About

Top 10 Anime List Parodies refers to a series of image edits of screenshots of various anime top 10 list videos, typically by WatchMojo, which replace the still from the video with another image for humorous effect that parodies the conventions of clickbait.

Origin

The earliest known image was an image edit of a WatchMojo video entitled "Top 10 Saddest Anime Deaths" with the still-shot of the video replaced with a shot of the CIA agent from Baneposting
memes. The original iFunny post^[6] (shown below), was created by user "Swagigan" on October 24th, 2015. The original short film by Watchmojo was posted Dec 4, 2014.^[4]

Precursor

Earlier in 2015, several edits of a 2013 sex advice article on the satirical women's magazine website Reductress, titled, "8 Sex Positions That Will Blow His Mind And Destroy His Penis".^[1] the earliest known edit was uploaded to Tumblr by user Top Cyberbully on August 1st, 2015 (shown below, left).^[2] A second edit was uploaded by the Facebook page Anime Desu-troyed My Life on December 4th, 2015 (shown below, right).^[3]

Spread

The style of parody began spreading through social networks, especially Tumblr, directly following the post of the initial image. While individual search terms are difficult to identify, "Watchmojo" on Tumblr reliably returns new parody images. In addition, meme aggregator iFunny created a compilation of the images, assembling more than 220.

Various Examples

Search Interest

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External References

^[6] iFunny Big, Guy, Baneposting – iFunny :)