Hispachan (site domain: hispachan.org)^[1] is a popular imageboard in Spanish, created in 2012.

It’s the largest anonymous imageboard in Spanish. It has more than 5,000,000 posts as of May 2016 (about 2,500,000 made in the last 12 months).

Hispachan is a global site and is visited by people from all hispanic countries. While most boards on Hispachan are meant for Spanish speakers, there is also an International board (/int/) where English and other languages are allowed.

Its logo is a “ñ”, the most representative character in Spanish.

Traffic

Hispachan is ranked 38,702 worldwide and it’s in the top 1000 in countries like Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and Spain (May 2016).^[2] According to Alexa Rank, it’s also the 5th most active imageboard on the internet.^[13]

Features

- Posting anonymously
- Identify yourself as the OP of a thread
- Thread auto-updater
- Hide threads and posts
- Safe mode (hide NSFW images)
- New threads and new posts notifications
- 10 CSS styles
- 20 boards (6 regional boards)
- Transparency reports
- Etc.

History

Before Hispachan, there were several imageboards in Spanish focused on specific local regions or countries (Sectachan for Mexico, 6-chan for Chile, etc.). Hispachan was the first one to include the whole Spanish speaker community. This difference made it grow very fast and created a new community, as the staff was not related to the old imageboards.

The creator (or creators) name is “Zeta”. Officially, nobody knows the nationality of Zeta, even if he/she is a man or a woman.

Highlights

On the media

From its beginning, Hispachan has been involved in several stories and controversies, which received the attention of the media:

In December 2015 Raúl Robles – hacker and security adviser of the mexican government – was murdered in Guadalajara (Mexico). Mexican authorities investigated the death threats published on Hispachan before the murder, because he was murdered at the exact moment and place posted on Hispachan.^[3][9][12]

In December 2015 hackers from /ve/ board (Venezuela) hacked Cantv site – the main venezuelan ISP– to complain about their poor quality internet services. The site displayed the Hispachan logo and an humorous song about Hugo Chávez, becoming Trending Topic in Venezuela.^[4]

In May 2015 some Hispachan users were responsible of cyberbullying and harrassment of feminist and lesbian activists. The case was published on Latin American press.^[5]

In March 2015 the TV show #Viral from TVN– National Chilean TV – showed screencaps of Hispachan as an example of “website where pedophiles share experiences and resources”.^[10][11]

In May 2014 some Hispachan users created a fake child escort agency to cheat pedophiles. Dozens of pedophile profiles that demanded the services were revealed and sent to authorities.^[6]

In April 2014 a hacker group shared the keys to enter the control panel of Isabel Allende website (President of Chilean Senate) on Hispachan. Some Hispachan users flooded the site with memes, funny entries and pictures of penises.

In 2013 a neonazi group used Hispachan to organize violent actions against homosexuals in real life. They recorded some videos beating up gay people in Spain, similar to what russian neonazis did. Catalonian police (Mossos d’Esquadra) arrested the group and the judicial authorities requested to close all the Hispachan threads related to the case.^[7]

Other popular events

Hiroyuki Nishimura, owner and administrator of 4chan, did an “AMA” (Ask Me Anything) session on Hispachan in March 2016.^[8]

Also, some popular hispanic youtubers are known for lurking and posting on Hispachan. However, Hispachan users don’t like when social networks users post on the boards, as “they break anonymity”.

In April 2016 a Hispachan user created a fake terrorist website on the Deep Web, threatening several countries worldwide and showing a countdown. Some popular hispanic youtubers – like Dross (+8,000,000 subscribers as of May 2016) – viralized the site as they thought it was real. Later, the page changed and displayed the message “Has sido trolleado por Hispachan” (“You have been trolled by Hispachan”) and “Amarillismo no es igual a periodismo” (“Sensationalism is not journalism”), in reference to media and youtubers sensationalism.

