About

Breaking News Parodies are photoshopped images edited to resemble screenshots taken during "breaking news" segments on television news station broadcasts, many of which bear many similarities to Morning News images.

Origin

On November 30th, 2010, Newgrounds Forums user Drony submitted a thread invited viewers to photoshop two different "Breaking News" templates, featuring a CNN news slate (shown below, left) and an unknown female news anchor (shown below, right).

Spread

On June 1st, 2012, Something Awful^[5] featured the results from a "Breaking News!" photoshop contest, using a template image of Sky News anchor Jeremy Thompson (shown below).

On September 4th, 2014, the BreakYourOwnNews^[1] web app was launched, allowing users to make custom "Breaking News" parodies using a template image (shown below).

On May 14th, 2015, FunnyJunk^[3] user chokinandtokin posted a compilation of notable examples of the photoshop meme (shown below).

On September 24th, an anonymous 4chan user posted a photoshopped image of CNN news anchor Anderson Cooper with the caption "Breaking News: OP being a huge faggot" to the /mlp/ (My Little Pony) board (shown below).

On February 20th, 2016, a photoshopped breaking news parody image was uploaded the My Little Pony image database Derpibooru,^[2] featuring Donald Trump and several My Little Pony characters with the caption "Donald Trump Makes Equestria Real" (shown below).

Search Interest

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