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Created by tatercakes on Apr 26, 2008
Last updated: 02/10/12 at 06:49 AM
Added to Youtube in November of 2009 the Video "Я очень рад, ведь я, наконец, возвращаюсь домой" had only few views until it was posted into several music blogs in march of 2010. In a week more than 1 million people watched the Trololololololololololo man sing his song. The title translates into 'I am very glad, because I’m finally back home'.
The Singer is called Eduard Anatolyevich Khil born in 1934 who performed this song at a TV-Show in 1976.
The Song itself is a cover and had been performed on Russian TV as early as 1967 perhaps earlier. The composer is Arkady Ostrovsky who wrote this song in an vokaliz style, that is to say sung, but without words
http://www.radioclashblog.com/archives/2010/03/07/who-is-this-mysterious-trolololololo-man/
"Why won't my parakeet eat my diarrhea?" becomes a top searched term on Google.
An Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes at Mr. Bush’s head and denounced him on live television as a “dog” who had delivered death and sorrow here from nearly six years of war.
The video spread very quickly online and in the week following, games and video mashups got posted on all major social networks.
http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/332521/afb72b85/bush_schoen_gif_galore.html
After a particularly heavy night out Kyle Doyle decided that he would phone in sick and treat himself to a day in bed.To celebrate his day off Kyle, a 21-year-old call centre worker, updated the status on his Facebook page to reflect the fact.
http://www.imagebam.com/image/faf48217004098
SABC 2 Live with Chairperson of the finance portfolio committee - Nhlanhla Nene
The Large Hadron Collider is the answer to life, the universe, and everything
http://lhcis42.com/
Paris Hilton Replies to a John McCain attack ad against Barack Obama.
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/64ad536a6d
Joss Whedon's internet release musical about a loveable supervillain, his arch-enemy, and the girl caught between them was so popular on its release, it crashed the servers with millions of hits in two minutes.
http://www.drhorrible.com
Within days of its launch, the Weezer music video for their song "Pork and Beans" from their upcoming Red Album became a viral hit staring nearly every recognizable internet meme/person from 1990s to modern day.
http://www.youtube.com/user/weezer
Channel Awesome is a company that sponsors many internet personalities, including ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, a comedy website, Blistered Thumbs, a series which reviews video games, etc.
The company was founded by Mike Michaud, Mike Ellis and Bhargav Dronamraju in April of 2008 when Michaud had been looking to make a new media company. He saw the potential in then YouTube personality, Doug Walker. With Doug's help, the site launched with episodes of The Nostalgia Critic and 5 Second Movies being the first major draw. Thus the first channel of the company, ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com was born. What was once one site, has now grown with over twenty main contributors!
http://www.thatguywiththeglasses.com/
Boston Dynamics posted up this video of an eery dog robot they'd been working on, which apart from being excellent work, gaining notoriety for the 'kick' delivered to the 'dog' part way through. Within days, a near perfect parody had been posted to YouTube.
Ken Lee ("Can't live") is a garbled interpretation of the song Without You, performed by Valentina Hasan (Bulgarian: Валентина Хасан), a contestant auditioning for the Bulgarian show Music Idol in February 2008 with horrible english accent.
__________________
*** Garbled Version ***
No one ken to ken to sivmen,
nor yon clees toju maliveh.
When i gez aju zavateh na nalechoo more,
new yonooz tonigh molinigh,
Yon sorra shooo,
yes ee shooo, ooo.
-Ken leee
tulibu dibu douchoo
Ken Lee,
Ken lee meju more.
Ken Lee
tulibu dibu douchoo
Ken Lee,
Ken lee meju more
_______________________
*** Proper English Version ***
No I can't forget this evening
Or your face as you were leaving
But I guess that's just the way the story goes
You always smile but in your eyes
your sorrow shows
Yes, it shows
I can't live
if living is without you
I can't live
I can't give anymore
I can't live
if living is without you
I can't give
I can't give anymore
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_hasan
Pointing out all of lifes little failures.
http://failblog.org/
German Band "Elsterglanz" re-syncronises Movies in german dialect "sächsisch" (saxon-dialect). very funny!
