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This kid can keep up with the best of drunks. It has been viewed over 10MM times (as of Feb 16, 2009) and remixed in countless varieties.
Videos from the user Boxxybabee on Gaia online. Made famous by her strange behavior prompting discussions on if Boxxy uses drugs, has developmental problems, or is performing as a character actor. ...
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 ...
Maru the box loving Scottish Fold from Japan has more than 3 million views on YouTube and his own blog: http://sisinmaru.blog17.fc2.com/
From this epic image taken by Dave Roth, comes a blog dedicated to posting photoshops from people all over the world. Visit http://www.disasterkid.com and submit yours today!
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 st...
SABC 2 Live with Chairperson of the finance portfolio committee - Nhlanhla Nene
Dustin McLean of dustfilms.com produce a hilarious "literal version" of the 80s pop video "Take On Me" by A-ha, followed on 14th October by his equally brilliant take on "Head Over Heels" by Tears ...
Oprah Winfrey takes on Anonymous with disastrous results.
The Large Hadron Collider is the answer to life, the universe, and everything
On september of 2008, the LHC was finally turned on for the first time after years of construction. It's supposed to unveil the mysteries of our universe by accelerating and colliding particles at ...
Ninja Cat will hunt you down in the darkness of the night.
During a segment of the FOX television talk show The Morning Show With Mike and Juliet, an image of a cat sitting in front of a large plate of spaghetti was shown. The image was only on the screen ...
Paris Hilton Replies to a John McCain attack ad against Barack Obama.
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...
A mashup of true and mostly-true stories from IT hell. If you've ever called tech support and wondered what the hell they are doing down there... well, this should answer some questions for you. St...
Firefox Download Day. Let´s download Firefox 3 release. Millions of people helped to reach the record of the most downloaded software in 1 day.
"Why every guy should buy their girlfriend Wii Fit." Some guy posted a video of his girlfriend doing the hula hoop activity on Wii Fit in her underwear and internet history was born.
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 ...
"Fred" is a internet series about a hyper-active fast-talking 6-year-old boy who does lifecasts on YouTube. The series is mostly a parody of other video bloggers who think that everyone is so inter...
The song that debuted on a commercial for a cable channel suddenly exploded from YouTube and swept the internet and had everyone singing "boom de yada"
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 wa...
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. Wi...
A hillarious song by which the (still) upcoming Sarah Silverman is telling her comedian boyfriend Jimmy Kimmel that she is having an affair with Matt Damon. Jimmy Kimmel decided to take something M...
Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern li...
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 ...
Anonymous takes on the Church of Scientology
German Band "Elsterglanz" re-syncronises Movies in german dialect "sächsisch" (saxon-dialect). very funny!
Little kid giving evil look
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 succe...
Un hombre detenido supuestamente por conducir en estado de ebriedad, no deja de repetir ante las autoridades que lo detuvieron, que "tiene miedo".
Two girls, robot heads, Daft Punk, a Sharpie or two, and a heck of a lot of time produced the sensation that took the legendary Daft Punk's popularity to a whole new level. Hundreds of rip offs ens...
Donnie Hoyle reveals psychoanalytical image of a broken divorced by blog-like series of photoshop tutorials. Hilarious creation and a masterpiece of product placement byTroy Hitch and Matt Bledsoe
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 o...
The infamous description of some new technological achievements regarding the problem (old as humanity) of flatulence.
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 Chevrole...
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 wit...
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 gov...
As of January 2008, the video has been viewed over 3.4 million times and has over 55,000 comments.
Chuck Norris is no match for TECHNOVIKING: TECHNOVIKING doesn't dance to the music, the music dances to TECHNOVIKING
She is best known for her garbled response to a question that was asked of her during the Miss Teen USA 2007 pageant. Upton responded: I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do...
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 M...
The beginning of the lip dub phenomenon - you can thank Connected Ventures in NYC for that one...
Raymond Crowe is an Australian entertainer who has included many old vaudevillian routines in his show. This video is of his finale and has spread very quickly.
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...
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 si...
"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 p...
A prairie dog turning its head suddenly toward the camera, with a zoom-in on its face. The clip comes from an appearance by J-pop group MiniMoni on the Japanese TV show Hello! Morning. Many derivat...
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 Barac...
