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Fug is this magical meme /vp/ made when they were having a Rayquaza give-away.
Since the OP is a German, his Flying type becomes Flug…
… except he screencapped his 3DS weirdly and another anonymous funposter exploited the situation that says Fug, in the same vein as Tony Kornheiser’s Why

Precursor

Fug is a word said by Finnish Pedobear when he wants to put benis in bagina :DDDDDD. As the best meme in Finland, this word clearly resonated to the general funposters of 5/5chan.breddygud.org

Origin

Rayquaza is the best Dragon/Flying Type pokemon ever and if you disagree, you’re opinions are Garbodor. This guy appeared in Pokemon Ruby/Useless Water Type Pokemon Everywhere at some ancient tower near Pacificlog Village where you’re pretty much forced to use one type of bicycle which means you have to fly all the way back to Mauville City (why it’s called a city even though it has, like, 6 buildings, one of which doesn’t even have a door, with populations smaller than Pallet Town, I don’t know. what the hell Gamefreaks) instead of actually streamlining each features of the bicycle into one.

Spread

As soon as the meme exploded in /vp/, people started putting the picture Fug in every Rayquaza picture available, whether it be fan-arts, or toy collections, or Children’s Card Games, Fug is here to stay

Later, after a German Koffing who plays Children’s Monster Games too seriously rated that Mega Rayquaza to be so overpowered, he’s still b& even if a competition that allows b& pokemon. This gives rise to his popularity as Mega Fug

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Bottle Flipping refers to the practice of flipping a plastic bottle in such a way that it lands upright on a flat surface. Videos of people performing bottle flips are often posted on video-sharing sites like Vine and YouTube.

Origin

On December 20th, 2008, YouTuber markg143 uploaded a video in which a teenager attempts to break the world record for the most consecutive water bottle flips (shown below).

Spread

On January 24th, 2010, YouTuber Chris P uploaded a montage of himself flipping a water bottle on to tables (shown below).

On May 24th, 2016, Twitter user @ScottieFinanger^[1] tweeted a video in which high school student Mike Senatore walks up on stage and flips a bottle on to a small table, causing the audience to roar in celebration. That day, YouTuber Arlington Johnson reuploaded the video (shown below). Over the next four months, the video received upwards of 5.6 million views and 7,700 comments.

The following day, the news site Today^[2] published an interview with Senatore about the video, in which he claimed bottle flipping was his “only talent”:

“Honestly, I thought I was gonna miss it. I had practiced it all the night before. It’s my only talent, so I figured I’d try it at the talent show this year and then just walk off.”

On May 26th, Fusion^[3] published an article titled “Here’s How to Perfect the Water Bottle Flip, the Teen Meme of the Moment.” On July 18th, the Dude Perfect YouTube channel uploaded a compilation of bottle flipping video clips (shown below, left). On August 1st, YouTuber Sam Tabor uploaded a video of skateboarder Ryan Bracken flipping bottles while skateboarding at a skate park (shown below, right). Within two months, the video received more than 980,000 views and 890 comments.

On August 20th, 2016, YouTuber Ryan Higa uploaded a montage of himself and several friends flipping bottles on various surfaces (shown below). Within one month, the video gained over 5.8 million views and 34,800 comments.

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2008 United States Presidential Election was the 56th quadrennial presidential election held on November 4th, 2008. The two major candidates were Democratic Senator Barack Obama, along with his running mate Joe Biden, and Republican Senator John McCain, along with his running mate Sarah Palin. The race resulted in the victory of Barack Obama, who became the first African American ever to be elected president of the United States. Moreover, the 2008 presidential election is now widely cited as the first U.S. presidential election that took place in the age of social media.

Background

Presidential Candidates

Vice Presidential Candidates

Highlights

Obama Girl

I Got a Crush on Obama is a viral video featuring woman singing about her infatuation with the then Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Upon its release by the YouTube web series Barely Political in June 2007, the video quickly went viral and spawned many remixes, while the actress, Amber Lee Ettinger, rose to viral fame under the nickname “Obama Girl” as a result of its popularity.

The “Hope” Poster

The Obama “Hope” Poster is an iconic image of Barack Obama created by graphic designer and street artist Shepard Fairey during the 2008 United States presidential election. Made with a stylized stencil of an Associated Press photograph of the then U.S. Senator from Chicago, the posters were created independently of the official campaign. After the image was shared online, parodies of the poster depicting other notable figures and characters began appearing as well, mimicking the red, beige and blue color scheme of the original version.

Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle

BarackObamaIsYourNewBicycle.com was a single-serving site that generated a series of non-sequiturs portraying the Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama as a personable do-gooder. Created by San-Francisco based writer Mathew Honan in February 2008, the website gained a large following throughout the 2008 presidential campaign and spawned a number of spin-off sites centered around many other candidates.

Zombie McCain

Zombie McCain is a photoshop meme based on a photograph of Arizona’s Republican Senator John McCain posing in an awkward stance with his tongue hanging out taken shortly after the conclusion of the third and final presidential debate with Barack Obama in October 2008.

The Vice Presidential Debate

The 2008 Vice Presidential Debate was a televised debate between the Democrat vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden and Republican vice-presiential candidate Sarah Palin in October 2008. Watched by nearly 70 million U.S. television viewers and people online, the debate inspired a number of online parodies online due to its wealth of gaffes and memorable moments, mostly at the expense of Sarah Palin.

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Trump Sniffles refers to a series of tweets criticizing Republican Presidential nominees Donald Trump for loudly breathing through his nose during the first presidential debate of the 2016 United States Presidential Election.

Origin

On September 26th, 2016, Trump and Democratic nominees Hillary Clinton met at Hofstra University in New York for the first presidential debate. Early on in the debate, Trump’s answers were frequently interrupted by his sniffles.

Spread

Social media users quickly picked up on the frequency of Trump’s sniffling, and began making jokes and spreading tongue-in-cheek rumors about his health and/or possible cocaine use in reference to #HackingHillary, a hashtag spread by Trump supporters following Clinton’s bout with pneumonia.^[1][2] Trump’s sniffles inspired over a dozen parody accounts devoted solely to the sniffling.^[4]

In a tweet, Former Governor of Vermont Howard Dean suggested Trump’s frequent sniffing might indicate cocaine use.^[3] The tweet, shown below, gained nearly 25,000 retweets and 37,000 favorites in less than twelve hours.

Late night television hosts also joked that the sniffles were caused by cocaine use, including Stephen Colbert^[5] and Trevor Noah.^[6]

CNN, CNBC, Bustle,^[8] Reuters,^[9]USA Today,^[10] and more covered the social media reaction to Trump’s sniffling.

The following day, Trump denied that he had the sniffles, and blamed the audio of him sniffling on a “terrible” microphone and floated the idea that he was given a terrible microphone on purpose.^[7]

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Overview

The 2016 United States Presidential Election Debates are a series of debates between Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton for the 2016 United States presidential general election.

Background

In the 2016 United States presidential election, Clinton and Trump were on enough ballots to potentially reach 270 electoral votes and more than a 15% polling average, the criteria set for by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) to be eligible to participate in the schedule debates. Both Green Party nominee Jill Stein and Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson did not reach the minimum polling average, making them ineligible for the events.

Developments

September 26th Debate

The first general election debate was held on September 26th, 2016 at Hofstra University in New York City (shown below).

Online Reactions

On the /r/blackpeopletwitter subreddit, several posts poking fun at the debates reached the front page (shown below).^[7][8][9] Meanwhile, several news sites published listicles highlighting notable tweets and memes posted about the debates, including US Weekly,^[12] The Daily Mail,^[13] Heavy^[14] and NY Mag.^[15]

Trump’s Sniffles

Trump Sniffles refers to a series of tweets mocking Trump for sniffling through his nose during the debate. Social media users quickly picked up on the frequency of Trump’s sniffling, and began making jokes and spreading tongue-in-cheek rumors about his health and possible cocaine use. Additionally, Trump’s sniffles inspired over a dozen parody accounts devoted solely to Trump sniffling.^[4]

Lester Holt’s Moderation

The event was hosted by NBC anchor Lester Holt, who became the subject of many online discussions and jokes throughout the debate.

In the coming days, several news site published articles about the online reaction to Lester Holt’s moderation, including BuzzFeed,^[1] Romper^[10] and USA Today.^[11] Meanwhile, artist Ben Garrison released a political cartoon accusing Holt of bias against Trump in his line of questioning (shown below).

