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4chan Flagbearers is the name given to a series of exploitable drawings featuring several standard-bearers. The images are often used to make humorous listings and rankings on countries, ethnicities and other groups.

Origin

The earliest archived reference to the images belongs to a thread from 4chan politically incorrect board /pol/ submitted on July 19th, 2014.^[1] In the thread, the submitter posted a template for several standard-bearers, inspiring other users to make their own versions. However, it’s unknown if other threads were made before or the images started on a non-english imageboard.

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San Francisco State University Dreadlocks Controversy refers to a video in which San Francisco State University (SFSU) student Corey Goldstein is grabbed by fellow student Bonita Tindle for wearing dreadlocks under the justification that he is committing cultural appropriation.

Background

On March 28th, YouTuber Nicholas Silvera uploaded footage of SFSU student Bonita Tindle physically harassing student Corey Goldstein and accusing him of committing cultural appropriation for wearing dreadlocks (shown below). Within 72 hours, the video gathered upwards of 2.5 million views and 13,400 comments.

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Online Reaction

The following day, a reupload of the video was submitted to /r/videos, where it gained over 2,400 votes (93% upvoted) and 1,000 comments before it was removed from the /r/videos frontpage by subreddit moderators. Meanwhile, Redditor MollyOverwatch reposted the video to /r/PublicFreakout,^[2] where it accumulated more than 4,600 votes (92% upvoted) and 1,100 comments in the first 48 hours. The same day, YouTuber Tay Zonday criticized Tindle in a comment on the video, accusing her of exuding “profound intellectual poverty” (shown below).

Also on March 29th, YouTubers The Hodgetwins posted a video reacting to the controversy, in which they call Tindle “crazy” and mock her friend by comparing him to the cartoon character Inspector Gadget (shown below).

Goldstein’s Response

On March 29th, 2016, the Xpress News YouTube channel uploaded footage of Goldstein giving his side of the story and responding to those who claim white people should not wear dreadlocks (shown below).

The same day, the CBS San Francisco news station KPIX posted an interview with Goldstein, who revealed he would not press charges against Tindle (shown below).

San Francisco State University’s Response

On March 29th, SFSU released a statement about the incident on SFSU.edu,^[10] in which the university claimed to be “taking the matter seriously” and would be conducting a thorough investigation through “applicable University channels.”

News Media Coverage

In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the online backlash to the video, including Reason,^[3] The Sun,^[4] The Daily Mail,^[5] SF Weekly,^[6] NY Daily News,^[7] The Washington Post^[8] and ABC News.^[9]

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Delet This, often intentionally misspelled and accompanied by a reference to or a photograph of a gun, is a copypasta used on message boards and comments systems to threaten, often ironically, that the original post is too extreme.

Origin

While telling someone to “delete” a post is not new, the specific spelling seems to result from a video of a Gary’s Mod game video where a player was “buried alive” by another player. Knowing that the player burying him is recording the game, the buried player shouts “Delete this!” repeatedly in the recording. The video was originally posted at a longer length and then removed; the version below was posted on January 4th, 2014, and has received over 264,000 views since.

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It’s unknown when the spelling became modified, although comments with the modified spelling began appearing on the YouTube page itself in early February, 2016. Around the same time, the spelling began to come into fashion as a copypasta style comment on Weird Facebook. While Facebook does not allow comment searching in general, the first searchable use of the phrase as a post title appears to be from the Weird Facebook page “Do Androids Dream of Electric Memes?” which posted it along with a close-up portrait of a man wielding an airsoft gun.

Delet this has become especially popular in several Weird Facebook groups, most notably Simpsons Shitposting and Watermelon memes. In Simpsons Shitposting, it is used both as a copypasta comment and as a way to indicate that someone should be banned; in Watermelon Memes, the idea of delet this has turned into a cinematic event. There, the phrase has been remixed into film studio introduction sequences for dramatic effect.

There are hundreds of instances of the meme in use on public meme-oriented Facebook groups, which are not easily searchable.