The original "My New Haircut" by L2X Productions is about the stereotypical frat boy with a blow-out hair Topics covered in the video include jaeger bombs, protein mix, steroids, working out, start...
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...
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 beca...
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.
Marina Orlova (born December 1980) is Russian-born philologist (although primarily an etymologist) who has become an internet celebrity, hosting one of the most popular channels on YouTube, HotForW...
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 m...
avirginsplea.com is a website that was part of a viral marketing experiment. It first claimed that a 25-year old virgin living in Toronto named Geoff needed five million hits on his website in 30 d...
"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 popu...
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 a...
In contrast to the real Kermit character's usual family friendly antics, this video shows the faux puppet engaging in drug abuse, smoking, alcoholism, masturbation, vomiting, performing oral sex on...
You gotta admit this is cute, these otters are floating on the water holding hands while napping. You sure don't see this everyday.
After 300 was released in theatres, the line "This is Sparta!" became a has been played, remixed and parodied countless times on the internet. For some reason, internet users never get sick of it.
Connor Berge records himself four times playing different instruments and puts them together to make a brief song.
What What (In the Butt) is a viral video created by Brownmark Films for the song of the same name by Samwell, a singer, songwriter, and actor. The video contains numerous camp references to homosex...
Another Liam Kyle Sullivan character. Sullivan as Kelly, a stereotypical valley girl with anger management problems and a fixation on footwear, "Shoes" was probably the thing I heard quoted most of...
Video mostrando a una persona alcoholizada que agrede a policias y medios. Debido a su estado alcoholico ni siquiera puede pronunciar la frase "No ni verga" y la pronuncia "No ni merga"
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
The cake is a lie The cake is a lie The cake is a lie The cake is a lie The cake is a lie
El Rey de España Juan Carlos 1 calla al Presidente de Venezuela Hugo Chavez por haber increpado al ex primer ministro de España Jose Maria Aznar
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!
Sneezing baby Panda amazes/spooks his mother.
Amongst the otaku, or anime fanatics, the notoriety of drama being expressed over the top is often the one element in anime even nerdiest play fun of . Dragonball Z in particular is known for its p...
Kicesie is a girl who does Advanced Sex Ed for today's young adults and older. She's no professional, but she knows enough. Kicesie also owns another YouTube channel called "Kisecie's Vlogs", whe...
Home of Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show and Retarded Policeman, both of which you'll never escape on YouTube. The Videos are way better then they sound.
A little boy headbutts his little brother in the face and gets really upset that the baby starts bleeding. This video is priceless.
In November 2006 voters in Rockingham County, North Carolina were faced with electing members for five new at-large seats on the Board of Education. Sixteen people filed as candidates in a local r...
Line Rider is an internet physics toy. Versions are available for Microsoft Silverlight and for Flash. It was originally created in September 2006 by Boštjan Čadež (also known as "fšk"), a Slovenia...
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, T...
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 Universit...
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 Muff...
Fragmento de la publicidad de un producto para aumentar el apetito sexual. Cuando la pareja cuenta su experiencia con el producto, la mujer dice "Lo miraba y le decía, no, de nuevo no..." Y el con...
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 wh...
A little slide show of pictures of Noah from 2000 to 2006.
Snakes on a Plane is a cult high concept, horror-thriller feature film starring Samuel L. Jackson. It was released by New Line Cinema on August 18, 2006 in North America. The film, directed by Davi...
Yep, there were three Zelda games and one Mario game on a video game console that wasn't made by Nintendo. Everything in these games suck hard, so much that Nintendo likes to ignore the fact that t...
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 ...
A popular commercial mistaken as a screamer is called "Ghost Car", which is usually portrayed as a car commercial (it actually is a commercial for K-fee) containing a ghost. Usually, the viewer is ...
"Here It Goes Again" is a Power pop song by OK Go. The music video shows the band on treadmills and has become a staple video of YouTube.
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 ...
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 rev...
LittleKuriboh met with great success by cutting down episodes of the popular anime, Yu-Gi-Oh, to bite-sized pieces and re-recording his own humorous dialogue. The series became so popular that peo...
During 2006 FIFA World Cup final between Italy and France, french striker and captain Zinedine Zidane was sent off after headbutting italian defender Marco Materazzi. It was a shocking act, also be...
The "Chicken Noodle Soup" is a dance that inspired the hip-hop club hit "Chicken Noodle Soup" performed by DJ Webstar, Young B., and The Voice of Harlem, for the song has peaked at #45 on the Billb...