400-Pound Hacker

When discussing the Democratic National Committee email leak, Trump stated “Maybe the DNC hacker was someone sitting on his bed who weighs 400 pounds” (shown below).

That evening, many joked about the statement online, leading the news sites Fortune,^[3] UpRoxx^[4] and CBS^[5] to post articles highlighting notable internet reactions (shown below).

“Call Sean Hannity”

When discussing whether or not he supported the Iraq War, Trump repeatedly exclaimed that no journalists would “call Sean Hannity” when investigated his early stances on the United States military action (shown below, left). Following the debate, Hannity interviewed Trump and corroborated Trump’s statements that he was previously against the Iraq War (shown below, right).

Later that evening, The Ringer podcast called Hannity during the broadcast to ask him about the debate segment, leading Hannity to hang up the phone (shown below).

#TrumpWon

The next morning, the hashtag #TrumpWon^[17] began trending on Twitter, which supporters of the Republican presidential candidate used to praise their candidates performance, while critics tweeted the hashtag sarcastically.

Meanwhile, Trump tweeted the hashtag himself, thanking his supporters for helping it become a trending topic on the social media platform (shown below).^[16]

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“Please Don’t Write Something Snarky” refers to a series of sarcastic jokes mocking a tweet by comedian Mike Birbiglia where he used the phrase as a caption to a picture of first lady Michelle Obama hugging former president George W. Bush.

Origin

On September 25th, 2016, Birbiglia tweeted a screenshot of a New York Times headline that read “For Some, Bush-Obama Rapport Recalls a Lost Virture: Political Civility.”^[1] Birbiglia, struck by the headline and the picture of the Obama family and Bush family acting friendly, attempted to express his genuine emotional response to the photo by captioning the screenshot, “This is powerful. I’m sorry, but it is. Please don’t write something snarky.”

Spread

Birbiglia deleted the tweet following a mass amount of replies from Twitter users reminding him of Bush’s disastrous foreign policies and various dangerous mistakes as president.^[2] Nevertheless, the tweet inspired hundreds of sarcastic variations where Twitter users took Birbiglia’s caption and applied it to bizarre and silly photos, including Loss.jpg, ^[3] a screenshot of He-man,^[4]Sonic the Hedgehog, ^[5] the first 2016 presidential debate, ^[6] and many more. That day, The Daily Dot^[2] and New York Magazine^[7] covered the spread of the joke.

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The Nazi Pepe Controversy refers to the discourse surrounding a rumor spread by the Hillary Clinton campaign and several news organizations in the summer of 2016 that claimed Pepe the Frog is exclusively a white supremacist symbol.

Background

On May 26th, 2016, The Daily Beast^[1] published an article titled “How Pepe the Frog Became a Nazi Trump Supporter and Alt-Right Symbol.“ The article included an interview with Twitter user @JaredTSwift,^[2] identified as an “anonymous white nationalist,” who claimed there was a “campaign to reclaim Pepe from normies” by creating anti-Semitic illustrations of the frog character.

Developments

Hillary Clinton Campaign

On August 25, 2016, Hillary Clinton gave a speech denouncing the alt-right. During Clinton’s address, a /pol/ user posted a thread revealing that he is a member of the audience at the event, to which another user suggested to the OP that they yell “Pepe” as to interrupt her speech.^[3] In the YouTube livestream, a man off the screen can be heard yelling “Pepe!” at approximately 56 minutes in.^[4]

On September 9th, 2016, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said that half of Donald Trump’s supporters were in a “basket of deplorables.“ On September 10th, Donald Trump Jr. posted a photoshopped movie poster on Instagram^[5] of the 2010 action film The Expendables, which features various prominent conservatives and Pepe the Frog with the title “The Deplorables.”

On September 11th, NBC News^[6] published an article about the photoshop, which referred to Pepe the Frog as a “popular white nationalist symbol” based on a statement made by Southern Poverty Law Center’s Heidi Beirich. That same day, several news sites including The Hill,^[7] Vanity Fair,^[8] Talking Points Memo^[9] and CNN^[10] published reports describing Pepe as a “white supremacist meme” and “white nationalist symbol.”

On September 12th, the official Hillary Clinton presidential campaign blog^[11] published a post titled “Donald Trump, Pepe the frog, and white supremacists: an explainer,” which labeled Pepe the Frog as “sinister” and a “symbol associated with white supremacy.”