Search Interest

External references

^[1]Hispachan – Hispachan.org

^[2]Alexa – Hispachan Alexa Ranking

^[3]Vice – This Murder Has Exposed the Dark Side of Mexico’s Hacking Community

^[4]Diario de Caracas – Public ISP Cantv site has been hacked (in Spanish)

^[5]La Izquierda Diario – Death and violation threats against young feminists on Twitter (in Spanish)

^[6]Revolución 3.0 – Child escort agency reveals pedophiles in search of children on Facebook (in Spanish)

^[7]Europa Press – Detenido otro miembro del grupo que denuncia homosexuales vía Internet e imputado un menor (in Spanish)

^[8]Hispachan Blog – Hiroyuki Nishimura on Hispachan

^[9]SDP Noticias – Raúl Robles, CEO de Hacking México, murdered in Guadalajara

^[10]Hispachan – Hispachan 2016 History

^[11]TVN (National Chilean TV) – TVN #Viral show

^[12]Taringa – Raúl Robles death

^[13]Hispachan – TOP 10 Anonymous imageboards according to Alexa Rank

About

Super Mario Bros. is a 1993 live-action comedy film loosely based on the video game franchise of the same name by Nintendo starring Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo and Dennis Hopper. Super Mario Bros. is the first video game movie adaptation but it received negative reviews from critics.^[1][2]

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George Zimmerman is an American formerly employed as an insurance underwriter who is known for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin in February 2012. Since being acquitted of second degree murder in July 2013, Zimmerman has remained a controversial figure in the media.

History

Trayvon Martin’s Death

On February 26th, 2012, African American teenager Trayvon Martin was fatally shot by 28-year-old community watch captain George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida. According to the official report, Martin was unarmed and found dead on the scene upon the arrival of police officers, who responded to a non-emergency call made by the shooter shortly before he approached Martin on his own. Zimmerman described the incident as an act of self-defense after a physical scuffle ensued between the two. Though Zimmerman was taken into custody that evening, officers were unable to find any evidence contradicting Zimmerman’s claim of self-defense and no charges were filed.

Though the case would go on to make national headlines in the news media and spark yet another round of debates over firearm control laws in the United States, it did not receive attention until Martin’s parents launched an online petition. On July 13th, 2013, the jury delivered a verdict declaring Zimmerman not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter after 16 hours of deliberation.

George Zimmerman’s Celebrity Boxing Match

On January 30th, 2014, celebrity news site TMZ reported that George Zimmerman has teamed up with boxing promoter Damon Feldman and agreed to participate in a three-round celebrity boxing match against a randomly chosen contender to be held sometime in March. According to Zimmerman, who took up boxing as a hobby prior to and during his trial last year, all proceeds from the event will go towards a charity. In the article, Feldman was quoted as saying that Zimmerman would be open to fight anyone while openly inviting people to sign up for the boxing match via fightgeorge@hotmail.com.

On February 1st, TMZ reported that at least two American hip hop artists, The Game and DMX, have taken up the challenge to fight George Zimmerman in the ring. According to the article, DMX was quoted as saying that he is “going to beat the living fuck out of [Zimmerman]… I am breaking every rule in boxing to make sure I f**k him right up” and “once I am done with him, I am going to whip my d**k out and piss on him … right in his muthaf**kin face.”

On February 2nd, an online petition to “Stop George Zimmerman and Promoter Damon Feldman from using murder & racial hate in America for Profit” was created on the White House’s We The People^[3] website. As more details about the celebrity boxing match came to light, the petition reached nearly 100,000 signatures in the first 72 hours.

On February 5th, TMZ confirmed that DMX has been chosen as Zimmerman’s opponent in the celebrity boxing match. In the following 24 hours, the news quickly spread across the Hollywood gossip and hip hop blogosphere, and unsurprisingly, it immediately prompted a heavy backlash on Twitter against both parties involved, as well as Feldman. Later that same day, however, DMX’s publicist released a statement clarifying that the match has yet to be confirmed due to the ongoing contractual negotiation. Once confirmed, the date, time and location of the fight will be announced at a news conference on February 12th.

Micah Williams Retweet

On Friday, September 25th, 2015, George Zimmerman began tweeting the name and phone number of a man named Micah Williams, who used the Twitter Handle @SonusCarAudio. Zimmerman claimed that the man “believes paying for his wife’s abortion from an affair is an excuse 2 not pay child support,” and called on his 10,000 followers to call him and inform him otherwise.^[4] In response, one of Zimmerman’s followers tweeted a photograph of Trayvon Martin’s dead body at Zimmerman and Williams, with the text “Z-man is a one man army” (below).

Screencap of the tweet from the New York Daily News. The original tweet was uncensored.