This was a meme started on the 4 chan website in which a user blacked out the face of a character (Cell) from Dragon ball z and replaced it with googly eyes and red lips done with microsoft paint. ...
Senator Stevens quite aptly describes teh internets as a "series of tubes."
in 2006 someone posted a video on youtube and other similar websites, of several Estonian guys dancing around a moped to some eurobeat techno. It started a minor flurry of similar videos, including...
Chad Vader is the younger brother of Darth Vader, who works as a day-shift manager at a supermarket named Empire Market. The story presents Chad's clash with customers and other employees while inc...
"Angry German Kid" is a character of a really over-done steryotype done over a video series. This was one of those videos. The reason it got so famous is that a local news station from where he liv...
"Cancel the account. Cancel the account. CANCEL THE ACCOUNT. CANCEL THE ACCOUNT. CANCEL THE ACCOUNT. FOR GOD'S SAKE JUST CANCEL THE ACCOUNT." Finally, someone (Vincent Ferrari, who had heard numero...
I Can Has Cheezburger? (ICHC for short) is the name of a blog featuring lolcats, amongst other animals, and was created by Eric Nakagawa (Cheezburger), a blogger from Hawaii, and his partner, known...
Greg Pattillo (b. 1977, Seattle, Washington ) is a beatboxing flautist originally from Seattle, but now operating in Brooklyn. Patillo is recognized throughout the world for his redefinition of the...
This move is notable in the "Super Smash bros" fighting-game franchise which first released back in 1999 and is one of the most powerful (if not slow) moves in the game, as seen in this short clip...
American comedian Stephen Colbert appeared as the featured entertainer at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, which was held in Washington, D.C., at the Hilton Washington hotel...
"The Bus Uncle" is a Cantonese video clip of a quarrel between two men aboard a bus in Hong Kong on April 27, 2006. While the older man (Roger Chan Yuet Tung), who came to be nicknamed the Bus Uncl...
The song was covered in 1997 by David Hasselhoff. The music video of the Hasselhoff version became an Internet phenomenon due to its surreal visuals, extremely poor production quality and Hasselho...
In De Gloria was a Flemish (Belgian) sketch show by Jan Eelen that ran on the Canvas television station in the period 2000-2001. A shortened version of the "Boemerang" sketch from the show gained ...
America's Got Talent Host David Hasselhoff drunk and eats a burger and on camera in this shocking video shot by his own daughter.
Judson (Jud) Laipply is an American motivational speaker and comedian from Bucyrus, Ohio. He is best known for his performance in the Evolution of Dance clip, which is currently the #1 Most Viewed ...
This is an animation I made back in April 2006 about an unsuccessful, but yet disturbingly hilarious, attempt to defeat the dragon Onyxia from World of Warcraft.
In the series of anime related memes Loituma Girl (More often known as Leekspin) has gained a considerable amount of popularity even amoungst the non-otaku crowds. It features the Bleach character...
These two kids get overexcited and happy when they unwrap a Nintendo 64 on christmas day 1998. They really did like that present that much, that memorable christmas day was like a dream come true t...
"the show with zefrank" was a short video program produced Monday through Friday for one year (March 17, 2006 - March 17, 2007). The show was a conversation between the Ze and the viewers of the ...
A video of K-Fed jamming to one of his worst songs ever.
Batiman is a Brazilian Internet Meme that started in early 2006, when copies of a very bad dubbing to Brazilian Portuguese of an episode of the 60s Batman series were uploaded to YouTube. Legend go...
Demotivators began as a satire of the motivational posters found in almost any office. Although an official site exits which has been selling professional quality demotivators since at least 2000,...
The Free Hugs Campaign is a social movement involving individuals who offer hugs to strangers in public places. The campaign in its present form was started in 2004 by an Australian man known only ...
Lazy Town, an Icelandic kids tv show with spinoffs in the UK and US, gained a major surge of popularity when the videos "You Are A Pirate" and "Cooking By The Book" were found and parodied by peopl...
The German ad-company "Jung von Matt" and several media companies released a campaign to 'enhance confidence and general mood among the German people'. But it soon was criticized to be cheesy, to b...
A cover of JerryC's "Canon Rock" (which in itself is a a rock arrangement of Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D) became very popular. Mainstream media picked up the hype of this young korean guitar pl...
