in which people could view the rooms of the house in the video. ^[3]

6 months after the video, the account Night Mind made an in depth video explaining everything around the site and the video itself, revealing deeper meanings. The video got over 35,000 views, with 1400 likes.

This House Has People In It

This House Has People In It is the third short created by Alan Resnick for Adult Swim. The video revolves around what seems to be a regular household, at first. However, the stepdaughter of the wife begins to sink into the ground, and a mysterious disease named Lynk’s Disease is heavily repeated throughout. The video was followed by an ARG, and a mysterious site titled AB Surveillance Solutions. A group of Alan Resnick fans created a document in which they were able to access the log-in portion of the site, and view further videos and emails surrounding the household ^[5] . The video gained a quarter of a million views in the first week, and 4000 likes.

Alantutorial

Alantutorial^[7] is a psychological drama YouTube series about the experience of a severely autistic man who frequently makes confusing tutorial videos. After a while of making videos, it seems he has been disowned by his caregivers, after being locked out on the roof, with his room filled with junk. He then creates tutorials about surviving in the wilderness. However, the video series takes an even darker tone when it appears he has been kidnapped, and forced to create tutorial videos (and news videos, for a while) for his captors. After a few months, the room he is held in becomes incredibly dirty and filled with dozens of urine bottles. In the final video in the channel, Alan is seen clawing out part of the wall and escaping, with the rest being unknown.
The channel gained heavy interest after being linked by popular sites such as Cracked and CollegeHumor ^[6] following his “How to Crush a Can with Slats of Wood” video. The video has over 1,500,000 views, and 30,000 likes.
The channel Night Mind created a video explaining the Alantutorial series, gaining just under 100,000 views, and 2000 likes.

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If anyone wishes to work and fix this entry, be my guest. I’m more than happy if you do.

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Digital Homicide Studio LLC. is a small, independent game developer studio founded in 2014 and owned by James and Robert Romine.^[1] The studio has published games to Steam via Steam Greenlight such as Slaughtering Grounds and Temper Tantrum. The studio has gained notorious reputation due to shady business practices, horrible quality of their games and the horrendous tension between Jim Sterling .

History

The studio founded in 2014 by Robert and James Romine and they are the only developers of the studio. The first game they published their first game The Slaughtering Grounds^[2], a first-person shooter horror game under an alias Imminent Uprising on Nov 1st 2014 to Steam and publish many games ever since via Steam Greeenlight.

Reception

The studio has gains huge negative reputation in gaming community especially Steam for publishing low quality games, censoring criticisms, using a dummy company, and been caught giving away free keys to Steam users in exchange for upvotes for their Steam Greenlight submissions. The most infamous of all is the tension between Jim Sterling, a Youtube personality and independent video game journalist for his gameplay video on Slaughtering Grounds and Jim’s frequent effort uncovering their shady business practices.

Online History

Slaughtering Ground: The Steam Meltdown Saga

On November 27th 2014, Jim Sterling uploads two livestream gameplay videos of him playing Slaughtering Grounds while making reaction especially the game technical problems. Then, the studio upload a reaction video which uses Jim’s gameplay video with overlay texts to responds to his criticisms in bitter manner such as calling him “Jim Fucking Sterling, Son”. Later, they put a false copyright claims on both videos. On December 1st 2014, Jim uploads the Jimquisition video regarding about the issue, calling out their bullshits such a censoring criticisms and eventually adopts the name calling as his new nickname or persona.

On March 21st 2016,the video has 1,700,00 views and 26,000 upvotes.

Interview with Jim Sterling

On July 2nd 2015, Jim Sterling upload a podcast a.k.a. Podquisition of him interviewing with one of the developer, Robert Romine. The interview consists of Robert complaining and spiting Jim in impolite manner.

Aftermath

On October 12nd 2015, Jim Sterling uploads a Jimquisition video exposing Digital Homicide’s shady business such as using dummy company, Every Click Counts Games (EEC) as cover up, bribing to gain upvotes for their games and publishing dozens of games with no quality assurance.

