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Sarah’s Scribbles is a webcomic written and illustrated by cartoonist Sarah C. Andersen.

Origin

On December 10th 2011, Andersen posted her first comic onto Tumblr^[1] with the caption, “I decided to start posting comics I make about my life. Maybe other art students will relate to this…” Originally, the comic was called “Doodle Time,” but Andersen changed it when GoComics decided to syndicate the comic.^[2]

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“Doodle Time” quickly garnered attention. Andersen’s first comic has attracted over 4800 notes on Tumblr as of July 25th, 2016. Soon, she was picked up by larger blogs like Tastefully Offensive, who started regularly posting her work. One comic, “Waking Up,”^[3] Andersen considers the moment she went “truly ‘viral.’” The comic has over 128,000 notes as of July 25th, 2016.

Sarah’s Scribbles has continued to grow to due its relatable nature. The webcomic’s Facebook page has over 1,000,000 likes,^[4] and Andersen’s personal Twitter has over 134,000 followers.^[5]

On March 8th, 2016, Andersen released a book of Sarah’s Scribbles comics, Adulthood is a Myth: A “Sarah’s Scribbles” Collection.^[6]

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Running Joe Budden is a photoshop and reaction image series based on several videos of rapper Joe Budden chasing down two young men for filming him in his driveway.

Origin

On July 24th, several Snapchat videos began circulating on Twitter, showing two young men approaching Joe Budden in his driveway, who subsequently chases them down for disturbing him (shown below).^[2][3][4][9] In several of the tweets, the two men are described as fans of Drake and his record label OVO Sound.

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That same day, Twitter user @PhillyCustoms^[5] posted a tweet juxtaposing a screen capture of Budden running juxtaposed next to a screen capture of the T-1000 android assassin from the 1990 science fiction film Terminator 2: Judgement Day (shown below, left). Within 24 hours, the tweet gained over 1,600 retweets and 1,000 likes. Meanwhile, Twitter user @the_blueprint posted a screencapture of Budden staring into a car window with a caption referencing Budden’s 2003 hip hop song “Pump It Up” (shown below, right).

Additionally, several Twitter users posted photoshops featuring a screenshot of Budden running superimposed into a variety of humorous contexts (shown below).^[6][7][8]

Also on July 24th, Budden tweeted^[3]“these are some of the greatest memes ever,” but warned against kids approaching strangers homes (shown below). Within 24 hours, the tweet gained over 5,800 retweets and 5,200 likes. In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the online reaction to the videos, including Complex,^[10] UpRoxx,^[11] Metro^[12] and VH1.^[13]

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Bass Cannon is a is a popular meme for the My Little Pony fanbase with music videos, images and more.

Origin

In Apr 22, 2012, Youtuber Alligator Tub Productions uploaded a video called “Epic Wub Time: Musicians of Ponyville”. It gained over 6,187,046 views and 26,325 Comments. (shown below)

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On Jun 19, 2013, Youtuber 1KidsEntertainment (Elite3) uploaded a video called" Nowacking (Vinyl Scratch) Saying “Bass Cannon” Around 700 Times". It gained over 126,048 views and 2,039 Comments. (shown below)

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2016 Democratic National Committee Email Leak is an ongoing political scandal surrounding a series of internal correspondences among the staff members of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in which they discuss various tactics to undermine the campaign of Bernie Sanders in order to secure Hillary Clinton’s victory in the primaries. While the source of the leak remains unknown, the emails were published by the online whistleblowing organization WikiLeaks in late July 2016.

Background

On July 22nd, 2016, Wikileaks^[9] published a collection of nearly 20,000 e-mails exchanged among key staff members within the Democratic National Committee (DNC), the governing body of the United States Democratic Party, as well as unofficial correspondences with members of the press, between January 2015 and May 2016. Among other findings, the leaked emails detail how several officials within the DNC, which is supposed to remain neutral during the primary electoral process, had attempted to sabotage Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign in order to secure the victory of Hillary Clinton.

Developments

DNC Chairperson’s Resignation

On July 24th, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, United States congresswoman and the chairwoman of the DNC, announced her immediate resignation from the position in the aftermath of the leak. In addition, Schultz’ scheduled appearances at the Democratic National Convention on the following week were cancelled.