Media Attention

Over the next 24 hours, posts about the news coverage and the Clinton campaign’s reaction reached the front page of various subreddits, including /r/cringe,^[17] /r/politics,^[12][13] /r/OutOfTheLoop,^[14] /r/KotakuInAction,^[18] /r/4chan,^[15] and /r/The_Donald^[16] where many Redditors mocked the Clinton campaign and the mainstream media for failing to understand the Pepe meme. Meanwhile, The Daily Dot^[19] published an article titled “Pepe the Frog is not a Nazi, no matter what the alt-right says,” stating that “Pepe lacks political affiliation.”

On September 14th, the Daily Caller published an interview with @PaulTown_ and @JaredTSwift in which the two Twitter pranksters admitted fabricating the basis of the Daily Beast report. ^[20]

That same day, in an article titled “No Hillary, Pepe the Frog is Not a Racist Meme”,^[21] Ian Miles Cheong of Heat Street wrote that “no single group or ideology has ownership of the meme.” Heat Street would later retract the article and issue a full apology.

On September 17th, the Economist^[22] published the article “Pepe and the stormtroopers: How Donald Trump ushered a hateful fringe movement into the mainstream” which described Pepe the Frog as “a cartoon-strip creature co-opted into offensive scenarios” and gave the “Deplorables” poster as an example of such an offensive scenario.

On September 19th, Heat Street founder Louise Mensch wrote “Hillary Clinton Is Absolutely Right, ‘Pepe’ Meme Is Antisemitic – An Apology.”^[21] Heat Street retracted Cheong’s article in full and added a note stating “This article was wrong and we should never have published it.”^[24] Cheong said on Twitter that “I was wrong about Pepe. It has, in fact, become an anti-semitic meme.”

By September 26th, the Anti-Defamation League had added Pepe the Frog to its list of hate symbols.^[25] The ADL noted that “The majority of uses of Pepe the Frog have been, and continue to be, non-bigoted” and warned that “it is important to examine use of the meme only in context.”

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“Orange Soda” also known as “Who Loves Orange Soda?” is a phrase said by Kel from the sitcom Kenan & Kel. the meme made a lot of video’s and commercial’s on The Splat.

Origin

The meme originated from the episode

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Name a More Iconic Duo refers to a series of tweets mocking a tweet by @negansvoid^[1] that shows a picture of Kardashian family members Kylie and Kendall Jenner captioned “name me a more iconic duo.. I’ll wait.”

Origin

On September 24th, 2016, @negansvoid sent out a tweet showing the Jenner sisters, challenging Twitter to name “a more iconic duo,” as if it were impossible (shown below).

Spread

The tweet did not begin to spread until September 27th, 2016, when people began sharing it sincerely. One of the first known examples of its spread was a tweet by @celebsconfess^[2] that placed a screenshot of @negansvoid’s tweet next to pictures of actors Chris Evans and Sebastian Stan from the Captain America films. Soon, Twitter users took the template to post both sincere and joke choices for more iconic duos. Among the latter were Harambe and the child in his pen he was deemed a danger to,^[3]TomBroDude and the picture of the naked man he loved to tweet,^[4]Friendship Ended With Mudasir, ^[5] and more.

On September 28th, New York Magazine^[6] covered the spread of the joke and received clarification from @negansvoid, who has since locked her account due to the attention her tweet received, that the original tweet was not sincere and she does not believe the Jenner sisters are iconic. Paper Magazine^[7] also covered the spread.

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Barack Obama In Conversation With Leondardo DiCaprio is a photo caption series based on a picture of United States President Barack Obama speaking to actor Leonardo DiCaprio, in which humorous mock quotes are attributed to Obama.

Origin

On September 25th, 2016, the @WhiteHouse^[1] Twitter feed posted a photograph of Obama speaking to DiCaprio along with an announcement that the two men would be participating in a “conversation on combating climate change” at the upcoming South by South Lawn (SXSL) event held on October 3rd, 2016. Within 48 hours, the tweet gained over 4,800 likes and 2,000 retweets.

Spread

That evening, other Twitter users began retweeting the photo captioned with humorous mock conversations between the two men (shown below).