As March 12th 2016, the video has 400,00 views and 17,000 upvotes.

Court Lawsuit Against Jim Sterling

On Digital Homicide website, Robert Romine decides to file a lawsuit against Jim Sterling for the supposed harassment by both Jim and the fanbase. Later, Jim responds to it via Twitter. On March 17th, Destructoid website publish an article about the lawsuit.^[3]

I have nothing yet to say about any legal situations. In unrelated news I am in a very confident mood today.

— Jim Sterling (@JimSterling) 16 March 2016

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Suggestive /v/-tan is a reaction image used on the image board 4chan as an implication of sexual attraction to a character posted, often accompanied with the text “i wanna fuck that x”.

Origin

The reaction image is taken from a black and white comic featuring /mlp/-tan and /v/-tan expressing his desire to fuck a unicorn.

The first instance of the use of the image within the context was on /v/ on November 23, 2015^[1]

Spread

The use of the image has several results on different 4chan storages under a similar hash^[2]

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Overview

Much like Dub the Dew in 2012, the English agency Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) released an online contest on March 17, 2016. This contest was held to name an upcoming ship (design shown above) that would explore Antarctica in 2019.^[1] Subsequently, it was raided so that boat-related puns flooded the top 10 names.

Background

On March 18, the contest gained attention from mainstream media after the name “RSS Boaty McBoatface” was submitted by a man named James Hand and was found to be leading in the polls.^[2][3][4]

Our current top 4 #NameOurShip suggestions. Have you voted yet? https://t.co/Vv5Or05r9lpic.twitter.com/Uf4u1XyHYf

— NERC (@NERCscience) March 18, 2016

This later inspired other joke entries such as “RRS Its Bloody Cold Here”,^[5]“RRS Usain Boat”,^[6] and “RRS Ice Ice Baby”.^[7]

Results

As of March 20, RRS Boaty McBoatface is in first place with over 23,000 votes^[2], beating the name in second place, RRS Henry Worsley, by around 20,000 votes.^[8]

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^[1]NERC– Campaign launched to name the UK’s state-of-the-art £200m polar research ship

^[2]NERC– Boaty McBoatface

^[3]The Independent – Boaty McBoatface could be the name of £200m research vessel after public vote

^[4]Huffington Post – ‘Boaty McBoatface’ Is Currently Leading An Open Vote To Name The New £200 Million Royal Research Ship

^[5]NERC– Its Bloody Cold Here

^[6]NERC– Usain Boat

^[7]NERC– Ice Ice Baby

^[8]NERC– Henry Worsley

Snakilton is the pairing of Solid Snake from the Metal Gear Solid Series and Founding father Alexander Hamilton. It first started in Febuary of 2016 on a Hunger Games Simulation Thread on 4chan’s Random Board when the two characters started working together. Then, Alexander Hamilton died and Snake started to kill all the other tributes in the game. In the thread people pointed this out, and one poster said “Snakilton: Best buds forever.” Starting the pairing.
As one poster on 4chan puts it:
“Snake and Hamilton were two men, thrusted into the hunger games. They teamed up, killed enemies together, they become brothers. Brothers in arms. during their time together they grew close. Very close. they become brothers in arms in more ways than one. Love blossomed. But then, Alexander was killed. Snake, angry, sorrow filled, empty, took it upon himself to slay every other tribute to avenge his lover.”
Since then the Snakilton pair acquired a tank after, in one thread on March 20th 2016, Hamilton was not let in the game and a poster said their character (a tank) would hold Hamilton inside it. And they also aquired members such as “Nikola Tesla the strangler” and Martin Luther King.
As time goes on, Snakilton picks up more and more fans. People have started to make fan-art of the two and now there’s a kickstarter aiming to get money to pay for commissions for Snakilton rule 34.

This is a meme in progress and is picking up speed quickly.

