Meanwhile in X. 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.
More LOLspeak. It's Over 9000! 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.
The scene from the episode was eventually uploaded by 4chan user and YouTuber Kajetokun on October 17th, 2006. Power Level. 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. Anonymous. 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.
History Users of the anonymous image board 4chan, launched in late 2003, began using the term “Anonymous” when referring to themselves as a collective. 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. Spread On March 30th, 2006, the first Urban Dictionary definition for “Rule 34” was submitted by user Nukeitall, who claimed the adage was commonly used on a variety of message boards.
Rule 34: There is porn of it, no exceptions. Notable Examples. Godwin's Law. 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. For more information about Godwin’s Law, check out the original FAQ page. According to the online slang dictionary Jargon File: POOL'S CLOSED. 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. “There is more than enough EXIF data scattered around the internet to prove that cat macros are ancient, by internet standards. 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. NEDM. 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. He then proceeded to under-rate any sites created by users that had done so. The response by Gecko: "Okay Spotz. And thus the iconic catch-phrase was born. Happycat Happycat, as the cat is commonly known, is usually associated with lolcats, as it was one of the first to be captioned with “I can has cheezburger?” 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.
X Y is X (Redundant Adjectives are Redundant) 4chan. 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).
Read This in My Voice. About Read This in My Voice is a popular pastime on imageboards in which the OP (original poster) uploads a picture of an iconic character with a caption that reads: READ THIS IN MY VOICE. Upon seeing the image, viewers often find themselves subconsciously reading the text in the signature voice of each character portrayed. Jessi Slaughter. Overview. Boxxy. Tabby. About Tabby is an Internet celebrity that rose to fame on 4chan’s /b/ board. She is currently a YouTube partner, and makes videos on the Tabbs24x7 and Tabbs24x7Official YouTube channels. Origin On September 24th 2009, several months after her “I gotta ferret” video was posted to 4chan. An Hero. VTEC just kicked in, yo! VTEC just kicked in, yo! Is a catchphrase often used on 4chan (namely, /b/ and/p/) referring to sudden velocity expericened by a car with a VTEC motor. Since the situation is similar to entering warpspeed in Star Wars, jumping to Slipspace in Halo, or other sudden-velocity changing scenarios, this became a popular image macro representing speed in 2005.
From lurkmore.com/wiki: First started on /p/ (photo board) in response to a picture of a Honda, VTEC refers to Honda’s variable valve timing system, which is used to increase horsepower at higher RPMs. Since many /p/ regulars didn’t think highly of VTEC, this expression was used to negatively describe any souped up Asian car (Ricer). Get the cake ! Xbox 360 kid. Yotsuba Koiwai (404 girl) Slowpoke. Epic Fail Guy. Rickroll. About Rickrolling is a bait-and-switch practice that involves providing a web link supposedly relevant to the topic at hand, but actually re-directs the viewer to Rick Astley’s 1987 hit single “Never Gonna Give You Up.” Gentlemen.