Official Responses

In response to the revelation, Bernie Sanders expressed that he was “disappointed” by the leak, though “not shocked,” and urged Schultz to resign from the chair, while Terry McAuliffe, Governor of Virginia who previously served as the DNC chairman, slammed the findings from the emails as “totally unacceptable behavior.” On July 24th, Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook publicly alleged that the leak was orchestrated by Russian hackers in an effort to help Donald Trump win the election.

Source of Origin

Although WikiLeaks has not disclosed any information regarding the identity of its source, several Democratic party officials have alleged that Russian hackers were behind the breach of the DNC email servers, while a lone hacker who goes by the handle “Guccifer 2.0,” a tribute to the pseudonym used by the convicted Romanian hacker Marcel Lazar Lehel, has claimed responsibility for providing The Hill and WikiLeaks with the emails, in addition to a string of smaller-scale leaks of DNC internal documents that have been released via Twitter between late June and early July.

FBI Investigation

On July 25th, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a statement confirming its investigation of a Russian hack into the DNC’s email servers that had occurred on June 14th, an incident that quickly became implicated as a possible origin of the leak by major news outlets over the weekend. However, the agency did not officially confirm the involvement of the Russian cyber attacks as the source of the leak.

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So the meme was orignally posted on a “Post your MEMEs here” thread. The thread itself was a contest in which the winner meme would be popularized by the OP. This meme advocates to a funny chat between a German and a South Korean bernd which is shown in the left bottom corner.

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The #M7Challenge is an African TwitterPhoto Fad and Photoshop meme in which users playfully skewer a picture of Ugandan president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni sitting in a chair taking a phone call on the side of a road.

Origin

On July 12th, 2016, Museveni posted a series of photos of him taking a call and chatting with citizens on the side of the road connecting Uganda to Tanzania through Isingiro to Facebook^[1] with the caption:

On the way from Isingiro District where I had presided over the World Population Day celebrations yesterday, I stopped at Kyeirumba Village to make an urgent phone call and also had a brief chat with the residents. They thanked the government for tarmacking the road that connects Uganda to Tanzania through Isingiro. The 74km road cost Shs178 billion. The residents also asked that government engages solar panel distributors to reduce cost. We shall follow up on this.

The post has over 2800 likes and reactions as of July 26th, 2016.

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Shortly after Museveni’s post, journalist Rachael Akidi posted the pictures to Twitter.^[2] A little over two hours later, Twitter user @ReliqOhmuwezi^[3] tweeted a picture of himself in a blue lawn chair with a phone with the caption “The #M7Challenge @HiledMPrince @deotiba.”

Twitter jumped on the challenge, and the trend was covered the same day by The Guardian.^[4] The trend was also reported on by many African news outlets,^[8] and picked up by Western outlets CNN^[6] and the International Business Times.^[7]

Besigye Cover-Up Conspiracy

Some Twitter users and journalists noticed the viral spread of the #M7Challenge coincided with the release of opposition leader Kizza Besigye from prison on bail, two months after he was was arrested for treason after calling the February elections in Uganda a sham. This led to speculation that the #M7Challenge was orchestrated to overshadow news of Besigye’s release.^[9]

Kenyan Comedian’s Death

On Saturday, July 16th, 23-year old comedian Cosmas Yatich was killed on the Thika Super Highway when he was hit by a speeding car as he attempted the #M7Challenge in Ruiru.^[5]

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Crying Bernie Sanders Supporters refers to people who were recorded crying during Bernie Sanders’ speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, during which he endorsed former rival Hillary Clinton as his choice for president of the United States in the upcoming general election against Republican nominee Donald Trump.

Origin

On July 25th, 2016, supporters of former 2016 Democratic presidential primary candidate Bernie Sanders were filmed and photographed crying during his speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (shown below).

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Shortly after his speech ended, journalist Philip Lewis tweeted an image of a tearful Sanders supporter with the caption “When the Whole Foods runs out of Kale:#DemsInPhilly” (shown below, left).^[2] Additionally, Twitter user @RevoltPolitic^[1] posted a screen capture of a young man wearing green felt hat while crying during Sanders’ speech, referring to him as “crying Peter Pan guy” (shown below, middle). Meanwhile, Twitter user Quinn Sutherland posted the same picture, referring to the man as “Sad Robin Hood” (shown below, right).^[3]

That evening, other Twitter users posted videos, screen captures and animated GIFs of the crying Sanders supporters (shown below). In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the online reaction to the crying Sanders supporters, including Vanity Fair,^[4]AJC,^[5] Complex,^[6] The Root,^[7] Heavy^[8] and Rolling Stone.^[9]

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Elizabeth Warren is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who currently serves as the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts.