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Initial D is a Japanese sports manga series written and illustrated by Shuichi Shigeno. The story focuses on illegal Japanese street racing, where all action is concentrated on mountain passes, and rarely in cities or urban areas, and with emphasis on “drifting”. Initial D has been adopted into several anime series, movies, and a video game series.

History

Initial D first started out as a manga series. The first volume was released in Japan on November 6, 1995 and concluded on July 29, 2013. The manga has been officially translated into Chinese, French and English over its publication run. As of 2013, about 48 volumes have been published.

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They targeted memers.

Memers.

We’re a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital karma saying we did.

We’ll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it’s fun.
We’ll spend most if not all of our free time editing the entries of our favourite fandom all to draw out a single extra comment or two.

Many of us have made hobbies out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same memes over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such meme nirvana that they can recite these dank copypastas blindfolded.

Do these people have any idea how many comments have been downvoted, entries deadpooled, threads locked 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?

These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our memes? We’re already building a new memesite without them. They take our moderators? Memers aren’t shy about throwing their karma else where, or even making the entries our selves. They think calling us cancerous and not dank is going to change us? We’ve been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty 9gag account. They picked a fight against a group that’s already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they’ve threatened us with. Who take it as a challenge when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can’t is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.

Memers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challenge us. You’re not special, you’re not original, you’re not the first; this is just another bad entry.

That is not dead which can eternally lie. In strange aeons, even Death may die. But not this body pillow. It is immortal.

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little pony? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in magic kindergarten, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Nightmare Moon, and I have over 300 confirmed friendships. I am trained in magic warfare and I’m the top pony in the entire Equestrian armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another friend. I will wipe you the fuck out with friendship the likes of which has never been seen before on Equestria, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Ponynet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of pegasi across Equestria and your hoofprints are being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, pony. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can hug you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hooves. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed friendship, but I have access to the entire arsenal of ponies and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable flank off the face of the continent, you little pony. If only you could have known what magical friendship your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn pony. I will shit friendship all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, pony.

BILLYMAYSHEREWITHTHEONETIMEOFFER OF THEPARTICLE“MEMEMACHINEQUEEN” MAREBODYPILLOW!

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Brand New Member is a KnowYourMeme user that joins recently to the website without knowing how the website works at all but he’ll make an entry of whatever he feels like anyway.
Most KYM users will always ignore everything a Brand New Member says and does because of his join date and default avatar.

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www.knowyourmeme.com circa December 2008

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The 2016 Convention Mass Suicide was an organized event in which convention goers attempted to kill themselves in order to meet their waifus/husbandos, fictional characters that they wish to romance but cannot due to them being fictional. According to the leaders of the short lived activity, “Everyone was dying to participate.”

Origin

During the “How to Make Your Significant Other” panel at the San Diego Convention in South Carolina, many convention goers realized that their dear loved ones were, in fact, fictional characters. After much despair and crying, the event organizers deduced that there was only one way to meet their waifus and/or husbandos and truly be happy: shed their mortal shell in this realm and spirit hop between dimensions.

Mass Poisoning

On February 30, 2016, the Final Convention was held in Antarctica, Antarctica. In it, the convention leaders handed out small packets of iocane powder, an odorless, colorless, and tasteless substance that is one of the more deadly poisons known to man. After a short speech thanking everyone and accepting their money, the participants in the event began to drink. After falling to the floor dead, the authorities arrived on the account of a neighbor complaining about the smell. Though 99.9999% were too long gone to be saved, being dead and all, they managed to resuscitate a few of those at the event. When asked about their experience, one of them replied, “There is nothing there. He has abandoned us. I don’t want to go back! Don’t send me ba-” He was then immediately rendered unconscious and sent back. Scientists are still trying to decipher what he meant by this, though most are agreeing that he is mad about the lack commodities in the facility. They were also rendered unconscious and sent back before they could bring up our budget saving tactics to the Overseer of the building.

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This asshole stole your waifu and made out with her and you’re just gonna sit there and let this fucking asshole do more then that.

This asshole thinks he knows everything, he supports only himself and bad enough, he is running for president, he hates cats and dogs and hates video games, anime and any other fictional thing ever, he even hates this site. He serves in a religion of pure assholery. This asshole hates everything.