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=LMpmW4DTBi0
Little kid giving evil look
The Screamer makes her first appearance on Fark.com
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3224369
I Am Your Gummy Bear (The Gummy Bear Song) is a novelty dance song by German composer Christian Schneider and released by Gummibear International that received international and internet meme success, in part, due to its corresponding 30-second video clip. The song has since been released in at least seven languages and has virally spread worldwide with more than 30 million plays of the corresponding videos on YouTube and MySpace. With the song ready-made for ringtone use one critic commented "he's the ultimate cross-platform, cross-cultural phenomenon YouTube was designed to unleash."
Un hombre detenido supuestamente por conducir en estado de ebriedad, no deja de repetir ante las autoridades que lo detuvieron, que "tiene miedo".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7zevPed3Ss
In a horrific fetishistic pornographic film, two young ladies defecate into a cup, exchange the fecal matter between their mouths, then proceed to swap vomit. In a strange turn, YouTube became on of the biggest supporters of the video when thousands of users began posting reactions to the appalling content.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Girls_1_Cup
A song... that is:
Interior crocodile alligator;
I drive a Chevrolet movie theater.
Interior crocodile alligator;
I drive a Chevrolet movie theater.
Interior crocodile alligator;
I drive a Chevrolet movie theater.
Interior crocodile alligator;
I drive a Chevrolet movie theater.
Interior crocodile alligator;
I drive a Chevrolet movie theater.
Interior crocodile alligator;
I drive a Chevrolet movie theater.
Interior crocodile alligator;
I drive a Chevrolet movie theater...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnMDrv8Mx3E
Randy Pausch was a Professor of Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, and Design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In September 2006, Pausch was diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic cancer.
Pausch delivered his "Last Lecture," titled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," at CMU on September 18, 2007. This talk was modeled after an ongoing series of lectures where top academics are asked to think deeply about what matters to them, and then give a hypothetical "final talk," i.e., "what wisdom would you try to impart to the world if you knew it was your last chance?"
During the lecture, Pausch was upbeat and humorous, alternating between wisecracks, insights on computer science and engineering education, advice on building multi-disciplinary collaborations, working in groups and interacting with other people, offering inspirational life lessons, and performing push-ups on stage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Pausch#The_.22Last_Lecture.22
U.S. Senator John Kerry addressed a Constitution Day forum at the University of Florida in Gainesville, which was organized by the ACCENT Speaker's Bureau, an agency of the university's student government. Toward the end of the question and answer period, University police forcibly removed Andrew Meyer, a 21-year-old fourth-year undergraduate telecommunications student, from the forum, restraining him through direct force and drive stunning him with a Taser.
Several videos of the episode were then posted on the Internet. The video shot with Meyer's camera had 2.6 million views by October 19, 2007 and was considered a viral video. The New Oxford American Dictionary listed "tase/taze" as one of the words of the year for 2007, popularized by the widespread use of "Don't tase me, bro!" The Yale Book of Quotations designated the same quote as the most memorable quote of 2007.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3FFnpS-eYA
Minor bun engine made Benny Lava and internet history was born.
from Wikipedia:
Benny Lava was started when the video for Prabhu Deva's song, "Kalluri Vaanil" from the Indian Tamil movie, Pennin Manathai Thottu, was uploaded to YouTube by mondegreen director "Buffalax". The video was edited to include subtitles of the written English approximation of the video's original language's sound. In this case, he "translated" the Tamil "-dha nilaavo" into English as "Benny Lava". Since then, Prabhu Deva is commonly known on the internet as "Benny Lava". The video has occasionally been referred to as "the web's craziest dance clip" and has been made into a mobile phone ring tone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA1NoOOoaNw
The beginning of the lip dub phenomenon - you can thank Connected Ventures in NYC for that one...
A simply disgusting video of a young man who's chin had been bitten by a spider. Being the man he was, he of course did not need to see a doctor. After sometime he decided it would be good to check the wound. The resulting video shows how devastating the damage caused by that bite was.
In 2007, 17-year-old DeAndre Ramone Way AKA Soulja Boy Tell 'Em, released a crunk rap song on the internet called "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" and it automatically became one of the biggest selling singles of all time.
There's also a dance to that song in which Soulja Boy gave an instruction video for it, after that, thousands of people have been recording themselves doing it and posted it on websites such as MySpace, YouTube, etc.
