Whose Responsible This

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2009-09-14T16:42:08Z

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'> <head> <meta content='text/html; utf-8' http-equiv='Content-Type' /> <meta name='keywords' content='image macro, furry, toplessrobot, fan fic' /> <title>Whose Responsible This | Know Your Meme</title> <link href='http://cdn0.knowyourmeme.com/stylesheets/mobile.css?1264901130' media='only screen and (max-device-width: 480px)' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /> <script src="http://cdn2.knowyourmeme.com/javascripts/jquery.js?1264901130" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="http://cdn3.knowyourmeme.com/javascripts/jquery-ui.js?1264901130" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="http://cdn0.knowyourmeme.com/javascripts/jrails.js?1264901130" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="http://cdn0.knowyourmeme.com/javascripts/jquery.timeago.js?1264901130" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="http://cdn1.knowyourmeme.com/javascripts/application.js?1264901130" type="text/javascript"></script> </head> <body id='mobile'> <div id='container'> <div class='c' id='content'> <div class='block c' id='entry_titlebar'> <div class='left'> <div class='c' id='entry_photo'><img alt="" class="thumbnail left" src="http://cdn0.knowyourmeme.com/system/icons/929/thumb/10zmqa9-thumb-570x456.jpg?1252946527" title="Whose Responsible This" /></div> <dl id='entry_details'> <dt>Status</dt> <dd>Deadpool</dd> <dt>Origin</dt> <dd>http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/09/whose_responsible_this.php</dd> <dt>Year</dt> <dd>2009</dd> </dl> </div> <div class='right'> <h1>Whose Responsible This</h1> Know Your Meme is for documenting existing phenomena, not creating them. Rob Bricken is the former editor of AnimeInsider magazine at Wizard Entertainment and currently maintains toplessrobot.… </div> </div> <div class='c' id='entry_content'> <center>Know Your Meme is for documenting existing phenomena, not creating them.</center> <div class="block"><h1>A failed attempt at a forced meme.</h1> Rob Bricken is the former editor of AnimeInsider magazine at Wizard Entertainment and currently maintains <a href=http://www.toplessrobot.com>toplessrobot.com</a> Topless Robot is a blog dedicated to nerd news and humor and features a Friday posting called “Fan Fiction Friday”, the purpose of which is to present the most bizarre, offensive, or otherwise inexplicable fan-fiction (previous entries have involved Luke and Leia [natch]; Merry, Pippin, and Treebeard; and the Giant Squid and Hogwarts Castle). On Friday, September 11th, 2009, the feature was a Pokémon and his adopted 18-year-old mother. In the comments that followed, the original author – having been notified by comments on his Yiffstar page – angrily responded with the following: <blockquote> Brickhousebunny21 said: WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS? I wanna know whose idea was this RIGHT NOW. Who did this on purpose, huh? I found this little secret and I’m so angry I wanna know who did this and why or I’ll report everyone here to the site moderaters on this website and Yiffstar and have the one responsible BANNED FOR LIFE. NOW TELL ME WHO DID THIS NOW? </blockquote> The feature met with positive reactions from Topless Robot readers. Although none were inspired to create photoshops just yet. Later that day, Rob Bricken’s friend and former coworker at Wizard Entertainment Sean T. Collins decided of his own accord that this phrase should become a meme. He posted the following <a href=http://www.alltooflat.com/about/personal/sean/2009/09/whose_responsible_this.html#comments>on his blog.</a> <blockquote> He leads with WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS?, as meme-worthy a phrase I’ve seen on the Internet since “I am aware of all Internet traditions.” It’s an ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US waiting to happen. I’m working it into my repertoire immediately. The next time I’m outraged by something on the Internet, I’m damn well gonna try to find out whose responsible this. </blockquote> With the premature declaration of a meme, the Topless Robot audience took up the cause of creating more WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS image macros and videos. <h1>Spread</h1> WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS was further popularized when former WizardUniverse.com Online Managing Editor Brian Warmoth and Former Wizard Price Guide editor and current Marvel.com editor Agent M (Brian Penagos) also blogged about it. <ul> <li><a href=http://warmoth.org/?p=475>Brian Warmoth’s contribution</a></li> <li><a href=http://agentmlovestacos.tumblr.com/post/186168923/whose-responsible-this-thank-you>Agent M posts posts Whose Responsible This on his blog on the 11th</a></li> <li><a href=http://agentmlovestacos.tumblr.com/post/186170906/more-whose-responsible-this-via-toplessrobot-and>And again on the 12th</a></li> <li><a href=http://agentmlovestacos.tumblr.com/post/187137311/whose-responsible-this-picard-style-thanks> And the 13th</a></li> <li><a href=http://agentmlovestacos.tumblr.com/post/187283582/whose-responsible-this-via-didyouseethis-in> Again