Editor’s note: Work in Progress. Information for the History and Reception sections are welcome.

About

The True Crime Community, sometimes referred to as the True Crime Fandom, is an online community which focuses on mass murderers, serial killers, and similar criminals. Notable subjects of focus include Ted Bundy, Jeffery Dahmer, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, James Holmes, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

History

The true crime community can be considered a pre-Internet phenomena that was later brought to light by the Internet. Hybristophilia, the sexual attraction to those who have committed some form of wrong-doing, is a well-known phenomena, although the exact reason behind why it exists is unknown.^[4]

The true crime community notably flourished due in part to the nature of websites such as Tumblr, which allow easy sharing of materials relating to the true crime community.

Characteristics

The true crime fandom shares many characteristics with other subcultures, notably in the way of fanworks such as writings and fan art focused around its subjects. This aspect has proven controversial, as it has been equated by some to be equal to idolizing criminals. This claim is typically countered by the claim that the fascination is rooted in criminology as opposed to an ulterior motive.^[5]

Notable Subfandoms

The true crime community can be broken down into several subfandoms based on the criminal(s) they focus on.

Columbine Massacre

The Columbine Massacre fandom is one of the largest, oldest, and best-known examples of a true crime subfandom, focused on the April 20, 1999 mass murder at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Participants in the fandom are commonly known as Columbiners, and are typically younger individuals who associate with Harris and Klebold as similarly misunderstood by the world. The fandom has been the subject of numerous case studies.^[1]

James Holmes

James Holmes, known for the Aurora, Colorado Theater Shooting gained a true crime fandom, whose members refer to themselves as Holmies. Unlike Columbiners, Holmies are typically comprised of young females who find Holmes physically attractive. The fandom initially came to popular focus due to a Buzzfeed article about it.^[2]

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Dzhokhar “Jahar” Tsarnaev was one of the two people convicted of causing the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings, alongside his deceased brother Tamerlan. Although members of the fandom have no name given to them, the phrase “Free Jahar” became very closely associated with the fandom in general. Similar to Holmies, those in the fandom are typically young women who find Tsarnaev physically attractive.^[3]

Nevada-tan

Although it did not have much impact on the true crime fandom as it is today, the followers of the 2004 case of Nevada-tan could be seen as a precursor to groups such as Holmies, as the way Natsumi Tsuji was transformed into a “moe” character mirrors some aspects of the fandom today.

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WikiHow is an online resource community that offers step-by-step guides on how to complete various tasks that may require a certain level of prerequisite knowledge or skills.The website features over 190,000 instructional articles on a broad range of tasks, typically accompanied by visual aids, tips and warnings to assist the readers in acquiring the necessary know-hows to achieve their end goals. Since its launch in 2005, many Wikihow articles have gained online notoriety due to the over-explanatory or oversimplified nature of the content.

History

The website was founded by American internet entrepreneur Jack Herrick on January 15th, 2005 in honor of the anniversary of Wikipedia, which was launched four years prior on January 15th, 2001. The concept of the website was in part inspired by the success of Wikipedia’s open source and crowdsourced content model, as well as the limitations of eHow, another online how-to website that Herrick had previously acquired with his business partner Josh Hannah in 2004.

In 2006, Herrick and Hannah sold eHow to Demand Media, enabling Herrick to focus on the development of wikiHow in full-time capacity. Wikihow is a hybrid organization (a for-profit company run for a social mission); all of its content is licensed under a Creative Commons license and its software MediaWiki is freely available for download and modification. On September 21st, 2007, WikiHow published its 25,000th article, “How to Make an Eiskaffee (Creamy Iced Coffee)." In 2009, the website surpassed 20 million monthly visitors and completed a redesign.

Online Presence

WikiHow maintains an active presence in the social media through a number of official accounts on various platforms, including a Twitter^[5] feed, Tumblr^[4] blog, Facebook^[6] page and YouTube^[34] channel. As of February 2016, WikiHow has 63,500 followers on Twitter, 2.78 million likes on Facebook and just over 4,000 subscribers on YouTube.

