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Candace Payne’s Chewbacca Mask refers to a viral video uploaded to Facebook by Texas resident Candace Panye in late May 2016, in which she is shown wearing a mask for the Star Wars character Chewbacca while laughing hysterically in her car. The recording quickly became the most-viewed Facebook Live video in history, landing Payne interviews with several major publications and television shows.

Origin

On May 19th, 2016, Facebook user Candace Payne uploaded a video of herself sitting in her car while enthusiastically presenting a Chewbacca mask she recently purchased at a Kohl’s store (shown below). While demonstrating the mask’s ability to produce a growling noise out of its built-in speaker, Payne begins to laugh excitedly and exclaims “I’m such a happy Chewbacca!” Within six days, the video gained over 145 million views, 3.2 million shares and 2.6 million reactions.

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On May 19th, YouTuber Jon Deak reuploaded Payne’s video, receiving more than 3.1 million views and 3,900 comments.^[1] The following day, Redditor PI_Producer posted the video to /r/videos,^[4] where it gathered upwards of 11,500 votes (72% upvoted) and 3,000 comments in five days. On May 21st, actor Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca in the original Star Wars trilogy, posted a tweet praising Payne for her video (shown below).^[2]

That day, other Twitter users began posting about the video using the hashtag #HappyChewbacca.^[3] Also on May 21st, Kohl’s posted a video to Facebook of a store representative delivering various Star Wars merchandise to the Payne family along with $2,500 in gift cards to the store. Within four days, the video gathered upwards of 32 million views, 725,000 reactions and 505,000 shares.

Meanwhile, the pop culture blog Crave^[5] reported that the Chewbacca mask had sold out at various toy stores across the United States and United Kingdom. On May 23rd, Payne appeared in a comedy sketch about the video on The Late Show with James Cordon (shown below).

That day, the schmoyoho YouTube channel posted a songified remix of Payne’s original video (shown below). Also on May 23rd, Payne was interviewed on the morning talk show Good Morning America (shown below, right).

On May 24th, Payne visited the Facebook headquarters, where she was greeted by the Facebook Live team and given an award from the company (shown below).

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Zakia Belkhiri’s Selfie Protest refers to a series of selfies taken by 22-year-old Belgian Muslim woman Zakia Belkhiri in front of an anti-Muslim demonstration held in Antwerp, Belgium in May 2016. Upon the online publication of a photograph depicting the woman’s selfie moment, the image quickly went viral, with many news outlets praising it as a symbolic act of defiance against Islamophobia, though it soon became a target of online backlash after the woman’s history of anti-semitic remarks in the social media came to light.

Background

On May 14th, 2016, the third annual Muslim Expo, a weekend-long festival celebrating the lifestyle and culture of Muslims, was held in Antwerp, Belgium. During the second day of the event, around 40 members of Belgium’s right-wing political party Vlaams Belang gathered outside the premise of the event for a protest with anti-Islamic picket signs reading messages like “No headscarves,” “No mosques,” and “Stop Islam.” As the demonstration continued, a 22-year-old Muslim woman named Zakia Belkhiri decided to stage a subtle counter-protest by posing for some selfies in front of the picket line, a scene that was captured by photographer Jürgen Augusteyns.

Developments

That same day, Augusteyns’s photograph was published by the Dutch edition of VICE^[1], while additional photographs of the woman taken by other attendees and bystanders at the event also began circulating on Twitter.^[2][3]

News Media Coverage

In the following days, several dozens of English-language news outlets reported on Belkhiri’s protest selfie, including Vox^[8], BuzzFeed^[9], Mashable^[7], Mic^[3], Huffington Post^[10], BBC News^[6] and Telegraph^[5], with many of them describing her action as “fearless,” “inspirational” and “defiant.”

Belkhiri’s Anti-Semitic Remarks

On May 19th, Dutch news site Geenstijl^[12] ran an article exposing a history of anti-semitic remarks posted by Belkhiri on her Twitter, Facebook, and Ask.fm accounts, including screenshots of an offensive tweet she had posted in December 2012, which read “Hitler didnt kill all the jews, he left some. So we [would] know why he was killing them,” and her Ask.fm post declaring “Fuck that Jewish language” (shown below). By May 21st, Belkhiri’s anti-Semitic commentaries had been picked up by Breitbart^[13], as well as some of the aforementioned news sites.^[14][15]

Belkhiri’s Response

On May 20th, as the backlash against Belkhiri continued to escalate in the wake of the revelations, she promptly deleted all of her social media accounts. Two days later, Belkhiri temporarily reinstated her Twitter account to address the accusations of anti-semitism (shown below).