Meanwhile, Twitter user @darth^[3] posted an edited version with Obama holding a bear cub, captioned with a joke about DiCaprio’s appearance in the film The Revenant (shown below). In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the caption series, including BuzzFeed,^[4] UpRoxx,^[5] Smosh,^[6] Coed,^[7] Elite Daily^[8] and Brobible.^[9]

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“Pen Pineapple Apple Pen” (Japanese: ペンパイナッポーアッポーペン, PenPainappōAppōPen) is a music video by Piko-Taro (ピコ太郎), a stage persona of the Japanese professional comedian Kosaka Daimaoh (古坂大魔王).^[1] In a similar vein to PSY’s Gangnam Style, the video widely circulated on social media after being released on YouTube in late August 2016.

Origin

On August 25th, 2016, the music video was released on YouTube, in which Piko-Taro is shown dancing in front of a plain white background while singing about sticking a pen inside a pineapple and an apple to form a pen-pineapple-apple-pen (shown below). Within one month, the video gained over 7.9 million views and 4,000 comments.

Lyrics:

I have a pen
I have an apple
uuh
Apple pen!

I have a pen
I have a pineapple
uuh
Pineapple pen!

Apple pen
Pineapple pen
uuh
Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen!

Spread

The following month, the music video began widely circulating on Twitter and the video-sharing app Mix Channel. On September 18th, the おもしろ動画集 YouTube channel posted a compilation featuring parody versions of the music video, receiving more than 1.7 million views and 1,300 comments (shown below, left). On September 21st, YouTuber ミクチャLOVE ２ uploaded a montage including several young women performing lip dubs of the song. In one week, the video gained over 1.6 million views and 500 comments.

On September 24th, YouTuber Chee Yee Teoh reposted the original music video, gaining upwards of 8.6 million views and 8,500 comments in four days. The following day, 9GAG reposted the original video on their Facebook page,^[3] where it gathered upwards of 57 million views and 1.08 million shares in 72 hours. On September 26th, YouTuber Taylor Kazunobu posted a montage video of people lip syncing the song (shown below). The following day, YouTuber Edho Zell posted a parody version of the music video (shown below, right). Meanwhile, an image outlining the history of Piko-Taro’s comedy was submitted to 9gag.^[8]

Also on September 27, both CNN^[5] and the BBC^[4] published articles about the viral video and Justin Bieber tweeted that it was his “favorite video on the internet” (shown below).^[6] Over the next 24 hours, the tweet gained over 75,000 likes and 43,000 retweets.

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Sad Bernie Sanders is a photoshop meme based on a photograph of former Democratic presidential candidate watching the broadcast of the first round of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Debates between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton on September 26th, 2016. Upon entering online circulation, the photograph quickly drew sympathetic responses from his loyal supporters on Twitter and went on to inspire a series of photoshopped parodies on Reddit and Imgur.

Origin

On September 26th, 2016, Bernie Sanders tweeted a picture of himself watching CNN’s coverage of the moments before the first Presidential debate of the 2016 United States Presidential Election with the caption “It’s #debatenight so it’s time to #DebateWithBernie,”^[1] recalling the hashtag Sanders used to tweet during the 2016 Republican Presidential Primary debates. The tweet, shown below, gained over 12,000 retweets and 30,000 favorites in a day and a half.

Spread

On Twitter, people immediately began reacting to the tweet as it stirred feelings of sadness. Many people responded to the image by wishing Sanders were on the debate stage instead of Trump and Clinton,^[2][3][4] while others joked about how sad the image was.^[5][6]

After the debate, a /r/PhotoshopBattle thread surfaced on Reddit], challenging others to make “Sad Sanders” parodies. The thread gained over 5,000 upvotes within 48 hours. Some of the top posts featured Sanders watching a clip from the YouTube survivalist web series Primitive Technology (below, left), struggling with modern televisions like a grandfather (below, center) and playing Overwatch (below, right).

The following day, dozens of news publications published pieces about the popularity of “Sad Bernie Sanders” memes, including Buzzfeed,^[8] Mashable,^[9] Paper Magazine,^[10] Complex,^[11] Elite Daily,^[12] and more. Sad Bernie Sanders memes had also become a Twitter Moment^[13] the following day.

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400 Pound Hacker refers to a comment made by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump during the first 2016 United States Presidential Debate in which he disparagingly suggested the hacker in the Democratic National Committee Email Leak could be a someone on their bed who weighs 400 pounds.

