tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8584916584450527522024-03-05T01:08:35.154-08:00Sociology 167 Group ZUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-858491658445052752.post-47788805297731224532013-11-29T00:06:00.002-08:002013-11-29T00:09:18.521-08:00Assignment #5- Dora Heideman<div class="MsoNormal">
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“Grumpy
Cat” is the hilarious meme that made its way into the online world in September
2012, that uses of a picture of a mixed breed female cat named Tardar Sauce
(shortened to “Tard”), who has an unmistakable permanently grumpy face due to
feline dwarfism in addition to an under bite, and then individuals create their
own general or specific “complaints” and hilarious texts and ideas of what they
believe the grumpy cat is “thinking” and write it in text over the picture of
this grumpy looking cat. For example, “I WATCHED A VAMPIRE MOVIE ONCE.--------[GRUMPY
CAT FACE]-------- MY FAVORITE CHARACTER WAS THE SUN.” (<a href="http://imageshack.com/a/img689/2778/egfi.jpg">http://imageshack.com/a/img689/2778/egfi.jpg</a>
). Or, one of my personal favorites, on top, a photo of an adorably innocent
looking kitten saying “…Santa’s not real?”, and right below grumpy cat is
pictured with the simple text beside her face, “NO.” (<a href="http://imageshack.com/a/img801/1410/v0yz.jpg">http://imageshack.com/a/img801/1410/v0yz.jpg</a>
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of the now widely famous Grumpy Cat meme begins on September 22, 2012 when
Bryan Bundesen, brother of Tardar Sauce’s owner Tabatha Budensen, posted a
picture of the cat to the website Reddit (original Grumpy Cat image: <a href="http://imageshack.com/a/img138/2637/tsi6.png">http://imageshack.com/a/img138/2637/tsi6.png</a>
). The post on Reddit quickly gained popularity within the first 24 hours with
users creating photoshopped parodies and image macros of the grumpy cat photo,
placing it on the front page of Reddit with more than 25,000 upvotes. The same
day, Bundesen added three additional video clips of Tard playing indoors onto
YouTube, proving wrong the claims that were being made that the cat was not
real and was photoshopped. Meanwhile, the image spread to popular image-sharing
website Imgur, gaining nearly 1,030,000 views within the just first 48 hours. Grumpy
Cat’s instant viral status seems to have been a streak of luck for Tardar’s
owners, as Bundesen explained in an interview with <i>CNN</i>, “‘It was an accident,’ said Bryan Bundesen of the viral
stardom that followed [the original photo posted on Reddit]. ‘We thought it
would get some laughs, with the Internet liking cats. And it just kept going.’”
And it really did. Even though it was posted and gained quick popularity in
September 2012, Grumpy Cat maintained it’s viral status online throughout the
following year being featured on the cover of <i>WSJ</i> on May 30, 2013 as well as the cover of the October 7<sup>th</sup>,
2013 issue of <i>New York Magazine, </i>and
the popular cat even won Buzzfeed’s “Meme of the Year Award” at the 2013 Webby
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Grumpy Cat
gained her quick and lasting popularity due to her overtly hilarious grumpy face,
the Internet’s liking of cats (as mentioned by Bundesen above), and, as pointed
out by Grumpy Cat fan Mason Peatross in an interview for a <i>FoxNews </i>article, “‘There's
this great universal quality that Grumpy Cat captures,’ explained Mason
Peatross, who waited in line more than 90 minutes for his 30 seconds with the
snoozing kitty. ‘Everybody's got that grumpy moment where they just hate
things. The cat just makes me laugh every time.’” As he perfectly explains it,
this is why the grumpy faced cat became an instant hit in the day and age of
Web 2.0 and inserting one’s own idea over a popular image to make it into a
meme; in this case usually using text over the image to write what they feel
should be said along said one of many hilarious photos of Tard (or what they
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The popular meme also had a
favorable precursor of presence the online public arena from the popular “so-and-so
is not impressed” memes (which stemmed from a photo that went viral of Olympic
gymnast McKayla Maroney) and other pictures of a variety of grumpy looking
cats. However, nothing quite compared to the competitive edge behind the Tardar
Sauce’s viral meme capacity, as his natural face was ridiculous and hilarious
on its own, whereas other hilarious cat photos and videos were typically
captured just at the “right” moment, depicting a face that was just a result of
good timing rather than natural ridiculousness. “Grumpy Grandma” emerged on the
Internet in January 2012 (9 months before grumpy cat), but only became viral
and an Internet meme <i>after</i> the
success and infatuation the Internet world had developed with grumpy cat and
the simple hilarity behind grumpy memes. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/09/28/internet-finds-world-grumpiest-cat-named-tardar-sauce/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">1. </span>http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/09/28/internet-finds-world-grumpiest-cat-named-tardar-sauce/</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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2. <a href="http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/grumpy-cat">http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/grumpy-cat</a>
