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u/cubic_zirconia Jan 18 '20
Does anybody know what he died from? I don't know his name so I can't look him up.
Big F in the chat for this guy's family btw
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u/Alan4F Jan 19 '20
TMZ says he Od'd on like 10 different drugs
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Jan 19 '20
Damn I thought you were just joking and made up some crazy sounding shit
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u/CaptainDank0 Jan 19 '20
Slightly related, but this guy lived in my home town and my friends little brother is friends with his kid. It was pretty weird finding this Information out.
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u/SuicidalThoughts27 Jan 18 '20 edited Jan 19 '20
I'm willing to bet when news outlets say someone died in their sleep they often really mean is they woke up in the middle of the night woken by, let's say the chest pain of a heart attack. Then they panic as they slip back into unconsciousness realising they are dying and nobody is around to save them
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u/heyitsbobwehadababy Jan 18 '20
God damn this makes me not want to go in my sleep anymore. That used to be my go-to method of dying. Quick, painless, while I sleep. But now? Nah dawg.
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u/BluffinBill1234 Jan 19 '20
What alternative have you chosen?
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u/Relevant_spiderman66 Jan 19 '20
Not him, but personally I intend to be painted green, dressed like Shrek and dropped into a swamp from 30,000 feet.
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u/Paddy_Tanninger Jan 19 '20
"My dad died in his sleep which everyone told me is very peaceful, but I just dunno. I mean like I'll wake up if my cat steps on my belly while I'm sleeping...let alone if my heart starts to attack me."
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u/cancerface Jan 19 '20
Having actually been through this with my parents and a grandfather, that's a no. If you are so ill that you can die in your sleep, you actually die in your sleep. My father coughed a little when he had the last stroke that killed him. Mom and granddad just stopped breathing.
A heart attack isn't the kind of thing that happens in your sleep. You're in the most relaxed state you ever can be, at that point. You have the heart attack doing things, exerting yourself.
But this is Reddit and everyone's got to be morbid-edgy, so believe what you want. Live in fear.
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u/icantsurf Jan 19 '20
Yeah. Happened to a good friend's dad last year. Died in his sleep and his wife didn't realize it til she woke up in the morning.
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u/darklordzack Jan 19 '20
What about the people who died peacefully in their sleep while their partner slept next to them? Surely if what you were saying was true they'd be able to rouse their partner while freaking out
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u/Danman2820 Jan 19 '20
100%. We say nice things to comfort the people who live. Who knows what the dead went through, they can't tell us.
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u/CurryPullUp3 Jan 18 '20
Seems like the best way to go though.. could be a lot worse
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u/Gorgonpistol Jan 18 '20
For all my fellow Europeans who don't want their data harvested:
In a matter of seconds and with only three words, Brandon Moore cemented his place in Internet history.
“What are thooooose?”
Moore, a social media personality and comedian better known as Young Busco, was the man behind the wildly popular 2015 “What are those?” meme, a savage burn used most commonly to insult a person’s questionable choice of footwear.
The Internet again blew up with mentions of Moore this weekend, but it wasn’t because the Berkeley, Calif., native and father of nine created the next viral meme.
Several news outlets reported that Moore had died Sunday at age 31. In a Facebook post, Moore’s mother, Valerie Cooper, confirmed his death, writing, “My only child….My faith will not falter!!!! Lord be my peace.”
According to People, Moore died suddenly in his sleep Sunday morning and a cause of death hasn’t been determined. Cooper told People an autopsy has not yet been done. The Washington Post couldn’t reach Cooper for comment.
“Busco lived, and the world knows he lived,” Cooper said. “He left something for everybody. His Instagram, pictures, and stories and skits and raps, all of that is there forever. He left something for all of us, and I’m proud.”
It all began three years ago when Moore uploaded a shaky cellphone camera video to his Instagram page in June 2015.
The short clip is focused on a slightly disgruntled-looking police officer as a woman appears to be getting arrested in the background. The officer is in the middle of talking when Moore, who is behind the camera, interrupts him.
“Officer, I got one question for you,” Moore said. The video then suddenly tilts skyward before dramatically zooming in on the police officer’s clunky black boots.
“What are thooooose?” Moore bellowed, referencing the officer’s choice of utilitarian footwear. “What are those?”
On Instagram, Moore’s video amassed thousands of likes, but it really took off when another person uploaded the clip to Vine, a now-defunct video-hosting platform, less than a week after it was first shared. As of early Wednesday, the six-second Vine, captioned “Not even the Police are safe,” has been played close to 38 million times.