on the 13th</a></li> <li><a href=http://agentmlovestacos.tumblr.com/post/187958865/whose-responsible-this-kanye-style-by>14th (f/ Kanye)</a></li> </ul> <a href=http://www.manolith.com/2009/09/14/an-internet-meme-is-born-whose-responsible-this/>Manolith.com</a> proudly proclaimed “A Strange New Internet Meme Is Born!” <blockquote> It’s rare that I get the chance to actually watch a great phrase early in its career, before it blows up to bedevil us all with its hilarity, but this is such a time. Ladies (if you’re reading, you poor things, you) and gentlemen (if you are one; you don’t fool me for a second), I give you: WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS? </blockquote> As of September 15th there is even a Wordpress blog constructed to track the progress of this declared, engineered, and forced meme. <ul> <li><a href=http://whoseresponsiblethis.com/>WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS tracker</a></li> </ul> <h1>Resources</h1> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/09/fan_fiction_friday_may_and_buster_the_teddiursa_in.php#comments">The Original Post with Reply</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/09/whose_responsible_this.php">The page from which the info above came from </url></li> <li><a href="http://whoseresponsiblethis.blogspot.com/">Topless Robot’s Whose Responsible This Blogspot </a></li> </ul> <h1>Videos</h1> <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ShbPlkqmahs&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ShbPlkqmahs&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> <center>Currently has 263 views</center> <a href=>A total of five videos have been made.</a> The highest viewcount is <5000 views. The other four have <500. <h1>In the Wild</h1> When fans of “Whose Responsible This” tried to introduce it into the wild, it was killed on sight because of it’s declarative nature. In many communities, declaring something a meme before it has become a widespread phenomenon is met with negativity. On September 14th, 2009 on the Ugo Trek BBS, user <a href=http://trekbbs.com/member.php?s=7e3f4fc304dab1b6b0a5699a59900188&u=845>GeorgeKirk</a> created a thread entitled <a href=http://trekbbs.com/showthread.php?p=3396143>WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS: the next great meme.</a> It was met with much criticism: <blockquote> Danoz: Not bad, some of them are funny, but trying to “create” an internet sensation by advertising it as the new internet sensation is pretty lame. They should have started with something a little more viral and less “news story about meme.” </blockquote> <blockquote> Mr. B: This is easily the lamest “great meme” ever. </blockquote> <blockquote> Ford SVT: Memes should happen naturally. If they are “forced” it’s usually by a small population on some obscure place like 4chan that 99% of the Internet population never goes anyway. I’ve literally seen three separate articles this morning on how this is the “next big meme”. Sorry, doesn’t work like that, never has. Feels like an advertiser trying to tell a 13 year old “what’s cool”. </blockquote> <blockquote> Locutus of Bored: We have an organically forming Kanye West / Taylor Swift meme down in TNZ. Come children, all are welcome… </blockquote> Members of <a href=http://www.grcade.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=12656&sid=c85ebdd03200460a6ee373fb106f396a>GRCADE</a> shared the sentiment: <blockquote> Knoyleo: The one way to ensure a meme never catches on? Tell people you invented a really funny meme and that you want it to catch on. </blockquote> <blockquote> Dangerblade: And yeah, memes just happen, they don’t get pushed like that. No buys. </blockquote> <h1>Conclusion</h1> WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS was an attempt at memetic engineering devised by a small group of writers, editors, and friends who met while working at Wizard Entertainment, some of which have moved on. While there’s nothing wrong with helping out one’s friends, it is apparent that there is no organic spread happening. This type of attempted memetic engineering causes us to further examine the classic Philosoraptor conundrum: <center><img src="http://cdn2.knowyourmeme.com/i/11642/original/Philosoraptor_meme-declarations.jpg?1251310361" alt="" /></center> <h1>Google Insights</h1> No search traffic for WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS showed up from the 11th – 13th, but surprisingly, search traffic begins to show up on September 14th, the same day that the internet lost their minds over Kanye Interrupts / Imma Let you Finish. Chart unavailable on iPhone.But was this the next ALL YOUR BASE? Chart unavailable on iPhone. Not by a long shot. Below, “Whose Responsible this” is compared to Boxxy, Over 9000, and “All Your Base Are Belong To Us” Chart unavailable on iPhone. </div><div class="block"><h1>Wikipedia Vandalism</h1> On September 15th, Wikipedia user <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MiriamKnight>MiriamKnight</a> created a new meme page for “<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Whose_Responsible_This&action=history>Whose Responsible This</a>.” There are many memes that spread farther than “Whose Responsible This” that have been deleted from Wikipedia for not being notable enough. Under these standards it would seem that the forced press from former Wizard Entertainment employees is enough to constitute a meme by declaration alone. On September 18th, Wikipedia user <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Internet_phenomena&action=history>Friginator</a> added “Whose Responsible This” to the short list of notable image memes on Wikipedia’s <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_phenomena#Images>Interent Phenomena</a> page; appearing next to WELL-KNOWN memes like Goatse, Little Fatty, and Ate My Balls. 