Origin

While discussing the Democratic National Committee Email Leak, Trump said that while Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was certain the culprit was Russia, it could just as easily have been China or “someone sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds.”

Spread

Shortly after the comment, Twitter users reacted at the bizarreness of the comment. Some tweets included photos of South Park and Simpsons characters.^[5] One tweet by @pattymo^[1] suggested Trump lost the alt-right vote with the comment, and gained nearly 7,800 retweets and 20,000 favorites in two days (shown below).

Sure enough, backlash to the comment came from 4Chan users, according to articles from The Daily Beast^[2] and Forward,^[4] who called 4Chan an alt-right board. The Anonymous Twitter account tweeted a picture of a Boogie wearing the Anonymous mask saying “@realdonaldtrump, hey you called?”^[3]

Uproxx^[5] covered Twitter’s reaction, while Yahoo^[6] covered Trump’s fatshaming. CNet,^[8] Gizmodo,^[9] Mic,^[10] and more covered the comment.

A Novelty Twitter Account was devoted to the 400 pound hacker and gained over 700 followers.^[7]

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Lord Tachanka is an ironic nickname given to the playable Defending Operator character in the game first-person tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege, who many fans considered to be poorly designed and under-powered upon release.

Origin

On December 1st, 2015, the video game Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege was released by Ubisoft. In the game, the character Tachanka is available in the . Upon its release, many players complained that Tachanka would need to be improved to properly balance the game.^[2][3][4]

Spread

On April 6th, 2016, YouTuber GavinAcity uploaded a video titled “Why You Should Use Tachanka in Rainbow Six Siege,” which provided an overview of the character’s abilities.

On August 6th, Redditor SikorskyUH60 submitted a post asking about the “Lord Tachanka” meme to /r/OutOfTheLoop,^[1] where Redditor Your401kplan noted he was a popular ironic “circlejerking” subject in Rainbow Six online communities. On September 1st, YouTuber Matimi0 uploaded a Rainbow Six gameplay video titled “Lord Tachanka – Rainbow Six Siege,” featuring a montage of impressive kills executed with the character (shown below, left). On September 10th, YouTuber The Chanka posted an edited scene from the film Kick Ass in which Tachanka is shown shooting a room full of enemies while flying on a jetpack (shown below, right).

On September 25th, Redditor capt_GreenSparks posted a Tachanka-themed mobile phone wallpaper to /r/Rainbow6,^[5] captioned with the phrase “How Do You Buff A God?” (shown below). Within 72 hours, the post garnered more than 1,100 votes (89% upvoted) and 50 comments.

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Gary Earl Johnson (born January 1, 1953) is an American politician and businessman who served as the Governor of New Mexico from 1995 to 2003 as a member of the Republican party. He was the Libertarian party nominee for president in the 2012 Unites States Presidential Election and is the party’s nominee in the 2016 United States Presidential Election. ^[1]

History

Born in Minot, North Dakota, Johnson graduated from the University of New Mexico with a Bachelor of Science degree in political science. He then started Big J enterprises in 1976, focusing on mechanical contract work. It grew into a multi-million dollar company, and when he sold the business in 1999, it was one of New Mexico’s leading construction companies.^[2]

Governor of New Mexico

Johnson became Governor of New Mexico as a member of the Republican party in 1995, following a close primary and a gubernatorial election that he won via plurality.^[3] He followed a strict small-government approach, and vetoed 200 of 424 bills in his first six months of office.^[4] He proposed a wide range of tax cuts, but during his first term, he raised education spending by nearly a third.

He won reelection by a margin of 55%-45% in 1998.^[5] In his second term, one of his key political goals was the implementation of a school voucher program.^[6] He also became one of the highest ranking elected officials to advocate for the legalization of marijuana.^[7] He was also widely praised for his handling of the Cerro Grande Fire that devastated New Mexico in 2000.^[8] Though the Libertarian Party attempted to draft him for the 2000 United States Presidential Election, he declined, saying he was a Republican and had no intention of running for president.^[9]

Presidential Campaigns

2012 Presidential Campaign

Johnson ran for President in 2012 initially as a Republican, but his failure to do well in the polls barred him from appearing in majority of the Republican Primary debates, leading him to eventually withdraw his candidacy and announce that he would run for the Libertarian Party’s nomination on December 28th, 2011.^[10] His goal was to win 5% of the popular vote, and though he fell short by winning 1% of the popular vote, he did win the most votes ever by a Libertarian candidate.^[11]

2016 Presidential Campaign

In November 2014, Johnson announced that his intention to run for the Libertarian nomination for the 2016 United States Presidential Election.^[12] On May 18th, 2016, he announced that his running mate would be former Massachusetts governor William Weld.^[13] On May 29th, Johnson received the Libertarian nomination. As of September 2016, Johnson has consistently polled between 6-8%.