Lazy Sunday is a music video starring Saturday Night Live cast members Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg and airing on the December 17, 2005 episode of the show. It was the second SNL Digital Short to...
Lemon Demon is a band formed by Neil Cicierega, the same guy who made Potter Puppet Pals. They became a hit on the internet after they released the flash video for their song "The Ultimate Showdown...
"The Maze Game", by Jeremy Winterrowd, is a game where users try to navigate a dot through 4 simple mazes with their mouse until the possessed face of Regan MacNeil, the principal character of The ...
Charlie the Unicorn is a popular Internet flash-animated comedy short following the adventures of three unicorns as they walk to Candy Mountain. Charlie is the intransigent, disbelieving unicorn, a...
Ask A Ninja is an award-winning series of comedy videos about the image of ninjas in popular culture available in podcast and vodcast form, as well as in mov and wmv file formats. The first episode...
Smosh is a duo of American River College students, Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox, from Carmichael, California. They are best known for the writing, filming, acting, and editing of skits and music v...
A Coke and Mentos Eruption (also known as a Mentos eruption, soda geyser or just Diet Coke and Mentos) is a reaction of Diet Coke and Mentos 'mint flavored'. The most well-known example of this rea...
The Million Dollar Homepage is a website conceived by Alex Tew, a then 21-year-old student from Cricklade, Wiltshire, England to help raise money for his university education. Launched on August 26...
This Internet phenomenon started with the release of a video clip online to the World of Warcraft forums. The video was released by the World of Warcraft Alliance player guild "Pals for Life" on th...
On July 12, 2005, Kyle MacDonald started a blog site saying that he was willing to trade one red paperclip. For what, well for whatever he could get. His ultimate goal was to turn one red papercl...
What The F Bomb is a fad where a normal event gets interrupted by a loud voice screaming "WHAT THE FUC-" cut off by an extemely loud explosion. This fad is commonly used as an element of surprise/i...
Internet protest site set up in the wake of Londons 7/7 attacks. Went on to become global media meme, on and offline, broadcast and print
Just a few guys doing robot dances at their school's talent show.
DO NOT WANT is another phrase coined by the lovable scoundrels at 4chan's /b/ board. It originated from horrible English subtitles of the Chinese version of Star Wars Episode III into Engrish, wher...
From Wikipedia : Cruise "jumped around the set, hopped onto a couch, fell to one knee and repeatedly professed his love for Katie Holmes. The "couch incident" was voted #1 of 2005's "Most Surpris...
Everyone's favorite annoying Swedish musical frog.
Brian Collins, a nervous sports anchor, fumbles highlights, concluding with this infamous catch phrase. As of August 2008, Collins was a reporter for KXXV in Waco, Texas.
They're lip syncing, just like in Numa Numa, except these are Asian boys. They lip sync a lot of songs, mostly boy band ones, and in every video, they do a lot of funny faces to set up the mood. Th...
Matthew "Matt (Mathias)" Harding (born September 27, 1976) is an American video game developer and Internet celebrity known as Dancing Matt for his viral videos that show him dancing in front of la...
This guy threatens to kill his pet rabbit Toby unless he receives $50,000 dollars in donations from the net. Site exposed as a hoax, but only after much confusion. Millions flock to the site a...
* There is no 'ctrl' button on Chuck Norris's computer. Chuck Norris is always in control. * Apple pays Chuck Norris 99 cents every time he listens to a song. * Chuck Norris can sneeze with his e...
The Flying Spaghetti Monster (also known as the Spaghedeity) is the deity of a parody religion called The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and its system of beliefs, "Pastafarianism". The rel...
With vary rates of popularity, Pedobear is no doubt an internet meme in its prime. Go to 4chan and Pedobear is everywhere, go to Digg.com, and pedobear might be a little bit harder to find. True d...
New fun sport: Cup Stacking! Amazingly fast sport: Stacking cups. Lots of videos around. Most famous vid: Emily Foxs world record from 2004.
The MySpace Movie explores the basics of life as well as disputed territories located within the MySpace site in a humorous and parodic fashion. Themes of this movie include: capturing profile im...
"Loose Change (2005) is a series of documentary films written and directed by Dylan Avery, and produced by Korey Rowe and Jason Bermas and is distributed by MercuryMedia International. The films as...
