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Hipster Memes
"Hipster" is a media stereotype and a pejorative label commonly associated with young middle-class adults who share certain interests or values in alternative cultures, mainly independent label music, film and art.
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Chuck Testa
"Nope! Chuck Testa" is a catchphrase associated with taxidermist Chuck Testa from Ojai Valley, California, that became popular after an ad made for his taxidermy services went viral on YouTube in September of 2011.
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My Little Pony
4chan's troll-tastic obsession with rainbows and unicorns reaches a new mark with My Little Pony, an animated TV series inspired by the colorful pony dolls.
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Philosoraptor
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.
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Rage Comics
Rage Comics are series of web comics with characters, sometimes referred to as “rage faces”, that are often created with simple drawing software such as MS Paint. The comics are typically used to tell stories about real life experiences, and end with a humorous punchline.
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G.I. Joe PSA's
G.I. Joe PSA is a series of viral videos created by Chicago-based filmmmaker Eric Fensler in 2003. Who wants a body massage?
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Tenso
Tenso (Portuguese for "tense") is a series of image macros featuring a photograph edited to form a multi-pane sequence that progressively zooms in on a particular subject to emphasize a "tense" face or situation depicted within the frame. In form, it is similar to the common vertical 4-Pane, an exploitable format; although the number of actual frames may vary from time to time.
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Creepy Pasta
Creepypasta is a form of Creepypasta and are short scary/horror stories that are regularly posted on message boards or sent via email intended to scare or unnerve the reader. Some are completely made up where as others are derived from old Urban Legends.
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Brother Sharp
A year ago, a Chinese forum user posted an image of a handsome vagabond walking the streets of Ningbo with the following message: “Behold the number one ultimate, gorgeous, handsome passer-by! Blind your dog eyes!" Today, the man is no longer homeless but an Internet legend with his own biographic film and a "peasant chic" fashion line in the making.
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Over 9000
Over 9000 is a popular catchphrase derived from the Japanese manga anime series Dragon Ball Z, typically used as an innumerable quantifier to describe a large number of something like "several", "lots", "butt loads" and even the metric "ass tonne".
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Leeroy Jenkins
"Leeeeeeeeeeerooooy Jenkinnnnns!" is a popular catchphrase first screamed by a World of Warcraft player of the same name, just before ignorantly charging headlong into battle and ruining his group's carefully laid out plans.
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Antoine Dodson
Antoine Dodson is a college student from Huntsville, Alabama who became an overnight celebrity after giving a passionate TV interview in defense of his sister woken up by a late-night bedroom intruder.
