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About Meanwhile, in X is an image macro series based on the participial phrase “Meanwhile in…,” a literary device that allows an easy segue between two concurrent events in different places. Although it is widely regarded as a narrative cliche, the macro series is used to illustrate ridiculous and absurd situations (usually in medias res) that are easily identified as stereotypical of a certain ethnicity, nationality, occupation or subculture. Origin
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About “Over 9000” is a popular catchphrase derived from the Japanese manga anime series Dragon Ball Z that is typically used as an innumerable quantifier to describe a large number of something like “several”, “lots”, “butt loads” and even the metric “ass tonne”. Origin Dragon Ball (ドラゴンボール Doragon Bōru) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama. With the ending of Dragon Ball, Toei Animation quickly released a second anime television series, Dragon Ball Z . In the 28th episode titled “Goku’s Arrival,” the main protagonist character Goku returns to the Earth after intense training in the Other World to square off against Saiyan warriors Vegeta and Nappa, who had killed his friend Piccolo right before his arrival.
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COMBO BREAKER
About Combo Breaker , sometimes seen as C-C-C-C-Combo Breaker! , is a phrase usually used on message boards to break a chain of posts. On 4chan , the phrase is disrupt a popular pastime known as a Combo , which involves posting a series of partially cropped images to bring out the full picture in a given thread. Origin
About Anonymous is an ad-hoc group of Internet users who are often associated with various hacktivist operations, including protests against Internet censorship, Scientology and government corruption. Origin Users of the anonymous image board 4chan , launched in late 2003, began using the term “Anonymous” when referring to themselves as a collective.
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Rules of the Internet
About Rules of the Internet is a list of protocols and conventions, originally written to serve as a guide for those who identified themselves with the Internet group Anonymous . The list serves as a summation of popular catchphrases and axioms commonly associated with 4chan . Since there are numerous drafts and editions in circulation, the rules fluctuate in number and the validity of each rule remains debatable. Despite this, several of the rules including Rule 34 and Rule 63 are agreed upon across internet communities.
RULE 34
About Rule 34 is an Internet adage in the “Rules of the Internet” list of protocols and conventions which asserts that if something exists, there is porn of it. The humorous concept is commonly illustrated through fanart and fanfictions in which fictional TV and cartoon characters engage in sexual behavior, in similar vein to the Ruined Childhood meme. Origin According to the Lurkmore Wiki, Rule 34 originated from a comic posted on the website Zoom-Out, which was cached by Google as early as October 5th, 2004. In May of 2009, Something Awful user Electric Eggs posted a thread titled “Ask me about inventing Rule 34”, in which he claimed to have created the comic with his sister after learning the adage in an IRC chatroom.
About Godwin’s Law is an internet adage that is derived from one of the earliest bits of Usenet wisdoms, which goes “if you mention Adolf Hitler or Nazis within a discussion thread, you’ve automatically ended whatever discussion you were taking part in.” Origin Mike Godwin coined his observation as a “natural law of Usenet” in 1990.
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About Pool’s Closed is a catchphrase associated with a series of raids carried out by Anonymous against the online social networking site Habbo Hotel , where members of the group formed human blockades to obstruct the entry points of popular hangouts with their avatars dressed in afros and business suits. The first raid was launched in July 2006 after rumors began to spread on 4chan that some Habbo moderators had tendencies to ban users based on the skin colors of their avatars.
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LOLcats
About LOLcats are image macros consisting of humorous photos of cats with superimposed text written in a form of broken English known as lolspeak . The LOLcat meme gained much of its traction through the weekly ritual of Caturday on 4chan and I Can Has Cheezburger . Origin According to an article in The Star, LOLcats originated on the imageboard 4chan sometime in 2005, when an anonymous user submitted a picture of a relaxed cat waiting for “Caturday.” In a blog post on Time Magazine’s TechLand, writer Lev Grossman published an email claiming that Caturday was created in 2005 as a protest to “Furry Friday” threads.Happy Cat
About Happy Cat is the subject of a series of image macros and exploitable images, and among the most well-known of LOLcats. . Happy Cat achieved fame via Something Awful in 2003, when forum user FancyCat is speculated to have original posted the image, although new inforamtion regarding the account brings this fact into question. In 2007, a superimposed caption was placed on the image reading “I Can Has Cheezburger?” This image spawned both the LOLcats meme and the website"I Can Has Cheezburger":http://www.icanhascheezburger.com, as well as the NEDM meme.
Background In July 2005, a video of a cat being burned alive was uploaded to the forum site ogrish.org, evoking strong reactions from other forum users as well as the administrators. Following an official investigation led by the site, the Belgian teenager who uploaded the video was eventually arrested and the man who actually commited the crime eventually turned himself in. Shortly thereafter, a YTMND site was created out of the video featuring music from the PC game DOOM . YTMND user Titanium-Gecko was outraged to find that some users had given the site 5 stars.
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Keyboard Cat
About Keyboard Cat is the nickname given to an orange tabby cat named Fatso, filmed in the mid-1980s by his owner, Charlie Schmidt. It has been used as an indicator of failure on forums and communities. Origin The original VHS footage of Fatso was recorded by performance artist Charlie Schmidt in 1984.X Y is X (Redundant Adjectives are Redundant)
About (X) (Y) is (X) (“redundant adjectives are redundant”) is a common sentence structure in online conversations which follows a basic format that enhances redundancy. Popular examples include “ Longcat is looooong”, “Successful troll is successful” and “old pic is old.”About 4chan (site domain: 4chan.org) is the most popular English-language imageboard community with over 700,000 posts per day made by roughly seven million daily visitors. The site consists of 56 topical imageboards that are sectioned into six major categories: Japanese Culture, Interests, Creative, Adult Content and Miscellaneous and Others. History 4chan.org was launched in late 2003 by Christopher Poole, a.k.a moot , who modeled the site after the popular Japanese image-board Futaba Channel (2chan).