About

The A4 Waist Challenge, also known as the Paper Waist Challenge, is a photo fad in which women pose for photographs while holding a sheet of the A4-size paper vertically in front of their torso as to highlight their slim waistline. Since its emergence on the Chinese web in February 2016, the challenge has drawn comparisons to similar fads like the bikini bridge and “thigh gap,” with critics saying that it encourages body shaming and promotes unhealthy beauty standards.

Origin

According to Mashable,^[2] women first began posting photographs of themselves holding sheets of A4 paper in front of their waist on the Chinese microblogging and social networking site Weibo in February 2016 (shown below).

Precursor: Bellybutton Challenge

During the summer of 2015, women on Weibo and Twitter began posting photographs of themselves stretching an arm around their waist and touching their navel to demonstrate having a slim waistline (shown below).^[15]

Spread

On March 15th, 2016, China Xinhua News posted a tweet^[3] referring to the photo fad as the “‘A4 waist’ challenge” (shown below).

Soon after, the fad began appearing on Instagram under the hashtags “#a4challenge” and “a4waistchallenge” (shown below).^[5][6][7]

On March 17th, Instagram user be.arum posted a photo of herself holding a clipboard with a paper sign reading “You don’t need A4 paper to prove that you are beautiful” (shown below, left). In four days, the photo gained more than 470 likes. On March 19th, Instagram user theutoptimist posted a photograph posing with a sheet of paper held horizontally with the words “Nailed it” written on the front (shown below, middle). The following day, Instagram user thedukes_babywearingphotograph published a photo of a piece of paper with the phrase “Don’t hide behind a piece of paper. You’re beautiful! #A4waist” (shown below, right). Within two days, the posts gathered more than 640 and 140 likes respectively.

In the coming weeks, several news sites published articles about the A4 challenge, including the Sydney Morning Herald,^[8] The Huffington Post,^[9] Inquisitr,^[10] Tech Insider,^[11] APlus,^[12] Popsugar,^[13] Bustle,^[14] The Telegraph^[15] and The New York Times.^[16]

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Sad Bill Murray is a photoshop meme based on a still shot of the American comedian looking rather gloomy on camera following the unexpected defeat of Xavier Musketeers in their round-of-32 match against Wisconsin Badgers at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball tournament in March 2016.

Origin

On March 20th, 2016, the “March Madness” round-of-32 qualification match between Xavier Musketeers (Xavier University) and Wisconsin Badgers (University of Wisconsin) in the 2016 NCAA Men’s Division I basketball tournament went underway at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Missouri. Despite the fans’ high hopes for the Musketeers’ victory against the Badgers, as they had been seeded at second place in the entire division, the game ended in an unexpected victory for the Badgers (66 – 63) with a buzzer-beating, dramatic three-pointer scored by Bronson Koenig.

Among the crowd of courtside spectators shocked by the dramatic outcome was American comedian and actor Bill Murray, who has been spotted at a number of the Musketeers’ games during the 2015-16 season to support his son and newly appointed assistant coach for the team, Luke. Immediately after the game ended, a TNT camera turned to Murray to capture his reaction (shown below).

Spread

Murray’s dismayed reaction captured on TNT’s camera was seen by millions of viewers at home, which near instantly prompted a flood of messages expressing sympathy for the comedian in the social media, followed by the emergence of several isolated GIFs highlighting Murray’s gloomy facial expression.

Throughout the evening, a number of photoshopped parodies with visual references to other sports-themed memes began to emerge on Twitter, mostly mash-up combinations featuring the infamous reaction face image of Crying Michael Jordan and still shots of Murray’s appearance in the 1996 American live-action and animated sports comedy film Space Jam. In the next 24 hours, the comedian’s viral reaction GIF was dubbed “Sad Bill Murray” and picked up by U.S. sports and entertainment news sites, including Mashable^[3], Entertainment Weekly^[2], Vulture^[4], Uproxx^[5] and Flavorwire^[6], among others.