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Whose Responsible This <center>Know Your Meme is for documenting existing phenomena, not creating them.</center> <h2>A failed attempt at a forced meme.</h2> Rob Bricken is the former editor of AnimeInsider magazine at Wizard Entertainment and currently maintains <a href=http://www.toplessrobot.com>toplessrobot.com</a> Topless Robot is a blog dedicated to nerd news and humor and features a Friday posting called “Fan Fiction Friday”, the purpose of which is to present the most bizarre, offensive, or otherwise inexplicable fan-fiction (previous entries have involved Luke and Leia [natch]; Merry, Pippin, and Treebeard; and the Giant Squid and Hogwarts Castle). On Friday, September 11th, 2009, the feature was a Pokémon and his adopted 18-year-old mother. In the comments that followed, the original author – having been notified by comments on his Yiffstar page – angrily responded with the following: <blockquote> Brickhousebunny21 said: WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS? I wanna know whose idea was this RIGHT NOW. Who did this on purpose, huh? I found this little secret and I’m so angry I wanna know who did this and why or I’ll report everyone here to the site moderaters on this website and Yiffstar and have the one responsible BANNED FOR LIFE. NOW TELL ME WHO DID THIS NOW? </blockquote> The feature met with positive reactions from Topless Robot readers. Although none were inspired to create photoshops just yet. Later that day, Rob Bricken’s friend and former coworker at Wizard Entertainment Sean T. Collins decided of his own accord that this phrase should become a meme. He posted the following <a href=http://www.alltooflat.com/about/personal/sean/2009/09/whose_responsible_this.html#comments>on his blog.</a> <blockquote> He leads with WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS?, as meme-worthy a phrase I’ve seen on the Internet since “I am aware of all Internet traditions.” It’s an ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US waiting to happen. I’m working it into my repertoire immediately. The next time I’m outraged by something on the Internet, I’m damn well gonna try to find out whose responsible this. </blockquote> With the premature declaration of a meme, the Topless Robot audience took up the cause of creating more WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS image macros and videos. <h2>Spread</h2> WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS was further popularized when former WizardUniverse.com Online Managing Editor Brian Warmoth and Former Wizard Price Guide editor and current Marvel.com editor Agent M (Brian Penagos) also blogged about it. <ul> <li><a href=http://warmoth.org/?p=475>Brian Warmoth’s contribution</a></li> <li><a href=http://agentmlovestacos.tumblr.com/post/186168923/whose-responsible-this-thank-you>Agent M posts posts Whose Responsible This on his blog on the 11th</a></li> <li><a href=http://agentmlovestacos.tumblr.com/post/186170906/more-whose-responsible-this-via-toplessrobot-and>And again on the 12th</a></li> <li><a href=http://agentmlovestacos.tumblr.com/post/187137311/whose-responsible-this-picard-style-thanks> And the 13th</a></li> <li><a href=http://agentmlovestacos.tumblr.com/post/187283582/whose-responsible-this-via-didyouseethis-in> Again on the 13th</a></li> <li><a href=http://agentmlovestacos.tumblr.com/post/187958865/whose-responsible-this-kanye-style-by>14th (f/ Kanye)</a></li> </ul> <a href=http://www.manolith.com/2009/09/14/an-internet-meme-is-born-whose-responsible-this/>Manolith.com</a> proudly proclaimed “A Strange New Internet Meme Is Born!” <blockquote> It’s rare that I get the chance to actually watch a great phrase early in its career, before it blows up to bedevil us all with its hilarity, but this is such a time. Ladies (if you’re reading, you poor things, you) and gentlemen (if you are one; you don’t fool me for a second), I give you: WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS? </blockquote> As of September 15th there is even a Wordpress blog constructed to track the progress of this declared, engineered, and forced meme. <ul> <li><a href=http://whoseresponsiblethis.com/>WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS tracker</a></li> </ul> <h2>Resources</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/09/fan_fiction_friday_may_and_buster_the_teddiursa_in.php#comments">The Original Post with Reply</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/09/whose_responsible_this.php">The page from which the info above came from </url></li> <li><a href="http://whoseresponsiblethis.blogspot.com/">Topless Robot’s Whose Responsible This Blogspot </a></li> </ul> <h2>Videos</h2> <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ShbPlkqmahs&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ShbPlkqmahs&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> <center>Currently has 263 views</center> <a href=>A total of five videos have been made.