This asshole is stupid enough to call himself fleek and other stupid words that are so old.

You need to kick this asshole’s ass so badly that he won’t be able to sit down..

Now go out there and do it.

fug off noob :DDD

About

Juxtaposition in the Researching Now section refers to the order of the five entries that are in the Researching Now section on KnowYourMeme to resemble vertical posting.

History

Particle Mare wasted her time by making 4 entries: “M”, “E”, “M”, “E”, “S” and had them as “researching”. Le Noob came along and created an entry titles “Memes”, removed the “M” entry and had the “Memes” entry as researching.

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^[1]Riff-Raff – We did it Reddit!

Overview

Alison Rapp’s Harassment Controversy refers to an online backlash directed toward former Nintendo employee Alison Rapp that occurred in response to her public statements regarding social justice,GamerGate and child pornography.

Background

In November 2014, Rapp posted tweets arguing that misandry does not exist (shown below). On February 5th, 2015, Redditor godpiggy submitted screenshots of the tweets to /r/KotakuInAction^[13] in a post titled “Nintendo Marketer Alison Rapp doesn’t think Sexism against Men can Exist.”

On January 21st, 2016, Rapp posted tweets^[12] saying that “video games are not the most important things in the world” and said those who want to have “intelligent convos about games” must familiarize themselves with “life & intersectional social issues” (shown below). That day, the tweets were posted to the /r/KotakuInAction^[9] subreddit, where they received upwards of 1,800 votes (90% upvoted) and 550 comments.

Notable Developments

Child Pornography Essay

On February 25th, 2016, an article was submitted to the blogging platform Medium^[1] titled “Nintendo’s Public Relations Employee Alison Rapp Now Vocal for Pedophiles,” which reported that Rapp penned an essay in 2012 titled “Speech We Hate: An Argument for the Cessation of International Pressure on Japan to Strengthen Its Anti-Child Pornography Laws.”^[2] In the essay, Rapp argues for “less strict legislation” against the possession of child pornography and that Japan’s consent laws were influenced by Western imperialism. Additionally, the article highlighted a tweet by Rapp in which she appears to defend a man who had been arrested for child pornography (shown below).

After the article was published, many began calling for Rapp’s termination from Nintendo. On February 29th, “Zoe Post” author Eron Gjoni tweeted^[10]“Attempting to get people fired for holding problematic views is exactly the stort of thing you’re supposed to be against” (shown below). That day, the tweet was submitted to /r/KotakuInAction,^[11] where many claimed the campaign against her was being led by members of 8chan and not GamerGate.

Termination from Nintendo

On March 30th, Rapp posted a tweet announcing her employment with Nintendo had been terminated, along with several tweets speculating that the decision was made due to a harassment campaign led by GamerGate (shown below).

That day, a post titled “Fuck GamerGate: Rapp terminated by Nintendo” reached the front page of the /r/GamerGhazi^[8] subreddit.

Later that same day, Nintendo responded to Rapp’s Twitter comments by issuing an official statement to the press^[27], in which the company flat out denied any alleged connection between the termination of her employment and the Twitter feud she had become embroiled in, while offering an explanation that she was fired because she was “moonlighting” with a second job, a violation of the company’s internal policy.

“Alison Rapp was terminated due to violation of an internal company policy involving holding a second job in conflict with Nintendo’s corporate culture. Though Ms. Rapp’s termination follows her being the subject of criticism from certain groups via social media several weeks ago, the two are absolutely not related. Nintendo is a company committed to fostering inclusion and diversity in both our company and the broader video game industry and we firmly reject the harassment of individuals based on gender, race or personal beliefs. We wish Ms. Rapp well in her future endeavors.”

In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the firing, including Kotaku, Breitbart, The Verge, The Guardian, IBI Times, Venture Beat,

Online Reaction

Also March 31st, Redditor AzraelBane published a “Alison Rapp Megathread” to /r/KotakuInAction. Meanwhile, YouTuber Its Becky Boop published a video about the incident, providing a timeline of the events that transpired (shown below).