Reception

Since its launch, WikiHow has received a number of awards and accolades; In 2008, WikiHow was chosen by Mashable as the runner-up for best wiki site in Open Web Awards; In 2009, WikiHow won a Webby Award for Community; In 2010, WikiHow won the Co-Creation award in The Guardian and Nesta’s Open Innovation competition; In 2014, Google selected wikiHow as one of the launch partners for Google Contributor, an ad-free internet product.

Fandom

The Internet’s ironic appreciation for WikiHow has been steadily gaining momentum since as early as December 2010, mainly through several single topic blogs on Tumblr and Twitter that are devoted to curating odd and bizarre “how-to” guides and visual aids, including Fuck Yeah WikiHow^[36], WikiHuh^[27], WikiHow Ridiculous Is This^[26], WikiFAILs^[37], WikiHow Illustrations^[25], WikiHow Out-of-Context^[38] and @WikiHowArt^[33], as well as the /r/weirdwikihow^[31] and /r/wikiwhat^[30] subreddits on Reddit.

Blog Coverage

Some of the more bizarre “how-to” articles and exploitable visual illustrations within them have been highlighted in the form of listicles by a wide range of Internet humor and viral media aggregation sites; On February 3rd, 2009, Cracked^[15] ran an article titled “The 11 Most Unnecessary ‘How To’ Guides on the Web”; On June 28th, 2011, Listverse^[20] ran a post titled “Top 15 Funny and Bizarre Wikipedia Pages”; In 2013, BuzzFeed^[12] and The Huffington Post^[13] ran similar articles; In 2014, Imgur^[10] user MoSj submitted a compilation of funny illustrations from the site in a post titled “Wikihow is a treasure trove of amazing art,” Jezebel^[9] published an article titled “15 Utterly Deranged Wikihow How-To Guides” and The Independent^[11] ran an article titled “24 gloriously weird wikiHow guides”; In 2015, Something Awful^[21], Mental Floss^[35] and CollegeHumor^[17][18] ran similar listicles highlighting select “how-to” articles.

Traffic

According to Alexa^[24], WikiHow is ranked the 188th most visited website in the United States and the 220th most visited website in the world, while Comscore ranks WikiHow in the top 150 most visited publishers in the world. According to the company, the website is used by over 100 million people per month.

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I’m Not Kidding, Maddi is a personalized subject line from a fundraising email sent to Hillary Clinton supporters after her loss to Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire during the 2016 Democratic Presidential Primary.

Origin

On February 9th, 2016, Hillary Clinton lost to Bernie Sanders in the Democratic Primary in New Hampshire. After the loss, Clinton sent an email to at least one of her supporters, Maddi Epping of Des Moines, Iowa, with the subject line “I’m Not Kidding, Maddi.” In the email, Clinton asked for her supporters to give at least one dollar to the campaign right then.^[1]

Spread

According to an interview in the Daily Dot, Epping, after receiving the email, posted a screenshot to the Facebook group “Bernie Sanders Dank Meme Stash,” which has almost 200,000 members.^[2] The post received 2,293 likes, 425 shares, and over 760 comments, many of which were image macros manipulating the subject line of the original email.^[3] On Facebook, the Dank Meme Stash page began to spill out into the rest of Facebook, eventually resulting in over 86,000 posts with the hashtag #imnotkiddingmaddi;^[4] in addition, the hashtag also trended on Twitter.^[5] The meme’s spread was covered in the Daily Dot, RT, and on Fox News.

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“So Done” is an expression indicating a sense of exasperation, defeat or overwhelming emotion. Online, variations of the phrase are often used to caption reaction images and animated GIFs.

Origin

The use of the phrase “so done” in the context of emotional of physical exhaustion may have originated with the idiom “stick a fork in me. I’m done,” which references the cooking practice of sticking a fork into a piece of food to determine if it has been cooked long enough. On July 1st, 2009, Free Dictionary Forums^[6] user Kat submitted a thread asking if variations of the phrase “I am so done” were grammatically correct.

Spread

On May 27th, 2010, Urban Dictionary^[1] user PresentJ submitted an entry for the phrase “so done,” defining it as being “unable to handle any more of the current situation.”