Later on, Belkhiri issued a lengthy apology to “everyone in the Jewish community which I’ve hurt with my comments of several years ago,” adding that “I am not an anti-Semite. Even if it seems so because I haven’t thought of deleting my angry comments from when I was younger and ignorant.”

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Lolirock is a 2014 French 2D-animated cartoon series created by Jean-Louis Vandestoc and produced by Marathon Media. The show, about Iris and her friends Auriana and Talia as they fight off the evil wizard Gramorr and save their home planet of Ephedia, gained a niche following on some communities like Tumblr after its English release in mid 2016.

Premise

Set in the lakeside town of Sunny Bay, the show focuses on Iris, a teenage girl who, with her new friends Talia and Auriana, perform in an all-girl pop group called Lolirock, while also warding off the forces of the evil wizard Gramorr and his minions, twins Mephisto and Praxina, as the magical princesses of the kingdoms Ephedia, Xeris, and Volta respectively. To defeat Gramorr and save their home planet of Ephedia, they must also collect the Oracle Gems, jewels that belong on the the crown of Ephedia and contain untapped power.

History

The show was created by Jean-Louis Vandestoc, who previously worked on other Marathon Media-produced shows such as Martin Mystery, Rekkit Rabbit, and Monster Buster Club.^[2] Prior to airing, Marathon produced animated music videos for some of the songs featured in the show as promotional material (example shown below, left). The show would would eventually premiere on October 18, 2014 on French TV channel France 3. The show would eventually spread to sister channel France 4 and Disney Channel France along with being aired in other countries such as Spain, Italy, and Portugal. On May 1st, 2016, the show made its official English premiere on streaming service Netflix (trailer shown below, right).

Reception

The show currently has an IMDb rating of 7.9/10 from 61 users as of May 2016.^[1]

Online Relevance

The show’s official Facebook page has garnered over 7,600 likes as of May 2016^[3], while the show’s Twitter account has only amassed over 400 followers.^[4] A Lolirocksubreddit was created by Redditor chowdertheclam on Sept. 15, 2014, garnering only 8 subscribers as of May 2016.^[5] A dedicated wiki also exists with over 200 pages since its creation.^[6] The show’s production blog on Tumblr, however has accumulated over 1000 followers since its creation.^[7] Youtube channels for the official show in English^[8] and in French^[9] also exist, with the French channel having over 32,000 subscribers, while the English channel only having over 5,000 subscribers. The show has also been considered as a cousin show by fans of Miraculous Ladybug and its creator, Thomas Astruc^[10], who also works on the show as a storyboard artist.^[11]

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Burnout is a racing game series by developed by Criterion Games and published by Electronic Arts (EA).

The series dives itself deeply into the high-speed and crashing aspects of the racing genre, with iconic gameplay features such as causing other vehicles to total with Takedowns to earn extra Boost and the popular Crash mode.

Since the release of Burnout 3: Takedown, the series gained critical acclaim and received a large fanbase.

The series’ gameplay inspired a 2010 reboot of the Hot Pursuit game of the Need For Speed series, by the same developer, Criterion Games.

History

With Acclaim Entertainment (2001-2004)

Criterion Games was owned by Acclaim Entertainment, responsible for publishing the first two Burnout games, until Acclaim went defunct in September 2004 and Criterion Games is currently a subsidiary of Electronic Arts (EA).

Burnout (2001)

The first installment of the series, Burnout was released for the Sony PlayStation 2 systems in November 1, 2001 (NA region), November 16, 2001 (EU region) and for the MicrosoftXbox and Nintendo GameCube systems in 29 April, 2002 (NA region) and 3 May, 2002 (EU region). ^[1]

The main gameplay mode, Championship mode, where you choose to compete in race events with three other opponents on various tracks. With the difficulty rising up when further into the mode, there are Face-Off events where your opportunity is to beat the rival in the race in order to acquire his vehicle.