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Serious Lifeguard Fish is an advice animal image macro series based on a still image from an episode of the children’s animated TV series Spongebob Squarepants. The images are typically captioned with expressions of displeasure, annoyance or suspicion, bearing many similarities to the Futurama’s Not Sure If X series.

Origin

On July 17th, 1999, Spongebob Squarepants Season 1 Episode 2b titled “Ripped Pants” was broadcast, in which a lifeguard named Frank is annoyed to discover that Squarepants faked drowning in order to trick him into saving him. On December 29th, 2009, a screen capture of the character was uploaded by YouTuber FlashingTights titled “Make This the Most Thumbed Down Video in History” (shown below). Over the next seven years, the video received more than 8.1 million views, 19,500 comments and 50,900 dislikes.

On October 24th, 2011, an image macro of Frank with the caption “There’s no cows in the ocean so that means.. / Krabby Patties must be made of fish” was submitted to /r/funny,^[1] where it gained over 740 votes (92% upvoted) and 165 comments prior to being archive (shown below).

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On December 11th, 2011, an image macro asking women to explain the meaning of the phrase “I love you as a friend” was posted to /r/funny (shown below, left). On November 28th, 2012, Redditor AmandaPants87 posted an image macro of Frank with the caption “Who the fuck / farted?” to /r/AdviceAnimals, where it received upwards of 1,600 votes (91% upvoted) prior to being archived.

On January 5th, 2013, Redditor brolax420 submitted an image macro of Frank scolding someone for being unable to roll a blunt to the /r/tress subreddit (shown below, left). On July 9th, a Frank image macro with the caption “Oh Look / It’s This Thread Again” was posted to /r/teenagers (shown below, right).

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Legal Loli is a term applied to fictional females with prepubescent physiques while at the same time being older than the legal age of consent, sometimes reaching to up to thousands of years of age.^[5] While supporters of legal lolis believe attraction to them isn’t the same as attraction to normal lolis due to their different age and mental capacity, claiming this makes them a seperate group from normal lolis (or “true lolis”); critics often argue that their age is merely an excuse by the authors to create a grey area, stating that due to a shared physique with prepubescent lolis they are the same as normal lolis.^[6]

Origin

By definition, lolicon is a portmanteau of the phrase “Lolita complex,” which describes an attraction to young or prepubescent girls.^[7] However, amongst anime fans, the term loli has come to describe characters with solely the physiques of a prepubescent girl due to the frequently similar physiques of females from varying age groups in anime and manga.^[8] This has lead to fans of the loli genre to add adjectives to the term, in order to seperate loli-like characters of different age groups (shown below).

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The argument of the character’s age amongst fans of legal lolis eventually became a target of mock by critics, which spawned the phrasal template “It’s ok because she is actually X years old.” On April 8th, 2013, webcomic artist Awkward Zombie released a comic titled “Minor Setback.”^[1] The comic centered around Fire Emblem: Awakening character Nowi, a member of the Manakete race of dragons who can turn thousands of years old and because of this keep a young physique for an extended period of their lives, showing the reactions of the other characters over her scantily clad attire. Prior to Awkward Zombie’s comic, Nowi’s physique and behavior, alongside her attire, was already a topic of discussion amongst fans of the game, who frequently questioned its appropriateness.^[9]

On January 20th, 2016, the Facebook page Interstellar Dust created a Starter Pack derivation titled “It’s ok because she’s actually hundreds of years old,”^[2] featuring several popular and common examples of legal lolis who are hundreds of years old in their canon backstory. In the following 3 months, the image managed to gather over 650 shares. Alongside, the image was also shared on Tumblr,^[3] where it gathered over 4,100 notes; and Reddit,^[4] where it gathered over 850 points with its Imgur upload gathering over 61,000 views in that same period.

Top Left: Rory Mercury (age 961) from Gate Jieitai Kanochi Nite Kaku Tatakaeri | Top Right: Frederika (age unknown) from Hitsugime no Chaika
Bottom Left: Shinobu Oshino (age over 500) from the Monogatari Series | Bottom Right: Nowi (age around 1,000) from Fire Emblem: Awakening

Over the years specific characters have become more notable examples amongst both fans and critics; most commonly these come from anime and video games with a large fandom. Alongside the characters shown above, additional examples of more common ages include Konata Izumi (Age 18) from Lucky Star (shown below, left) and Tatsumaki (age 28) from One-Punch Man (shown below, right).

