Straight Out
August 10, 2015 2:38 AM   Subscribe

To promote the “Straight Outta Compton” movie, Dr. Dre and his Beats (which are technically Tim Cook's Beats now) put up a meme-building webwidget at StraightOuttaSomewhere where you can fill in the last word and add a background pic. Everybody's* doing it.
*for certain values of Everybody

MeFi's Own Jscalzi shows how you do it in whitebread rural Ohio.
When io9 extended the concept to fictional characters (especially appropriate for superhero origin stories), it got interesting.
And when people realized you could be “Straight Outta” Things that aren't Places, the floodgates for creativity (and snark) were opened.
Sports people got particularly nasty, especially when MMA fighter Cris ‘Cyborg’ Justino used it to taunt Ronda Rousey.
It's easy to create one yourself, but if you can't figure it out, there is help, but please note: the app does prevent you from using certain 'potentially offensive words', including the 'N-word' in N.W.A..
posted by oneswellfoop (53 comments total) 16 users marked this as a favorite
 
These have been amusing me on Twitter for the last few days. This one's my favourite so far.
posted by billiebee at 3:15 AM on August 10, 2015 [4 favorites]


So wrong, yet so right.
posted by Faint of Butt at 4:15 AM on August 10, 2015 [27 favorites]


I made one. RIP.
posted by Faint of Butt at 4:42 AM on August 10, 2015 [34 favorites]


Chris Rock also got into it.
posted by numaner at 5:02 AM on August 10, 2015 [4 favorites]


A bit too obvious... but still.
posted by Too-Ticky at 5:06 AM on August 10, 2015 [2 favorites]


Most of these have been a little lackluster, but "Straight Outta John Hurt" gave me a good giggle.
posted by middleclasstool at 5:13 AM on August 10, 2015 [3 favorites]


Burn.

(yeah, I know, but I'm calling it out because burn.)
posted by eriko at 5:18 AM on August 10, 2015 [3 favorites]


Straight Outta Buxton (yt)
posted by howfar at 5:40 AM on August 10, 2015 [2 favorites]


I am so sad that the first one of these I saw was Straight Outta John Hurt, because I doubt it can get better. Please prove me wrong.
posted by Etrigan at 5:42 AM on August 10, 2015 [2 favorites]


Oh good, another opportunity to feed a picture of my dog into a silly internet thing!
posted by phunniemee at 5:51 AM on August 10, 2015 [6 favorites]


I am so sad that the first one of these I saw was Straight Outta John Hurt, because I doubt it can get better. Please prove me wrong.

Check out the io9 link, it gets so much better at the end there.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 6:19 AM on August 10, 2015




> Dr. Dre and his Beats (which are technically Tim Cook's Beats now)

If "His Beats" were a band, this would be the worst David Lee Roth > Sammy Hagar situation in music history.
posted by The Card Cheat at 6:27 AM on August 10, 2015 [9 favorites]


Somebody must have done Don Knotts straight outta Mayberry.
posted by Trochanter at 6:40 AM on August 10, 2015


Oh, dear...
posted by Faint of Butt at 6:48 AM on August 10, 2015 [1 favorite]


Dre also released an album.
posted by box at 6:55 AM on August 10, 2015 [4 favorites]




The Alien one is my favorite.

And FWIW, surely there's a more reputable, less click-baity site than inquisitr to provide examples of how "everybody's doing it".
posted by fuse theorem at 7:21 AM on August 10, 2015


Ah, this explains my Facebook feed over the weekend. The first one I thought was clever, the 35th not so much.
posted by The Gooch at 7:24 AM on August 10, 2015 [1 favorite]


I did "Straight Outta Plimpton".
posted by inturnaround at 7:28 AM on August 10, 2015 [2 favorites]


I'm pretty literal minded.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 7:34 AM on August 10, 2015 [8 favorites]


I'm pretty literal minded.