</a> The highest viewcount is <5000 views. The other four have <500. <h2>In the Wild</h2> When fans of “Whose Responsible This” tried to introduce it into the wild, it was killed on sight because of it’s declarative nature. In many communities, declaring something a meme before it has become a widespread phenomenon is met with negativity. On September 14th, 2009 on the Ugo Trek BBS, user <a href=http://trekbbs.com/member.php?s=7e3f4fc304dab1b6b0a5699a59900188&u=845>GeorgeKirk</a> created a thread entitled <a href=http://trekbbs.com/showthread.php?p=3396143>WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS: the next great meme.</a> It was met with much criticism: <blockquote> Danoz: Not bad, some of them are funny, but trying to “create” an internet sensation by advertising it as the new internet sensation is pretty lame. They should have started with something a little more viral and less “news story about meme.” </blockquote> <blockquote> Mr. B: This is easily the lamest “great meme” ever. </blockquote> <blockquote> Ford SVT: Memes should happen naturally. If they are “forced” it’s usually by a small population on some obscure place like 4chan that 99% of the Internet population never goes anyway. I’ve literally seen three separate articles this morning on how this is the “next big meme”. Sorry, doesn’t work like that, never has. Feels like an advertiser trying to tell a 13 year old “what’s cool”. </blockquote> <blockquote> Locutus of Bored: We have an organically forming Kanye West / Taylor Swift meme down in TNZ. Come children, all are welcome… </blockquote> Members of <a href=http://www.grcade.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=12656&sid=c85ebdd03200460a6ee373fb106f396a>GRCADE</a> shared the sentiment: <blockquote> Knoyleo: The one way to ensure a meme never catches on? Tell people you invented a really funny meme and that you want it to catch on. </blockquote> <blockquote> Dangerblade: And yeah, memes just happen, they don’t get pushed like that. No buys. </blockquote> <h2>Conclusion</h2> WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS was an attempt at memetic engineering devised by a small group of writers, editors, and friends who met while working at Wizard Entertainment, some of which have moved on. While there’s nothing wrong with helping out one’s friends, it is apparent that there is no organic spread happening. This type of attempted memetic engineering causes us to further examine the classic Philosoraptor conundrum: <center><img src="http://cdn2.knowyourmeme.com/i/11642/original/Philosoraptor_meme-declarations.jpg?1251310361" alt="" /></center> <h2>Google Insights</h2> No search traffic for WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS showed up from the 11th – 13th, but surprisingly, search traffic begins to show up on September 14th, the same day that the internet lost their minds over Kanye Interrupts / Imma Let you Finish. <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=whose+responsible+this&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>But was this the next ALL YOUR BASE? <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=%22whose+responsible+this%22%7C%7C%22all+your+base+are+belong+to+us%22&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> Not by a long shot. Below, “Whose Responsible this” is compared to Boxxy, Over 9000, and “All Your Base Are Belong To Us” <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=%22all+your+base+are+belong+to+us%22%7C%22over+9000%22%7CBoxxy%7C%22whose+responsible+this%22%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> <h2>Wikipedia Vandalism</h2> On September 15th, Wikipedia user <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MiriamKnight>MiriamKnight</a> created a new meme page for “<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Whose_Responsible_This&action=history>Whose Responsible This</a>.” There are many memes that spread farther than “Whose Responsible This” that have been deleted from Wikipedia for not being notable enough. Under these standards it would seem that the forced press from former Wizard Entertainment employees is enough to constitute a meme by declaration alone. On September 18th, Wikipedia user <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Internet_phenomena&action=history>Friginator</a> added “Whose Responsible This” to the short list of notable image memes on Wikipedia’s <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_phenomena#Images>Interent Phenomena</a> page; appearing next to WELL-KNOWN memes like Goatse, Little Fatty, and Ate My Balls. This is clearly an attempt to write the meme into history before it has even made any notable history by its own accord.

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