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3. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/10/tech/web/grumpy-cat-sxsw/index.html">http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/10/tech/web/grumpy-cat-sxsw/index.html</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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4. <a href="http://www.grumpycats.com/about-grumpy-cat/gc-gravatar-copy/#.Upe2WBzkirw">http://www.grumpycats.com/about-grumpy-cat/gc-gravatar-copy/#.Upe2WBzkirw</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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5. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumpy_Cat#cite_note-wsj-9">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumpy_Cat#cite_note-wsj-9</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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MORE OF MY FAVORITE GRUMPY CAT IMAGES/MEMES:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Grumpy Cat would prefer not to co-exist with vampires… - <a href="http://imageshack.com/a/img689/2778/egfi.jpg">http://imageshack.com/a/img689/2778/egfi.jpg</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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How Grumpy Cat handles laptop over-the-shoulder lurkers. - <a href="http://imageshack.com/a/img811/1979/7trv.jpg">http://imageshack.com/a/img811/1979/7trv.jpg</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Grumpy Cat stars in the new hit movie… - <a href="http://imageshack.com/a/img40/9628/3lc3.jpg">http://imageshack.com/a/img40/9628/3lc3.jpg</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Original Grumpy Cat - <a href="http://imageshack.com/a/img138/2637/tsi6.png">http://imageshack.com/a/img138/2637/tsi6.png</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Grumpy Cat crushes children’s dreams… - <a href="http://imageshack.com/a/img801/1410/v0yz.jpg">http://imageshack.com/a/img801/1410/v0yz.jpg</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Grumpy Cat is not impressed with Jon Snow. - <a href="http://imageshack.com/a/img19/5061/zoi5.jpg">http://imageshack.com/a/img19/5061/zoi5.jpg</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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The Grumpiest place on earth… - <a href="http://imageshack.com/a/img203/3538/4ez8.jpg">http://imageshack.com/a/img203/3538/4ez8.jpg</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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High School tries to utilize Grumpy Cat’s popularity to
spread a Prom anti-drinking message via billboard… - <a href="http://imageshack.com/a/img850/8707/ekz2.png">http://imageshack.com/a/img850/8707/ekz2.png</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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The worst thing about waking up for Grumpy Cat… - <a href="http://imageshack.com/a/img689/3360/drwp.jpg">http://imageshack.com/a/img689/3360/drwp.jpg</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Description of the perfect meme. - <a href="http://imageshack.com/a/img713/4284/72e6.jpg">http://imageshack.com/a/img713/4284/72e6.jpg</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Grumpy Cat isn’t a fan of spring time…“A LITTLE BIRD TOLD ME
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-858491658445052752.post-74114306879408827152013-11-28T23:53:00.000-08:002013-11-29T00:04:19.090-08:00Assignment #5- Fatima Nasiyr<b>Casually Pepper Spray Everything Cop</b><br />
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The "Casually Pepper Spray Everything Cop" meme originated from a video from November 18, 2011 that showed ten UC Davis students being pepper sprayed by UC Davis police officers, and it particular Lieutenant John Pike. The students were sitting on the ground with their arms linked in protest for the Occupy Movement. A photo was also taken of Lt. Pike walking down the line of the peacefully protesting students and pepper spraying them. This photo was uploaded onto the popular social news site <i>Reddit </i>the day after the incident where it gained popularity. Users quickly began to photoshop the image of Lt. Pike peppers spraying into many famous paintings, such as the one below. The image was photoshopped into various historical and famous artworks or events, especially those that had to with any type of human rights.<br />
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The Occupy Movement was widespread around the country at this point, and so was the news of the police brutality against the Occupy protesters. This led to the news of the pepper spraying, as well as the image, to be covered by many news outlets as well as it to be heavily circulated among people through various social media and social networking sites. Another meme, or technically a macro, was spawned from this meme when news reporter Megyn Kelly from Fox news tried to downplay the seriousness of being pepper sprayed by saying, "[i]t is like a derivative of actual pepper... it's a food product, essentially." </div>
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The the meme as the image of Lt. Pike pepper spraying first came into use on November 19, 2011 when it was uploaded onto <i>Reddit. </i>Although searches for "pepper spray cop" began in September 2011 because of the rise of the Occupy Movement, the actually meme did not exist until the incident that took place on November 18, 2011. I believe the meme became so popular because it clearly showcased the brutality that the Occupy protesters were receiving for their peaceful protests, which was a big topic of discussion but often debated. Some people believed the police were acting within their rights in handling the protesters, but the pepper spraying at UC Davis obviously showed an intrusion on our right to protest. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-858491658445052752.post-26908284325962995962013-11-28T23:17:00.001-08:002013-11-28T23:17:14.954-08:00Assignment #5- Haksung Kim<div class="MsoNormal">
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game and viral internet challenge. The goal of this challenge is to swallow a
tablespoon of cinnamon and inhaling powder without any drinking or vomiting in
60 seconds. Subsequently, upload the video including whole process to the
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low percentage of success, over thousand peoples attempted to this challenge
and have been uploaded on Youtube. This phenomenon became a viral on Youtube
