Kanye Interrupts / Imma Let You Finish

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2009-09-14T23:57:21Z

MTV Video Music Awards

2009

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Kanye Interrupts / Imma Let You Finish <p><embed src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:uma:video:mtv.com:436578" width="512" height="319" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashVars="configParams=vid%3D436578%26uri%3Dmgid%3Auma%3Avideo%3Amtv.com%3A436578%26startUri={startUri}" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" base="."></embed><div style="margin:0;text-align:center;width:500px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><a href="http://www.mtv.com/ontv/" style="color:#439CD8;" target="_blank"><span class="caps">MTV</span> Shows</a></div></p> <h2>Kanye West Interrupts Taylor Swift</h2> <p>Sunday, September 13th, 2009:</p> <p>At the 2009 <span class="caps">MTV</span> Video Music Awards, Taylor Swift won the award for Best Female Video. However, as she began her acceptance speech, Kanye West suddenly appeared on the stage, stole the mic, and told the crowd that Beyonce’s video should have won, as it is “one of the best videos of all time.” He then handed the mic back to Taylor and stormed off the stage. Because Kanye had taken up Taylor’s time, the show cut to commercial before she could continue.</p> <p>Later in the evening, after Beyonce won Video of the Year, she invited Taylor onstage to finish her speech. <br /> Kanye was reportedly thrown out, and upon returning home, an apology on his blog, written in his signature <span class="caps">ALL</span> <span class="caps">CAPS</span> <span class="caps">STYLE</span>!!!!!!!!!</p> <p><img src="http://cdn2.knowyourmeme.com/i/19099/original/kanyescreen.jpg?1253070571" alt="" /></p> <p>By Monday Kanye’s interruption was the top news being covered by every mainstream news and media outlet.</p> <p><embed style='display:block' src='http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:247478' width='360' height='301' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='window' allowFullscreen='true' flashvars='autoPlay=false' allowscriptaccess='always' allownetworking='all' bgcolor='#000000'></embed></p> <h2>The first mashup, Obama interrupted by Kanye</h2> <p><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VxKIcrDsJAs&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VxKIcrDsJAs&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object></p> <p>Early Monday morning, Youtube user freeyourpixels created a mashup of Kanye interrupting President Obama. Last week, President Obama spoke before Congress about Health Care reform. During the speech, Republican Representative Joe Wilson heckled te President, interjecting with “You Lie.”</p> <p>By marrying these two interruptions together into one parody video, and being the first to do so, freeyourpixels became the number one most viewed Youtube channel of the day, and the video was viewed over 1.5 million times in under 24 hours.</p> <p>Roughly 80 people reuploaded freeyourpixels video.</p> <h2>Obama Calls Kanye a Jackass</h2> <p><a href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/14/obama-kanye-is-a-jackass_n_286623.html>The Huffington Post reports</a> that President Obama called Kanye a “jackass” in an off-the-record portion of an interview yesterday with <span class="caps">CNC</span>.</p> <p><img src="http://knowyourmeme.com/i/18940/original/obamakanyejackass.png?1253035719" alt="" /><br /> <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0909/ABCs_Moran_tweeted_OTR_Obama_swipe_at_Kanye.html?showall"><span class="caps">ABC</span> News reporter Terry Moran reportedly tweeted the following</a>:<br /> <blockquote><br /> “Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a “jackass” for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won. Now THAT’S presidential."</p> </blockquote> <p>Although this was viewed by many as a breach of journalist ethics for publicizing off-the-record remarks, it clearly serves as an indicator of the scale of this outburst.</p> <p><b><span class="caps">UPDATE</span></b><br /> Thanks to user<a href="http://knowyourmeme.com/users/dob"> >>DoB<< </a>for finding audio.</p> <p><object width="448" height="374"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/e/16711680/wshh9NDgPX1rjxs5ynCi" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="quality" value="high" /> <embed src="http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/e/16711680/wshh9NDgPX1rjxs5ynCi" quality="high" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullscreen="true" width="448" height="374"></embed> </object></p> <h2>Kanye’s initial Apology was turned into a song. <br /> <object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5HVi7PUszZU&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5HVi7PUszZU&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object></h2> <p>For reasons that are currently unknown, Kanye removed his first apology from his blog.</p> <h2>Kanye Apologizes again.</h2> <p>Monday night, Kanye appeared as a guest on Jay Leno and offered an apology for his outburst.</p> <p><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://widgets.nbc.com/o/4727a250e66f9723/4aafbd308a96f237/4aaefeadfee9bb6e/aa9e9599/-cpid/ef37ae61b60d1315" id="W4727a250e66f97234aafbd308a96f237" width="384" height="283"><param name="movie" value="http://widgets.nbc.com/o/4727a250e66f9723/4aafbd308a96f237/4aaefeadfee9bb6e/aa9e9599/-cpid/ef37ae61b60d1315" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="allowNetworking" value="all" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" 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value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hRrXJ-gjmD8&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object></p> <h2>Image macros</h2> <p>On the night of the 13th and morning of the 14th, people on forums across the web began, including 4chan began photoshopping Kanye onto dozens of backgrounds. Before long, a common theme began to dominate the theme of the most popular images’ a Kanye madlib.