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How is babby formed. It all began with an innocent question from Yahoo!

how is babby formed

Answers user “kavya,” who asked the question “How is babby formed?” Providing the additional information “how is babby formed / how girl get pragnent” In late November 2006, Something Awful goons excerpted this post for the “Weekend Web” feature, published regularly on Sundays and highlighting particularly horrible posts on generally bad forums. The specific article was titled Yahoo! Newfags Can't Triforce. About “Newfags can’t triforce” is a recently occurring 4chan roll call / response meme.

Newfags Can't Triforce

On imageboard sites like 4chan, a triforce thread begins with the original poster challenging 4chan noobs (“newfags”) to produce correctly formatted triforcii, or triforce in ascii. Those who simply copy & paste the triforce will fail to achieve proper alignment, as shown: Origin. Trollface / Coolface / Problem? Troll Science/Troll Physics. About Troll Science, also known as “Troll Physics”, is a rage comic series illustrating various experiments that are based on faulty understanding of scientific concepts.

Troll Science/Troll Physics

The intentionally pseudo-scientific drawings are often used to mislead the viewers or frustrate science educators and students for their obvious errors. Origin. Shock Sites. Editor’s Note: The entry contains subject topics & links that may be deemed not safe for work; viewer discretion is advised.

Shock Sites

About Shock Sites are websites that are designed to offend or startle the viewer. According to description provided byWikipedia, such sites are typically of a “pornographic, scatological, extremely violent, insulting, painful, profane, or provocative nature.” A person may be linked to a shock site directly, asked to view one “as a challenge,” or through Bait and Switch. “Traditional” shock sites are intended to get an immediate reaction and generally fall into one of the following categories. Pictures – Displaying a static image: Example: Goatse Flash loop – Short looping SWF video clip, usually set to music Example: Meatspin. 2 girls 1 cup. Note: This entry contains NSFW subject topics & links; viewer discretion is advised.

2 girls 1 cup

About The phrase, “2 Girls 1 Cup,” refers to the trailer for the Brazilian fetish film Hungry Bitches made by MFX Media in 2007. The extreme fetishistic nature of the clip as well as the dramatic piano music playing in the background caused it to go viral in late 2007, with many internet users posting their own or others’ reactions to seeing the video for the first time. This phenomenon received significant attention from the media.

As a result, 2girls1cup.com, hosting the most viewed mirror of the trailer, would become one of the most famous shock sites in internet history. Background. Goatse. About Goatse (site domain: Goatse.cx) is a shock site featuring an image of a naked man stretching his anus with both of his hands.

Goatse

One of the most widespread shock media on the web, the site has been notoriously used for bait-and-switch pranks or website vandalisms to provoke reactions of disgust. Although the original domain was taken down in 2004, the image continues to circulate online through mirrored sites. Origin. Gold Membership Trolling. About Gold Membership Trolling, also known as “Gold Account Trolling”, is an online prank that involves posting a fabricated image to raise the false notion that a paid account is required to view the real image.

Gold Membership Trolling

Battletoads Preorder. About Battletoads Battletoads as a means of trolling On 4Chan when someone posts a screen shot from a videogame, a common troll is to reply which the phrase, “Is this Battletoads?”

Battletoads Preorder

According to Dramatica, this troll predates the Gamestop pranks. Gamestop Preorder Pranks of 2007 On September 12-14th 2007, Anonymous targeted over 40 Gamestop stores making prank calls requesting preorders of Battletoads II, Battletoads for the Wii, and other odd requests. There was even a “website:” with gave a number to call for information on the game. Trolling. About Trolling is an Internet slang term used to describe any Internet user behavior that is meant to intentionally anger or frustrate someone else, though not to be confused with cyberbullying a form of online harassment targeting a specific individual or group in a deliberate and hostile manner, or pranking, which similarly involves playing jokes on strangers for one’s amusement, but typically implies more coordination and intent.

Trolling

Online History Etymology The etymological root of the word “troll” is generally attributed to hunting and fishing jargons. According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the noun “troll” originated from an Old Norse word for a type of monstrous creature and the verb to troll comes from the Old French hunting term “troller.” In Other Languages In Japanese, tsuri (つり) means “fishing” and refers to intentionally misleading posts created with the purpose of eliciting negative response from other users. Early Usage The Rules of the Internet Rule 20. Copypasta. About Copypasta is internet slang for any block of text that gets copied and pasted over and over again, typically disseminated by individuals through online discussion forums and social networking sites.

Copypasta

Although it shares some characteristics with spam in the sense they’re both unsolicited (and often considered a nuisance), copypastas are mainly spread through human operators whereas the latter is automatically generated by electronic messaging systems. Origin The Concept This simple concept of “manually copying text from one place and pasting it elsewhere” has been in practice since the innovation of basic text-editing commands (copy/cut/paste) in the early 1980s and subsequent rise of spamming in the early 1990s.

According to Wikipedia entry, American computer scientist Larry Tesler is widely cited as the pioneer of “cut and paste” commands, who first transferred the function into a computer text-editing software in 1974. THEN WHO WAS PHONE? About THEN WHO WAS PHONE? (usually capitalized) is a catchphrase associated with a subtype of creepypasta stories that are poorly written or unintentionally funny. Most typically seen on 4chan’s /x/ (paranormal) board, the phrase bears some similarities to other grammatically incorrect memes like “I Accidentally” or How Do I Shot Web.

Origin The original creepypasta was posted via 4chan’s /x/ (paranormal) board on March 28th, 2008. Spread Throughout 2008, the creepypasta became a staple catchphrase within the /x/ community, spawning a variety of derivative stories with similar elements of mystery, as well as spreading across other discussion communities like Bodybuilding Forums, NeoGAF Forums and Yahoo Answers. On July 30th, 2008, YouTuber SCPantera uploaded a dramatic reading of the narrative (shown below).

In 2009, “Then Who Was Phone?” Notable Examples Fan Art Illustrations. Has anyone really been far as decided to use even go want to do look more like? Lee Hotti and Friends. Staff’s Note: For the video episode and article on “My New Haircut”, click here. About This meme article covers the nebulous Wannabe-Gotti/Jersey Shore Douchebag internet meme that goes by many names.

In chronological order of appearance, the most notable of these instances are as follows: Lee Hotti (2006) My New Haircut (2007) Shit Was So Cash (2007) But first, some background Growing Up Gotti In 2004, A&E began airing the series Growing Up Gotti, starring the daughter of the late mafia boss John Gotti, Victoria Gotti, and her three douchebag sons. Lee Hotti. Shiny Pidgey. About.