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Rebecca Black is an amateur YouTube musician who is known for her music video “Friday.” The song gained online notoriety in March 2011 for its monotonous lyrics accompanied by heavy use of auto-tune. The music video was first uploaded in February 2011. CNN Marquee's blog announced that her video was produced by Ark Music Factory, a California-based company that produced similar teen music videos, such as Kaya's "Can't Get You Out of my Mind" and Alana Lee's "Butterflies". All of these videos have young girls whose voices are auto-tuned, but somehow become really popular, either because some people actually like them or because people are laughing at them.
The music video gained popularity during the second weekend in March, when the popular blog The Daily What posted the video on March 11th, 2011. It was then reblogged and shared on Tumblr, Twitter and various discussion forums. By March 15th, the video had reached over 3 million views and by March 17th, it reached 10 million views and the single reached the Top 100 on iTunes. On March 30th, 2011, Rebecca Black’s “Friday” YouTube video officially surpassed Justin Bieber’s “Baby” in total number of user downvotes with over 1.1 million downvotes.
They are supposedly talking about a summer tour for Rebecca Black, even though most of the views are people making fun of her voice and the horrible video that was made. During her interview with the internet news blog, The Daily Beast, Black said she was surprised by all of the horrible comments on her video, but she refused to take the video off of Youtube. She said, “I decided not to give the haters the satisfaction that they got me so bad I gave up.” She also had interviews on ABC's Good Morning America and Jay Leno.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
"It's over 9000!"
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I have a few friends who watch Dragon Ball Z and play the game all the time. So when I saw this meme, I thought it would be cool to post it, as it reminds me of them saying it.
Dragon Ball is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama. After Dragon Ball, Toei Animation released a second anime television series, Dragon Ball Z . Picking up where the first left off, Dragon Ball Z is adapted from the final twenty-six volumes of the manga series. It premiered in Japan in 1989 and ran until January 31, 1996.
In the original Japanese dub of the series, and in both the Japanese and English language mangas, Vegeta states that Goku’s level is actually “over 8000.” On October 17th, 2006, 4Channer and Youtube user Kajetokun uploaded the video “9000!! NINE THOUSAAAAANDD!” The video had over five million views.
The phrase is now used to talk about large amounts of something, and is in place of the word "tons" or "like a million". It was a huge hit with Dragon Ball Z fans and spread very quickly and also inspired many remixes.
Over 9000 was a big hit with 4Chan early on, but in September of 2008, one anonymous troll left a message on Oprah Winfrey’s message board, claiming to represent an organized network of pedophiles. Oprah took the bait, and read the post to her audience, and ended up showing the video.
Considering the power and influence that Oprah has, this was viewed by many Anon’s as an “Epic Win.” Oprah had fallen for it, and was very disturbed. Many “Oprah 9000” remix videos followed.
I have a few friends who watch Dragon Ball Z and play the game all the time. So when I saw this meme, I thought it would be cool to post it, as it reminds me of them saying it.
Dragon Ball is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama. After Dragon Ball, Toei Animation released a second anime television series, Dragon Ball Z . Picking up where the first left off, Dragon Ball Z is adapted from the final twenty-six volumes of the manga series. It premiered in Japan in 1989 and ran until January 31, 1996.
In the original Japanese dub of the series, and in both the Japanese and English language mangas, Vegeta states that Goku’s level is actually “over 8000.” On October 17th, 2006, 4Channer and Youtube user Kajetokun uploaded the video “9000!! NINE THOUSAAAAANDD!” The video had over five million views.
The phrase is now used to talk about large amounts of something, and is in place of the word "tons" or "like a million". It was a huge hit with Dragon Ball Z fans and spread very quickly and also inspired many remixes.
Over 9000 was a big hit with 4Chan early on, but in September of 2008, one anonymous troll left a message on Oprah Winfrey’s message board, claiming to represent an organized network of pedophiles. Oprah took the bait, and read the post to her audience, and ended up showing the video.
Considering the power and influence that Oprah has, this was viewed by many Anon’s as an “Epic Win.” Oprah had fallen for it, and was very disturbed. Many “Oprah 9000” remix videos followed.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
"Inception Cat"- Know Your Meme
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"Inception Cat" is a youtube video of a cat slowly raising its head above the floorboard and giving a peak before hiding again. The Inception soundtrack is playing in the background while this is going on. The Youtube clip was originally submitted by user spederson7 on September the 2nd 2010. There were 2,300,000 views in the first month of uploading.
Original video
While this video had a huge viral impact, this was not the first video with a cat and using the Inception theme that was posted on July 19, 2010. The first was called "Catception".
Catception
There are many other videos similar to "Inception Cat" on YouTube.
"Inception Cat" is a youtube video of a cat slowly raising its head above the floorboard and giving a peak before hiding again. The Inception soundtrack is playing in the background while this is going on. The Youtube clip was originally submitted by user spederson7 on September the 2nd 2010. There were 2,300,000 views in the first month of uploading.
Original video
While this video had a huge viral impact, this was not the first video with a cat and using the Inception theme that was posted on July 19, 2010. The first was called "Catception".
Catception
There are many other videos similar to "Inception Cat" on YouTube.
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