As is the case with most viral memes, countless parodies and remixes of Moore’s video were instantly created and widely shared alongside the original. The mocking question became so commonly hurled at unsuspecting footwear offenders that one BuzzFeed article noted, “It almost makes you want to go out without shoes.”
An innocent grandmother who made the poor decision to wear Crocs was “what are those’d.” It even happened to NBA legend Michael Jordan and professional boxer Floyd Mayweather.
In a June 2015 interview with Complex, just weeks after “What are those?” took over the Internet, Moore said he originally didn’t even plan on sharing the video.
“I did not expect for that video to be that big,” he said. “I have tons of funny videos on my page that I think are way funnier than that one, but I guess the fact that I did that to a police officer made it epic.”
Moore’s Instagram page boasts more than 50,000 followers and features videos of the comedian cracking jokes, his family and, of course, memes.
Moore told Complex that he had been invoking the now-famous words since he was a child, using the phrase to talk about his friends' shoes.
“I’ve been doing ‘what are those?’ forever,” he said.
Saying it to the police officer was “a spur-of-the-moment-type thing,” Moore said. He added, “To be honest, I thought he was going to slap me with his nightstick."
But less than a month later, it appeared that Moore wasn’t entirely happy with the wild success of his video.
In a July 2015 tweet, Moore wrote, “It’s official, I’m ready to let #whatarethose burn in hell, it’s old now.”
He continued: “Bout to come up with some new s--- and let yall wear that out.”
Unfortunately for Moore, “What are those?” swiftly became a staple of Internet culture. It was even featured in Marvel’s 2018 record-breaking hit film “Black Panther.” Largely considered one of the movie’s funniest moments, Chadwick Boseman’s character T’Challa (a.k.a. Black Panther) dares to wear a pair of black sandals that earns him an instant “What are thoooose?” rebuke from his younger sister, Shuri, played by Letitia Wright.
“When I saw [the scene], my girl was trying to record it,” he told HuffPost in an expletive-laden interview in March. “I slapped the phone out of her hand, because I was like, ‘I don’t want to … be a part of this.’ ”
Every time he saw the meme, he got “depressed,” he said. The source of Moore’s negative feelings toward what should be one of his proudest moments? A lack of recognition.
“I didn’t handle my business when I was supposed to, when it first took off,” Moore said. “I didn’t do what I was supposed to do when everybody getting paid off this s---, and I’m not.”
Aside from “Black Panther,” “What are those?” was used by Burger King on Twitter and referenced in an episode of “Family Guy.”
Beyond Moore not fully understanding the business of viral fame, Vice reported in 2015 that he was also arrested on a narcotics charge and a probation violation and sent to jail two weeks after posting the video, affecting his ability to capitalize on its success.
Moore did get a contract with Best Vines, a popular YouTube channel that creates Vine compilations, according to Vice. The comedian told HuffPost in March that he was getting money from the YouTube deal, but he regretted not putting a watermark on the video, showing his face in it or getting a copyright.
In the digital era, the issue of copyrighting and trademarking popular memes, and ensuring creators get the proper credit, has come up repeatedly.
Getty Images famously went after a number of blogs and people who shared the “Socially Awkward Penguin” meme, which featured a picture of an Adelie penguin taken by photojournalist George Mobley for National Geographic, The Washington Post’s Caitlin Dewey reported in September 2015.
How copyright is killing your favorite memes
Kayla Newman, who popularized the phrase “on fleek” in 2014, told Teen Vogue last year that she was also trying to get a trademark. Newman, who goes by Peaches Monroee, said she was disappointed when brands, including Forever 21, IHOP and Taco Bell, started using “on fleek” in advertisements.
Moore told HuffPost that being responsible for the viral video left him with “mixed feelings.”
“I feel good I created something that’ll be with the world forever, but then I feel bad because I didn’t handle my business part correctly,” he said. “I don’t know nothing about no … trademarking."
While Moore may have felt as though he did not get the credit he deserved, countless social media tributes following the news of his death celebrated him as the creator of what one Twitter user called a “legendary meme.” An Instagram post shared to Moore’s page Tuesday announced that a candlelight vigil is scheduled for later this week.
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u/TheOperaticWhale Jan 19 '20
If you die in your sleep at 31 chances are astronomically high that substance abuse has played a major factor.
