4chan has stole my GPA

Why is it that amazing stuff gets dropped at my feet when I’m supposed to be working?

Well, everyone knows that animes are a little weird. If you’ve heard of “dragon ball Z”, then you know of its overt ‘power’ theme, that people and critters of all sorts can wield the ability to fly, conjure massive blasts of energy from their fingertips, right? Well, in one case, a character in the anime series who had really red lips (I forget the details here, people), apparently offended someone as looking racist. and that spiralled into someone blacking the anime character’s face out and giving them super red lips and captioning the image “Shoop da woop”. Well, in the anime, as I said, the power theme took over, and within a little time, people had drawn the anime character shooting laser beams out of its mouth (with the black face, bulging eyes, and red lips).

Fast forward a little time, and apparently now the fad is to black out someone’s face, put a gaping mouth with red lips on them, and bulging eyes… shooting lasers. All this from an anime that offended someone because they thought it looked racist. The hilarity is how well someone has abused the fad, producing two animated shorts that left me paralyzed in laughter, and completely blew my research time out of the water. I’m now staggering around, wondering how I’m going to finish this paper because I had to research this all out instead… I wish I had done “4chan” as my rhetorical analysis project… but please, for the love of all things holy, don’t ever go to 4chan unless you want to be more than offended. I refuse to link 4chan, as well. I simply am not going to ruin your mind. But the youtube videos rule.

Here’s the videos, for the curious:

Lazer collection: part one

Lazer Collection: part two

The videos are surprisingly hilarious, but realize they are noisy, so turn down your speakers. The first video ends with the green anime figure that started the whole thing. I have no idea why it’s funny.

I think it goes back to why the kitty cat song (warning! that link is also very noisy!) is funny.

I want to teach a course on internet fad and meme history. I think it would be so hilarious, most people would go catatonic after experiencing the wealth of silliness.