Floating Chinese Government Officials
About Floating Chinese Government Officials is an exploitable photoshop series that involves placing three Chinese officials in various backdrops and situations. The fad began in June 2011 after a...
View ArticleCADbortion / Ctrl+Alt+Del Parodies
About CADbortion (a.k.a “Ctrl+Alt+Del” miscarriage) refers to a series of parodies based on an overly dramatic cartoon strip from the popular webcomic Ctrl+Alt Del[1] which became a widespread subject...
View ArticleA Wild X Appears! / Wild X Appeared!
About “A Wild X Appears!”, also known as “Wild X Appeared!,” is a snowclone used to indicate the unexpected advent of a character or object. The dramatic phrase was inspired by the in-game...
View ArticleFlipping Tables / (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
About Flipping Table emoticon (written as: (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻) is a text-based emoticon depicting a person flipping a table out of rage. Primarily used by East Asian internet users to express rage, the...
View ArticleMy Face When / >mfw
About “My Face When…” (also shortened as “>mfw”) is a colloquial phrase commonly used on 4chan imageboards as the opening line of reply posts and greentext stories in particular. The phrase is used...
View ArticleThe Narwhal Bacons at Midnight
About “The Narwhal Bacons at Midnight” is a catchphrase that was created for Redditors to identify themselves in public places. It is used in fanart, rage comics, and is often referenced as an inside...
View ArticleAngry Soccer Fan (Tano Pasman)
About El “Tano” Pasman is an Argentinian man who became a viral video star in early June after his family uploaded a video of him passionately yelling and cursing at the TV while watching a soccer...
View ArticleNobody Canna Cross It
About “Nobody Canna Cross It” is a video remix series based on a Jamaican news interview clip with a local Mavis Bank resident Clifton Brown about the flooding of Yallahs River in June 2011. Following...
View ArticleGuido Jesus
About Guido Jesus is an advice animal image macro series featuring a photo of a tanned man with long flowing black hair and chin-strap facial hair taken with his cellphone in a mirror. The captions...
View ArticlePhoto Fads
About Photo Fads are staged photos in which the subject poses in a specific manner, often for the purpose of sharing the picture online. Beginning in 2011, several fads were named with the “-ing”...
View ArticleCyberbully
About Cyberbully, stylized as “Cyberbu//y”, is an ABC Family made for TV movie. It tells the story of a teenage girl who is bullied online on the fictional social site “Cliquester”, which ends up...
View ArticleBrain Bleach / Eye Bleach / Mind Bleach
About Brain Bleach (a.k.a Mind Bleach or Eye Bleach) is a fictitious product referenced in reaction to someone else’s post containing undesirable online content. Often presented as a cure-all for...
View ArticleJoJo's Pose (ジョジョ立ち)
About JoJo’s Pose (Japanese : ジョジョ立ち, JoJo Dachi) refers to various signature poses used by the protagonist character in the magna series Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure[1]. Largely due to the overdramatic...
View ArticleStreisand Effect
About Streisand Effect refers to the unintended consequence of further publicizing information by trying to have it censored. Instead of successfully removing the information from the public, it...
View ArticleSeems Legit / Sounds Legit
About “Seems Legit” is an expression used as a sarcastic retort to a suspected attempt at deception and is often used to caption image macros depicting factually questionable statements and scenarios....
View ArticleSchrute Facts
About Schrute Facts is an image macro series inspired by Dwight Schrute, a character from American version of the comedy television series The Office. The overlaid text typically begins with an idiom...
View ArticleChemistry Cat
About Chemistry Cat (sometimes known as Science Cat) is an image macro series which consists of a scientific pun and a picture of a cat with a bow-tie and glasses sitting in front of a board. These...
View ArticleUber Frosh / College Freshman
About College Freshman (a.k.a Uber Frosh) is an image macro series featuring a college student with headphones and a mobile phone. Portrayed as a hybrid of Scumbag Steve and Socially Awkward Penguin,...
View ArticleWanna Dance?
About “Wanna Dance?” is a YouTube video series featuring various characters and people grooving to background music from Mass Effect 2 in loop. While the choreography varies slightly from video to...
View ArticleOh God Why
About “Oh God Why” is a rage comic character with a half-shaded face accompanied by the remorseful expression “Oh God Why." It is often used as the final panel in a comic that tells a horrifying,...
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