TheSlap.com Status Update Parodies

About

TheSlap.com Status Update Parodies, also known as Victorious Feeling Meme, refers to a series of digitally altered messages in the format of the fictional social media platform TheSlap.com from the American television series Victorious. The exploitable format is typically used by swapping in various text and portraits on the device from the show displaying a fictional social media website called The Slap.

Origin

On March 27th, 2010, the television series Victorious premiered on Nickelodeon. In the series, characters use a social media website called "The Slap," to which they upload messages, photos, videos and news, and updates from the characters were frequently featured as transitional cutscenes on the series (examples below).^[1]

The earliest known usage of the format as a parody was posted on the Tumblr torivegaupdates ^[2] on November 11th, 2012. They wrote, "So Victorious got cancelled…now I can go on Teen Mom!" The post received more than 600 notes in less than eight years.

Spread

The following month, on December 12th, torivegaupdates^[3] posted a variation of the meme that received more than 250,000 notes (shown below, left).

Over the next few years, others used the format. On August 14th, 2013 by Tumblr ^[4] user the-slap-updates posted their first parody (shown below, center). Under the name Cat Valentine, they wrote, "I did NOT just see Jade and Tori making out in the janitor's closet."

The trend continued over throughout the decade as people used the mock updates as reaction images. For example, on October 16th, 2019, Twitter ^[5] user @Koileeee used an update from the character Andre Harris that reads "I'm killing myself tonight, Tori" to express their feelings on school testing. The tweet received more than 14,000 likes and 1,800 retweets in less than four months (shown below, right).

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