History

Career

Starting in the 1970s, Warren served as a law professor at various universities in the United States until the mid 1990s, when she began working in bankruptcy regulation and consumer protection advocacy. In 1995, she began advising for the National Bankruptcy Review Commission, where she

In 2004, Warren was interviewed on the show NOW with Bill Moyers, during which she accused Hillary Clinton of being largely influenced by credit card companies as a legislator (shown below).

Run Warren Run

In early December 2014, the Run Warren Run^[2] campaign was launched by members of MoveOn.org to encourage Warren to run for president of the United States in the 2016 election. On December 10th, the “Run Warren Run” Facebook^[1] page was launched, which gathered upwards of 75,600 likes over the next two years. In June 2015, the Run Warren Run campaign was officially suspended.

Endorsement of Hillary Clinton

On June 9th, 2016, Warren publicly endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton for president of the United States in an interview on The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC (shown below).

Criticism of Donald Trump

On March 31st, 2016, Warren appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, during which she discussed the upcoming presidential election and derided Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Within four months, a YouTube upload of the appearance received upwards of 1.4 million views and 7,700 comments.

On July 22nd, Warren appeared a second time on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where she criticized Donald Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, claiming he “sounded like a two-bit dictator” (shown below).

Controversies

Native American Heritage

In an interview with NPR^[3] in May 2012, Warren claimed she had always been told she was “part Cherokee” by her family, and that she was “very proud of her heritage.”

Pocahontas Nickname

In late May 2016, Trump referred to Warren using the nickname “Pocahontas,” a Native American of historical significance, in reference to her Native American heritage scandal.

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The Woke Toddler is a series of Twitter jokes where the poster makes up a fantastical story about their precocious child asking them a question about politics.

Origin

While its difficult to tell when the first Woke Toddler joke appeared on Twitter, some of the earlier known instances of the “Woke Toddler” joke as its known include @kalebhorton’s tweet^[7] about his boy’s refrigerator magnets, posted November 18th, 2014, and @SeanMcElwee’s tweeted story^[1] about his two-year old daughter (shown below).

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The joke format stuck around as an ironic contrast^[2] to people who sincerely tweeted^[3] their kids’ reactions to the election until March 21st, 2016, when Esquire columnist Stephen Marche tweeted^[4], “My 4 yr old daughter, seeing a picture of Donald Trump, asks me ‘why is that man so afraid daddy?’ ‘I don’t know, sweetheart, I don’t know.’”

Doubting the validity of Marche’s story, Weird Twitter began directly mocking Marche,^[5][6] and coming up with variations of their own.^[8]

Though Marche repeatedly swore his story was true,^[9] it did not stop Twitter in their mockery, leading the Daily Dot’s Jay Hathaway^[10] to posit that it was not the lie that was skewered, but the “smarmy, disingenuous… conceit that it’s somehow novel for a child to inherit his parents’ political alignment, class consciousness, or fears for the future.”

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“Graham” also known as “human designed to survive a car crash” (or some variant of) was designed by the Transport Accident Commission in Australia as a way of showing how humans would have evolved to survive automobile accidents. Photos of Graham were often used in humorous photoshops or posted with text commenting on his odd appearance.

Origin

Graham was designed by Patricia Piccinini, who is known for other non-traditional human sculptures^[9] such as The Young Family which depicted human-animal hybrids. She was commissioned to help work on Graham by the Transport Accident Commission in 2016. On July 20th TACVictoria uploaded a video titled “TAC’s interactive sculpture by artist Patricia Piccinini – Meet Graham, TAC 2016” was uploaded onto YouTube^[2] ad explained the sculpture, that is was meant to highlight how fragile the human body is, and how easily it can be injured by car crashes. The site MeetGraham.com.au was launched the following day.

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Mr. Loud is flying is a meme that was uploaded July 21, 2016. It was seen on Nickelodeon’s The Loud House episode “House Music”, where Mr. Loud on a ride hat he is scared and launched off the ride.