When the tweet was later removed by Twitter after a public outcry, the story was subsequently picked up by the New York Daily News,^[7] Complex,^[8] and Perez Hilton,^[9] among others. In response, Zimmerman tweeted a series of images of “wanted”-style posters bearing his face, complaining how Twitter refused to remove these types of images. In addition, he again tweeted the name and phone number of Micah Williams and directed any “press inquiries” to the man. Finally, he tweeted a photograph of himself on the beach, smoking a cigar.

Gun Auction

On May 11th, 2016, Zimmerman placed the Kel-Tec PF-9 9 mm caliber pistol used in the fatal shooting of Martin for sale with a starting bid of $5,000 on the firearm auctioning website GunBroker.com.^[10] In the description field, Zimmerman claimed that a portion of the money earned would go towards fighting “violence against police officers” by the Black Lives Matter movement and “Hillary Clinton’s anti-firearm rhetoric” (shown below).

In an interview with the Orlando, Florida television station WOFL, Zimmerman revealed he was auctioning the weapon because he was “a free American” and could do whatever he likes with his possessions. Meanwhile, the Trayvon Martin Foundation issued a statement to the press, saying the nonprofit organization “has no comment on the actions of that person.” On May 12th, the auction page was removed. That day, several posts about the auction reached the front page of the /r/nottheonion^[11] and /r/news^[12] subreddits. The following day, a new auction was placed for sale on UnitedGunGroup, where a user named Racist McShootface continued to bid on the firearm until it reached over $65 million prior to the account’s suspension (shown below).

On May 18th, the United Gun Group tweeted^[13] a statement announcing that Zimmerman was “in the process of vetting several offers” through the online firearms auctioning service (shown below). Later that day, TMZ^[1] reported that Zimmerman’s gun was successfully auctioned for over $120,000.

Personal Life

Zimmerman was born on October 5th, 1983 in Manassas, Virginia. He was raised Catholic and attended the All Saints Catholic School in Manassas for part of his childhood. After graduating high school, Zimmerman moved to Lake, Mary Florida, where he worked at an insurance agency.

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A Day With Spongebob Squarepants: The Movie (UNAUTHORIZEDMOCKUMENTARY), often shortened to A Day With Spongebob Squarepants: The Movie or just ADWSS is a supposed 2011 unreleased direct-to-DVD film by Reagal Films and distributed by MVD films starring Spongebob Squarepants. Since 2014 the film has gained a large internet following from sites like The Lost Media Wiki, Reddit, and 4chan due to its elusive nature and the lack of any information or proof of its actual existence, any verifiable clips or stills of the movie, or any actual physical copies known to exist. All that is known about the movie is a 5 sentence summary on the film’s entry on Amazon.^[1] As of today the film is mostly known for the ongoing search efforts for any evidence of its existence.

Origin

ADWSS was supposedly released on Amazon on November 22nd, 2011. Up to that point there had been little coverage on the film. The film was supposedly available for a day before going out of stock. The description for the film read:
“In this mockumentary, SpongeBob lives above ground like all Hollywood superstars. Afraid that SpongeBob is becoming old news, his boss runs a contest called “Spend a Day with SpongeBob.” The contest makes SpongeBob the talk of the town, as thousands of kids enter to win. The lucky winner is Seth, and he is ecstatic about his day with SpongeBob. However the day becomes a rollercoaster ride as things don’t go quite the way they planned."^[1]

Spread

On 2014 Wiki user LarryInc64, found the film on Amazon, finding little to no information about it anywhere else, created a page for it on the Lost Media Wikia(the original Lost Media Wiki).^[2][3] But even then it didn’t receive much coverage.^[2] The first real notable coverage of the film came from the film being mentioned on the Youtube video “Top 20 Lost Kids Films” by user blameitonjorge on July 1st, 2015, which to date has over 1 million views(shown below).