Gaffes

Nazi Cakes

Johnson’s 2016 campaign has been marred by several gaffes. In an April 2016 Libertarian primary debate, Johnson argued that cake stores should legally be obligated to fulfill requests for cakes featuring Nazi symbols.

“What is Aleppo?”

On September 8th, 2016, Johnson responded to a question about Aleppo, a major city in Syria engulfed by the refugee crisis, with “What is Aleppo?” which led media outlets to question his knowledge on foreign policy.^[14]

Global Warming Comments

On September 22nd, a video of Johnson talking about global warming and arguing that allocating resources to global warming research was not important because the fate of the Earth is to be swallowed by the sun in billions of years began spreading among media outlets, furthering his reputation that he is an uninformed candidate.^[15]

Tongue Incident

On September 23rd, Johnson stuck his tongue out and talked to a reporter while making a point that his mere presence in the 2016 Presidential Debates would help him the polls. The act drew ridicule from media outlets who said Johnson clearly did not appear presidential.^[16][17]

“Aleppo Moment”

On September 28th, Johnson and Weld appeared on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews. Matthews asked Johnson to name a foreign leader he respects, and Johnson had trouble naming one, saying he was having “an Aleppo moment.” The comment again drew criticism from media outlets who took it to mean Johnson did not have the foreign policy knowledge to be president.^[18]

Online Presence

As of September 29th, 2016, Johnson has 1.6 million likes on Facebook,^[19] over 356,000 Twitter followers,^[20] over 76,700 Instagram followers,^[21] and over 20,000 on his dedicated subreddit.^[22]

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The Google/Clinton Conspiracy refers to a theory that prominent search engine site Google blocks negative autocomplete searches for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton while autocompleting the same searches for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

Origin

The conspiracy began with a video by SourceFed^[1] posted on June 9th, 2016 (shown below) that suggested Google was actively helping the Clinton campaign by blocking negative autocomplete searches. For example, they noticed searching “Hillary Clinton Cri” did not autocomplete to “Hillary Clinton Criminal Investigation” like it did on competing search engine sites Yahoo and Bing, and extrapolated on this observation to suggest Google was in cahoots with the Clinton campaign.

Spread

Google’s Vice President of Product Management Tamar Yehoshua responded to the video the following day in a blogpost^[2] that clarified Google’s autocomplete feature had been tailored to filter out offensive queries, and that the feature applies to searches for all people. Vox^[3] also thoroughly debunked the theory.

Donald Trump Claims

On September 28th, 2016, Donald Trump cited the conspiracy while talking about his standing in the polls. “A new post-debate poll, the Google poll, has us leading Hillary Clinton by two points nationwide,” he said. “And that’s despite the fact that Google search engine was suppressing the bad news about Hillary Clinton. How about that.”

Trump’s comments prompted stories from several news outlets, including The Daily Dot,^[4]CNN,^[5] and The Verge,^[6] who each covered the fact the theory was debunked months earlier.

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Mighty Magiswords is an American Flash animated online and television series created by Kyle A. Carrozza specifically for Cartoon Network Video being the network’s first online original series.

History

Mighty Magiswords is created by Kyle A. Carrozza, an animator, voice actor, musician and storyboard artist who currently writes songs for The FuMP and was previously the creator, storyboard artist and voice actor for his short “MooBeard: The Cow Pirate” on Nicktoons Network series, Random! Cartoons. Produced in Flash animation, this series is the first original cartoon show on Cartoon Network made specifically for online. These characters were created by Kyle when he was at high school in 1996 and was pitched to Cartoon Network in 2005-2006 under the names “Legendary Warriors for Hire” and to Mondo Media in 2007-2008 as “Dungeons and Dayjobs” before Cartoon Network picked it up in 2013. Most of the series is done in-house at Cartoon Network Studios while the oversea mid-production was done at Malaysian animation studio, Inspidea.