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Dungeons & Dragons (DnD) is a tabletop role-playing game (RPG) published by Wizards of the Coast, in which players create characters to undertake adventures in a variety of fantasy settings run by a game organizer known as a Dungeon Master. The brand is known as the most popular and commercially successful tabletop RPG of all time, and has inspired novels, television series, films and computer games.

Gameplay

The game is typically played with several people seating at a table, with each player assuming the role of a given character created according to the rules of a “Player’s Handbook” on a character sheet. Each character must choose a race, class and set their ability scores. Additionally, a character is given one of nine “alignments,” which indicates their general moral and ethical outlook. Players guide their character and perform actions by rolling polyhedral dice. Games are guided by a single Dungeon Master, often abbreviated as DM, who describes the actions of non-player characters (NPCs), settings the players explore and the outcomes of any encounters. DMs consult a rulebook titled “Dungeon Master’s Guide” for general game organization and the “Monster Manual” for NPC encounters.

History

In January 1974, the original_Dungeons & Dragons_ game was designed and published by the Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. founders Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, based on Gygax’s medieval miniature wargame Chainmail. In 1977, a children’s variation of the game titled Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set was released. In 1989, a second of Dungeons & Dragons was released.

Books

Video Games

Television Show

In 1983, the animated television series Dungeons & Dragons was launched on CBS, which revolved around the adventures of six friends magically teleported to DnD realm. The show ran for three seasonss until it was canceled in 1985.

Films

On December 8th, 2000, the film Dungeons & Dragons was released, in which two thieves embark on a quest to acquire a magic sceptre to control red dragons. The film received mostly negative reviews, with many claiming the actor’s delivered poor performances and that Marlon Wayans’ character promoted racial stereotypes.

Online Presence

On Reddit, numerous subreddits for various discussions about the tabletop RPG have been created, including/r/dnd, /r/DnDGreentext, /r/dndmemes, /r/DnDnext and /r/DungeonMasters. Many wiki sites dedicated to the game have been launched including the DandDWiki, the Dungeons & Dragons Wikia and the Dnd-Wiki.

On YouTube

On February 2nd, 2011, The Nostalgia Critic posted a video about the film Dungeons & Dragons (shown below, left).

On November 18th, 2014, the BuzzFeedVideo YouTube channel uploaded a reaction video titled “Girls Play Dungeons And Dragons For The First Time” (shown below, left). On January 3rd, 2015, CollegeHumor uploaded a video in which a dominatrix is invited as a Dungeon Master to a Dungeons & Dragons game (shown below, right). Over the next two years, the videos gained over 1.3 million and 2.6 million views respectively.

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“It’s Magic. I Ain’t Gotta Explain Shit”

“It’s Magic. I Ain’t Gotta Explain Shit” is an expression associated with a reaction image used in response to a request for an explanation. Variations of the phrase are often posted online as well, using the phrasal template “It’s X. I ain’t gotta explain shit.”

Character Alignment Charts

“Character Alignment Charts:http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/alignment are graphs representing a character’s general ethical and moral stance. The alignments are typically taken from the Dungeons & Dragons system, consisting of nine alignment types.

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#FreshAvocado is a video remix and parody series stemming from a short video clip of a woman mispronouncing the words “Fresh Avocado” after seeing them arranged strangely on the sign of a fast food restaurant.

Origin

On February 15th, 2016, Vine user Gasoleen posted a short clip with the caption “New item at Del Taco Restaurants guys!! Get yourself some #FRESHAVOCADO before they sell out!!!” As of March 21st, the video has gained over 16 million loops, 165,000 likes, and 70,000 revines.^[2]

Spread

On March 12th, the popular Vine user stopjake posted a video remix of the #freshavocado clip and pop song “Love Me Like You Do” by Ellie Goulding. As of March 21st, the video has received over 2.5 million loops and 83,000 likes.

That same day, user Will Harris also created a hip-hop remix of the clip, which received over 122,000 loops and almost 4,000 likes.