Oppai Loli

Oppai Loli is a term used when a loli character has notably adult-sized breasts, but otherwise retains their child-like proportions; with oppai being the Japanese definition of breasts, commonly used amongst anime fans to refer to large breasts. This has lead to fans arguing that attraction to oppai loli can be justified due to the presence of adult features. Although the debate already gained traction since 2007 over the character Yoko Littner from Gurren Lagann (shown below, left), it returned in 2015 over the character Hestia from DanMachi (shown below, right); who received a notable influx in fanart over her peculiar character design and is even nicknamed in her canon backstory as “Loli Big-boobs.”

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Curb Your Enthusiasm is an American television sitcom produced and broadcast by HBO that began airing on October 15th, 2000. Created by Larry David, the co-creator of the 90s popular TV sitcom Seinfeld, the series is centered around a fictionalized version of the comedian as a semi-retired TV producer and follows his day-to-day social interactions with his family, friends and colleagues in Los Angeles, California.

Premise

In continuation from the eponymous hour-long comedy special, the TV series stars Larry David as a fictionalized version of himself, who has a celebrity reputation in the entertainment industry as the co-creator and main writer of the 90s sitcom Seinfeld, living in an affluent neighborhood of Los Angeles with wife Cheryl (played by Cheryl Hines), and co-stars Jeff Garlin as his close friend, Jeff Greene, Susie Essman as Greene’s temperamental wife, Susie, and later on, J. B. Smoove as Larry’s accidental roommate, Leon Black. In addition to the recurring cast members, the show is well-known for frequent cameo appearances by popular celebrities and public figures, including actors, comedians, athletes and politicians, all of whom play caricaturized versions of themselves.

History

The concept for the show originated from Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm, a single-episode HBO mockumentary special that aired on October 17th, 1999, which is centered around a fictionalized version of Larry David who tries to make a comeback as a stand-up comedian with his own hour-long HBO special after many years of hiatus. Following the successful reception of the comedy special, the idea was further developed into a TV series with the same name, which began airing on October 15th, 2000. Since its premiere, the show ran for eight seasons in a total of 80 episodes over the course of the next decade, before it was placed on indefinite hiatus in 2011.

Reception

From the beginning, the series has been met with mostly positive reception and widely regarded as one of the most critically acclaimed TV shows of the 2000s, with Metacritic consistently rating the series a score of 80 and above and many others praising its high quality of screenwriting, use of improvisational comedy and bold sense of humor previously unseen in Seinfeld. Over the course of its run, the series has received a total of 39 Primetime Emmy Award nominations, five Golden Globe Award nominations and four Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG) nominations, among others.

Fandom

Aside from the official HBO website for the TV show and the Facebook page, the latter of which has over 1.4 million likes, Curb Your Enthusiasm maintains little branded presence in the social media; however, the show is still widely celebrated online through several fan blogs on Tumblr^[4][5][7] and Twitter,^[12][17], a devoted subreddit^[14] on Reddit, as well as various collections of animated GIFs and still shots featuring memorable quotes from the show that can be found on Tumblr^[7], Giphy^[6], Pinterest^[8] and BuzzFeed.^[9]

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“Because of Parkinson’s”

On September 11th, 2011, HBO aired an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm titled “Larry vs. Michael J. Fox,” guest starring Michael J. Fox as himself. The episode featured a number of jokes on the topic of Parkinson’s disease, including a scene where an annoyed Fox gives Larry David a shaken soda drink, claiming it was due to the illness.

Theme Song Remixes

Online, the show’s opening and closing theme song, “Frolic” by Italian composer Luciano Michelini, has been used as background music for comedic effect in FAIL or cringeworthy videos that illustrate Seinfeld-like dilemmas and socially awkward situations, with one of the earliest viral instances stemming from a remix of Steve Harvey’s mix-up of the winning pageant at the Miss Universe ceremony event in December 2015.