moreover, this challenge has chosen as a one of contents of reality television
show and radio program in United Kingdom. Furthermore, some celebrities
attempts and posted with this challenge. Due to this, “cinnamon challenge”
became more catch on with the public. this challenge has been traced in 2001 by
Michael Buffington and increased in popularity in 2007. Many people had not
only posted Youtube, but also had posted other social networking websites by
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">1. </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdM_u5y5m5A">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdM_u5y5m5A</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Hanshu Zhang<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Memes
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Meme: Nyan Cat </span> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Description:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Nyan
Cat, also known as Pop tart Cat, is an 8-bit GIF depicting a cat with a cherry Pop
tart as its torso, flying through outer space with a rainbow trail behind it.
The figure was inspired by the creator’s own Russian Blue cat. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">The
popular video (</span><a href="http://youtu.be/QH2-TGUlwu4"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">http://youtu.be/QH2-TGUlwu4</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">) stemming from its likeness had a loop of
the Japanese Vocaloid song <i>Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya
</i>set to its background.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Rise
to popularity: </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Nyan
cat was created by the account “PRguitarman” on LOL-Comics on April 2<sup>nd</sup>,
2011</span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
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<span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">(PRguitarman)</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-font-kerning:0pt'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">. The GIFs received over 3,000 notes on
Tumblr after being reblogged on the same day</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Three
days later, the account “saraj00n” posted a video of the Nyan Cat on YouTube,
set to the Japanese song <i>Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya</i>
looping in the background. The video received more than 1 million views in its
first two weeks</span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">After
the initial wave of attention, various popular blogs and social networking
sites, such as Memebase, Tosh.0 blog and CollegeHumour etc. began reposting the
Nyan Cat video</span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dissemination:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">The
meme shot to almost instant, if not ephemeral popularity, as can been seen with
the diagram below. According to </span><a href="http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=Nyan+Cat#q=Nyan%20Cat&cmpt=q"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Google Trends</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">,
the search interest for “Nyan Cat” reached its peak 3 months after its initial
release, in July 2011, keeping a relatively high search rate up until November
of the same year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">By
April 13<sup>th</sup>, 2011, the </span><a href="http://www.nyan.cat/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Nyan.cat</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">
website was set up and another single-serving website featuring multiple Nyan
Cats gliding across the webpage, called </span><a href="http://www.slowbro.org/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Slowbro.org</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">
was set up the next day. Subsequently, game developers began to create Nyan Cat
themed games or variations of already available games such as “Nyan Cat Lost in
Space, Snake Nyan Cat, Nyanicorn (Robot Unicorn Attack variant), and Nyan Cat
Fly”. A comprehensive list of such games can be found at </span><a href="http://nyan-cat.com/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">nyan-cat.com</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Reason
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Before
the Nyan Cat, the Internet has always displayed affection for cats (i.e. Maru
the Cat), other domestic pets, and cuteness in general. The Nyan Cat meme
incorporates the elements of cuteness and 8-bit art, which effectively
addresses a wider audience. The 70’s and 80’s generation can relate to the nostalgic
look of the Cat and younger generations can relate to the surreal humor</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
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color:black;mso-font-kerning:0pt'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> and the cuteness of the figure. In addition,
the loop video is also a good way to kill time for all the YouTube “addicts”
online.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Influences
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> The Nyan Cat meme has inspired a
number of parody memes, the most impactful yet being the taC nayN, which is a
black cat with a Belgian Waffle body, flying with a trail of gray rainbow
behind it. It was created in the same year as the Nyan Cat by SenorGIF blogger Frankie
Crescioni</span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> While this meme has yet to obtain
consensus on its independent status, another meme inspired by Nyan Cat, called
Catception, has caught on with the online community fairly well. This meme
features videos of cats watching the Nyan Cat video, and has since developed
into a recursive chain of videos of cat watching cats watching the original
video</span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
