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South Park
American animated sitcom
Kurt Vonnegut
American author (1922–2007)
David Lynch
David Keith Lynch was an American filmmaker, producer, actor, painter, and musician. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, with his films often characterized by a distinctive surrealist sensibility that gave rise to the adjective "Lynchian". In a career spanning more than five decades, he received numerous accolades, including an Academy Honorary Award, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival, a Palme d'Or and Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival, two César Awards, and a (posthumous) Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement, in addition to nominations for four Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and nine Primetime Emmy Awards.
George Carlin
American stand-up comedian (1937–2008)
Banksy
Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based street artist, political activist, and film director. He has never publicly confirmed his identity. Active since the 1990s, his satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stencilling technique. His works of political and social commentary have appeared on streets, walls, and bridges throughout the world. His work grew out of the Bristol underground scene, which involved collaborations between artists and musicians. Banksy was inspired by the graffiti artist and musician Robert Del Naja, also kn
Rolling Stone
American monthly music magazine
William Gibson
American-Canadian speculative fiction writer (born 1948)
Bill Maher
American stand-up comedian and television host
Larry Flynt
American publisher
hipster
contemporary subculture defined by claims to authenticity and uniqueness
Gopnik
A gopnik, (feminine: gopnitsa) is a member of a juvenile delinquent urban subculture in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and some other former Soviet republics. In the 21st century the image of "gopnik" is mostly preserved as an imitation of the stereotype, e.g., as an artistic image in Russian pop-culture and some other countries.
Hustler
American pornographic magazine
Robert Crumb
American illustrator and cartoonist (born 1943)
Mad
American comic and satirical magazine
Discordianism
Discordianism is a belief system based around Eris, the Greek goddess of strife and discord, and variously defined as a religion, new religious movement, virtual religion, act of social commentary, or parody religion. It was founded after the 1963 publication of its holy book, Principia Discordia, written by Greg Hill with Kerry Wendell Thornley, the two working under the pseudonyms Malaclypse the Younger and Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst.
John Peel
English DJ and radio presenter (1939–2004)
Emo subculture
youth subculture
Happy slapping
Fad of attacking a victim to record the assault
Atena Farghadani
Iranian painter
Chris Morris
British satirist, writer, director, actor, voice actor and producer
Heathcote Williams
English poet, actor and dramatist (1941-2017)
scene culture
2000s youth subculture involving skinny jeans, bright clothing, brightly dyed straight flat hair with forehead-covering long fringes, associated with music genres such as metalcore, crunkcore, deathcore, electronic music and pop punk
Internet aesthetic
visual art style
Osdorp Posse
Dutch rap group
Hit Parader
discontinued American popular music periodical
Hans Teeuwen
Dutch comedian and actor (born 1967)
freak folk
genre of folk music
Gay Shame
radical queer collective and movement
Jejemon
Jejemon () was a popular culture phenomenon in the Philippines. The Philippine Daily Inquirer describes Jejemons as a "new breed of hipster who have developed not only their own language and written text but also their own subculture and fashion."
monstration
thumb|Monstration signs are meant to be nonsensical, like "Raccoons are people too!"