The game received a favourable review on all platforms and a metascore of 79 based on 25 reviews according to Metacritic. ^[2]

Burnout 2: Point of Impact (2002)

The first sequel of the series, Burnout 2: Point of Impact was released for the Sony PlayStation 2 systems in 30 November, 2002 (NA region), 11 October, 2002 (EU region). The first Burnout game to be released in Japan was two years after the first release in 1 April, 2004.
The game was also released for the Microsoft Xbox and Nintendo GameCube systems in 9 April 2003 (GameCube NA region), 1 May, 2003 (Xbox NA region), 9 May, 2003 (EU region for both systems)^[3]

The game introduces Crash mode to the series, the strategic aspect of the game, where you use a vehicle to cause as much cost to damages from colliding into the traffic in different scenarios to exceed the target score.

Burnout 3: Takedown (2004)

The first game of the series published by EA, Burnout 3: Takedown was released to Sony PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Xbox systems in 7 September, 2004 (NA Region), 10 September 2004 (PAL region) and 14 October, 2004 (JP region). ^[4]
The game introduced the Road Rage mode, where the player has to score as many takedowns toward opponents before getting totaled and also introduced the Impact Time feature, where you control your vehicle after crashing to total other opponents coming by, which is known as Aftertouch Takedowns.

The game received universal acclaim on both platforms according to Metacritic ^[5] and received a 9.5 out of 10 from IGN

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Samination (formerly known as Ebolaworld) is an animation website created by Samuel T Nelson. His animations are best recognized as Taco-Man Plays a Video Game, Unbelievably Messed-Up Bible Stories, and Snowy The Frostman.

Ebolaworld Origin

in 2001, web animator Samuel T Nelson starting an animation website known as Ebolaworld. He started with animations The Stupid Adventures Of Taco-Man, Grandpa, The Smurks, and The Good Life, as his main animation series. In 2003, Samuel made a Newgrounds account to expand his Ebolaworld website. His first animation he submitted on Newgrounds is The George Bush Show, follow by Smokey, Grandpa, and the Taco-Man series. His other animations stays as a exclusive to his website.

In 2008, Samuel made a YouTube account to expand his Ebolaworld website even further, submitting his flash animations into videos. There he started submitting his animations as videos, including two new Taco-Man series, Taco-Man Plays a Video Game, and Taco-Man And The Game Master.

Samination

In 2014, he submitted a video titled EBOLAWORLD IS DEAD, announcing his title change from Ebolaworld to Samination. In the video Samuel explain he always wanted a name change since 2006, and to due to the 2014 Ebola Outbreak that takes place in West Africa.

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^[4]Newgrounds – Samination

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^[6]Patreon – Samination

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#BernieLostMe is a hashtag used by supporters of the Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to share their reasons as to why the rival candidate Bernie Sanders is the less suitable nominee for the Democratic National Convention, which began trending after Sanders refused to denounce some of his supporters who behaved violently at the Nevada Democratic Convention in May 2016.

Origin

On May 14th, 2016, Nevada Democratic Party held its convention at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel in Las Vegas as the final stage of the state’s delegate selection process. While Hillary Clinton had already emerged as the winner of the Nevada caucuses in February, many supporters of Bernie Sanders showed up at the convention with high hopes that the final count of the delegates would swing in Sanders’ favor. During the procession, chaos suddenly erupted from the crowds when the party officials declined to accept the credentials of nearly 60 of Sanders’ prospective delegates, which made them ineligible for the final count and thusly Hillary Clinton emerged as the winning candidate.

Many supporters of Sanders in the crowd reacted angrily to their ruling with jeers and violence, ultimately prompting the staff to conclude the event early to ensure the safety of the participants. While the degree of violence at the scene has been disputed by supporters of both candidates, many major news outlets reported that chairs and other objects were thrown around and the state party’s chairwoman Barbara Boxer was harassed with death threats.

Bernie Sander’s Response

On May 17th, Bernie Sanders issued a response to the incident amidst growing pressures from the Democratic Party to denounce his supporters’ acts of violence. However, Sanders defiantly dismissed the complaints of the Nevada party officials as “nonsense” in defense of his supporters.