Everywhere you go on the internet there will be either people doing the dance, pop culture fictional characters singing the song or versions of the song itself with different lyrics.
http://www.souljaboytellem.com
"El Show de la Barandilla" un show de Tv en Guadalajara, muestra una serie de videoclips con personas detenidas en estado de ebriedad. Las más notorias son "Yo soy hijo del papá" (2° clip), y "Yo poleo con la gente que es mala" (7° clip).
"El Show de la Barandilla"; a TV show in Guadalajara, shows a series of video clips with people detained in a state of drunkenness. The most notorious are "I am the son of Dad"; (2 ° clip), and "I poleo with people who are poor"; (7 ° clip).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NAAW3gXf5M
Amber Lee Ettinger (born October 2, 1982) is an American actress and model best known as Obama Girl in her online video "I Got a Crush... on Obama" -- referring to 2008 presidential candidate Barack Obama -- which has earned her scores of media appearances, from a part in a Saturday Night Live sketch with Fred Armisen as Obama to an interview on Geraldo at Large with Geraldo Rivera.
http://obamagirl.com/
Random kid at a fair proclaims love for turtles. As is mandatory for all random stuff on youtube, the clip was simple and hilarious enough to get remixed and mashed up all over youtube: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=i+like+turtles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMNry4PE93Y
Scene from the movie Downfall showing Hitler in his bunker during the last days of the war. The speech is in German and subtitles are placed through the scene which show Hitler throwing a fit because his Xbox 360 was banned by Microsoft from playing on Xbox Live Other versions have also been subtitled to show Hitler angry about the performance of a sports team, being framed for child molestation, having computer problems, and other scenarios.
The original Daft Hands video to "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" by Daft Punk. Spawned a Daft meme craze, including the nearly-as-famous Daft Bodies video.
http://www.frecklestudios.com
Michael Buckley AKA peron75 AKA WHATTHEBUCKSHOW is a internet comedian. Noted for his vlog What the Buck?, Buckley gives humorous commentary on popular culture. He also maintains one of YouTube's most popular channels with several million viewers each month. In October 2007, Buckley "broke all records" of YouTube ratings when four of his shows ended up on the week’s 10 top-rated videos. Buckley has appeared in magazines and newspapers such as The New York Times discussing Internet entrepreneurship and The Advocate discussing homophobia on the internet. On 18 March 2008, he won a 2007 YouTube Awards for best commentary with the video "LonelyGirl15 is Dead!".
Buckley, who is openly gay, has a husband Michael, and lives in Connecticut with their four dogs Ellie, George, Colin and Buddy. To show his fans his "softer side", Buckley has also begun to vlog about their home life
http://www.buckhollywood.com
"Chocolate Rain" is a song and music video written and performed by Tay Zonday, a 25-year-old songwriter and vocalist.
After being posted on YouTube on April 22, 2007, the song quickly became popular with over 20 million views as of April 17, 2008, and has gained further popularity thanks to the help of a recent South Park episode that features his likeness.
The music video portrays a bespectacled Zonday in a recording studio wearing a white T-shirt and singing into a condenser microphone. Occasional cutbacks to Zonday playing a digital piano are also shown. The song, and its writer/performer, attracted major media attention. "Chocolate Rain" is ranked as the hottest viral video of Summer 2007 by CTV.ca and as the number 2 viral video in the world by utalkmarketing.com. It was the winner in the Music category in the 2007 YouTube Awards.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwTZ2xpQwpA
Rickrolling is a prank and Internet meme involving the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up" written and produced by Mike Stock, Matt Aitken, and Pete Waterman known as Stock Aitken Waterman. The meme is a bait and switch: a person provides a link they claim is relevant to the topic at hand, but the link actually takes the user to the Astley video. The URL can be masked or obfuscated in some manner so that the user cannot determine the true source of the link without clicking (and thus satisfying their curiosity). By extension, it can also mean playing the song loudly in public in order to be disruptive. A person who falls for the prank is said to be "rickrolled". The practice began as a variant of an earlier prank originating from the imageboard 4chan called duckrolling, in which a link to a popular celebrity or news item would instead lead to a photoshopped picture of a duck with wheels. The first instance occurred on the site, where a link to the Rick Astley video was claimed to be a mirror of the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto IV (which was unavailable due to heavy traffic).
Essex boy kicking a concrete slab wall only to have his ankle broken.