On November 30th, 2012, FunnyJunk^[3] user asdasdddede posted an animated GIF titled “No, Fuck This, I Am So Done,” featuring a bot fly larva crawling back into a person’s scalp. On May 5th, 2014, an image of a cat climbing out of a lake titled “I’m So Done With Humans” was submitted to 9gag^[7] (shown below, left). On October 9th, the Yourreactiongifs^[8] Tumblr blog posted a black-and-white GIF of a man holding his hands up with the caption “#So Done” (shown below, right).

On December 3rd, 2015, the gimmetacotree Tumblr posted a GIF of the antagonist Loki (played by Tom Hiddleston) in the 2012 superhero film Avengers with the caption “1000% done” (shown below).

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Mary Poppins Image Macro

On December 18th, 2012, Tumblr^[2] user Fuckyeahreactions^[2] posted a two-panel image of the titular protagonist from the 1964 musical fantasy film Mary Poppins flying away with the caption “no fuck this i am done / i am so done” (shown below, left). Over the next three years, the post gained over 730 notes. On December 15th, Tumblr user officialpika^[4] submitted an illustrated version featuring the character Cynthia from the Pokemon franchise (shown below, right).

On August 18th, 2014, Tumblr user theelka submitted an illustration of the character Ryuuhou from the manga and anime series Dramatical Murder in the style of the Mary Poppins image macro (shown below, left). On September 24th, 2015, Twitter user @Tinygeeh^[5] posted a variation featuring the video games character Kirby (shown below, right).

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Yooge is the pronunciation of the English word “huge” in a dialect called “New York City English”, where the /h/ is reduced to a /y/ sound because of the presence of /u/ and /j/. The pronunciation became popular during the 2016 Presidential Election because of its frequent use by both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, both of whom are Brooklyn natives that speak New York City English.

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This meme started when Kanye West, after many months of hyping, leaking, and teasing, finally announced his latest album, currently “The Life Of Pablo”. First it was Swish, then Waves, now “The Life of Pablo”. Recently, users have been spreading this meme throughout twitter, after initially seeing the lazily made album cover, creating their own variations of it.

Many have been let down with all the hype, some even insist on Kanye for him to just release it, regardless of cover art. Others wish the cover art was more serious, judging from the dismay about the tweets of the album.

Kanye shared an alternate cover album, featuring the title of the album spread differently, along with the words “which one” and a picture of a female’s ass

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The Life of Pablo is the Kanye West’s seventh’s studio album. The album was largely documented due to the heavy hype of the album, and events surrounding the album, including a short term Twitter beef with Wiz Khalifa, multiple album name changes, two singles being released, and Martin Shkreli offering to purchase the album solely for 10 million dollars.

Origin

Early reports of a new Kanye album were made in late 2013^[2], when he become to record, hoping to have his new album out by Summer 2014. Although Kanye did not put out any music in 2014, reports of a new album, titled So Help Me God with a release date unknown on March 1st, 2015^[1]. A song Kanye preformed in February 2015 during the SNL 40th anniversary, titled Wolves was announced to be on the album as well^[3]. In May 2015, Kanye announced he was to change the name of the album to SWISH, but also stated that the album was open to another change in name.^[4] In January of 2016, Kanye released three tracks, with only one of them being on the album, Facts, No More Parties in L.A (originally in the album’s tracklist, but cut last minute) and Real Friends. Kanye also announced SWISH was to be released in the following February, and also changed the name of the album to Waves. This name was short termed, however, as in February, 3 days before the album’s due release date, he changed the name again, to TLOP, offering free tickets to his fashion show and live performance of his album, Yeezy Season 3, as well as a pair of his Yeezy shoes. The album was revealed to be titled The Life of Pablo.

Spread

Due to the massive hype of the album, the album has gained massive traction online.

Wiz Khalifa Beef / #KanyeAnalPlaylist

Following Kanye’s announcement of renaming his album to Waves_, a reference to convicted rapper Max BB, fellow rapper Wiz Khalifa posted against the name, saying “Please don’t take the wave,” and “FREETHEWAVE.”

Kanye angrily replied to the tweets by Wiz, responding with allegations including “your son wouldn’t be alive if it wasn’t for me”, and “I am your OG and you should respect me as such.”^[5] Kanye followed up by deleting all of his tweets against Wiz, and apologized. However, Kanye and Wiz Khalifa ex-wife responded to Kanye by claiming he liked getting fingered. ^[5] The post caused the hashtag #KanyeAnalPlaylist to spread, with people laughing at the accusations.