The search for the movie gained further popularity when famous Youtuber RebelTaxi uploaded a video on the subject on September 8, 2016, which to date has over 300,000 views(shown below)^[3]

A post on Reddit’s r/unsolvedmysteries board about the film and recovery efforts for it was posted that same month and recieved 100 upvotes and 85 comments before being archived.^[4] On November 4th, 2015 Gawker published an article on its “Weird Internet” section detailing the ongoing search efforts for the film.^[5] The next day French newspaper La Monde published an article on the subject.^[6] As of today the Lost Media Wiki’s forum for the film has over 2,000 posts.^[7]

Hoax Images/Videos

Following the film’s sudden increase in popularity, an influx of videos and images came from people who claimed them to be from the actual film itself. Most of these images and videos were declared false, but only spread the infamy of the film as a result.^[2][5]

Notable Videos

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External References

^[1]Amazon – A Day With Spongebob Squarepants: The Movie

^[2]Lost Media Wikia – A Day With SpongeBob SquarePants: The Movie

^[3]Lost Media Wiki – A Day With SpongeBob SquarePants: The Movie

^[4]r/UnsolvedMysteries – The internet hunt for the (possibly non-existent) A Day With Spongebob Squarepants Unauthorized Mockumentary movie.

^[5]Gawker – The Internet’s Obsessive Hunt for a Bootleg SpongeBob Movie That May Have Never Existed

^[6]La Monde – La quête obsessionnelle d’un film sur Bob L’Eponge… qui n’a sûrement jamais existé

^[7]Lost Media Wiki Forum – A Day With Spongebob Squarepants

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That Poppy is an American teenage singer-songwriter who has garnered internet fame for her innocent, childlike appearance and a series of avant-garde monologues and music videos on YouTube.

Online History

In November 2014, the ThatPoppy YouTube channel was launched, which features footage of Poppy delivering strange monologues in a series of videos produced by artist Titanic Sinclair.^[5] The first video uploaded to the channel features footage of Poppy eating a stick of cotton candy (shown below, left). On December 3rd, a video titled “My Phone Is Not Plugged In,” featuring several short skits of Poppy alone in a room with a guitar and rotary telephone (shown below, right).

On January 6th, 2015, Poppy published a video in which is shown repeating the phrase “I’m Poppy” for 10 minutes (shown below, left). On July 24th, the ThatPoppyVEVO channel released the music video for her song “Lowlife” off her debut EP Bubblebath (shown below, right).

On August 18th, Poppy published a video in which she introduces a dog to her audience, pronouncing the word “dog” as “doge” (shown below, left). On November 9th, a video titled “young girl makes crazy video on YouTube” was uploaded to Poppy’s YouTube channel, in which she thanks her fans and mocks internet clickbait headlines (shown below, right).

On December 15th, Poppy released a short video titled “Everyone was a Baby Once,” in which she delivers a strange monologue about the internet, music and living on planet Earth (shown below, left). On May 4th, 2016, Poppy posted a video to YouTube titled “I love the internet so much,” in which she discusses her use of various web applications while ominous music is heard playing in the background (shown below, right).

Social Media Presence

In January 2011, Poppy created the @thatPoppy Twitter^[1] feed, accumulated more than 12,300 followers in five years. On November 4th, 2014, the That Poppy Facebook^[2] page was launched, gathering upwards of 11,600 likes in the next two years. On July 6th, 2015, the @thatpoppy Instagram^[4] feed was created, which gained over 30,700 followers in one year.

Interviews

On November 23rd, 2015, the TTFMagTv YouTube channel uploaded an interview with Poppy, in which she discussed the meaning behind her stage name and described her visual aesthetic as “Barbie, kawaii child” (shown below, left). On March 1st, 2016, the 92.3 AMP Radio YouTube channel posted an in-studio interview with Poppy, in which she spoke about herself in the third person and revealed that she is vegan and does not smoke marijuana (shown below, right). On March 3rd, the music blog IHeartRadio^[7] published an interview with Poppy, in which she discussed her YouTube videos made with Titanic Sinclair.

Reception

On April 11th, 2016, the fashion blog Racked^[6] published an article about Poppy titled “Parsing the Aesthetics of That Poppy, Pop Singer and Internet Enigma.” On May 19th, Redditor Topher1999 submitted the “Everyone was a Baby Once” video to the /r/DeepIntoYouTube^[3] subreddit, where it received more than 650 votes (90% upvoted) and 120 comments in the first 24 hours.

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Brick Wall Optical Illusion is a Facebook post which challenges its viewers to identify a visual oddity within a seemingly unexceptional photograph of a brick wall. Upon being uploaded to Facebook on May 16th, 2016, the photograph went viral due to its unexpectedly difficult and deceptive nature.