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On May 18th, the hashtag #BernieLostMe began trending on Twitter as many supporters of Clinton and undecided voters expressed their disappointment at Sanders’ response, particularly from Black Democratic voters. That same day, The New Civil Rights Movement reported on the trending status of #BernieLostMe.

On May 19th, #BernieLostMe was picked up by grassroot supporters of both Democratic candidates, with some Sanders supporters on Reddit and 4chan calling for a hijack of the hashtag, as well as various news outlets and political news blogs, including ABC News, AOL News, Complex, Wired, Mic, Red Alert Politics and Paste Magazine.

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Following the initial period of trending, the hashtag also became a target of parodies and satires among supporters of Bernie Sanders and Republican presidential candidates alike.

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“In a World of Full of Kardashians, Be A…” is an inspirational image macro series encouraging women to find their inner beauty through virtues of uniqueness, grace and courage that have been associated with various female icons, as opposed to glamour and sex appeal that are often attributed to the fame of the Kardashian family.

Origin

On September 11th, 2014, Twitter user @asyraf.ƶ uploaded the earliest known derivative instance of the image macro featuring a reference to Khadijah (R.A), the first wife of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (shown below).

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Midnight Club is a open-world racing game series developed by Rockstar San Diego and published by Rockstar Games. The series is one of the early pioneers of the open-world video game genre. The series consists in urban competitive street racing in open city environments such as, New York, London, Los Angeles, Paris and Tokyo and so on.
The series is a spiritual successor to the Midtown Madness series, the first two games whom Rockstar San Diego had worked on for Microsoft Studios when they were called Angel Studios.

Gameplay

The series has many race modes, such as Ordered Races, which are set up with checkpoints, rather than a closed track race or Unordered Races where you can trigger every checkpoint in any order and return to the start/finish point. The game’s open environments give the player opportunities to advance to the next checkpoint through many different routes.

History

Midnight Club: Street Racing (2000)

The first installment of the series, Midnight Club: Street Racing was released for the Sony PlayStation 2 systems on October 25, 2000 (NA region), December 8, 2000 (PAL region), March 1, 2001 (JP region).

Midnight Club II (2003)

The sequel of the series, Midnight Club II was released for the Sony PlayStation 2, Microsoft Xbox and Windows systems on April 19, 2003 (PS2 NA region), May 2, 2003 (PS2 EU region), June 2, 2003 (Xbox NA region), June 20, 2003 (Xbox EU region), June 30, 2003 (Windows NA region), July 11, 2003 (Windows EU region).

Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition (2005)

Midnight Club: Los Angeles (2008)

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Sonic Comics are comics made about Sonic the Hedgehog published by Archie Comics with the help of Sega. The main Sonic Comics series Sonic the Hedgehog holds the world record for longest running comic book series based on a video game^[2] and is the longest running comic book series based on a franchise.^[3]

History

Sonic the hedgehog first appeared in a 16-page promotional comic released in 1991 in an effort to advertise Sonic for the Mega Drive (shown below).^[1]

In November 1992, Archie Comics published Issue 0 of the Original Sonic Miniseries.^[4] It was the first in a four-issue series published monthly from November 1992 to February, 1993. The Original Sonic Miniseries served as the basis for the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series which retconned many events of the miniseries as the series became more serious.^[5] Issue 1 of the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series was published in May, 1993.^[6] On September 9th, 2015, issue 276 of the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series was released (reviewed below), making it the longest running comic series based on a franchise,^[3] surpassing Conan the Barbarian’s record with its 275-issue series.^[7]

Characters

Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic Universe have both invented a large cast of popular characters in the Sonic fandom. Notable fan-adored characters invented by these comic series include Sally, Rotor, Antoine, Bunny, Scourge the hedgehog, Ixis Naugus, Mammoth Mogul, and RoboRobotnik who later became known as Eggman.

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Editor’s Note: This entry contains plot spoilers to Captain America: Steve Rogers.

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Captain Hydra is a nickname given to the Marvel Comics superhero Captain America in the light of the shocking plot twist that Steve Rogers, the original alter ego of Captain America, has long been a covert agent of HYDRA, the terrorist-paramilitary organization, as revealed in the first issue of Marvel’s comic book series Captain America: Steve Rogers released in May 2016.