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Stanley Phillips is a meme which consists of a multitude of self-portraits of a man named Stanley Phillips. It is debated whether this is his real name. Dimitry has been alleged to be his real name.

Origin

Stanley Phillips originated on the /r9k/ board of 4chan and is sometimes used as a reaction image. During June 2016 there has been a large number of Stanley-posts on /r9k/ which contain a picture of Stanley and a claim to being a “kissless, hugless virgin” despite claiming to be “a solid 9/10”.

A generic Stanley

It has become customary to claim that the OP is an imposter and that the person responding is the “real” Stanley Phillips. This is followed by other posters claiming the same.

A typical Stanleypost

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Philosophy (from Greek φιλοσοφία, philosophia, literally “love of wisdom”) is the study of questions concerning existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.^[1] It is broken into four main branches of study which are epistemology, metaphysics, axiology, and logic.^[2]

History

Pre-Socratic Period

Philosophy has spanned multiple eras of thought, the first of which was dubbed the Pre-Socratic Period because Socrates does not influence this period. It was dominated primarily by a focus on cosmological and physical speculation which contrasted with the later Socratic Period/Classical Period dominated by a focus on morality spear-headed by Socrates.^[5] During this time three main schools of thought appeared: the Ionics, the Pythagoreans, and the Eleatics. The Ionics studied sensory information in nature, the Pythagoreans studied mathematics, and the Eleatics studied the science of metaphysics.^[3] Thales of Miletus, born 640 BC, was the first famed philosopher to emerge during this period and was known for his proposition that all things come from water.^[4]

Classical Period

The Classical Period or Socratic Period started at the end of The Persian War against Greece in 479 BC.^[6] Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Epycurus, and Antisthenes are the most important philosophers of this period and helped form the core foundation of philosophy as a study.^[6] Socrates, born 469 BC, is one of the founders of Western philosophy whom contributed greatly to the fields of ethics and epistemology and invented Socratic irony and the Socratic method.^[7] Plato, born 428 BC, was a student of Socrates and one of the founders of Western philosophy, Western political philosophy and Western spirituality whom contributed greatly to the bases of science and mathematics and invented the dialogue and dialectic forms in philosophy. He additionally added significant contributions to the fields of ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology.^[8] Aristotle, born 384 BC, was a student of Plato and one of the founders of Western philosophy whom contributed to a myriad of subjects including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, theology, aesthetics, poetry, theater, music, rhetoric, linguistics, politics and government.^[9] Epicurus, born 341 BC, is the founder of a form of hedonist philosophy known as Epicureanism which promotes pleasure in a restrained high quality form.^[10] Antisthenes, born 445 BC, was another student of Socrates and is the founder of the Cynic school of thought which promotes living in virtue and agreement with nature.^[11]

Hellenistic Period

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Religion

Religion is a system of beliefs and worship, often including a code of ethics. Oftentimes an adherent to religion will conduct rites of worship to a higher power or powers, sometimes but not always including prayer, sermons, and/or sacrifice. The origins of religion are hotly debated.

Mathematics

Mathematics is the study of quantities, particularly as applied to concepts such as change. One of the main bases of mathematics is a text called Principia Mathematica made by philosopher Bertrand Russel which discusses the various logical axioms math is based on and the philosophical backing for them.^[14] It is one of the oldest human academic disciplines and is occasionally described as a field of science, though the appropriateness of this label is debated. It is frequently referenced on the internet and has spawned many notable memes, most of which are based around either peculiarities found within mathematics, or the perceived difficulty of the subject itself.

Transhumanism

Transhumanism is a futurist philosophy and intellectual movement with the purpose of transforming the humanity by developing technologies that greatly enhance the physical and psychological capabilities of humans.^[13] Strongly influenced by works of science fiction, the transhumanist vision of a technologically transformed humanity has gained a large and diverse following online.

Nihilism

Nihilism is a philosophical belief which asserts that the universe lacks cosmic or objective meaning and that life has no intrinsic value. Online, philosophical axioms associated with existential nihilism have been paired with various pop culture references and Internet memes for comedic effect in the form of anti-jokes.

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Philosoraptor

Philosoraptor is an advice animal image macro series featuring an illustration of a Velociraptor paired with captions depicting the dinosaur as being deeply immersed in metaphysical inquiries or unraveling quirky paradoxes. On October 8th, 2008, the original illustration of the Philosoraptor was released and copyrighted by creator Sam Smith as a T-shirt design for sale on the online retailer LonelyDinosaur^[12] (shown below).