Origin

The optical illusory image has been circulating online since as early as the late 2000s, with the earliest known instance posted by Javier Blanes^[1] on his paranormal investigative blog on August 25th, 2008 (shown below). In the following years, the image continued to spread across the Spanish-speaking web, including a Facebook post^[2] highlighting the image on the official page for Academia Nakis, a high school located in Lugones, Spain, on May 30th, 2014.

Spread

However, the image didn’t draw massive attention on the English-speaking web until May 16th, 2016, when British Facebook user Arron Bevin^[3] shared the image with a caption challenging others to spot an oddity (shown below).

Within 72 hours of the post, the Facebook image garnered more than 75,000 likes, 68,000 comments and 55,500 shares. Soon, the news about the “brick wall illusion” challenge began spreading across Twitter.^[4] In the following days, the viral image of the brick wall was highlighted by over a dozen of news outlets and internet culture blogs in the U.S. and the U.K., including Slate^[5], Metro^[6], The Huffington Post^[7], Cnet^[8], New York Magazine^[9], The Telegraph^[10], Uproxx^[11] and Bustle,^[12] among others.

The Answer

While the photograph may appear as an ordinary brick wall at a casual, first glance, a closer examination of the image reveals a cigar stuck into a crevice on the brick wall.

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Fruit Fingering refers to the practice or simulating the sexual act of manual genital stimulation using edible fruits that have been cut in half.

Origin

Spread

On May 23rd, 2011, YouTuber harleage uploaded footage of a person vigorously fingering a mango (shown below).

On August 24th, 2013, YouTuber DBsExertionFilms uploaded a video titled “Sex Pose Man and Fruit,” featuring a man seductively touching various fruits (shown below).

On October 19th, 2015, the Simple Pickup YouTube channel uploaded a video titled “How to Finger a Girl,” in which a man provides a tutorial on how to properly perform manual digital stimulation on a woman (shown below). Within seven months, the video gained over 5.5 million views and 2,600 comments.

Stephanie Sarley’s Videos

On December 27th, artist Stephanie Sarley uploaded a short video clip of herself lightly stroking and penetrating the inside of a grapefruit with her finger on Instagram^[2] (shown below). Within five months, the video gathered upwards of 2,400 likes and 900 comments. Over the next several months, Sarley uploaded over 35 more videos in which she fingers other edible fruits, including a blood orange, papaya, kiwi, lemon, lime and strawberry.

On February 3rd, Sarley launched a YouTube^[3] channel where she uploaded many of the fruit fingering videos from her Instagram page. Within four months, the channel gathered upwards of 140,000 video views and 230 subscribers.

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Gil da Esfirra vs. Galerito is a Brazilian meme originated circa 2006/2008 on the police television show Canal Livre, broadcasted for the Amazonas region on the local Rede Bandeirantes station TV Rio Negro (currently known as TV Bandeirantes Manaus), hosted by the now-deceased MP Wallace Souza and his brothers. However, only on early January 2016, the meme reached a high popularity, thanks to the various uploads of this scenes to YouTube, along with related posts on various Brazilian Facebook pages (mainly South America Memes).

History

Canal Livre was a popular news program in Brazil. It was presented by the former police officer and former politician Wallace Souza and was the most popular show in the city of Manaus. Souza’s popularity as host of Canal Livre saw him get elected on three occasions to political office. One of the things that more leveraged the success of the program was Gil (full name: Gilson Luiz dos Santos do Carmo), a stage entertainer and sfiha seller (who suffered bullying constantly being called as Rogério) and their fights with the puppet Galerito. The program ended in 2009, due to various controversies envolving the presenter and the production of the program, returning in 2013 under the name programa Livre on the local SBT station TV Em Tempo.

The fights

A recurring scene on the program was various members of the cast (specially Galerito) commonly bullying Gil, calling various names, including gay, queer and the most common: Rogério, accompanied by the song Viúva de Rogério by Renato Fechine. When Gil gets mad, he starts to fight with who’ve been bullying him, whit this fights sometimes accompanied by the song Ele é corno, mas é meu amigo by the clown, humorist and MP Tiririca. The most famous fight was during the act of local musician Nunes Filho, being later revealed that the singer was making playback when its microphone failed. In that scene, the catchphrases Matando barata, tuxina no toba, coceira na prega, Foi no fogo do amor que o Nunes queimou a rosca and Solte o meu cabelo! became extremely popular.