The numa numa guy. Wow. Put Moldavian pop techno in the fantasies of an adolescant nerdling and let him at a webcam and you have this insanely popular video that spawned numerous copy cats. I actua...
A daily vlog that's presented in the format of a newscast with a comedic slant. Each weekday Rocketboom offers oddities, vlog excerpts and explores emerging social movements. It sometimes presents ...
"Internets" is a Bushism-turned-catchphrase used humorously to portray the speaker as ignorant about the Internet or about technology in general, or as having a provincial or folksy attitude toward...
Ashlee Simpson gets caught lip syncing on SNL, retorts with weird polka ho-down.
The little flash series by David Firth is about the psychotic and most disturbing cartoon character ever created. Actually nothing terrifying happens, but the ambience created by the music, the wei...
Their website is www.purepwnage.com Pure Pwnage (pronounced "pure ownage", IPA: ['phjʊɹ oʊnɪdʒ]) is an Internet-distributed mockumentary series from ROFLMAO Productions. The fictional series pur...
In 2003, KRON broadcasted a story about whistle tips, devices welded into a car's muffler to cause a loud whistle as the exhaust gas passes. Residents of Oakland were upset because of the disturban...
Collaborative art project from artists around the world created the infinite loop image called zoomquilt.
Jay Maynard is a computer programmer and system administrator. He is most famous for his electroluminescent Tron Guy costume, which I 1st wore at Penguicon 2.0 April 17th, 2004. He became a subjec...
Shinigami_Co coins a phrase to describe the large number of badly Photoshopped pictures of porn stars' bodies wearing famous actors' heads (often though not always the heads of stars from the Lord ...
Bananaphone is the name of a children's album released in 1994. The title track's lyrics describes the bananaphone, a portmanteau of the words banana and telephone. The song uses many puns ("It's a...
Burger King launched its landmark "viral" site. Lead agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky pulled in The Barbarian Group to produce the site.
A parody of horrendous nonsensical euro dancepop and softcore sleaze, made by a bunch of Swedes.
Clip of a news reporter crushing grapes and then taking a quite unfortunate fall....
A maneuver notably seen in the videogame "Star Fox 64" from 1997. It is shouted out to you randomly by your wingmate Peppy Hare to block incoming fire. This command can also be seen being posted on...
Sometime in 2004 a flash animation was upload to the internets documenting how to count all the way to Schfifty Five.
Tyson was born in October 2001. Shortly after his first birthday, Jim Blauvelt gave him a skateboard at his home in downtown Huntington Beach. "Right away he started hopping right on," Blauvelt s...
While it is not specifically a meme, 4chan is the creator of nearly all memes since its creation in 2003. Created by 15 year old Christopher Poole (aka "moot"), the site was intended to reflect Jap...
Hilarious shockwave animation about nuclear apocalypse. The source of the lines "But I am le tired", "WTF, mate?", "About that time, eh chaps?" and other lines. Even my mom has seen this thing. ...
Several million people all try to remember the words to "Don't You Forget About Me" at once.
Annoying, repetitive, and impossible to forget once you heard it. The video claimed that something would happen after the song played six times, but it never did...and the song became stuck in you...
"Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The r...
Fensler Films is a Chicago based-company, headed by Eric Fensler, which gained a reputation for their parody G.I. Joe PSA films. Fensler Films took the PSA/Safety Messages used at the end of every ...
O RLY?, short for "Oh, really?" is a popular Internet phenomenon, typically presented as an image macro featuring a Snowy Owl. The phrase "O RLY?" is typically used in a sarcastic or sardonic manne...
Part one of the epic "Colin Mochrie vs Jesus H. Christ" Fanimutation Trilogy.
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Andy Milonakis releases a video of himself singing about the Super Bowl being gay and everything else being gay as well. After this video, Andy was so popular that he got his own TV show on MTV and...
"Little Fatty (Chinese: 小胖; Pinyin: Xiao Pang) is an internet phenomenon which began in China in late 2002 or early 2003, when the face of a sixteen year old boy from Shanghai, who had been photogr...
[pic possibly fake or reconstructed] This meme originated on the SomethingAwful forums when a screenshot of a game of Starcraft was posted on the Games forum. Two players are in a game of Starcra...
A flash animated dark comedy cartoon series about a ranting squirrel named Foamy and a gothic girl named Germaine.