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“Know Your Meme: Nyan Cat.” N. p., n.d. Web. 24 Nov. 2013.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-858491658445052752.post-90861818571848383342013-11-27T21:28:00.000-08:002013-11-27T21:28:01.908-08:00Assingment #5- Meghna Grover<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
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The “Imma Let You Finish” meme featuring Kanye West came about after the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. Taylor Swift won the Best Female Video award for one of her songs, but Kanye West came up on stage and took the microphone from her. He infamously said, “Yo Taylor, I’m really happy for you. Imma let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time.” Because so many people watch the MTV Video Music Awards and were tweeting about it, it is no wonder that it became a meme.</div>
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The meme itself features the image of Kanye West with the microphone from the music awards. It is usually combined with another picture, of whoever he is “interrupting.” The text is usually “Yo (person he is interrupting), Imma let you finish but (another person) had the best (whatever connects the two).” </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-858491658445052752.post-43125443717177122252013-11-27T21:27:00.001-08:002013-11-27T21:27:04.616-08:00Assingment #5- Michael Cao<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The "Nyan Cat" is a YouTube video of a cartoon cat with a poptart body with a rainbow being left behind in its trail. The background is of stars to show that the cat is flying and there is a track of a Japanese pop song being played. The video was uploaded on April 5, 2011 and soon became viral. The video itself is a bit ridiculous, but that is what makes it so special. It is cute, but annoying at the same time. Cats are very popular with internet memes and adding the body of a poptart just furthers this absurdness. The song completely tops off the video by having a vocaloid repeating "nyan" (the Japanese version of "meow"). The "Google Insights" interest kept rising until June 2011, and gradually began to drop. There is a small spike that occurs from 9/2011 - 10/2011, but then begins to gradually drop again up to this day. There are other very miniscule spikes at random times, but are not as noticeable compared to the 9/2011 - 10/2011 spike. </span><br />
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The "Nyan Cat" meme did not particularly influence any other memes (directly at least), but of course there were soon numerous remixes spawning from this. Although, there was a free version of a side-scrolling game called "Techno Kitten Adventure" soon released after (eventually coming to Facebook games). This was originally created in 2010, but it began releasing free versions of this game less than a week after the upload of "Nyan Cat". This game features a flying kitten requiring its player to avoid obstacles (siimilar to Robot Unicorn Attack that arose in early 2010). </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-858491658445052752.post-85504328863992762722013-11-27T11:49:00.001-08:002013-11-27T11:49:23.679-08:00Assignment #4 Video Competition: "Hot Girls With 'Talent'"<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/rhp_CL1zZ4g" width="480"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-858491658445052752.post-29560108459058526312013-11-25T10:27:00.000-08:002013-11-25T10:27:19.934-08:00Assignment #5 Chang Liu<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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I decided to analyze a very large and well known franchise, McDonald's.McDonald's, as most people know is the largest in the fast food industry spread across numerous countries. Honestly, the page does have some interesting and cool pictures here and there with something new posted just about every day. Also, with their new "mighty wings" release, they have some promotions (such as free apps or a promotion on codes to win money), but no sort of discounts really offered aside from those. The pictures and videos are of people in many different situations carrying an item from McDonald's - an attempt to show that they have variety for every situation and that McDonald's can be seen in everyday life.</div>
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There are not very many engaging materials such as Prometheus with the forums or any free giveaways like other facebook pages. The closest to these giveaways are possible codes that you can get when going to the restaurants and ordering specific items. Mainly, the page is used for promotion on items on the menu and of course, the facebook page is spammed with comments of random comments that are not related to the fan page at all.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-858491658445052752.post-58523215261602810022013-11-01T17:20:00.002-07:002013-11-01T17:20:08.090-07:00Assignment #3- Fatima NasiyrSocial Media Marketing Analysis<br />
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The company whose social media page I chose to analysis is Sprint and their Facebook page. This company does an okay job of social media marketing in the sense that they have updates roughly every day, although it just may be as simple as an advertisements from one of their new products. The content flow all blurs into one as they only advertise new sprint products when they infrequently come out. Every once in a while they will post links to different forms of media, such as videos, that are still advertising their products. Once a month they seem to have a contest, a form of premiums, with the latest being a chance for users to win tickets to their favorite NBA team's game. This post, however, seemed to have a very small percentage of interaction (in terms of likes and comments) in comparison to the number of people who like this page. This contest blends in so well with the rest of the advertisements on the page that this contest could have easily been ignored by many.<br />