Repercussion

In early January 2016, a YouTube user from the Amazonas region uploaded a video with the best moments of the Gil vs. Galerito fights, originally intended for the Amazonian viewers. However, the video quickly became a success on other Brazilian regions, reaching similar fame to other memes like Faustão and Pai de Família, being a recurring subject on Brazilian comedy pages like South America Memes.

The return

In February 15, 2016, due to the large repercussion of the meme, Gil (now living in São Paulo) returned to the program, ending up to fight with the show’s new puppet Macaco Lek Lek (which replaced Galerito). A peace deal was tried on the episode of February 24, but falied, followed by Gil’s anniversary celebration on March 23 in which Lek Lek offered to Gil a bra and panties sat, ending up again in confusion.

Why is this funny?

The bizarrity of the show, along with the soundtracks used during it, were an essential step to this fights now being famous nationwide. Another important factor for its popularity is the catchphrases said by the two main characters like Rogério!, Foi no fogo do amor que o Nunes queimou a rosca, Eu gostei do bolo, esse bolo é muito gostoso! and O Diabo não tem pai!.

About

Pardoposting refers to a series of jokes regarding the detective Manny Pardo from the video game Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, the one who will catch the dangerous Miami Mutilator, because of his role as a stereotypical “hard-as-nails” cop, and his pessimistic attitude throughout the game. The jokes often feature the quote “I Was Born With Thick Skin”, said as a reply to a SWAT officer when discussing a murder case.

Origin

After the release of the second Hotline Miami, fans created fan images based on the character Manny Pardo because of his role as a stereotypical “hard-as-nails” cop, and his pessimistic attitude throughout the game. The character says the quote as a reply to a SWAT officer when discussing a murder case.

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Memetics is the study of memes and their social and cultural effects.^[4]

History

In 1976, Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene was published.^[1] In the book Richard Dawkins invented the terms meme and memeticist. The term memeticist is treated in the book as synonymous with one whom would track trends in a market (shown below).^[2]

If it is a style of women’s shoe, the population memeticist may use sales statistics from shoe shops.

Memeticist is analogous to geneticist but instead of being one whom studies genes it’s one whom studies memes.^[3] The memeticist analyzes memes with the assumption they are analogous to genes though this analogy is not perfect.^[3] The exact term memetics is never used in the book but is implied to exist by Richard Dawkin’s term memeticist because one cannot be a memeticist unless one studies memes and memetics is the study of memes. In January, 1983, a column by Douglas Hofstadter was published in Scientific American titled Metamagical Themas which discussed the nature of memes.^[6] In 1985 he published a book containing an eclectic collection of early 1980s articles of his published in Scientific American (shown below).^[7] On page 65 of the book he suggests the study of memes should be called memetics.^[7]

Related Memes

Memes

Memes are broadly defined as culturally transmitted information, or ideas and beliefs that can be spread from one organism, or group of organisms, to another.^[5] A key component to the meme concept is that the information is able to self-replicate, and in turn undergoes a type of natural selection, much like genes. The word was coined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene. He postulated that perhaps not only biological information undergoes natural selection, and that anything that is capable of replicating itself would also be susceptible to selection pressures, like ideas and beliefs.

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#Elbowgate refers to a physical altercation that occurred during an assembly at the House of Commons of Canada in late May 2016, when Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accidentally elbowed New Democrat Party (NDP) member Ruth Ellen Brosseau while attempting to lead Conservative Party whip Gordon Brown to his seat.

Background

On May 18th, 2016, the House of Commons of Canada held a meeting to vote on a motion regarding Bill C-14, which would grant medical practitioners the ability to perform assisted suicides for mentally competent adults. The voting was momentarily delayed when Ruth Ellen Brosseau and other NDP members of the parliament surrounded the Conservative Party whip Gordon Brown to block him from taking his place. Upon witnessing the confrontation, Trudeau briskly walked over and attempted to break off the barricade, during which Brosseau was accidentally struck by Trudeau’s elbow. That day, YouTuber David Akin uploaded video footage of the confrontation (shown below).

Developments

Following the incident, NDP House leader Peter Julian criticized Trudeau’s actions, accusing the Prime Minister of “manhandling” Brown. Additionally, NDP MP Tracey Ramsey claimed Trudeau yelled “get the fuck out of my way” as he “violently” grabbed Brown.

Trudeau’s Response

The same day, Trudeau publicly apologized for his behavior at the House of Commons (shown below).