Aesthetic

Aesthetic, often stylized as a e s t h e t i c, refers to retro-inspired visual art and music associated with the vaporwave subculture, which typically include Japanese lettering and nostalgic themes from 1980s and 1990s computer operating systems and video game consoles. Additionally, the term is widely associated with the 2012 vaporwave song “リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー” by Macintosh Plus. The term has its origins in the philosophy of art, in which “aesthetics” is considered the study of beauty and taste. In the early 2010s, the term was adopted by vaporwave enthusiasts with the rise of the genre on Tumblr, often accompanied by art styles from the 1980s and 1990s.

Wise Confucius

Wise Confucius (also known as “Confucius Says”) is an advice animal image macro series which features what at first glance appears to be sage piece of advice, with the second half of the image revealing it to merely be the set-up for a pun. The meme can often involve some kind of stereotypical Engrish speech pattern as well. The series is named after the famous Chinese philosopher best known for his body of work Analects of Confucius and parodies his prolific writings of axioms and wise sayings like “Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself.” Written during the Spring and Autumn Period through the Warring States Period (ca. 475 BCE– 221 BCE), the Analects is the representative work of Confucianism and continues to have a tremendous influence on Chinese and East Asian thought and values today.

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The Hating Grandpa Joe From Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory refers to a movement that aims to expose Grandpa Joe from the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory as a vile human being and the film’s true villain.

Origin

In 2004, a year ahead of the 2005 release of the Tim Burton/Johnny Depp film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the website Say NO to Grandpa Joe^[1] launched. Its mission statement reads:

Our goal is to expose the dark underbelly of the story. To reveal once and for all the truth about the only real villain in the movie (and no, it is not Slugworth). It is Grandpa Joe.

The site breaks down Grandpa Joe’s negative attributes under the headings “Ratbag,” “Industrial Spy,” and “Bastard.” Throughout the site, the authors (Oompa and Loompa) use quotes from the book and both movies to demonstrate why they believe Grandpa Joe is terrible. For example, they point to the fact that despite the fact he can walk when presented with the opportunity to go to the chocolate factory, he lies in bed all day with three other old people while Charlie’s single mother works at a laundromat to feed a family of six.^[2] They also insinuate that Grandpa Joe is a bad influence for encouraging Charlie to steal Fizzy Lifting Drinks.^[3] They also insinuate he is a pervert, misogynist, opportunist, etc.

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On May 8th, 2010, “The I Hate Grandpa Joe From Willy Wonka And Chocolate Factory Page” started on Facebook.^[6]

On September 12th, 2010, Youtube user glenn0043^[4] uploaded a rant by sports commentator Jim Rome on his radio program The Jim Rome Show in which Rome reiterates several of the arguments from Say NO to Grandpa Joe. Rome would go on a similar rant on June 18th, 2015.^[5]

“The I Hate Grandpa Joe From Willy Wonka And Chocolate Factory Page” remained mostly dormant until June 3rd, 2012, when it posted several status updates about the horribleness of Grandpa Joe. In the following years, the page expanded to making image macros and photoshops of Grandpa Joe. As of July 2016, the page has over 16,000 likes.

The success of the page and movement led Neatorama^[7] to cover it on November 25th, 2014. In June 2016, the movement got its own subreddit, /r/grandpajoehate.^[8] On June 22nd, 2016, the Daily Dot^[9] wrote an article detailing the ongoing success of the anti-Grandpa Joe movement.

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#SaveMarinaJoyce is social media hashtag launched by fans of 19-year-old British vlogger Marina Joyce over concerns that the YouTuber had been kidnapped, was the victim of abuse or was suffering from drug addiction.

Origin

On July 8th, 2016, Joyce uploaded a makeup tutorial video to YouTube, garnering upwards of 1.2 million views and 9,600 comments within three weeks. In the comments section, viewers pointed out that a gun could be seen resting against her dressed starting at 1m45s into the video, while others claimed she appeared to be stressed (shown below).

On July 22nd, Joyce uploaded a video titled “Date Outfit Ideas,” in which she models several different women’s outfits to wear on a romantic date (shown below). Within the first 20 seconds of the video, a pointing hand can be seen to the left side of the screen and Joyce can be seen whispering the words “help me.” Within five days, the video gained over 4.7 million views and 60,800 comments.

