Cooking With Skrillex
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About
Cooking With Skrillex is a single-topic blog featuring photoshopped images of American dubstep artist Skrillex, replacing his turntables with cooking equipment.
Origin
Cooking with Skrillex[1] started on January 11th, 2012 by Canadian piercing artist Carly Lemiuex, well-known on Tumblr as carlovely.[2] The first image posted was of Skrillex looking surprised in front his turntables, which had been turned into a stovetop range. Playing off of the popular mechanism in dubstep of "dropping the bass"[5], he was seen as dropping bass fish filets into a pan.
The original photo[4] was posted to Imgur on November 14th, 2011, with over 16,000 views as of February 2012.
Spread
On the 20th, Carlovely submitted the blog to Buzzfeed.[6] The same day, music sites The Daily Swarm[7] and Spin[8] and food site Foodbeast[9] posted several of the photos from the blog. The next day, it appeared on Foodista[10] and FunnyJunk[11], followed by coverage on AbsolutePunk[12] and BitCandy[13] later in the week and was named as the Phoenix New Times of Arizona's Tumblr of the Week.[14] On January 29th, the blog was featured on The Daily Dot[15], announcing a contest where users can submit their own photoshops to win an Amazon gift card.[16]
Notable Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1] Cooking With Skrillex – Home
[3] Cooking With Skrillex – Drop the Bass
[4] Imgur – Original photo
[5] Urban Dictionary – drop the bass
[6] Buzzfeed – Cooking With Skrillex
[7] The Daily Swarm –
[8] Spin – New Tumblr Alert: Cooking With Skrillex
[9] Foodbeast – Cooking With Skrillex
[10] Foodista – Cooking With Skrillex Turns the Dubstep Producer Into a Chef
[11] Funny Junk – Cooking With Skrillex
[12] AbsolutePunk – Cooking With Skrillex
[13] BitCandy – WTF: Cooking with Skrillex?!
[14] Phoenix New Times – Tumblr of the Week: Cooking With Skrillex
[15] The Daily Dot – Cooking With Skrillex
[16] Cooking With Skrillex – Enter to win a $20 gift card
Top Comments
Quantum Meme
Feb 07, 2012 at 05:08PM EST
User of Teh Interwebz
Feb 07, 2012 at 10:58PM EST