Taking an offensive post and removing the vowels: a way to disempower offensive comments without actually engaging in censorship on an open forum. Created by Teresa Nielsen Hayden at Making Light; ...
"Star Wars kid" is an Internet phenomenon which started when a video clip recorded by a fourteen-year-old French Canadian male high school student was shared online by a number of other students.
Terry Tate: Office Linebacker was a series of short comedy TV commercials created by Rawson Marshall Thurber, for Reebok, based on a short film pilot he created in 2000; Tate was first shown at Sup...
Joel Veitch creates something cool and beyond description. Two years later, they inexplicably begin shilling for Quizno's.
OrT & DeLa were the first ones doing a parody version of a popular song, in this case one by System of a Down, "Chop Suey". The video quickly became viral. Some years later, lot of people would th...
Facts. 1. Ninjas are mammals. 2. Ninjas fight ALL the time. 3. The purpose of the Ninja is to flip out and kill people. So begins the strangely compelling site which spawned dozens, if not hundred...
From WIkipedia: "Yatta!" is a 2001 parody song by a fictional Japanese band called はっぱ隊 (Happa-tai; literally "Leaf Squad" in Japanese, though they call themselves "Green Leaves" in English). The ...
A dorky burger king employee sings about how he works at burger king. The Song is a parody of the traditional Christmas carol "Carol Of The Bells".
"Kikia" was the first prank flash to be widely spread and thus provide inspiration for other similar creations. It is an example of a flash prank which requires no input from the viewer, but instea...
The tourist guy, also known as the accidental tourist (a joking reference to the novel and film The Accidental Tourist), Waldo (a reference to the Where's Waldo? franchise), WTC Guy, or tourist of ...
Domo-kun status as a meme started on the Fark forums, but the character is actually the mascot of the NHK television station in Japan. The members of Fark placed Domo-kun's likeness onto many ima...
When it existed, at http://www.cutoffmyfeet.com, this was a twisted Paul Morgan (a.k.a. 'Freck') claimed that on January 5, 2002 he was going to amputate his legs, and that the amputation would be ...
see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiao_Xiao With the rise of flash animation based entertainment sites such as NewGrounds and eBaum's World, XiaoXiao became an instant with its simple but pleasing...
In 2001, Brian Clevinger launched a sprite comic and named it 8-Bit Theater. It's mostly just a web comic starring a bunch of characters stolen from the Final Fantasy series. It became extremely p...
Guy who dresses like Peter Pan shows up in everyone's email inboxes. Randy Constan is a Peter Pan impersonator who posted his cosplay pictures on a website in 2001, in what he stated was an atte...
"All your base are belong to us" (often shortened to "All Your Base", "AYBABTU", or simply "AYB") is a broken English phrase that sparked an Internet phenomenon in 2001 and 2002, with the spread of...
In March of 2001, Ze sent a birthday invitation to his 30th birthday party to 17 friends, featuring Ze in instructional videos in the proper dance moves. 3 days later, 1 million people were coming...
YTMND, an initialism for "You're The Man Now, Dog", is an online community centered on the creation of hosted web pages (known within the community as YTMNDs or sites) featuring a juxtaposition of ...
"Peanut Butter Jelly Time" is a Flash animation that emerged in the late 1990s and became an Internet phenomenon. Based on a song of the same name recorded by the Buckwheat Boyz, the best-known ver...
Oolong, named after the oolong variety of tea, was the name of a domestic rabbit owned by photographer Hironori Akutagawa of Hokkaidō, Japan. Throughout the rabbit's lifetime, he took hundreds of p...
Infamous e-mail from Claire Swires includes quote, "lucky I swallow so that wont be happening to me!" and "Apparently it's very good conditioner for your hair too". Boyfiend Bradley Chait forwards ...
John Titor first posts on the Time Travel Institute forums under the name TimeTravel_0. Over the next two years, posts appear on several bulletin boards where the poster claims to be a time travel...
To increase their UK market share, in November 2000 John West canned salmon started a marketing campaign revolving around a viral video in which what appears to be bear fights a fisherman for a fre...
The site was founded in October 2000 by James Hong and Jim Young, two friends and Silicon Valley-based engineers (both graduated from UC Berkeley), as a technical solution to a disagreement they ma...