Handwritten Tracklist

On January 25th, 2016, Kanye tweeted out a handwritten tracklist of the album, claiming he was “so happy to be finished to be with the greatest album of all time.” The tweet gained over 150,000 retweets and 200,000 likes.

So happy to be finished with the best album of all time pic.twitter.com/JBWa8OWvqw

— KANYEWEST (@kanyewest) January 25, 2016

Kanye proceeded to tweet two more versions of the list, with the paper being signed by many notable artists, including A$AP Rocky, Chance The Rapper, 2 Chainz, Earl Sweatshirt, Kylie Jenner, and many others. In complete, the 3 tweets received just under 300,000 retweets, and just under 400,000 likes.

Martin Shkreli Purchase Offer

aiyo @kanyewest last minute can i buy your album out so it dont get released publicly

— Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) February 11, 2016

Following Kanye West’s dual fashion show and album performance, infamous entrepreneur Martin Shkreli tweeted at Kanye about his interest in purchasing exclusive rights to the album for 10 million dollars.^[6] The report received backlash, and was featured by Youtube reporter, DJ Akademiks.

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Nanalan’ is a Canadian children’s television series that aired on 1999. Created by Jason Hopely and Jamie Shannon, the show stars the 3-year old Mona and her pet dog Russel as they explore and learn at Nana’s backyard. Online, the show has inspired a series of in-jokes and is revered for being unintentionally funny with Mona’s distinctive gibberish and naiveté.

Origin

The show aired from 1999 to 2004, airing on CBC television in Canada before airing on Nick Jr. and Fox Kids afterwards.^[1]

Spread

On December 2015, Tumblr user ebilflindas uploaded an edited scene from the Nanalan’ episode titled “Backyard Fun”, which gained 123,293 notes in a span of 3 months.^[2] The post turned the garden scene infamous, with “Peepo” becoming one of the most salient in-jokes in Nanalan’.

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^[1]Wikipedia – Nanalan’

^[2]Tumblr – ebilflindas post

Overview

The 2016 Gravitational Wave Observation refers to the first direct observation of gravitational waveforms announced by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in mid February 2016. The observation came from a signal received in September 2015 of a binary black hole merger matching predictions from Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity.

Background

In 1916, physicist Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves as part of his theory of general relativity, claiming that ripples in the curvature of spacetime travel through the universe away from their origin. In 1974, the first indirect evidence if the waveform was observed in the motion of the star system PSR B1913+16. In August 2002, LIGO began operations to detect gravitational waves, maintaining observatories in Livingston, Louisiana and Richland, Washington. For the next eight years, LIGO failed to observe gravitational waves and was shut down for several years to replace detectors. On February 13th, 2015, several LIGO scientists participated in an “ask me anything” (AMA) thread on the /r/science^[1] subreddit. On September 14th, the upgraded detectors received a signal of two black holes merging together approximately 1.3 billion light-years away in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere. On January 11th, 2016, theoretical physicist Lawrence M. Krauss tweeted that “gravitational waves may have been discovered” (shown below).^[2]

That day, Redditor boilerdam submitted the tweet to /r/Physics.^[3] On February 11th, 2016, LIGO officially announced the first direct detection of gravitational waves from the signal.

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That day, several threads about the observation reached the front page of Reddit, including posts on /r/explainlikeimfive,^[4] /r/worldnews,^[5] /r/space^[6] /r/science^[7] and /r/askscience^[8] subreddits. Meanwhile, Redditor askLubich posted an animation titlted “How LIGO detected gravitational waves” to /r/educationalgifs (shown below).

On Twitter, United States President Barack Obama congratulated LIGO and the National Science Foundation on the discovery (shown below).^[16]

Also on February 11th, PBS Space Time YouTube channel posted a video about the discovery, garnering upwards of 250,000 views and 1,900 comments.

Meanwhile, Xkcd^[17] published a comic about the detection titled “Gravitational Waves,” which mocked intrusive notifications on social media services (shown below).