After the video was uploaded, fans began forming various theories that Joyce was being forced to create the videos by a possible abusive boyfriend or captor, while others speculated she was abusing drugs. On July 24th, a post was submitted to JustPasteIt^[2] outlining some of the fan theories.

“i have the feeling, along with many other people, that someone is forcing marina to make these videos (most likely her boyfriend, but it is possible that she could have been kidnapped.) or she’s overdosing on drugs. her eyes keep trailing off behind the camera and her body language makes her seem incredibly uncomfortable. almost like she’s repeating what someone else is doing. she can barely stand still, she’s shaking, and her body appears stiff and wobbly.”

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On July 26th, 2016, YouTuber TheBakeey uploaded a video titled “Save Marina Joyce,” encouraging viewers to spread the #savemarinajoyce hashtag (shown below, left). Meanwhile, YouTuber Scare uploaded a video titled “YouTuber Held Hostage or on Drugs? #SaveMarinaJoyce Conspiracy” (shown below, right).

That day, the hashtag #SaveMarinaJoyce became the #1 worldwide trending optic on Twitter.^[4] Meanwhile, the official Twitter^[3] feed for the Enfield, London Metropolitan Police Service tweeted that officers visited Joyce’s home and that “she is safe and well” (shown below). Within 24 hours, the tweet garnered upwards of 9,500 likes and 9,200 retweets. Also on July 26th, a post titled “Who is Marina Joyce and why is there a Twitter campaign to ‘save her’?” was submitted to /r/OutOfTheLoop.^[12]

On July 27th, Sam Pepper tweeted the hashtag “#savemarinajoyce,” claiming that anyone who knew her personally “knows she has a serious drug addiction” (shown below, left).^[6] Several hours later, Joyce tweeted the hashtag along with a message that she was “totally fine” (shown below, right).^[5] In the coming days, several news sites published articles about #SaveMarinaJoyce hashtag, including Snopes,^[1] We The Unicorns,^[7] People,^[8]IBI Times,^[9] The Independent^[10] and Refinery29.^[11]

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The sosig image macro is an edited image of the Chef and TV personality Gordon Ramsay edited to be holding a sausage with the caption “sosig”:

Origin

On Friday 22nd of July 2016 the Facebook page “Colorful Ｍ ｅ ｍ ｅ ｓ” created the sosig image macro.

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Tomodachi Life Concert Hall Parodies are a series of videos in which users alter lyrics in the “Concert Hall” feature of Nintendo’s Tomodachi Life, a video game for the Nintendo 3DS, to make humorous content.

Origin

Tomadachi Life is a video game in which players can import their Miis and have them walk around and interact on an island. Though Tomodachi Life was released in Japan on April 18th, 2013, it wasn’t until the game was released in North America and Europe on June 6th, 2014, that parody videos using the Concert Hall feature emerged.

One of the earliest known videos to use the Concert Hall for humor was uploaded by Jeffrey Grubb on June 5th, 2016, with the title "Tomodachi Life -- Techno song -- “I don’t like pants on my leggies.”^[1]

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While many Youtubers^[6][7] took to their channels to upload their funny songs, two people in particular helped spread the trend.

Peanut Butter Gamer

On June 24th, 2016, the popular Youtube personality Peanut Butter Gamer released his review of Tomodachi Life and devoted a minute of his review to illustrating how “you can make your Mii sing songs, and you can edit the lyrics to make them as juvenile or inappropriate as Nintendo will allow.” He showed footage of humorous things he made his Miis say. The video has over 4,000,000 views as of July 27th, 2016.

Harold

On September 7th, 2014, a Vine user by the name of Harold uploaded the first^[2] of what would be many Vines he created in the Concert Hall. It has received over 12,000 likes and 5,500 revines. He published a few more with some success, and on December 12th, 2014, he published what would become his most popular Tomodachi Life parody video (shown below).

The Vine briefly turned “I’m sucking my own dick, and dying” into a meme, as users on Vine^[3][4] and Twitter^[5] paid homage to the joke.

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Photo of the interior of a building of the olympic village. Photos like this one are in all media.
By the way, Odebrecht, the company in charge of building the village, had its patron arrested because of money laundry and involvement with PT, the work`s party, which was discovered to be deeply stuck in all the s***.

