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Friday 8 April 2016

Forever Alone

In the .gif below you will see what the forever alone meme is .


About

Forever alone   is an exploitable rage comic character that is used to show loneliness and disappointment with life  .The face has also been used as an advice animal and inspired the creation of the snowclone template “Forever an X.”

Origin
Forever Alone is considered one of the first major rage comic spin-off characters to be creater after the original Rage Guy, which first sprang up on 4chan in 2009. According to various sources, the original comic was uploaded in a thread titled “April Fools” byFunnyJunk user Azuul on May 28th, 2010 (shown below).


Virginhood in Internet Humor


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In early June 2010, another instance featuring a bachelor salaryman was posted on 4chan (shown below, left). On August 5th, 2010, Redditor L_E_G_E_N_D posted a Forever Alone rage comic titled “Prom FFFUUUU[14] (shown below, right), receiving over 275 up votes and 70 comments prior to being archived.

 

By September 2010, there were over 23,000 image results for “Forever Alone” on FunnyJunk[3] and over 50,000 on Tumblr.[4] On September 11th, single topic blog Forever Alone Comics[19] was launched to curate the growing collection of four-pane comics. On September 15th, the /r/foreveralone[23] subreddit was created, which received over 25,300 subscribers in the next three years. In early October, Forever Alone received mentions in several blogs, including Geekosystem[5], Memebase[15] and Uproxx.[16] Meanwhile, the meaning of term “Forever Alone” gradually expanded from a rage comic reference to the more general statement of being alone. On February 13th, 2013, the International Business Times[22] published a slideshow of notable Valentine’s Day Forever Alone comics and image macros. As of February 2013, a Facebook[21] page titled “Forever Alone” has received over 7.2 million submissions.

Notable Exambles 
In the beginning, most rage comics were illustrated with the the basic four-pane template, but later grew into other formats like vertical comic strips, advice animals, multi-pane comics with dialogues and even animated GIFs.

Rage Comics 

  

  
Vertical Strips

  

Advice Animals 
An Advice Animal-style image macro series dubbed “Forever Alone” emerged on macro generator sites Memegenerator[1] and Quickmeme[20] sometime between December 2010 and January 2011. As of February 2013, the “Forever Alone” Quickmeme[20] page has received over 62,000 submissions.

     
Animated Gif
2011 Times Square Flash Mob
On March 22nd, 2011, internet users on 4chan and Reddit began plotting an “involuntary” flash mob event by creating fake profiles on the dating site OKCupid and setting up a false rendezvous for single males at the Times Square, New York City at 7:30pm on May 13th, 2011.[6] According to Urlesque’s report[7], flyers with details of the action plan were posted in the forums and blogs like The Mainboard[8], NYMag[9], Social Spew[10], Skim Online Forums[11] and Dating Service Reporter[12].
The sudden influx of heavy traffic put a heavy strain on Earthcam’s servers, resulting in a streaming outage for viewers from 7 p.m. to 7:40 p.m. The few with access to the live stream took and uploaded screenshots of many men in suits loitering at meeting place via Tumblr and 4chan. At one point, an Anonymous guest appeared in the Earthcam feed with a Forever Alone poster on the side of a phone booth.
   
Know Your Meme’s senior reporter Don visited the site and interviewed one of the gentlemen who had been tricked into the OKCupid prank.
2011 Sony Ericsson Ad Campaign 
In November 2011, Sony Ericsson launched a series of video advertisements prominently featuring the character of Forever Alone for its Xperiathon campaign dubbed “The Loneliest Marathon in the World.”[18]




Sunday 3 April 2016

Deez Nutz

Deez Nuts is a video remix series containing a clip of Internet personality WelvenDaGreat saying the phrase “deez nuts” into a phone, which is often added as the punchline into a variety of videos on Instagram and Vine.

On March 20th, 2015, Instagram user WelvenDaGreat[1] posted a video clip of himself speaking to a friend on the phone, in which he tells a joke that “deez nuts” arrived in the mail. In the first month, the video gained over 58,000 likes.

On December 15th, 1992, hip hop artist Dr. Dre released his debut studio album The Chronic, which featured a track titled “Deeez Nuuuts.” During the song’s intro, rapper Warren G can be heard telling a “deez nuts” joke to a woman on the phone .On September 21st, 2004, Urban Dictionary user Dee Loc submitted an entry for “deez nuts.”

On March 24th, 2015, YouTuber Javalicius uploaded an extended version of WelvenDaGreat’s video, garnering upwards of 490,000 views and 290 comments in the next three weeks.

On April 4th, the Mykleeproduction Instagram feed posted an edited clip from the children’s television series Blue’s Clues with the “deez nuts” video added at the end.

On April 11th, Viner Khadi Don posted a scene from the 2002 superhero film Spider-Man with the “deez nuts” clip dubbed over the original audio (shown below, left). The same day, the Co Vines YouTube channel uploaded a compilation of notable “deez nuts” Vine remixes, accumulating more than 126,000 views and 70 comments in 48 hours. At the bottom of this age there is a deez nutz vine compilation for you.

On July 28th, 2015, CBS News reported that an independent named Deez Nuts filed a statement for candidacy with the Federal Election Commission in the 2016 Republican Presidential Primary.(shown below)
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On August 19th, the United States polling firm Public Policy Polling (PPP) released the results of a new survey on the primary candidates, which found that Donald Trump was leading in polls for the by 24%. Additionally, the firm revealed that Deez Nuts was polling at 9% in North Carolina, 8% in Minnesota and 7% in Iowa. That day, the North Carolina news station ABC 11 tweeted about the polling data, assuring readers they “were not hacked”
 (shown below).

Deez Nuts


In the first 24 hours, the tweet gained over 9,000 retweets and 4,400 favorites. That day, several news sites reported on the gag name’s polling appearance, including The Week, IBI Times, The Daily Beast, NY Mag and The Daily Caller.