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Sprint's Facebook page also had a contest this past month for user submitted content, in which users were supposed to send in pictures of their favorite Chicago bands and nightclubs. This was a tactic to increase participation as well as giving a space for user-generated content. This tactic, however, was limiting to the since that only people who live in Chicago could participate. This seems to be the company's first attempt since May to have user participation. Sprint does succeed in one aspect in that they have a customer service portal for users to give feedback. This is a feature, however, of Facebook and not actively done by Sprint. Even though the customers have a space for Sprint to have a dialogue with it's customers, it seems that this does not actually happen.<br />
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Overall, Sprint does hit every key features of having successful social media marketing. They do this at such a sub-par level, however, that overall their social media marketing job is just mediocre.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-858491658445052752.post-31824654117658972982013-10-31T18:01:00.003-07:002013-10-31T18:01:58.494-07:00Assignment #3- Meghna Grover<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
The company website that I am analyzing is Simple Pickup. Simple Pickup consists of pickup artists who are selling their advice and tactics. I believe that they are doing a very good job at social media marketing, considering their product.</div>
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When it comes to premiums, their Facebook page does not seem to have immediate giveaways. However, with closer inspection, it is obvious that they do offer certain free trials and access to videos (but not as often as other pages such as Yogurtland do, perhaps because their product is advice, not a tangible item). Their participation, however, is great. Simple Pickup has surveys and asks the users what they want, for example they had a survey about where they should donate an extra $100. They do not, however, have a venue for user-generated content. The entire page is run strictly by the manager of Simple Pickup, with whatever he finds or comes up with. Their customer service portal is immense because Facebook is one of the ways that customers interact with the company. Customers give feedback on how they view the pick-up line techniques and any issues they may be running into. Probably the largest feature they have is their content flow. Every day, they post on their Facebook page three times. One post is a quote, one post is funny, and another one is a mix of the two. With consistent posts, they are able to see what the users want more of and the users and constantly reminded of Simple Pickup.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-858491658445052752.post-22163326246194565172013-10-31T16:44:00.005-07:002013-10-31T16:44:45.393-07:00Assignment #3- Hanshu Zhang<b id="docs-internal-guid-057d50ff-10e4-1b98-2e59-e18562ef7377"></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Overall, the Facebook page for the Thor movie franchise is doing a good job of social media marketing. Since its inception on April 30</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">th</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 2010, the Facebook page has received more than 8.1 million “likes” over a steady flow of movie trailers, sneak peaks, promotion tour photos and contests.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>In the still on-going promotion period for Thor: the Dark World (which started in April 2013), the Facebook page has offered at least four opportunities to win free things, three of which offer free trips to LA for the US premiere of the second Thor movie. The contests asked Facebook users to perform certain actions (such as to vote between the two main protagonists in the upcoming film, to nominate an acquaintance who can look up to the heroine as a role model) in order to enter the contests. One of the contests offered a chance to win free Loki T-shirts for those who tweeted content with the tag #freeloki on twitter. This is especially worth mentioning because it crosses the boundaries between two social media networks and uses one to increase the film’s presence in the other.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>These contests are interactive in nature, thus soliciting the audiences’ participation. The Facebook page also offers more frequent interactive opportunities such as posting survey or trivia questions about the franchise. Another form of participation it provides is again cross- or pan-SNS interaction. For example the page posted a link that allows users to record a question for the main cast and director via Skype.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Facebook pages naturally allow users to leave comments beneath posts, so the opportunity for dialogue is abundant. However, the page also goes out of its way to create portals for customer feedback via posts that specifically asks for viewers’ opinions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Apart from the interaction and feedback, the Thor Facebook page also regularly posts user-generated content such as cosplayers in Thor or Loki costumes at different comic-con events. However, given the nature of a public Facebook page, the user-generated contents are not freely uploaded, but are posted by the administrator of the page, thus to some degree preventing negative material getting to those who “like” the pages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The page also interacts with associated Facebook pages such as the Iron Man movie franchise, the Avengers franchise, etc, establishing a Marvel echo chamber which can resonate and converge their influences and merge multiple groups of audiences together to help the box office performance of the movies.