Online Reaction

That day, the hashtag #elbowgate began trending on Twitter, with some criticizing Trudeau’s actions, some defending the Prime Minister and others mocking the incident.

On May 19th, the Rebel Media YouTube channel uploaded a video titled “Elbowgate is being blown way out of proportion” (shown below). The same day, Redditor tribalDemon submitted a post asking about the scandal to /r/OutOfTheLoop.^[3]

On May 20th, the Canadian political news site Ipolitics^[2] reported that there were over 5,400 tweets mentioning Brosseau and the elbowing incident, with 48% being “negative or critical” of her actions.

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Polygon is a video game news site owned by Vox Media.

History

On October 4th, 2012, Polygon^[1] was launched as the third web property by Vox Media out of the company’s tech news blog The Verge.

Controversies

GamerGate

In the wake of the Zoe Post that spawned the GamerGate movement, many criticized Polygon editor Ben Kuchera for donating to the Patreon page of video game developer Zoe Quinn prior to reviewing her game. On August 26th, Polygon released a statement announcing that all writers must disclose any contributions they have made to developer’s Patreon accounts.

Rock Band 4 Review

On June 1st, 2015, Polygon^[2] published an article about the game Rock Band 4. The article was widely criticized for

The following day, TotalBiscuit posted a dramatic reading of the article on SoundCloud, in which he mimics the accent of a wealthy aristocrat (shown below).

Doom Gameplay Footage

On May 12th, 2016, Polygon uploaded a 30-minute video containing footage from the recently released reboot of the “Doom”: video game series (shown below). In the video, the player is shown moving erratically and repeatedly missing targets while shooting various weapons. After many viewed left comments pointing out the player’s lack of first-person shooter experience, the comments and ratings were disabled for the video. That day, the video was mocked on the /r/gaming^[3] and /r/KotakuInAction^[4] subreddits.

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Phil Kessel is a professional hockey player in the NHL. While playing for the Pittsburgh Penguins, after beating the Tampa Bay Lightning on May 18th, 2016, Phil Kessel was interviewed by Pierre McGuire.The interviewer wanted to know if Phil was out of breath or tired, so he asked, “How’s your breath?”

Phil misinterpreted the question as if the interviewer wanted to know if his breath stunk after playing hockey, so he replied, “Not good, eh?”

The interview instantly went viral, and many news sites began publishing the humorous misunderstanding.

The next game, on May 20th, 2016, The Pittsburgh Penguins, looking to have a little fun, put Listerine mouth wash and an assortment of gum atop Kessel’s dressing room stall, to help him with his “bad breath.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO_YuYTB0ag

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“X has let himself go” is a comment about Stewart Lee on videos, articles about him/by him. The comment makes reference to stewart lees weight gain and how he looks like other celebrities. There are variations and exaggerations of this comment as well

ORIGIN

The seedcrystal of the comment was a video interview with Stewart Lee and Armando Iannucci from the red button special of the 1st series of Stewart lees comedy broadcast in 2009. Stewart Lee then incorporated it into his next stand up tour 41st best stand up routine.

SPREAD

It subsequently spawned fans to start commenting it onto things by Stewart Lee most notably YouTube comments. It then back full circle when Stewart Lee then incorporated internet comments about his weight and similar appearance to other celebrities into his carpet remnant world stand up routine. It is now a staple of comments about Stewart Lee and any video will likely have one if not more.

REFERENCES
TV Tropes: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/StewartLee?from=Main.StewartLee
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdUkotM1uDI
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw6hLzY0-64
Image catalogue: http://almossawi.com/stewartlee/

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Bolbi Stroganovsky is a Jimmy Neutron character and a weird resident exchange student from Backhairistan. He normally speaks broken English with a vaguely Russian or Czech accent, but has a surprisingly good Shakespearean acting voice (but only when auditioning).

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Derived from Absolutely Disgusting meme:

It is used as a response to something the author is greatly disgusted with. “Haram” is sometimes used as a synonym to something that is forbidden online.

Mutations:

The twitter handle “dankmuslimmemes” uses the name “Absolutely Haram”, referencing the meme.

Gif from Fin Punch!, the Cartoon Hangover’s dub of “Personas Cetáceas”, chilean animated web series. The GIF features McClane the dolphin, the protagonist of the show.