News Media Coverage

In the coming days, many news sites reported on the gravitational wave observation, including The New York Times,^[9] Ars Technica,^[10]USA Today,^[11] Wired,^[12] The Washington Post,^[13] Scientific American^[14] and The Atlantic.^[15]

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Tatzlpony is a fanmade species in the cartoon My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. It is a cross between an average pony and the tatzlwurm, a large, snake like creature with three tongues. It is frequently used in images involving tentacles and/or vore, with the most popular variation being Tatzljack.

Origin

In the climax of the 11th episode of season 4, Twilight Sparkle and Princess Cadence are attacked by a tatzlwyrm as part of Discord’s scheme to make them all closer. After a short battle, they manage to subdue it and trap it in its burrow. Members of the fandom latched onto the tatzlwurm’s strange design and combined it with a pony.

Spread

The first tatzlpony image was uploaded to Derpibooru on March 16, 2014, and consists of an edit of Applejack as a tatzlpony. It currently has over 200 approvals (shown below).

The tatzlpony tag now has over 283 images inside of it, with some of them exceeding 200 approvals. Further spread has reached other MLP related websites, with most of them being pornographic in nature.

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About

Oh Yeah is a single released by Swiss Electronic group Yello for their album Stella in 1985. It is known for having a erotic vibe throughout it’s track and has gained popularity through usage in many media platforms.

Origin

On 29 January 1985, the Yello members, Boris Blank and Dieter Meier first released their album Stella with Oh Yeah as one of their singles in Switzerland, Germany and Austria and then later in the US and UK in March the same following year. It is their first album after the departure of their member, who founded the group, Carlos Perón.

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The usage of the song began in the scene of the 1986 movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off where Ferris borrows Cameron’s father’s rare 1961 Ferrari California.
This is where the song and Yello themselves

A year later, comedy film The Secret of My Success also coined the use of the song in the scene

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A$AP Rocky is an American rapper, based in Harlem, New York. Rocky broke onto the scene in 2011, gaining massive spread off of the internet, specifically using YouTube. He is a member of the popular collective, A$AP Mob.

Origin

A$AP Rocky was born Rakim Mayers on October 3, 1988 in Harlem, New York City. In 2011, Rocky released his debut mixtape which had not received much publication, which included his viral song, “Purple Swag”. In later 2011, Rocky’s track Peso, was leaked onto the internet, where it ended up getting radio play in New York. Because of this play, the track gained notability, and Rocky received messages from record labels.

Live. Love. ASAP

Following his contact with record deals, he ended up putting up a video for his Purple Swag track, which also gained viral notability, gaining 35,000,000 views. Another music video for the song Peso also gained 34,000,000 views.

On October 31st, Rocky released his second mixtape, Live. Love. ASAP. The mixtape received critical acclaim, including 4 million downloads on the popular mixtape site, DatPiff, which is 9th most on the site.

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I Made This is an exploitable where a person claims that they made something that another person made. It is used in reference to scenarios where people steal others work.

Origin

The original comic (below) was posted by Tumblr user Nedroid on January 30th, 2013^[1]. It gained over 65k notes in three years.

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On November 12th, 2013, an article was created by RVA Magazine about allegations that musician Lil’ Kim used a makeup artist’s work as the cover of her album without her permission^[2]. In it, the meme (below) is used to explain the issue.

On December 3rd, 2013, a thread asking about I Made This was submitted to /r/OutOfTheLoop^[3]. The main post got a score of 45 (83% upvoted), and the answer a score of 48 before it was archived.

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^[1]Tumblr – The Internet by Nedroid / January 30th, 2013

^[2]RVA Magazine – Did Lil’ Kim Steal The Cover Art for ‘Dead Gal Walking’? / November 12th, 2013

^[3]Reddit – What is with the whole ‘I made this, you made this’ thing? / December 3rd, 2013

About

Filthy Frank Greenscreen Edits refers to a series of shots featuring the YouTuber Filthy Frank doing several actions. The greenscreens have been often remixed with other videos, most prominently one where he says “It’s Time to Stop”.

Origin

The origin of the greenscreens come from a video uploaded on December 24, 2015, by one of the alternate channels of Filthy Frank, saying that many people had asked him for greenscreens, leading to him uploading various greenscene shots to the channel and to his website for free use. The most popular greenscreen is the “It’s Time to Stop” shot, which has Frank shaking a large clock repeatedly saying “It’s time to stop”, which recieved over 800,000 views.