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I would like to analyze League of Legends’ official webpage. League of Legends, created by Riot games, is one of the world’s most played PC game. Its webpage, http://na.leagueoflegends.com/, is effective of social media marketing. First of all, it provides free game to the players. The no cost marketing concept attracts the users to continuously find out more information of this game without worrying about the expense. The webpage is visually appealing. It gives a positive impression to potential players to join the Riot gaming community by providing vivid character role figures in game to attract users’ attention. This leads the users to move forward to install League of Legend. </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-858491658445052752.post-26445047529977021782013-10-07T16:00:00.004-07:002013-10-07T16:00:57.295-07:00Assignment #2- Mazi Afshari (missed in inbox)<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/23/us-iphone-hackers-idUSBRE98M01X20130923" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/23/us-iphone-hackers-idUSBRE98M01X20130923</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>In February 2013, a Chinese citizen from Shandong, China reported an online scam to local </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">security authority. He reported that</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> he transferred 100,000 </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">RMB (16343.1 dollars) to the bank account that his “son” provided on Tencent </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">QQ, a Chinese social software, after his “son” claims for finical help. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, he found out that it was a trap after contacting his son on cellphone. His son told him that his QQ account was hacked by others who may illegally in use for frauds. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #252525; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The polices investigated that the criminals secretly sent out Trojan virus to international students’ QQ account to steal their passwords - they sneaked into international students’ QQ groups, chatted with the group members, and then defrauded their relatives and friends’ trusts to swindle their money. In this case, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">dissociative anonymity was the biggest leading tool used in disinhibition that motivates the criminals to defraud through Internet. The criminals understand that applying QQ account does not require identity authentication, and people are not necessary communicate through video or audio chats. Therefore, they can provide fake information about themselves, and the students in QQ groups were not able to determine the criminals’ real identities. Consequently, they can take advantage through being anonymities to sneak into international students’ QQ groups and sent out Trojan virus. </span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-858491658445052752.post-2724470999343257332013-10-05T01:56:00.003-07:002013-10-05T01:56:39.406-07:00Assignment #2- Dora Heideman<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-53af4d4e-87d4-8216-64a8-9646bac11162" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Describing the Crime</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: In July 2013, five men—four of whom were from Russia, one from Ukraine, and three of whom still have yet to be found by authorities—were charged with conspiracy and other counts of fraud and identity theft after carrying out a series of world-wide cyberattacks which have collectively been called one of the largest cases of identity theft in history. Over 160 million credit/debit card numbers were stolen from an array of large U.S. companies (a total of 17, including 7-Eleven, NASDAQ, Carrafour, JCP, Wet Seal, JetBlue, Global Payment, etc.) over a timespan of seven years, adding up to losses of hundreds of millions of dollars (just 3 of the targeted companies alone reported losses that added up to $300 million). Each of the five men played a different role in the elaborate operation, specializing in the specific field to which they were contributing. Their system included frequently changing physical platforms of where they were storing their data and stolen information, frequently erasing content on short notice, keeping their identities entirely anonymous along with using anonymous web-hosting services, encrypting communications, disabling security systems of corporate networks, and having multiple steps in the operation (multiple layers), making it difficult to get back to the main source of the crime (them).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How the Criminals use the Disinhibition Effect</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: I believe that the cybercrime defendants in this situation were experiencing the disinhibition effect which Suler discusses, and more specifically, that they were relying heavily on what Suler explains as </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dissociative Anonymity</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. The expectation on the Internet is such that your life online is separate from your real life in person, and therefore it’s easier to escape real-life consequences when these lives are separate and you can choose to be anonymous on the Internet (and carefully hide your activities as the criminals here have taken advantage of doing). As Suler explains in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Online Disinhibition Effect</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, “In a process of dissociation, they don’t have to own their behavior by acknowledging it within the full context of an integrated online/offline identity…superego restrictions and moral cognitive processes have been temporarily suspended from the online psyche.” (Suler, 322) I believe that this is what the Internet criminals are doing in this case—they’re detaching their actions from the consequences, and taking advantage of being anonymous so that evidence cannot be easily traced back to them. I do, however, also feel that these five men are relying a decent amount on not having to be physically present (“</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Invisibility”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">), and not having things occur in real time (“</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Asynchronicity”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)—it’s like being able to rob a bank and pausing time so that no one sees you come in (invisible, ignoring temporal restraints)—it’s an Internet ‘hit and run’. </span></div>