Origin

On May 25th, 2016, Marvel Comics released the first issue of Captain America: Steve Rogers^[1], a new comic book series in the Captain America franchise written by Nick Spencer and illustrated by artist Jesus Saiz. In the comic, Steve Rogers, the superhero’s original alter ego who was succeeded by Sam Wilson after his superpowers were neutralized as a result of removing the supersoldier serum from his body, reprises his role as Captain America, who makes a shocking confession that he has been a longtime secret operative for HYDRA ever since he and his mother were recruited by the evil organization during his childhood. In the final panel of the issue, Steve Rogers pushes one of his colleagues, Jack Flag, out of an airplane and utters the phrase “Hail HYDRA” (shown below).

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Immediately upon the release of Captain America: Steve Rogers #1 on May 25th, the shocking reveal of Captain America’s true identity was met with overwhelmingly negative responses from the fans of the Marvel comic franchise on Twitter^[6][18], Tumblr^[20] and 4chan^{[7][8][9][10][11]}, not to mention a similar sense of skepticism from various comic book news sites and blogs^{[3][4][13][14][15]} as well as entertainment news sites.^{[5][16][17][21]} On March 26th, Chris Evans, the American actor best known for his role as the Marvel Comics superhero Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, tweeted his reaction to the plot twist using the hashtag #sayitaintso (shown below). In less than 24 hours, Evans’ tweet garnered more than 88,000 retweets and over 100,000 likes.

On May 27th, Internet artist @BossLogic shared a concept artwork visualizing how Chris Evans would look as the so-called “Captain Hydra” (shown below).

Meanwhile on 4chan’s /co/ (comics and cartoon) community, many disgruntled fans of Marvel Comics began churning out photoshopped parodies based on the exploitable image of Captain America saluting “Hail Hydra” in the final panel of the comic book.

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Gucci Mane, (first name Radric Davis), is an American rapper. Gucci is known for being one of the first and most popular trap rappers, and popularizing the genre. Online, Gucci gained popularity after the meme, Bitch I Might Be. Gucci has also gained notably for his frequency in jail, including 2 sentences in 2005 and 2009 respectively, and a jail sentence from 2013 to 2016, as well.

Origin

Gucci Mane was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and moved to Atlanta, Georgia at the age of 9^[1]. Gucci released his debut album “Trap House”. In that same year, Gucci was charged with murder after one of her companions fired at a group of men who were trying to steal his trademark gold chain. While the case, was eventually dropped in January 2006, due to insufficient evidence, he was hit by another legal issue, cited of assaulting a nightclub promoter, and granted a six-month prison sentence for the assault. He was released from jail in the same month of his murder case was dismissed.

In November 2009 during when he planned to release another studio album, Gucci was sentenced to 12 months in jail for violating probation which was stemmed from the 2006 assault case. Later in 2013, he was charged with attacking a fan, as well as two counts of possession of firearms.

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Bitch I Might Be

Bitch I Might Be is an ambiguous retort falsely attributed to Atlanta-based rapper Gucci Mane in a photoshopped image posted to Reddit in April of 2013. The phrase is often used in text posts and image macro captions shared on the microblogging site Tumblr.

Free Gucci

Free Gucci is a popular phrase, stemming from the incarceration of Gucci, most notably his sentence from 2013 to 2016. The phrase, according to the site Hashtracking^[3], has been tweeted just under 1000 times under #freegucci. The incarceration has caused many artists, specifically on the site Soundcloud, which accounts for over 4,500,000 plays.^[4]

Burr

Burr is a phrase coined by Gucci, to describe something that’s great, as well as describing the diamonds on the jewelry he wears. In 2009, an Urban Dictionary definition of the phrase^[2] was posted, describing the phrase as “Coined by Gucci Mane, referring to how icy his chains are”.

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Simpsonwave refers to the trend of remixing clips from the American cartoon sitcom series The Simpsonswith vaporwave-esque music and aesthetic visual effects. The trend gained popularity in early 2016, inspiring several parodies.