Mahlon Smith decides to see what happens if you buy various meats and put them outside next to your neighbor's house and let time take care of things. From his site: "This is what happened in the ...
One of the Web's first Viral campaigns emerges with characters from Lee Jeans. Story from WIRED: A couple of new, cheesy personal home pages have started making a buzz on the Net. Rubberburner.co...
On April 22, 2000, the famous six-year-old "boat boy" Elian Gonzalez was forcibly seized from a house in Miami by Border Patrol agents intent on repatriating him to Cuba. An Associated Press photog...
FatChicksInPartyHats.com is a website created by a 17 year old, named Miguel. The site contains photos of overweight people, often wearing a party hat. Visitors of the site enjoy the (sometimes i...
Homestar Runner is a Flash-animated internet cartoon that mixes surreal humor with references to the pop culture, notably video games, classic television, and popular music.
Happy Tree Friends (Often abbreviated as HTF) is a Flash cartoon series by Mondo Mini Shows, created by Rhode Montijo, Kenn Navarro and Aubrey Ankrum. Since its debut the show has become a popular ...
Rejected is a collection of short, surreal vignettes. A frame story explains that these are advertisements which the animator was asked to create but, upon viewing, they were immediately rejected. ...
From http://www.aboutus.org/Zombo.com Zombo.com is a humorous website created on October 10, 1999. The site consists solely of a single Flash animation of the website's title and seven circles of ...
A breakthrough use of the Web to promote a low-budget indie thriller.
JibJab is a digital entertainment studio based in Los Angeles, California. Founded in September 1999 by Evan and Gregg Spiridellis, the company achieved international acclaim during the 2004 US pre...
Tunak Tunak Tun is a song by Daler Mehndi. It was so popular on the internet because of its catchy tune and the amusing dance in its music video, inspiring numerous spin-offs and parodies. The musi...
Mahir Çağrı, a resident of İzmir, Turkey born in 1962, became an Internet celebrity in 1999. His picture-laden personal homepage, which exclaimed in broken English his love of the accordion, travel...
Predates internet email by a century or so! [see http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE5DC1638F932A15756C0A964958260 and http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeria.asp]. But it seems t...
Who refuses to set the blender to 10. Remember it being sent as an email. Viewed over 100 million times.
The phenomenon of Goatse originated from a site called Goatse.cx (pron. "goat sex"). The main image proliferated on the web was of a man stretching his anus to unimaginable width to reveal his inne...
The birth of the top rated Shoutcast station that helped to make Sean Kennedy the world's first open-source celebrity.
Once upon a time, computers dated everything using two digits. This was cheap and efficient and everyone thought it was a wise thing to do. Until one day in the 90’s a computer expert realized tha...
Blit Wizbok, and alien boy created by Victor Navone sings part of "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor. Then he is crushed by a falling mirror ball. What a disappointing debut. Blit Wizbok was born ea...
Mahir Çağri, a resident of İzmir, Turkey born in 1962, became an Internet celebrity in 1999. His picture-laden personal homepage, which exclaimed in broken English his love of the accordion, travel...
In the beginning there was no Slashdot. Bored and confused geeks would scribble "First Post" in the sand. Grits were strictly for consumption and there wasn't a place to get nerd oriented news. The...
Canadian art student Deidre LaCarte designed The Hampster Dance in August 1998 as a homage to her pet hamster, named Hampton Hamster. Using four simple animated GIFs of hamsters and other rodents, ...
The Best Page in the Universe is a personal satirical humor website created by George Ouzounian, better known as Maddox, from Salt Lake City, Utah
"Hello my future girlfriend, this is what I sound like" These words haunt all who hear them. Most people who have experienced this particular meme did so through newgrounds extensive library of ...
Hank, the Angry, Drunken Dwarf (Henry Joseph Nasiff Jr.) was a sidekick of Howard Stern who was -- in a glorious example of the power of democracy -- voted "People" Magazine's Most Beautiful Person...
Bert is Evil is the name of a widely mirrored web site, founded by Dino Ignacio, which featured Bert, a Muppet character on the American children's television program Sesame Street. In 1998 Dino ...
Chess champ Kasparov challenged IBM supercomputer Deep Blue to a series of chess matches. It was webcast live via a Java viewer and ranked as the world's record Net event of its time.
Jack Frost is a black comedy film that gained fame only on the internet thanks to its low budget special effects, comical death sequences, poor acting, and the fact that it was released within two ...
