La star "Big Bird" mobilisée pour soutenir Obama. Big Bird Memes Go Viral | Photos. Mitt Romney plucks Big Bird. Election. Casually Pepper Spray Everything Cop. About Pepper Spray Cop (also known as “Casually Pepper Spray Everything Cop”) is a photoshop meme based on a photograph of a police officer offhandedly pepper spraying a group of Occupy protesters at the University of California Davis in November 2011. Origin UC Davis Occupy Protest On November 18th, 2011, a group of students at the University of California Davis gathered on campus for an Occupy protest, during which they formed a human chain by linking their arms together. When they refused to comply with the police request to leave, UC Davis Police officer Lieutenant John Pike and another officer walked across the the group, administering orange pepper spray straight down the line of unmoving students.
A photo of Lieutenant John Pike pepper spraying seated students at the UC Davis protest was taken by Louise Macabitas and posted to Reddit on November 19th, 2011. Photoshop Meme Two photoshopped versions of Macabitas’ photo surfaced on Reddit on November 20th. Spread Notable Examples. BuzzFeed. Philosoraptor. About Philosoraptor is an image macro series featuring a clip art of Velociraptor deeply immersed in metaphysical inquiries or unraveling quirky paradoxes. One of the more thoughtful (and successful) Advice Dog variations, Philosoraptor challenges the reader with his deep, existential, Paleolithic questions. See also: Raptor Jesus Origin LonelyDinosaur T-Shirt The original Philosoraptor was originally created as a T-shirt design on LonelyDinosaur by Sam Smith, who registered the copyright for his design on October 8th, 2008.
In a recent e-mail exchange, Smith revealed that the idea for “Philosoraptor” image was conceived sometime in the early of summer of 2008. The image itself was a mix of several images of velociraptors I got online, which I compressed to one-color images, then mixed together. On 4chan The earliest known depiction of Philosoraptor, a photoshopped image of the The Jurassic Park velociraptor holding a copy of Plato’s complete works, was posted via YTMND on March 30th, 2007. Farhad Manjoo. Technology Sept. 20 2013 5:36 AMMen Should Wear MakeupThis is my final column for Slate, so I’m going out on a limb. Guys, pick up the airbrush already.Farhad Manjoo Technology Sept. 12 2013 5:36 AMFacebook News Feed Changed EverythingMedia.
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While absurd themes like flying kittens and pastry cats have been around for some time, the surreal humor behind this particular combination has captivated YouTubers and online art communities, spawning fan illustrations as well as user-interface designs and homebrew games across multiple platforms. Origin The Pop Tart Cat animation was posted on the daily comics site LOL-COMICS run by illustrator Chris Torres, also known as prguitarman, on April 2nd, 2011. The original drawing was based on his own Russian Blue cat, Marty, and was drawn after receiving two separate suggestions for a cat and a pop tart during a Red Cross charity drawing event on Livestream.
Prior to the Pop Tart Cat, prguitarman had already gained a relatively large audience with a few other instances of comics circulating on the web. Spread Slipknot’s Psychosocial Video Games.