With a turn, nice!
posted by eriko at 7:35 AM on August 10, 2015 [1 favorite]


One for my home town http://i.imgur.com/xr27BUE.jpg
posted by dustsquid at 7:43 AM on August 10, 2015 [1 favorite]


Surely I'm not the only one here still playing nekoatsume.
posted by phunniemee at 8:24 AM on August 10, 2015 [1 favorite]




This jumped the shark in '93 or so, no? Chris Rock in CB4:

Straight Outta Locash (NSFW)
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 9:08 AM on August 10, 2015


I couldn't resist making this one.

Actually, I was all aflutter as Edgar Wright RTed my image, so that totally made my weekend.
posted by chimaera at 10:05 AM on August 10, 2015 [3 favorites]


This is my favorite. Even works if somebody else has already done it.
posted by dogwalker at 10:39 AM on August 10, 2015 [2 favorites]


I've seen several "Straight Outta Coffee" pictures today. Now it all makes sense.
posted by Joey Michaels at 10:40 AM on August 10, 2015


This one's my favourite so far.


Old news, I'm afraid.
posted by Paul Slade at 10:44 AM on August 10, 2015


Straight Outta Zeus
posted by Rangi at 10:51 AM on August 10, 2015 [2 favorites]


Straight Outta Beach City.
posted by JHarris at 11:33 AM on August 10, 2015 [1 favorite]


Straight Outta CompUSA
posted by Woodroar at 11:46 AM on August 10, 2015 [3 favorites]


(SlReddit): my particular contribution to this meme, Straight Outta R'Lyeh:
posted by LeRoienJaune at 12:09 PM on August 10, 2015 [8 favorites]


Dammit, I was just going to make one with Cthulhu
posted by Existential Dread at 12:14 PM on August 10, 2015 [2 favorites]


I think you meant to say "holy shit that's awesome but in the original meaning of the word awesome and also the other meanings also also"
posted by aydeejones at 1:01 PM on August 10, 2015


Straight Outta Metropolis
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 1:18 PM on August 10, 2015


Straight outta Lawndale
posted by greenhornet at 1:28 PM on August 10, 2015


I didn't see one of these, but if you're a certain age and from the UK it's a gimme.

STRAIGHT OUTTA TRUMPTON
posted by Jon Mitchell at 1:51 PM on August 10, 2015


Everybody's doing it.

Reminder as always, if you don't participate in the new meme, you're not accepted. We don't love you. Straight Outta Just Kidding!! lol. You're alright. do the meme though
posted by naju at 3:01 PM on August 10, 2015


Gah! On closer inspection, it is of course there. The first comment, even! I will add it my now giant list of "Things independently thought of by me the internet has beaten me to."
posted by Jon Mitchell at 3:14 PM on August 10, 2015 [1 favorite]


Straight
Outta
the Nightmare Corpse-city of R'lyeh, Built in Measureless Eons Behind History by the Vast, Loathsome Shapes that Seeped Down from the Dark Stars
posted by miyabo at 4:21 PM on August 10, 2015 [1 favorite]


Here's my effort. Whee?
posted by Lucinda at 4:23 PM on August 10, 2015 [1 favorite]




This one was my favorite until I saw this one.
posted by pxe2000 at 5:29 PM on August 10, 2015


Straight outta camptown
posted by Chrischris at 5:58 PM on August 10, 2015 [3 favorites]




I like William Brown because he's straight outta Crompton.
posted by w0mbat at 6:58 PM on August 10, 2015 [1 favorite]


I don't have any British folding bikes--straight outta Bromptons.
posted by box at 7:43 PM on August 10, 2015


Straight outta camptown

HA! I love it! My Grandma was straight out of Camptown!
posted by The Underpants Monster at 9:33 PM on August 10, 2015


I only wish I'd thought of wOmbat's idea myself. Here's my execution of it anyway.

(Britain's Just William books were a hugely popular children's series here in the 1950s and 1960s. Their author was called Richmal Crompton.)
posted by Paul Slade at 8:44 AM on August 11, 2015 [1 favorite]


Dre also released an album.

I thought he'd given rap back after that one more platinum plaque? Dre acts like he forgot about Dre.
posted by Ogre Lawless at 2:59 PM on August 11, 2015


And then there's this...

(via)
posted by oakroom at 1:57 PM on August 13, 2015


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