Spread

The first videos regarding the meme were both uploaded on December 25, 2015 by YouTubers Popsicle Juice and Creepypasta Archives (shown below, respectively), both compilations of all the greenscreens available for download from Frank’s website. Within the days following, multiple edits of the scenes were uploaded to YouTube^[1] as well as multiple edits of the “It’s time to stop” shot^[2], with the most popular video featuring the shot uploaded by YouTuber Pyrocynical on January 1 2016, garnering a little over 400,000 as of February 2016. The phrase “it’s time to stop” also has multiple results on Tumblr relating to the greenscreen shot^[3].

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Note: There are no results for “Filthy Frank Greenscreens/Greenscreen Edits”

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What’s In Your Pants refers to a text manipulation meme where a person tries to figure out if another person is a boy or a girl, and gets unexpected answers.

Origin

The earliest known usage was by Tumblr user cr333333p, on January 1st, 2015^[1]. It gathered over 175,000 notes in just over a year.

“Are you a man or a woman?”
“I’m a villain.”
“What gender are you?”
“Evil.”
“Yeah, but what’s in your pants?”
“Doom.”

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The next earliest known usage (below) was by Tumblr user meowvgonsplenger on January 19th, 2015, in a drawing of Stevonnie from Steven Universe. While the original post was taken down, surviving reblogs indicate that it gathered over 60,000 notes in just over a year^[2].

Another early usage was by Tumblr user charlesoberonn. While the original post was removed, the earliest known surviving reblog was on March 19th, 2015^[3], and garnered over 230,000 notes in 11 months.

“Are you a Mr. or a Ms.?”

“Dr.”

“But are you a man or a woman?”

“I’m a scientist.”

Around April 2015, iFunny user SU_Randomness_and_Junk uploaded an image (below) of Jasper from Steven Universe with the text from the original quote on top^[4].

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Graphics Design Guy is a youtube channel with about 12.5k subscribers at the time of writing this. In the comment section of Buzzfeed videos, Graphics Design Guy is usually the top comment, and comments on many Buzzfeed videos. He usually has lots of thumbs up, because people automatically like his comment because it is now a meme. When he is not one of the top comments, or if he didn’t post a comoment at all, people usually comment on his absence.

He is not a troll, and he regularly comments about the video as a whole, or specific scenes in the video.

Although his name is Graphics Design Guy, and he is a graphics design guy, his YouTube channel is mainly devoted to “trying new things” and “going outside his comfort zone”

About

Hentai refers to a subgenre of manga and anime involving sexually explicit images and plot^[1].

History

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Terminology dates it around the Meiji era with the usage in science and psychology. It wasn’t until a German Sexologist translated the word as “perverse or sexual desire” that it gained the definition it has today.

After the end of WWII, a new erotic interest sparked in Japan. During the U.S. occupation Mark McLelland observed when Hentai was shortened just to “H” it was pronounced “ecchi” (etchi) as a lesser connotation of it’s original definition^[2].

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As of February 15th, 2016, there are 139,033 results for “hentai” on DeviantART^[3] and a subreddit was created for the genre on June 22nd, 2008^[4].

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Hentai Quotes

Hentai Quotes are humorous quotes from hentai, commonly shared as a cut-out of the text balloon they were in.

I’ve Seen Enough Hentai To Know Where This Is Going

I’ve Seen Enough Hentai To Know Where This Is Going is a phrase suggesting that tentacle rape is about to happen. It is often used in reference to images involving tentacles.

POMF = 3

POMF = 3 is an onomatopoeia that refers to the sound someone makes when they fall on a bed. The phrase is commonly paired with the phrase “What are we gonna do on the bed?”.

Ahegaokin

Ahegaokin refers to a face often used in Hentai when a character is feeling intense sexual pleasure.

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Front Zipper Suimsuit (Japanese: フロントジッパー競泳水着; Front Zipper Kyōei Mizugi) is a high-necked swimsuit which features a double zipper in the front. Following on Keyhole Turtleneck in the end of 2014, this sexy swimsuit became to a popular fetish item for moe illustrators in the Japanese otaku culture in the spring of 2015.