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DoodleBob is a character from the television show Spongebob Squarepants. He appeared and was the main antagonist in the 2002 episode, “Frankendoodle.”^[2] He is characterized by his crude 2D animation and his inability to use language, instead expressing everything as something that sounds like “mihoymenoy.”

Origin

In “Frankendoodle,” Spongebob finds a magic pencil. Everything the pencil draws comes to life. He attempts to prank his neighbor, Squidward, by drawing a picture of himself. However, his doodle comes to life and begins to wreak havoc. Spongebob dubs this character “Doodlebob.”

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Meme Beginnings

Doodlebob remained an iconic Spongebob character, but didn’t begin to achieve meme status until February 8th, 2013, when an image macro of Doodlebob appeared on memegenerator. ^[1] People also began using his signature “mihoyminoy” cry as a way to punctuate their jokes, inserting it into videos.^[3][4][5]

DoodleBob and the Magic Pencil

On April 3rd 2013, Youtube user Zetto Keero^[6] uploaded a playthrough of him playing “DoodleBob and the Magic Pencil,” a video game made by TechnoSuperguy. The video has over 9,000,000 views as of July 28th, 2016. While the original release date of the game is unknown, it is still downloadable and playable via Gamejolt.^[7]

Twitter Resurgence

On October 29th, 2014, Twitter user @kylethecindric^[8] tweeted a play on the “When [rapper] said” tweet format by tweeting "When DoodleBob said, “ME HOYMINOYNOYMEMY OY!” with several reaction images (shown below). The tweet was later copied by joke aggregators like @FillWerrell,^[9] @Rappersaid,^[10] and others, where it spread widely.

A similar phenomenon happened when, on March 9th, 2016, @GRIFFERS^[11] tweeted “he was a skater boy/he said me hoy minoy” and was copied by @chanelpuke,^[12] @FillWerrell again,^[13] and others.

On June 13th, 2016, many content aggregators on Twitter^[15][16][17] began posting an image of two streets named “Hoyne” and “LeMoyne” with the caption “When Doodlebob starts naming streets.”

Vine and Instagram

On February 7th, 2016, Vine user Alexei Avila uploaded the below Vine, which has over 4,000 likes and 2700 Revines.

On Instagram, variations on the breath in Boi meme featuring Doodlebob began appearing under the #doodlebob hashtag.^[14]

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Cat Transcendence, also known as The Prophecy Is True Cat and Flower Crashes Cat, is a short video of a cat reacting in bewilderment to a flower placed on top of its head. Originally uploaded to Instagram in June 2015, the video remained under the radar for several months until the viral emergence of a parody video uploaded by YouTuber Max Goodrich in late January 2016.

Origin

On June 18th, 2015, Instagram^[1] user Sophiella_cats_n_nails uploaded a short video of herself singing a Russian nursery rhyme to her cat before placing a flower on the top of its head, which startles the cat to react in utter bafflement and shock with its eyes wide open. On June 25th, the Instagram video was re-uploaded to the YouTube channel lolzing4gifs (shown below), indicating that the Instagram video had been made into an animated GIF prior to entering circulation on YouTube. The YouTube video accumulated over 2.8 million views within the first year of its upload.

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On June 30th, 2015, animal-themed website The Dodo^[2] ran an article about the aforementioned video. On August 4th, Imgur^[3] user Wolfy1005 uploaded an animated GIF of the video, which garnered more than 2.5 million views within a year. Throughout the latter half of 2015, a handful of remixes, parodies and reenactment videos began to surface on YouTube (shown below), though none of them managed to gain any substantial traction.

“The Prophecy Is True” Remix

On January 23rd, 2016, YouTuber Max Goodrich uploaded a five-second remix of the original video, accompanied by an echoing soundbite of Morpheus (played by Laurence Fishburne) muttering the line “the prophecy is true” from the 2003 sci-fi action film Matrix Reloaded to the background music of “Mountains,” an ambient track composed by renowned film scoremaker Hans Zimmer for the 2014 epic sci-fi film Interstellar. (shown below). That same day, Goodrich shared his remix video on his Instagram and Vine channels,^[4] which served as the catalyst for the viral rise of the “Transcendence Cat” across multiple social media platforms.^[5][6][7] As of July 2016, Goodrich’s YouTube video has gained over 680,000 views.

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