Cirque du Twerque
Welcome to the CdT wiki!
Cirque du Twerque is a closed Facebook group with over 5,000 members. The group focuses on memes, some of which are tech-related because of the group's history with Hackathon Hackers.
This wiki is a dumpyard for all information on all the dankest memes in Cirque du Twerque.
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History
Old Circletwerk
Cirque du Twerque started out as HH Circlejerk, which was originally an HH humor subgroup. Due to complaints about the original title, the name changed to HH Circletwerk.
Migration to HH Cirque du Twerque
In July of 2015, admin drama caused many users to leave HH Circletwerk and create other subgroups, such as HH Circletwerk 2.0, demanding more fair moderation. The turning point for HH Circletwerk was when the owner of the group removed every admin and disabled posting with no notice.
Lily Sellers, a frequent memer in HH Circletwerk, decided to jump on this opportunity to spark a revolution and found a new meme group, HH Circlesmirk. This is why Lily is commonly referred to as "queen", "senpai", "mom", etc.
Once the new group was created, the Meme Queen informed her fellow revolutionaries – David the Dank Lord, Mike the Trump Card, Stephanie the Supreme Shit-poster. The four of them together were the original mods of HH Circlesmirk. They, as well as many others before them, believed that moderation and any decision that may affect the group should be decided by majority vote.
The new group gained a considerable following over only a few days, after which the mods decided to create a poll to decide on what the community wanted the group name to be. Everyone was allowed to add options to the poll as well as vote. However, to keep everything fair and unbiased, the mods opt out of every vote. This is how HH Circlesmirk came to be HH Cirque du Twerque.
Removal of HH from Cirque du Twerque
In December 2015, the actions of a certain HH admin angered many people in the HH community, including many members of HHCdT. On December 13, 2015, said HH admin released the following statement:
For the past year and a half, I've had the opportunity to build this community with incredible people. They taught me so much.
When we built that team, I hoped that rule by committee of equals would be the most effective way to build the community. I was wrong.
The community suffered due to inaction. Marginalized people left the group en masse, many of the most active members left for the subgroups, and the team was ineffective at changing that.
My failure to communicate effectively with the team and the community itself caused this. I apologize for letting the community get to this point.
These changes should have happened long ago and they should have been communicated with the admin team. The fact that I felt the need to remove another admin unilaterally to make this change was my own fault. I made a mistake.
My intention isn't to take over as eternal dictator of HH. Nor is it to turn this into a business. I didn't do this for power or money. I did this because I thought it was best for the community. There was definitely a better way.
Moving forward, we’ll be transitioning power to the subgroup leaders and the community itself. You can read more about the plan here: https://medium.com/hackathon-hackers/giving-hackathon-hackers-back-to-the-community-c77cebda92e6#.mslxrqiv8
Community members can nominate moderators. Subgroup leaders will elect both the moderation team and the admin who will lead HH.
I won't be running in the election at the start of the New Year. My sole role will be to ensure that elections are fair, that the transition of power is smooth, and that no one is ever able to do what I did again.
This apology was not taken well by the HHCdT community, and as a result, this became a copypasta and HH Cirque du Twerque became Cirque du Twerque. Many other HH subgroups made changes as well, including:
- HH Hacker Problems -> Hacker Problems
- Real Singles of HH -> Sovereign State of Real Singles
- HH Cats -> Real Cats of CdT
- Hackathon Hackers (purist subgroup) -> Hackers -> HX
Dishwasher controversy
In January of 2016, the following meme, in style of the How Should a Dog Wear Pants? meme, was posted to CdT:
/hh the following link may offend some people
This meme caused a lot of controversy among CdT members, and many claimed that the meme was misogynistic. On the other hand, other CdT members, including women, claimed that such humor should not be taken seriously on a shitposting group. Others decided to leave CdT all together, claiming the environment "promoted sexism".
One member went on a full-blown rant defending their friend and threatening to leave if they "saw this misogynistic shit ever again", creating the Friend of Mine copypasta. However, CdT remains strong to this day.
Mod Elections of 2016
In May of 2016, CdT reached 5,000 members, which meant a new mod was to be elected. This was a big deal so hella people made tons of memes and effortposted their way to the top. Some even did memes in the style of Bernie or Hillary? between eachother. All "attack" ads were meant in good nature. Eventually it was narrowed down to three candidates.
The elections turned tense when a member made a personal attack on one of the candidates and threatened to "leave CdT and never look back, you have my word". Due to building tension, the mods at the time decided to prematurely end the elections, and making all top three candidates moderators.
The Great Rap Battle of 2016
In May of 2016 around the time of The Mod Elections of 2016 a rap battle broke out when local 9 year old, Andy Kamath dropped a soundcloud link titled "Views From The 9". It was met with rave reviews including "I can't believe you've done this", "I don't want to live on this planet anymore", and "tihs(sic) is not that bad". The following is the fallout of the dropping of the K-Bomb.
- The original: Views From The 9 - Andy Kamath
- The remix: Views From The 9 - Olivia Scharfman
- Another rap: Fucking don't even bother making anymore CDT raps - Peyrameshwar Naz
- The fire whisperer: Pusheen - Thierry Rutaganira
- The undisputed GOAT: Diss-Claimer. - Jonathan Kingsley
- Response to JFK: Back To Baesics - Andy Kamath
Post Aesthetics Controversy
After some complaints from various CdT members, Post Aesthetics reputation got worse and worse. In particular, it became a well know page for having hyper-sensitive admins. In addition, the page favors PoC (People of Color) over white people. It calls white people to "check their privilege." Almost always, people who differ in opinion with the admins get banned from that page. Regardless of the reputation, members from CdT always post memes and roast admins from PA and expose them.
In one incident, a PA (Post Aesthetic) admin promised a CdT member to ub-ban him in exchange for completing their CS assignment. Whether the PA admin was joking or not is still not determined.
Frank the Frowner
Frank the Frowner is Nisha's favorite character. Frank is a character that is diagnosed with a disease that does not let him smile. Frank loves to start sentences with "Did you know it takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile?" Examples that Nisha used:
- Did you know it takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile? I was once told by a man, who was using my mouth as a pocket pussy.
- Did you know it takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile? I was once told by a woman, who I hope gets raped by a gang of Dominicans.
- Did you know it takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile? I learned this while looking at PA screen shots.
- Did you know it takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile? I was once told by a PA admin, who I hope get molested by a PoC (Person of Color).
- Did you know it takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile? I was once told by a white handed cunt.
Demographic
Cirque du Twerque is very popular among college-aged students, many of them being Computer Science and/or Computer Engineering majors, and some high school students. For an unknown reason, many of the college-aged members attend college or live in the state of Illinois. Some CdT members attend other state universities as well as Ivy Leagues, renowned engineering schools and even liberal arts schools.
Despite the lack of women in technology, CdT is an inclusive environment, and many of the moderators and top-tier shitposters are women. Thus, girls do like CdT.