Origin

One of the earliest examples of the trend comes from a Vine by user Spicster submited on October 27th, 2015. In the video, a scene from the season seven episode Bart on the Road^[1] is remixed with the song Resonance by chillwave artist HOME.^[1] In the following eight months, the vine gained over 21.9 million loops, and a reupload by Youtuber Ｅｚｅｋ gained over 400,000 views in the following six months.

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On December 3rd, Youtuber Hothi uploaded a video titled “ＢＡＲＴ ＯＮ ＴＨＥ ＲＯＡＤ”, featuring a GIF with aesthetic visuals and Resonance, gaining over 192,000 views in the following six months. On February 5th, 2016, Youtuber Lucien Hughes uploaded a video titled “ＨＯＭＥＲＳＣＡＰＥ － １９９２ 美的”, combining a scene from the series with the song ピコ from the vaporwave artist Macintosh Plus, gaining over 44,000 views in the following three months.

During the following weeks, Lucien Hughes uploaded several videos to their account, groupping them under a playlist titled ＳＩＭＰＳＯＮＷＡＶＥ,^[4] being the most popular of the bunch “ＳＵＮＤＡＹ ＳＣＨＯＯＬ”, uploaded on February 29th and gaining over 900,000 views in the following three months. On April 6th, a dedicated subreddit was created, gaining over 470 subscribers in the following month. On April 10th, Youtuber FrankJavCee uploaded a video titled “HOW TO ＳＩＭＰＳＯＮＷＡＶＥ”, in which resumes the trend and makes his own Simpsonwave video, gaining over 188,000 views in the following months.

On May 26th, Youtuber This Exists uploaded a video titled “Is ＳＩＭＰＳＯＮＷＡＶＥ a joke?”, where the history of the trend is discussed. In the following two days, the video gained over 72,000 views.

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Koichi Window Edits refers to an exploitable scene in the 2016 animated adaptation of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable which shows secondary protagonist Koichi Hirose in shock after seeing something from outside the window.

Origins

The scene originated in Chapter 296 of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure (shown below, left) which was later animated in the 8th episode of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable which first aired on May 20th, 2016 (shown below, right). In the episode, Koichi awakens from a dream involving antagonist Yukako Yamagishi only to discover she has been in front of his window this whole time, prompting him to become shocked in fear.

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Garfield is an American comic strip created by cartoonist Jim Davis. The strip has been running since 1978, making Garfield the longest-running active comic strip as of June 2016. The comics follow the misadventures of Garfield the cat, his owner, Jon, and Jon’s pet dog, Odie. It currently holds the Guinness World Record for being the world’s most widely syndicated comic, with 2,580 newspapers and journals syndicating it along with 300 million readers each day.

Origin

In the 1970’s, Davis had worked on a strip called Gnorm Gnat, which was met with very little success. One editor claimed his gags and his form of writing were great, but that nobody could identify with bugs. Davis noted to himself that there didn’t seem to be any comic strips revolving around a cat as the main character. Since he had grown up with 25 cats on a farm in Muncie, Indiana, where Garfield takes place, Davis decided to create Garfield. He took the name of the titular character after his grandfather, James A. Garfield Davis. The owner’s name, Jon Arbuckle, came from a 1950’s coffee commercial, and Odie’s name was recycled from a car dealership commercial that Davis had worked on, featuring Odie the Village Idiot. On June 19th, 1978, United Feature Syndicate agreed to have Garfield make it’s debut on 41 newspapers. In his early years, Garfield appeared larger with smaller eyes and walked on all fours, but he would eventually stand up on two legs and have larger features during the 1990s.

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Less than three years after Garfield’s release, the strip accumulated $15 million in merchandise and was being syndicated in over 850 newspapers. Davis founded the company of PAWS, Inc. to manage the merchandise. By 2002, Garfield was the world’s most widely syndicated strip, appearing in 2,570 newspapers with 263 million worldwide readers. By 2004, Garfield had generated $1 billion in revenue along with the strip being syndicated in over 111 countries. Today, rights for the strip remain with PAWS, Inc., although the strip is now currently distributed by Universal Press Syndicate rather than United Feature Syndicate.

