A meme I can get behind (Hadoken!)

If only for a short time until the novelty expires. This has become popular in Japan, among the school kids:

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That's actually pretty rad.

I'm okay with this.

This is a valid meme

And what did we have? Planking. Japan wins again.

It sure looks cool.

Japan always wins.

Always.

Hahaha, terrific

Except they aren't hadokening at all, they are kamehamehaing because of the release of the new Dragonball Z movie which Akira Toriyama worked on and is considered canon.

Dude, are you being serious?

I think he is.

So us Westerners will do the only thing we know with these things: reappropriate it in a way it's not intended, because it looks cool and we're silly.

I for one am all for this.

Saw this on reddit the other day. pretty weird.

Because it's true.

I liked doing that when I was a kid too. Also perspective pictures where you're a giant hand that is tormenting innocents.

When I was learning Photoshop in middle school, I made a shot of myself giving a car a hadouken, which took that joke to it's natural limit.

I'm not serious about Dragonball Z at all, but it's totally the reason why this became a thing this week, I also learned from reading about this that the woman who voices goku is like 74 years old now.

Even if the new DBZ movie wasn't coming out I could've told you that they were doing kamehamehas and not hadokens. Come on people, when have people been blown away rag-doll style after being hit by a hadoken?

Japan knows what's up!

If you want to get nerd serious about this, then the picture below cannot be considered a Kamehameha nor a Hadoken. It's just a name for a meme. Lots of things are named weirdly. Like the word "brag" in English, comes from the French word for codpiece (braguette).

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Meh.

It's alright, but I'm sure by this time next week I'll have gotten tired of it if it catches on. Memes just aren't the same as they were about ten years ago.

I like it. And at least it's not like the Harlem Shake.

Is the one on the right having her pants blown off?

Those pictures look rad! But I bet if I see them done a billion times during the next week I'll find them annoying.

I sincerely doubt brag comes from braguette, but let's not start yet another interwebs fight.

There's no way we can make this trend a thing in North America, right?

It totally does. It comes from bragging about how big your codpiece is.

@aegon: Right, the whole braggart/bragard thing. I was under the impression that brag came before anything else and not the other way around. Oh well.

maymay

edit: planking tebowing

Please, catch on in the US.

I'm pretty sure someone linked me to a similar picture with a 9Gag watermark on it so it's probably already making its way through the west.

im worried about the impeding butt/hip damage theyre gonna suffer when they all land

I'm ok with this.

they could just be jumping in place and lifting their legs while outstretching their arms. That or longjumping.

Look at their hair.

The meme was totaly awesome for 5 minutes, until I got to @aegon s post, then the meme sucked.

Not gonna lie: first thing I thought of was also that it was misnamed.

My thoughts exactly, but for now wheeeee

A meme lives such a fickle life.

Looks cool :)