Commonly trending on giphy, the image is used on multiple situations, especially when someone wants to play fool on difficult situations.

Used on 9gag: http://9gag.com/gag/a1eyNGv?ref=mobile

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The Face You Make, also known as That Face You Make, is a peculiar type of reaction image in the form of macros meant to convey a peculiar feeling represented by the image itself in reaction to a situation described by the captions over it. As a matter of fact, its usage is related to the colloquial expression My Face When.

Origin

The earliest mention of the phrase “The Face You Make” itself comes from Urban Dictionary. On June 20th, 2003, user Goohead used it for the definition of the phrase “Gas Face”^[1], to describe a facial expression commonly assiocated with bahtroom antics:

gas face

the face you make when taking a shit or blowing a fart. popularized by 3rd Bass in the 80’s

elroy cohen gets the gas face!

It quickly became a recurring type-phrase at the beginning of a definition for different entries about facial expressions within the site.

On March 2nd, 2006, blogger Charley Campbell used the phrase in order to comment on a photograph showing him with a peculiar facial expression when packing stuff in order to move out to Florida^[2].

This is the face you make after putting boxes back together and and slowly start packing them up. I have total ADD right now. Anything will draw my attention away from packing. Even the ceiling.

The phrase was eventually incorporated as a caption in an image as early as 2012^[3], to express the feeling when someone else is talking to someone one has a crush on (shown below). The 9gag watermark as well as a the source linking to a defunct Tumblr page show that the image may have existed prior.

Related Trend: My Face When

My Face When (also shortened as “>mfw”) is a colloquial phrase commonly used on 4chan imageboards since at least late 2009 as the opening line of reply posts and greentext stories in particular. The phrase is used in forum discussions to discuss how users would respond to a given situation, whether it be hypothetical or based on experiences of real life, using a reaction image coupled with the phrase.

Spread

On November 8th, 2013, a picture of 30 Rock’s character Liz Lemon (portrayed by Tina Fey) rolling her eyes in contempt was submitted to the Meme Generator website, under the title “That Face You Make”. Although it didn’t start a noticeable, it still led to about 250 parodies made on the site as of May 2016.
Macros of different characters’ and celebrities’ faces with the capion “The Face You Make” began popping up on the web without necessarily pertaining to their own memes, as evidenced by parodies appearing on Tumblr^[4].
Two compilations of images were also hosted on the AwesomeInventions.com website^[5].

Robert Downey Jr. My Face When

Inspired by the meme involving actor Robert Downey Jr. rolling his eyes with his arms crossed, a photograph of that moment was reposted to the Imgflip website, under the title “Face You Make Robert Downey Jr”. It led to more than 131 pages of parodies made on the site.

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External References

^[1]Urban Dictionary – Gas Face

^[2]FooChuck.com – Moving To FL Pt 1: If Packing Is Hell, Consider Me Lucifer

^[3]SayingImages.com – The face you make when someone starts talking to your crush

^[4]Tumblr – Tagged posts with ‘That Face You Make’

^[5]AwesomeInventions.com – 14 HILARIOUS‘THE FACEYOUMAKE WHEN…’ IMAGES– PART 1

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Eye Rolling Robert Downey Jr. refers to an “animated gif”: of actor Robert Downey Jr. rolling his eyes in contempt with his arms crossed. It became a “reaction image”: used to express annoyance on the internet, either in the form of gif animations or image macros.

Origin

In the 2012 Blockbuster film The Avengers, a scene involves Tony Stark (played by Robert Downey Jr.), reacts to the fact that Captain America (played by Chris Evans) candidly exclaimed that he understood the referenceNick Fury (played by Samuel L. Jackson) uttered by crossing his arms and rolling his eyes in contempt (shown below, left). A cropped-up version was soon posted online (shown below, right).

Spread

On its own, the animation was mainly used as a reaction face on various boards and forums a pink-out still image was uploaded to “Meme Generator”: on March 29th, 2013, titled “Robert Downey Junior face”^[1], accumulating to over 14 000 parodies and ranking #486 on the site, as of May 2016.
The same image was reposted to Imgflip, leading to more than 130 pages of parodies^[2], as part of the The Face You Make meme.

Various Examples

External References

^[1]Meme Generator – Robert Downey Junior face

^[2]Imgflip – Face You Make Robert Downey Jr