Origin

According to Pixiv Encyclopedia^[1] and Nico Nico Pedia,^[2] this fetish meme started on Twitter by the official account of Japanese fetish sports costume brand REALISE^[3] in March 6th, 2015. The tweet, introducing its new product, named “Front Zipper Swimsuit for Competitive Swimming,” accompied by several pictures, had earned over thousands of retweets and favorites within the first few hours due to its overt sexiness.

来ました！ フロントジッパー競泳水着！
これで全面を切り裂く愚行を撲滅出来ます！笑 pic.twitter.com/a935YoLMS4

— REALISE (@realise55) March 6, 2015

Translation:

Finally! Here comes the front zipper swimsuit! It must eliminate all follies to rip the front of swimsuits! (lol

The following day, the Twitter account revealed their product had already been nicknamed as “That Swimsuit,”^[4] which was influenced by both That Pool, an iconic location in Japanese pornography due to its frequent usage as a set; and That Turtleneck, an alias for the Keyhole Turtleneck.

Spread

Likewise to the online craze for the sexy keyhole turtleneck in the previous year, Front Zipper Swimsuit inspired many amateur illustrators. Soon enough, a vast amount of moe illustrations featuring this sexy swimsuit began flooding on the online illustrator communities Pixiv^[5] and Nico Nico Seiga.^[6] However, the flooding didn’t last so long because of the advent of Hestia’s Boob Ribbon in the following month.

This online fetish fad was reported by Pixiv’s art news section Pixiv Spotlight,^[7] several Japanese online gossip news media^[8][9] as well as English news blog Rocketnews24^[10] and Taiwanese online news media gammenews a few months later.^[11] Since then, the swimsuit has still remained as one of the popular sexy costumes for moe illustrations and cosplayers.

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“Sorry” is a 2015 American pop song by the singer and pop star Justin Bieber. Since the song’s release in October of 2015, it’s spawned countless parodies and tributes.

Origin

“Sorry” was first announced on October 18th, 2015, and released the following week. The track, which featured frequent Bieber contributors Skrillex, Blood Diamonds, and Yektro, received critical acclaim and was immediately popular, debuting at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold 277,000 downloads and 23.1 million US streams in the first week. The video, which was uploaded the day of the release, has gained more than 845 million views as of February 2016.^[1]

Spread

After its release, the song spawned many parodies. One of the most popular was by YouTube family vloggers The Holderness Family, who created a spinoff talking about their age and parenthood (below left). Posted on January 19th, 2016, the parody gained more than 775,000 views on YouTube and 15.4 million views on Facebook.^[2] Another popular parody, by Bart Baker, was posted December 20th, 2015, and received more than 15.2 million views (below right).

Other prominent YouTubers like Chad Wild Clay also created parodies. There are currently over 400,000 search results for parodies of the song.^[3]

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“Don’t Talk To Me Or My Son Ever Again” is a catchphrase paired with pictures of characters containing an edited, diminutive version of themselves. In late 2015, posts containing variations of the picture saw a significant resurgence on Tumblr and Twitter.

Origin

On November 4th, 2014, Tumblr user splendidland^[1] posted a picture featuring the character Spike Spiegel from the anime series Cowboy Bebop with a miniature version of himself, featuring the catchphrase “don’t ever talk to me or my son ever again”. The post gained over 6,300 notes in the following year.

Spread

The fad remaint dormant until August 24th, 2015, when Tumblr user konkeydongcountry^[6] posted a picture of the promotional wool plush for Yoshi’s Woolly World and the promotional wool Yoshi amiibo with the ctachphrase, gaining over 3,900 notes in the following 6 months. On October 30th, 2015, Twiter user @theyoshibot^[5] posted a tweet with an edited picture of a Yoshi costume near a edited, diminutive version, along with the catchphrase, gaining over 3,000 likes and retweets in less than 5 months. Within the posting of @theyoshibot’s picture, variations of the picture started being shared on several websites, mainly Tumblr^[2] and Twitter.^[7] On January 4th, 2016, Tumblr meme documentation blog memearchives posted a post leading to the origin of the fad.^[4] On February 11th, 2016, reddit user PlaceboWizard posted on /r/OutOfTheLoop a question regarding the fad, gaining over 60 pints (87% upvoted) and 7 comments.^[3]

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