On March 24th, 2016, Dan Brill and Phillip Pastore, New York City-based ad agency copywriters, launched Curb Your Enthusiasm^[10], an audio-video mashup generator website that allows its user to create custom remix videos by cueing the tune during playback of any YouTube clip.

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“Run Away with Me” is a 2015 pop song written and performed by Canadian singer-songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen that was released as the second single from her third studio album Emotion. In late February 2016, the saxophone arrangement from the opening of the song inspired a series of remix videos on Vine.

Origin

On July 17th, 2015, “Run Away with Me” was released as the second single off Jepsen’s album Emotion. The same day, the CarlyRaeJepsen VEVO YouTube channel uploaded the official music video for the track, which gathered upwards of 17.8 million views and 7,500 comments in the next eight months (shown below).

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On August 20th, 2015, the Trap Nation YouTube channel uploaded a trap remix of the song (shown below, left). On December 1st, YouTuber Brenda Hikaru posted an anime music video set to “Run Away with Me” (shown below, right).

On December 7th, the Sims Community YouTube channel uploaded a version of the track sung in the fictional language Simlish from The Sims video game series (shown below).

On Vine

On February 4th, 2016, Viner T. Kyle posted a clip from the cartoon series Regular Show with “Run Away with Me” dubbed over the background audio (shown below, left). On February 17th, Viner Dean MS posted a video clip of several young people dancing outdoors to the song with the caption “me and my friends at a Carly Rae Jepsen show” (shown below, right). Over the next two months, both videos gained over 2 million loops and 700,000 revines.

On March 3rd, Viner DiscreetLationo posted a short clip of actress Jennifer Garner playing a saxophone with the opening sax melody from “Run Away with Me” playing in the background (shown below, left). On March 21st, Viner T. Kyle posted a dubbed video of singer Rihanna handing a mic to an audience member who begins to sing “Run Away with Me” (shown below, right). Later that month, several news sites published articles about the Vine remix series, including BuzzFeed,^[1] NY Mag,^[2]MTV^[3] and NME.^[4]

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#BernieMadeMeWhite is a hashtag used to joke about the media’s representation of Bernie Sanders supporters as Caucasian during the 2016 Democratic Presidential Primary. The hashtag became popular after media reports of Sanders victories depicted diverse states, including Hawaii, as being “white and rural.”

Origin

On March 26th, 2016, Bernie Sanders won the Democratic Caucuses in Washington, Hawaii, and Alaska. In his article on the victories, CNN’s Chris Moody wrote:^[1]

These caucus states -- largely white and rural -- are the type of places Sanders traditionally does well. In order to win the nomination, he must replicate this success in other, more ethnically diverse states that hold primaries, as he did in Michigan last month.

Many online took offense at the statement, especially residents of Hawaii, where the white non-hispanic population is just 26.7% according to the United States Census.^[2] In one Twitter exchange about the remarks the following day, Twitter user tokyobrainstorming (Real name: Leslie Lee III),^[3] wrote that ever since he had voted for Sanders, he had become so white that he was “bingewatching Friends.”^[4] He also used the hashtag #BernieMadeMeWhite; the tweet was retweeted 668 times and favorited over 1,900 times.

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Shortly after tokyobrainstorming’s tweet became popular, user Chris420Redmond tweeted the hashtag along with two screenshots from CNN– one of the above text, and one from two months earlier, calling Alaska, specifically Anchorage, the “most diverse place in America” – this tweet received 1,000 retweets and almost 1,000 likes.

At 5:37 pm, user welknett posted a tweet reading “This isn’t a picture of two friends, it’s actually a before and after voting for Bernie pic,” along with a photograph of a black woman and a white woman embracing. This tweet received 2,074 retweets and 4,688 likes.

As of 8:25 pm, according to Trendinalia, the hashtag #BernieMadeMeWhite was the top trending topic in the United States, and the 10th top trending topic that day. It was the 47th top trending topic the next day, on March 28th, 2016. The hashtag was covered by NPR, Salon, and the Washington Post, among other major news outlets; notably, it was absent from CNN.

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