Remixing continued throughout mid-March. On March 15th, Buzzfeed collected some of the most popular Vines,^[3] including a popular one by Viner Michael K remixing the Charli XCX song “Break the Rules,” which received over 7.4 million loops as of March 21st.

As of March 21st, there are over 12,000 results for the tag #FreshAvocado on Vine, according to Google.^[1] The video remixes were also captured in a Twitter Moment.^[4]

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DJ Keemstar aka Killer Keemstar (real name: Daniel Keem) is a YouTube content creator best known for his YouTube news show DramaAlert. Keemstar is well known within the YouTube community, both in a positive and negative light. Keemstar has also been continuously called out by critics on numerous occasions, typically calling him a “rat” or pointing out some hypocritical event in Keemstar’s past.

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Editors Note: This entry is a serious WIP. Please be patient; I’m researching it.

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Snek refers to interior monologue captioning images involving snakes. The images often have improper English and use “heck” in place of stronger swear words.

Origin

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On February 12th, 2016, Imgur user RonSwansonApproves uploaded several examples to an Imgur gallery.^[1] It obtained over 40,000 views, 1,000 favorites, and 1,750 points (1,903 up and 144 down) in about a month.

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Church Sign Generator, later referred to the Church Sign Maker, refers to a feature of the image editing website Says-It.com.^[1]

History

According to the FAQs section on Says-It.com,^[2] the idea came about when Ryland Sanders, a web developer from Austin, Texas, took some photos of church signs and started to manipulate them in Photoshop, creating a few variants which he put on his blog. After readers of his blog submitted their own church sign photos, and after he took some more, Sanders created a page devoted to humorous church signs.^[3] He noticed that a few of the user-submitted church signs were intentionally edited to say something vulgar. Finding the idea humorous, he created a few of his own then wrote a program that allowed for easy manipulation of church sign photos and put it on his website ChurchSignGenerator.com, a domain that was registered on January 31, 2004.^[4] The site originally had two signs available to edit which increased to five (shown below) over the next five years until the site became a section of Says-It.com, another image editing website with a broader scope. After the merge, the number of available church signs increased to seventeen.

Features

As stated above, the site currently has seventeen church signs available to edit. A “Frequently Asked Questions” section gives some insight into the making of the website, the church sign generator, and more.^[2] The Church Sign Gallery contains user submitted church signs as well as signs Sanders himself photographed.^[3] A “Links” page contains links to other humorous church sign websites as well as to other image generator websites,^[5] and a “Contact” page that contains Sanders’ email address as well as some information on how to get a prompt answer.^[6]

Traffic

Says-It.com currently holds a global Alexa ranking of 302,706.^[7]

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^[1]Says-It.com – Church Sign Maker

^[2]Says-It.com – Frequently Asked Questions

^[3]Says-It.com – Real Church Signs

^[4]Domain Tools – ChurchSignGenerator.com

^[5]Says-It.com – Links

^[6]Says-It.com – Contact

^[7]Alexa.com – Overview for Says-It.com

“I beg your piranha?” first began as a statement that replaced “I beg your pardon?” and has since been used by several users on deviantart and re-designed twice. The first design was created on the 8th of August 2015, while the second design was created on the 22nd of March 2016. The original concept for “I beg your piranha?” occurred on an autocorrect related incident, following this many users use it especially after the creation of the first design. The first design was shown as a drawing of a piranha in colour, with the piranha being a pink-like colour, and the background, a black and blue. The second design is much more updated and depicts a black and white piranha, with a white background, the text below the image reads “I beg your piranha?”. The usefulness of this meme would be to make the use of the sentence I beg your pardon more entertaining and interesting, especially in meme comics and comics of its own, as well as in general conversation online and in real life.
Original submission: http://fav.me/d94prei
Secondary submission: http://fav.me/d9w4sli
Final submission: http://www.memes.com/img/936159

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The McDonald’s Anime Recruitment Video refers to an anime-style promotional video made to attract job applicants for McDonald’s restaurants in Japan. Following its release in late March 2016, the video widely circulated across the web, with many praising its animation and production quality.