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<br /><a href="http://www.justice.gov/usao/nj/Press/files/Drinkman,%20Vladimir%20et%20al.%20Indictment%20News%20Release.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-858491658445052752.post-78366231950315834832013-10-05T01:50:00.002-07:002013-10-05T01:50:17.275-07:00Assignment #2- Haksung Kim<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> It is most likely that this criminal is motivated by the disinhibition of invisibility. These interactions are based fully off of twitter, requiring only exchanges of text rather than any physical interaction. They are trying to uncover the faults of the Kenyan government through this siege along with recruiting the support of others. All the twitter users supporting this attack cannot be seen and if their account is shut down, they can make new ones under new user names. Although there is a picture of the leader of Al-Shabab and audio recordings released by “the leader”, it is not even fully clear that this Ahmed Abdi Godane (aka Mukhtar Abu Zubair) is their leader due to the anonymity offered through the internet. For all we know, this could simply just be a face for the real leader to hide behind. This terrorist group is rising simply through the spread of their name and actions through Twitter, a simple social tool used by many.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-858491658445052752.post-77915077680866034782013-10-05T01:48:00.003-07:002013-10-05T01:48:41.597-07:00Assignment #2- Hanshu Zhang<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On Sept. 26</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">th</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, a 19-year-old freshman named Jared James Abrahams was arrested on federal charges of “sextorting” women around the world, including the new Miss Teen USA Cassidy Wolf who he went to high school with, by hacking into some 150 computers and commandeering the web cameras to take compromising pictures. He then used these to compel victims to provide more unsightly pictures, videos or live chats, threatening to post the pictures online if they do not do so. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In one case, the victim was a 17-year-old Irish girl, who asked Abrahams to “have a heart”, to which the suspect allegedly replied “</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I'll tell you this right now! I do NOT have a heart. However, I do stick to my deals. Also age doesn't mean a thing to me.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">” (Botelho)He is currently held on a $50,000 bail, with court order to always wear a GPS tracker and a ban from using computers for anything but studying if freed.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>In this cyber/internet crime case, we can clearly see the effect of the toxic disinhibition of the Internet, especially that of invisibility, disinhibition due to not being physically seen on the internet.(Suler) This effect is most prominent in text communication, where visual access is not necessary. Invisibility makes people do things and go to places online that they wouldn’t dare do or go to in real life.(Suler)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>For the criminal, he was provided with invisibility in all three stages of his plot: the setting up of crime, the act of crime and the blackmailing. First of all, given the nature of cyber/internet crimes, he didn’t have to be physically present when he was commandeering the webcams. Compared with the olden way, which is having to sneak into the victims’ homes to install a spy camera, the cyber/internet procedure disinhibits the criminal in that his risk of getting caught during the commandeering process is virtually zero, as the average computer user has no idea how to determine whether their webcams are commandeered or to look for the malware if they are aware. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Invisibility also comes into effect when the extorter takes compromising pictures or videos of the victims. Again by the nature of this crime, the victims do not know when Abrahams is using their webcams, since the signal light does not turn on. This provides the criminal with invisibility in the act of the crime. His victim is not aware of being watched and recorded when Abrahams is using the commandeered webcam to obtain images. This invisibility increases the disinhibiting effect on the criminal, as there is virtually no way for him to be “caught in the act” by the victims.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Although by contacting the victim and making demands Abrahams loses a portion of his invisibility, the blackmailing process still holds an intrinsic invisible quality found in most text communications. According to John Suler, in text communication people “don’t have to worry about how others look or sound in response to what they say.” Although they are communicating through text, the extorter and the victim are not visually accessible to each other. Therefore he feels less inhibited to cruelly and coldly reject their appeals to his conscience, and make more vicious demands of them. </span></div>
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