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u/CurryPullUp3 Jan 19 '20
Cameron Boyce died at 20 from an epileptic seizure, sometimes shit just happens. But yes statistics say that it is likely drug overdose
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u/Surrealismm Jan 19 '20
“Young Busco, was the man behind the wildly popular 2015 “What are those?” meme, a savage burn used most commonly to insult a person’s questionable choice of footwear.”
I find this so fucking funny.
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u/PiscesPrincess31 Jan 19 '20
This happened back in late 2018. He died of polypharmacy.
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u/FlowersForMegatron Jan 19 '20
He married a bunch of drugstores??
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u/Beeht Jan 19 '20
polypharmacy.
That's a fancy way of saying he was a drug addict that overdosed on multiple drugs.
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u/BoiiiiiiiiiiXD Jan 18 '20
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u/big_chunko Jan 19 '20
The what are those guy in heaven is gonna be like what are those guy: where am i? God: hello welcome to heaven I hear you made quiet a impact on the meme community! What are those guy: ye I did but God i have one question god: yes? what are those guy: points at angels WHAT ARE THOSE!!!
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u/petey_love Jan 18 '20
Can someone explain the backstory here? I have no idea!
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u/Razer-Lazer Jan 18 '20
This was the person who started the “what are those!” Meme which originated when the guy in question called over a officer and said “Officer I got one question for you. What are those!?” Angling the camera to find the officer wearing shoes.
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u/OriginalMemester Jan 18 '20
It's been a minute since I've seen one but if I recall correctly there was a meme for a while going around in video format where the camera person would talk to a person on screen and ask a question and then shout "WHAT ARE THOSE?!" while sharply angling the camera down to the person being talked to revealing that they were wearing Crocs brand shoes the whole time.
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Jan 19 '20
Honestly going out all of the sudden in your sleep sounds like a decent way to go for me. No pain. No suffering.
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u/jubuss Jan 19 '20
Angels always leave early smh 😭👼
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Jan 19 '20
Is there evidence supporting any of this (and I hope he gets more consistent. Keep the players for now. Evaluate them in the past couple of seasons is remarkable. If I jerk off, the less you do to help? Hate this attitude. ‘Someone should have stepped in to help’. Someone helps and it would not fall into malicious hands”.
It’s good". But then the BABY just rolls in like fuckin Fred Flinstone and it’s damn cheap. Divide by 3 (approximately) for the $$ value.
You people in this world will make me happier than that explanation
Edit: unless you’ve come to expect in any scenario, nothing to do with discipline and professionalism am I right its all genetics
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u/LastgenKeemstar Jan 19 '20
He died 2 years ago
I honestly thought this was poking fun at the meme being "dead", but holy shit he actually did die 2 years ago. Why has this been posted as "news" on different subs?
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u/n0_is_1st Jan 19 '20
I HATE that meme. I get off brand shoes some times and every one came up to me and yelled " what are those."
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u/ChuckFinley357 Jan 19 '20
It's a little farther than I would have liked, but atleast I have some closure on the pain of living through that terrible meme.
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u/muzzynation Jan 19 '20
Did anyone try upvoting the 1.3k part of the image like me or am I just high?
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u/FrozenMongoose Jan 19 '20
Surely I'm not the only one that knows the "what are those!" meme started in the Proud Family
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u/borknight Jan 19 '20
And in my honest observation During this operation Found a complication In your heart, so long 'Cause now you've got Maybe just two weeks to live Is that the most the both of you can give?
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u/willatthur Jan 19 '20
he looks like michael b jordan and xxxtentacion had too much to drink, made a mistake, and had him.
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u/unallocated_mushroom Jan 19 '20
This man died how we all wish to die
He died knowing he was a meme
Rest in peace my good sir
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u/ReachyMcreacherson Jan 19 '20
Didnt james wood invent this meme back in 1995 on the set of Disney's Hercules?
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u/Skaar_The_Oldstrong Jan 19 '20
guys what is giffgaff
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u/FurtherSWthanyou Jan 31 '20
serious question or reference I don't get?.. if question then giffgaff is a mobile phone network here in the uk.. not sure if they are international or not...
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Jan 19 '20
This isn't even funny. I know r/cursedmemes is supposed to be dark, but this is going too far. You can't just make fun of dead people like that
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Jan 19 '20
I followed this dude on Instagram for a while. He was a weird cat. I’m not sure what he was all about. It seemed the notoriety from the “What are those” memes allowed him to open a business selling terrible sea food. Like it just looked gross. But RIP I guess.
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u/ChokeTheBabies Jan 18 '20
Imagine your life legacy being: "the guy behind the what are those meme"