The Dancing Baby, also known as "Baby Cha-Cha", refers to a 3D character and 3D-rendered animation of a baby dancing for several seconds. The video, one of the earliest examples of an Internet phen...
Take Two Interactive and game developer Derek Smart release Battlecruiser 300AD. The game is described as a "bug-infested mess" by GameSpy. More interesting than the game itself was the epic Usen...
JenniCAM was the website for Jennifer Ringley, the first real full time online webcam girl. Ringely left her webcam on 24 hours a day to fully document her life and quickly became an internet phen...
The original game was made up in Jan 1994 by two students from Pennsylvania's Albright College and started appearing on the web very soon afterwords, notably in the form of the University of Virgin...
"that damn green button just kept staring at me. so, i stared at it. it stared at me. it started to drive me crazy. somehow, in its incredibly simplistic state, it is absolute perfection. no hung j...
from wikipedia: "A phishing technique was described in detail in 1987, in a paper and presentation delivered to the International HP Users Group, Interex.[6] The first recorded mention of the term ...
Without this short circulating on the Web, there would be no South Park. Says Wikipedia: "Fox executive Brian Graden initially distributed the video to 80 friends in December 1995, one of the fr...
Ate my balls was an early example of an Internet meme. In the late 1990s, many web pages were created to depict a particular celebrity or fictional character saying how they liked to eat "balls" (s...
Dark Side of the Rainbow is a name used to refer to the act of listening to the 1973 Pink Floyd album "The Dark Side of the Moon" while watching the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz" for moments where t...
The Dysfunctional Family Circus is the name of several long-running parodies of the syndicated comic strip The Family Circus, featuring either Bil Keane's artwork with altered captions, or (less of...
A soap opera online, where you could read the characters' diary entries and multimedia postings, send messages to them, and get replies. It was, in its day, massive: the Jun 8th Cool Site of the Da...
Bryon Southerland puts his diary online for the world to read - including his business and his relationships. Readers have lots of questions, which he tries to answer. One of the first proto-bloggers.
Self-described as "World's First Cyber Brothel", their net presence consisted of a server for the "finger" protocol used to transmit basic information including a list of email addresses of the "em...
Canter & Siegel posted the first massive commercial Usenet spam, also known as the Spam that Started It All.
The Trojan Room coffee pot was the inspiration for the world's first webcam. The coffee pot was located in the so-called Trojan Room within the old Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridg...
Though he had arrived on USENET before this date, his legendary habit of grepping all postings and responding to any and all mentions of his name with a supernatural rapidity had already earned hi...
Tired of people making ridiculous claims about the lethality of their chosen favorite martial art (which at the time seemed to be ninjutsu), a Usenet rec.martial-arts contributor named Doug Welch i...
"As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." Godwin has stated that he introduced Godwin's Law in 1990 as an experiment in mem...
BIFF, later sometimes B1FF, was the most famous pseudonym on, and the prototypical newbie of, Usenet, the precursor to the World Wide Web. Now virtually unknown outside of a hard core of pre-web in...
The original 'consciousness' of the internet, the Internet "Oracle" was, and still is a collective effort at humor. The concept is simple: You send in an e-mail, and the Oracle writes back an answe...
Mark V. Shaney was the name used by a computer program that generated pseudo-intelligent messages by taking real messages as input, building a Markov chain representation of the input, and using th...
Emoticons, now many times seen as graphic, even animated, images in internet forums, pages and emails, started off as simple text used to easily indicate that some specific text was sarcasm or 'jus...
William Gibson uses the term, so far as I am aware, before anyone else, in his 1982 short story Burning Chrome. The arguably predates him, to at least John Brunner's 1975 Shockwave Rider, if not ea...
First Coke machine on the Internet, located in (then) Science Hall at Carnegie-Mellon University, and interfaced to the PDP-10 known as CMUA (later A.CS.CMU.EDU). From the Internet one could query...
From wikipedia: "The word "meme" is a neologism coined in 1976 by Richard Dawkins occuring in 'The Selfish Gene' to describe how one might extend Darwinian principles to explain the spread of and c...
from wikipedia: "The term originated as a determiner, a shorthand for internetworking, and is mostly used in this way in RFCs, the documentation for the evolving Internet Protocol (IP) standards fo...
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