This is because of its origins on 4chan, where stories are often told in a segmented format separated by > as the story progresses. These are known as “green text stories,” named after the color of the font they’re typically written in. Sometimes the > can be used to direct ...
The internet has taken the childhood game of “who would win” to a whole new level with this meme. Used topose hypothetical battlesbetween two opposing subjects, the “who would win” meme is said to have begun in 2014 when a 4chan user posted the meme using two video games as opponen...
News alerts are irrelevant. Turn CNN off. The best way to get the breaking news is an overly horny text calling you a slut that's filled to the brim with eggplant emojis. That text is called a copypasta, and if you're part of the more online sect of Americans, you likely received ...
After Steven Crowder, a conservative podcaster, posted a photo of himself in 2018 sitting at a desk with a sign saying "Male privilege is a myth: Change my mind," it was almost too easy for the internet to begin making fun of him with memes of their own. Memes ranged from simply chan...
The self-described “hobbyist” behind the Voice Synthesis channel told the blog Waxy that the JAY-Z deepfakes were created with Tacotron 2, a text-to-speech program developed by Google. The software has to be “trained” with audio samples and text transcripts. The actual voice is...
The Q is a reference to a high level of security clearance at the Department of Energy. QAnon has been around since October 2017, when Q started posting vague and cryptic messages — which have become known as "breadcrumbs" and "Q drops" — on a fringe internet forum called 4chan. ...
and pop out the battery. a cell phone with a battery inside is a cell phone that's trackable. about 25 minutes later, as the california department of transportation database will record, my green 1999 honda civic, california plates 4mun509, passes through the tollbooth on the far side of...
MFW signifies “My Face When.” MFW acquired ubiquity when it was regularly utilized on 4chan imageboards. It filled in as the initial line of answer posts and greentext stories specifically. For instance: Ordinarily, the term is utilized to show how an individual would react to a circumstanc...