This is one of James Best Enterprises work through online galery. I liked this piece of art because of the way it is designed. By Asmo Dol
First aired on Saturday Night Live before leaped to the internet, Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake have a very special christmas present for the one they truely love, their penis!
A small darling baby laughing like the seed of Satan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P6UU6m3cqk
A little boy headbutts his little brother in the face and gets really upset that the baby starts bleeding. This video is priceless.
Will It Blend? is a viral marketing campaign consisting of a series of 30 second to two minute infomercials demonstrating the Blendtec line of blenders, especially the Total Blender. In the show, Tom Dickson, the Blendtec founder, attempts to blend various items in order to show off the power of his blender. Dickson started this marketing campaign after doing a blending attempt with a box of matches.
http://www.willitblend.com/
Impossible is Nothing is a 2006 video résumé by self-styled 'CEO and Professional Athlete' Aleksey Vayner (formerly Aleksey Garber) which became an Internet meme.
In October 2006, Yale University student Aleksey Vayner applied for a job with UBS AG. Amused by Vayner's apparent puffery, an unknown member of UBS staff emailed his application materials to other investment banks. They were soon posted on various blogs, then YouTube, from where they became an immense viral Internet phenomenon.
The video opens with a staged interview between Vayner and an offscreen voice. However, the "interview" ultimately consists of a single question, to which Vayner gives a lengthy, rambling response. Using considerable amounts of business-speak jargon, Vayner praises himself and shares his various insights on success, talent, and overcoming adversity. Interspliced with the interview we see clips of Vayner performing various feats designed to look impressive, including bench pressing, skiing, playing tennis, ballroom dancing, and finally karate-chopping a stack of bricks. The video ends with a dedication, and a fairly lengthy credits sequence.
http://www.ivygateblog.com/images/vayner.pdf
Liam Kyle Sullivan stars as a grandmother with an eastern Massachusetts accent and her grandchild named Johnny. The whole video is a commercial for a fictional muffin company called Cunningham Muffins, it's also a parody of other muffin commercials. The lady goes on and on and tells you, literally, all the flavors that Cunningham Muffins has.
The video first appeared on MySpace, then a little while later, it was officially launched on YouTube.
http://www.liamshow.com
HeadOn is a topical product formerly claimed to relieve headaches, produced by Miralus Healthcare, which says it is a homeopathic remedy.
The company became known for its television commercials which featured the phrase "HeadOn, apply directly to the forehead" stated three times; these ads have become an Internet meme.
HeadOn's notoriety came in part due to its advertisements on cable and daytime programming on broadcast television which consisted of using only the tagline "HeadOn. Apply directly to the forehead", stated three times in succession, accompanied by a video of a model using the product.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeadOn
Like so many repetitive and often catchy dances that swept the net, Caramelldansen quickly rose the ranks as a very popular internet meme. It repeats the same few second sequence from the opening of the Visual Novel Popotan.
Like the Hamster Dance before it, the background music takes from another song remixed. The "Caramelldansen Speedycake Remix" is a sped up version of Swedish band Carmel's song Caramelldansen.
It has sparked many parodies featuring other anime and video game characters.
Like Over 9000 CaramelDansen has claimed much of its Western fame through the Web comic site, Vgcats. Its creator Scott Ramsomeir made several posts on the meme as well as his own version of it featuring his characters Aeris and Leo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX6e7sO1ss0
Here's another early viral video that was posted during YouTube's social impact, this one features an Indian midget doing a dance while freezing every once in a while. The music he's dancing to is MC Miker G & DJ Sven's remix to the Madonna song "Holiday". You gotta admit, he's got smove moves. This is actually a clip from the 1990 Indian Tamil language movie "Adhisaya Piravi".
lonelygirl15 is an interactive web-based video series. At first, it centered on the life of a fictional teenage girl named Bree, whose YouTube username is the eponymous "lonelygirl15".
Now it revolves around her friends and family. The series is presented through short, regularly updated videoblogs posted by the fictional characters.
Lonelygirl15 came to international attention ostensibly as a real video blogger who achieved massive popularity on YouTube, a popular video sharing website, but was eventually outed by suspicious viewers as a fictional show featuring lead character played by American-New Zealand actress Jessica Rose.
http://www.myspace.com/lonelygirl15
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