Origin

On March 15th, 2016, the マクドナルド公式（McDonald’s）YouTube channel posted a video titled “Mirai no Watashi” (“The Future Me” in English), featuring the young girl Sumire who is trained by a senior McDonald’s staff member to be calm and confident in her work at the fast food restaurant. The ad directs viewers to the Japanese McDonald’s website for further details on hiring and staff positions.^[1]

Spread

On March 18th, Redditor Julliant submitted the video to /r/anime,^[2] where it gathered upwards of 1,600 votes (98% upvoted) and 370 comments. On March 20th, the AnimeBird YouTube channel uploaded a version of the video with English subtitles (shown bellow). Meanwhile, Anime News Network^[4] reported that there were several different variations of the ad for each region of Japan, featuring voices of the Japanese pop group AKB48.

Also on March 18th, The Verge^[5] published an article titled “McDonald’s Anime Ad Needs Five Seasons and a Movie.” The following day, the advertising news blog Co.Create^[3] published an article about the recruitment video. On March 21st, Tumblr^[7] user Ahndang posted an illustration inspired by the ad, referring to the protagonists as “McLesbians” (shown below). Within 24 hours, the post garnered upwards of 2,100 notes. On March 22nd, ComicBookResources^[6] published an article about the ad by writer Kevin Melrose, who described the video as “lovely and heartwarming.”

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#CallEnded is a hashtag featuring a screenshot of an iOS “call ended” screen accompanied by mock phone conversations in which one of the participants abruptly hangs up. While initially circulating among Black Twitter users in mid-March 2016, the posts subsequently spread to other platforms, including Instagram and the Lipstick Alley discussion forum.

Origin

On March 18th, 2016, several Twitter^[1][2][3] users began posting screenshots of the iPhone’s “call ended” onscreen notification along with joke phone conversation transcripts (shown below).

Spread

In the coming days, other Twitter^[7][8][9] users began copying the tweet format, posting various joke conversations leading to the call being intentionally disconnected (shown below).^[7]

On March 21st, Lipstick Alley Forums^[4] member LovelyJaaee submitted a screenshots of the hashtag. The same day, the Internet news site UpRoxx^[6] published an article about the hashtag, highlighting several notable examples from the series. On March 22nd, Instagram user @gotcha^[5] submitted an image macro of a call ended screen with Pawpaw with the caption “Come over, I made burg…” (shown below). By the end of the day, over 8,000 posts featuring the hashtag #callended^[10] had been submitted to Instagram.

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Overview

The 2016 Brussels Bombings refers to two explosions that detonated at the Brussels Airport in Zaventem, Belgium and one explosion at the Maelbeek metro station in Brussels, Belgium on March 22nd, 2016.

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Online Reaction

On Reddit, several threads about the attack reached the front page of various subreddits, including /r/worldnews,^[1] /r/news,^[2] /r/pics^[3] and /r/europe.^[4]

On Twitter, the @RT_com feed posted a video showing a crowd fleeing the airport immediately after the two explosions (shown below).

On YouTube, the euronews channel posted video footage from inside the smoke-filled airport, in which people are show laying on the ground among the rubble (shown below).

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About

Awkward Zombie is a weekly gaming webcomic by Katie Tiedrich based on various games such as Super Smash Brothers,The Legend of Zelda, Pokemon, World of Warcraft and Metal Gear Solid.

History

Throughout 2005 and 2006, posted comics and flash animations on her Deviantart page Hail-NekoYasha. The official website was launched on February 7th, 2007 with the comic “Coin Battle” centering around Legend of Zelda and Fire Emblem characters Link and Roy.

As of March 21st, 2016 there have been over 400 comics posted weekly. In 2007 the Awkward Zombie Forum page was launched for discussing the comic and comic edits.

Kickstarter Campaign

On May 18, 2012, Katie launched a Kickstarter to fund an Awkward Zombie book. By June 17, 2012 the campaign was funded with over $89000 raised.