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Internet

Garfield.com, the official website for Garfield, was launched in 1996, albeit initially to little fanfare. Jim Davis collaborated with Ball State University and Pearson Digital Learning to create Professor Garfield, a site with educational games focusing on math and language arts skills.

Television & Film

On May 15th, 1980, CBS aired The Fantastic Funnies, which included Garfield as one of the strips featured in the episode, making it Garfield’s official animation debut. From 1988 to 1994, the animated TV series Garfield and Friends aired. In 2007, to coincide with the strip’s approaching 30-year anniversary, The Garfield Show first aired on Cartoon Network as a television CGI series. On June 11, 2004, Garfield: The Movie was released in theaters, along with the sequel Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties in 2006. Three direct-to-video films were created between 2007 and 2009. On May 24th, 2016, Alcon Entertainment announced that it had been planning to begin filming a new CGIGarfield movie, produced by John Cohen and Steven P. Wegner.

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Garfielf

Garfielf refers to an intentionally poor-quality parody video of Garfield. On April 4th, 2013, the video was uploaded onto YouTube. In the video, the characters are poorly drawn and uses Text-to-Speech narration.

Garfield Minus Garfield

Garfield Minus Garfield is a web based comic strip created by Dan Walsh that rose to prominence in 2008. Each strip is a reprint of previous Garfield strips, but Garfield is digitally removed from them, generally just consisting of Garfield’s owner Jon Arbuckle interacting with himself. The strip’s website characterizes it as “a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young every-man as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb”.

Garfield Parodies

Garfield Parodies are parodies of previous Garfield comic strips that can be used as exploitables. Garfield Minus Garfield is an example of one of these.

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“GARY! YOUAREGONNAFINISHYOURDESSERT! ANDYOUAREGONNALIKE IT!” is a quote has quickly become popular and is used throughout the Internet. It also gained several remixes, spoofs, and videos of people imitating SpongeBob’s quote.

Origin

Near the end of the episode “Diying For Pie”, Squidward tells SpongeBob that he was supposed to explode. Therefore, SpongeBob “explodes” by yelling "Gary, you are gonna finish your dessert, and you are gonna like it!”

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The Term Vegan refers to a lifestyle that asbtains from eating or using anything made by or of animals. Unlike Vegetarians, Vegans cannot consume Dairy. While some Vegans consider this to simply be a life choice, others consider a Moral decision, claiming that it is wrong to kill animals to use them for food.

In a vein of SJWing, a loud, (hopefully) minority of Vegans on social media sites proudly declare themselves as Vegans, and demonize anyone who does not adhere to their ideals, including Vegetarians, as they still, “Subject animals to Slavery”. This has led to many users of these sites creating a simple game called, “spot the Vegan”

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In Blizzard’s 2016 game, Overwatch, the “Play of the Game” sequence is shown at the end of a match to display the most impressive feat performed in that particular match. Shortly after the release of Overwatch on May 24, 2016, players began making spoofs of the Play of the Game sequence, subverting expectations by replacing actual gameplay footage with somewhat related, humorous content.

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“i can be your angle….or yuor devil” refers to a phrase, often accompanying a pair of juxtaposed pictures depicting opposite characteristics of a character or individual. The phrase is often used on cringe boards or to refer to cringeworthy material.

Origin

On January 31th, 2016, Twitter‏ user @snakelord87 made a Tweet (Shown, below) with the caption “i can be your angle….or yuor devil” accompanied by two pictures ^[2][3] previously shared by Youtuber Arin Hanson. which has garnered over 20,000 likes and retweets within three months.

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Reddit user dd1zzle posted in the /r/gamegrumps subreddit a screencap of the original Tweet, it has over 4,000 points (92% upvoted) and over 600,000 views on Imgur^[6] as of May 2016. In mid-April, Tumblr user jonsbeard posted a variation featuring JonTron / Jon Jafari and in late May, user confectioneryvixen ^[4] made an Overwatch-themed post with the phrase, and as of late May, 2016 both of these posts have accumulated over 1,000 notes.

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Kieran Smith is probably the god of all memes. This god meme was discovered on Whovian’s Amino late 2015. Known for his grammatical errors, this meme can strike you down with a mere thought. He is also a confirmed Britain First supporter and in general jobless immigrant hater.