Premise

The series is about Vambre and Prohyas, a brother and sister team of “Warriors for Hire”, who go on hilarious adventures and crazy quests to collect magical swords. They go all around the world to find the swords.

Reception

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Online Relevance

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Fandom

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Fan Art

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Screen Caps & GIFs

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Related Memes

Choose Your Magisword

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About

Stefan Molyneux is an Irish-born Canadian blogger. Molyneux writes on topics including anarcho-capitalism, atheism, secular ethics, right-libertarianism, cryptocurrencies, and familial relationships. He hosts a podcast in his site Freedomainradio.com and has written e-books. ^[1]

Online History

Stefan created his podcast called Freedomain Radio in 2005. His Youtube channel was launched in August 7th, 2006. He describes is show in following fashion:

“With host Stefan Molyneux, topics range from philosophy to economics to art to how to achieve real freedom in the modern world. Passionate, articulate, funny and irreverent, Freedomain Radio shines a bold light on old topics – and invents a few new ones to boot! " -Stefan Molyneux Youtube channel description (read 30th of September 2016).

Memes

- Defoo: When discussing relationships, Stefan sometimes urges people to cut their relations with their family as advice. He calls this practice “defooing”. Stefan has cut his relations with his own mother. The advice he has given to the members of his fan base has gotten him the reputation of a cult leader. ^[2]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=defoo

-Not an argument: Because Stefan often discusses controversial topics, such as race and intelligence, atheism and anarchism, he frequently gets fierce responses in his Youtube comment sections. Stefan’s responds to his criticism by saying they are not making an argument, or “Not an argument” in short. The phrase has become popular in 4chan and 8chan boards, particularly in /pol/. In 25th of May cartoonist Ben Garrison drew a caricature of Stefan, with his signature quote.

https://grrrgraphics.wordpress.com/2016/05/25/cartoon-commission-for-stefan-molyneux-not-an-argument/
http://imgur.com/gallery/xEEXiBo
https://i.imgur.com/BQqowsu.jpg
http://2new4.fjcdn.com/pictures/Sjw+comp+not+an+argument+edition+another+sjw+comp+i_463705_5986508.jpg

^[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Molyneux
^[2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1093993/A-fearful-mother-reveals-The-internet-cult-stole-son.html

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About

Roof Koreans refers to Korean-American business owners who defended their storefronts during the 1992 Los Angeles riots.^[7] Images of the shopkeepers standing on rooftops wielding firearms were widely publicized in news media, earning them a reputation for being bold and courageous.

Origin

During the Los Angeles riots in 1992, photographs and video of Korean store owners defending their businesses by camping on rooftops with rifles circulated through news media. On January 18th, 2011, the Los Angeles Times^[5] published an article about the riots, which highlighted a photograph of several Koreans armed with rifles on a rooftop (shown below).

On August 11th, the ArmBritain YouTube channel uploaded a news segment about the Korean business owners , which gained over 510,000 views and 1,900 comments over the next five years.

Spread

On April 28th, 2012, YouTuber MadMaxTrac uploaded footage of a similar news segment about the store owners (shown below).

On August 11th, 2014, a Craiglist ad titled “Roof Koreans for hire (Ferguson)” was created, featuring a photograph of Korean store owners camping on their roof wielding rifles (shown below).^[4] On August 13th, a screenshot of the post was submitted to the /r/funny^[1] subreddit, where it gathered upwards of 3,700 votes (90% upvoted) and 330 comments prior to being archived.

On April 29th, 2015, Urban Dictionary^[3] user FauxTales submitted an entry for “Roof Koreans,” defining it as “Angry Korean store workers who prowl their store roof tops wielding Nagasaki rifles.”

On July 8th, Redditor monkeymasher submitted a photograph of himself aiming a large firearm titled “Roof Korean for hire. Please call if assistance is needed” (shown below). Within three months, the post gathered upwards of 7,400 votes (80% upvoted) and 1,500 comments on /r/guns.^[6] That day, Redditor peecatchwho submitted a post titled "I don’t understand the “Roof Korean” thing in /r/guns" to the /r/OutOfTheLoop^[2] subreddit.

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