</p> <p>“Look X, I’m really [adjective] for you. Imma Let you finish. But Y is the [hyperbole] of all time.”</p> <p>The second trend involves a traditional four-panel comic, in which Kanye steals the mic (first panel), asks a joke (second panel), tells the punchline (third panel), and then shrugs (fourth panel).</p> <p>By Monday and Tuesday, Kanye image macros flowed steadily through Tumblr, and at least three new Tumblog dedicated to the new meme has been created.</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://kanyegate.tumblr.com/">Kanyegate</a></li> <li><a href="http://immaletyoufinish.tumblr.com/">Imma Let You Finish</a></li> <li><a href="http://kanyeinterrupted.tumblr.com/">Kanye Interrupted</a></li> </ul> <p>A few <a href=http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/single-serving-sites>Single Serving Sites revolving around Kanye were created.</a></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://didkanyeinterrupttaylorswifttoday.com/">DidKanyeInterruptTaylorSwift.com</a></li> <li><a href="http://iskanyewestadouchebag.com/">IsKanyeWestADouchebag.com</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.atom.com/spotlights/kanye_west_apology/">Kanye West Apology Generator</a></li> </ul> <h2>Exploitables – Make Your Own Kanye</h2> <p>By September 15th, a Kanye template for the Aviary photo-editing web appled to further Imma Let You Finish exploitability.</p> <ul> <li><a href=http://aviary.com/launch/phoenix?fguid=212a34de-f390-102c-80b9-0030488e168c>Click here to make your own.</a><br /> <br> And here is a blank 4-Pane comic for shooping your own text into.<br /> <img src="http://cdn3.knowyourmeme.com/i/19148/original/15g4bye.jpg" alt="" /><br /> <img src="http://cdn3.knowyourmeme.com/i/19557/original/1253249339152.png" alt="" /><br /> <img src="http://knowyourmeme.com/i/19558/original/1253249406747.png" alt="" /></li> </ul> <h2>Twitter</h2> <script src='http://trendistic.com/_embed-745/kanye/_since-2009-09-10-17h-utc/_until-2009-09-17-17h-utc'></script><p>Kanye was the #1 top Trending Topic during September 14th and part of the 15th.<br /> As of 7:30PM September 15th, Kanye West was still a hot trend on Twitter, although the majority of activity is made up of those who are still just finding out about it or taking polls about it.</p> <p>The night of Septeber 16th, Kanye fell to the #3 Trending topic, then down to #5.<br /> A botnet of fake accounts began spamming away with Kanye Messages and links to bogus virus-protection software. Most of the tweets at this point consisted of a mixture of those who were looking to drive traffic to their websites. and those who had simply just found out about the Kanye meme.</p> <p>Many were still creating new instances of memebrids that were already old, such as “I’ma let you finish” mashed up with “Yo Dawg”, “Patrick Swayze’s death” and “Chuck Norris.” Many tweeted as if they believed they had been the first to put these elements together, which may be evidence of a predictable thought pattern amongst the twitter users caught up in a developing meme.</p> <p>By the morning of Thursday the 17th, Kanye was back up to the #4 Twitter trending topic. Ashton Kutcher, (@aplusk) had just tweeted the Patrick Swayze Funeral variant, and exposed his millions of followers to the joke well after it had first surfaced. This caused the Partick Swayze variant to experience a resurgence in popularity.</p> <p>The memetic reaction to Kanye’s outburst only represents a fraction of the entire ordeal, but the spread and popularity of the Kanye parodies on Twitter is largely independent of the rest of the Kanye comments.<br /> <script src='http://trendistic.com/_embed-745/let-you-finish/interrupted/_since-2009-09-10-17h-utc/_until-2009-09-17-17h-utc'></script></p> <h2>Google Insights Analysis</h2> <p>Searches for Kanye West on Monday the 14th have been the highest they have ever been for the artist, and dwarf interest in the Christian Bale rant.<br /> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fig%2Fmodules%2Fgoogle_insightsforsearch_interestovertime_searchterms.xml&up__property=empty&up__search_terms=kanye%7Cchristian+bale&up__location=empty&up__category=0&up__time_range=12-m&up__compare_to_category=false&synd=ig&w=650&h=300&lang=en-US&title=Google+Insights+for+Search&border=%23ffffff%7C3px%2C1px+solid+%23999999&output=js"></script></p> <p>It is safe to say that not only did this one event overshadow anything Kanye West has ever done, but seems to have spread the farthest, proliferated the furthest, and mutated the most in the shortest amount of time when compared to other Internet Memes that we’ve looked at.</p> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fig%2Fmodules%2Fgoogle_insightsforsearch_interestovertime_searchterms.xml&up__property=empty&up__search_terms=kanye%7Cchristian+bale%7COprah%7Cjesus%7C&up__location=empty&up__category=0&up__time_range=empty&up__compare_to_category=false&synd=ig&w=650&h=300&lang=en-US&title=Google+Insights+for+Search&border=%23ffffff%7C3px%2C1px+solid+%23999999&output=js"></script><p>In the following trends we see how much of the public interest in Kanye West has had a strong correlation with the VMAs.<br /> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fig%2Fmodules%2Fgoogle_insightsforsearch_interestovertime_searchterms.xml&up__property=empty&up__search_terms=kanye%7Cvma&up__location=empty&up__category=0&up__time_range=empty&up__compare_to_category=false&synd=ig&w=650&h=300&lang=en-US&title=Google+Insights+for+Search&border=%23ffffff%7C3px%2C1px+solid+%23999999&output=js"></script></p>

2009-11-14T06:05:51Z

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