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Anon Pwnd Oprah Winfrey

Sep 22, 2008 12:00 AM PDT

Oprah Winfrey takes on Anonymous with disastrous results.

LHC is 42

Sep 11, 2008 11:19 PM PDT

The Large Hadron Collider is the answer to life, the universe, and everything

Ninja Cat

Sep 10, 2008

Ninja Cat will hunt you down in the darkness of the night.

LHC Black Hole

Sep 10, 2008

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 ...

Spinning 76 Ball

Sep 5, 2008

This is an up and coming meme. A 76 ball spins dreamily to the tune 'Tijauana Taxi'. Ba-da-bomp-bomp-bomp-ba.

Paris Hilton For President 2008

Aug 5, 2008

Paris Hilton Replies to a John McCain attack ad against Barack Obama.

Spaghetti Cat.

Aug 2008

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 ...

Large Hadron Collider Rap

Jul 28, 2008

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog

Jul 13, 2008

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...

The Website is Down

Jun 21, 2008

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

Jun 17, 2008

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.

Wii Fit Hula Girl

May 25, 2008

"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.

Weezer launches "Pork and Beans" Music Video

May 23, 2008

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 viral reference from 1990's to m...

Fail Blog

May 15, 2008

Pointing out all of lifes little failures.

Fred

May 1, 2008

"Fred" is a internet series about a hyper-active fast-talking 6-year-old boy who does video blogs about his life. The series is mostly a parody of other video bloggers who think that everyone is so...

Discovery Channel: The World is Awesome

Apr 2008

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"

Big Dog

Mar 17, 2008

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...

I'm f***ing Matt Damon!

Feb 26, 2008

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...

Garfield Minus Garfield

Feb 13, 2008

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

Feb 10, 2008

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 ...

CHANOLOGY

Jan 21, 2008

Anonymous takes on the Church of Scientology

Der Beste Koch der Welt (World´s best chef)

Jan 1, 2008

German Band "Elsterglanz" re-syncronises Movies in german dialect "sächsisch" (saxon-dialect). very funny!

Evil look Baby

Dec 27, 2007

Little kid giving evil look

I Am Your Gummy Bear (The Gummy Bear Song)

Nov 13, 2007

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...

Tengo Miedo!

Nov 10, 2007

Un hombre detenido supuestamente por conducir en estado de ebriedad, no deja de repetir ante las autoridades que lo detuvieron, que "tiene miedo".

Daft Bodies

Oct 23, 2007

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...

You suck at Photoshop

Oct 21, 2007

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

2 Girls 1 Cup

Oct 2007

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...

How to stop farting

Sep 26, 2007

The infamous description of some new technological achievements regarding the problem (old as humanity) of flatulence.

Interior Cocodrile Alligator

Sep 24, 2007

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...

"The Last Lecture"

Sep 18, 2007

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...

Don't Tase me, Bro!

Sep 17, 2007

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...

Leave Britney Alone!

Sep 10, 2007

As of January 2008, the video has been viewed over 3.4 million times and has over 55,000 comments.

TECHNOVIKING

Sep 1, 2007

Chuck Norris is no match for TECHNOVIKING: TECHNOVIKING doesn't dance to the music, the music dances to TECHNOVIKING

Miss Teen South Carolina - Caitlin Upton

Aug 24, 2007

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...

Benny Lava

Aug 18, 2007

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 birth of lip dub.

Aug 8, 2007

The beginning of the lip dub phenomenon - you can thank Connected Ventures in NYC for that one...

Raymond Crowe hand shadows

Aug 1, 2007

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.

Spiderbite

Jul 30, 2007

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...

Lo Mejor del Show de la Barandilla

Jul 9, 2007

"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...

Crank That Soulja Boy

Jul 2007

In 2007, 17-year-old DeAndre Ramone Way AKA Soulja Boy, released a crunk rap song on the internet called "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" and it automatically became one of the biggest selling singles of ...

Dramatic Chipmunk

Jun 18, 2007

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...

Pet Foireux dans le Jaccuzzi

Jun 15, 2007

Obama Girl

Jun 12, 2007

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...

My New Haircut

Jun 10, 2007

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...

I Likes Turtles

Jun 9, 2007

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...

Hitler Gets Banned From Xbox Live

Jun 7, 2007

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...

Daft Hands

Jun 6, 2007

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.

Hot For Words

May 30, 2007

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...

Charlie bit my finger

May 22, 2007

A Virgins Plea

May 1, 2007

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...

What The Buck?!

May 1, 2007

"What The Buck?!" is a gossip news show where Michael Buckley, the anchor, talks about celebrities and, most of the time, makes fun of them. Most of what he talks about on the show is celebrities a...

The IRATE Gamer

Apr 28, 2007

The IRATE Gamer is an internet series composing of a short tempered gamer playing video games. It's basically the same thing as The Angry Video Game Nerd, except non-nerdy.

Chocolate Rain

Apr 21, 2007

"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...

RickRoll

Apr 2007

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...

Potter Puppet Pals

Mar 23, 2007

Otters Holding Hands

Mar 19, 2007

You gotta admit this is cute, these otters are floating on the water holding hands while napping. You sure don't see this everyday.

THIS IS SPARTA!

Mar 9, 2007

That Guy With The Glasses

Mar 4, 2007

Douglas "Darien" Walker AKA That Guy With The Glasses AKA The Nostalgia Critic, is an Internet comedian from Illinois who typically pokes fun at entertainment of the past and present.

Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show

Feb 25, 2007

One part Pee Wee's Playhouse, one part crazy, unpredictable Japanese talk show, and one part whole milk. Mix and serve chilled. Written by Kim Evey and directed by Greg Benson.

One Man Band by Connor Berge

Feb 17, 2007

Connor Berge records himself four times playing different instruments and puts them together to make a brief song.

What What (In the Butt)

Feb 14, 2007

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...

Kelly "Shoes"

Feb 5, 2007

"Those shoes are mine betch!" Another Liam Kyle Sullivan video. Sullivan as Kelly, a valley girl with anger management problems and a fixation on footwear, "Shoes" was probably the thing I heard qu...

Que pasó muchacho?

Jan 18, 2007

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"

The cake is a lie

2007 to 2008

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

Por que no te callas

Jan 1, 2007

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

Boy kicking a wall

2007

Essex boy kicking a concrete slab wall only to have his ankle broken.

Frame

2007

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

HeadOn

Dec 2006

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 ...

Dick In a Box

Dec 2006

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 Panda

Nov 6, 2006

Sneezing baby Panda amazes/spooks his mother.

Hahaha

Nov 1, 2006

A small darling baby laughing like the seed of Satan.

Over 9000!

Oct 17, 2006

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

Oct 12, 2006

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...

Blood!

Oct 9, 2006

A little boy headbutts his little brother in the face and gets really upset that the baby starts bleeding. This video is priceless.

Scary "Mary Poppins" Recut Trailer

Oct 8, 2006

Chris Rule took scenes from the 1964 movie "Mary Poppins and put them together in a trailer to make it look like an upcoming horror movie.

Star Wars Campaign Commercial

Oct 6, 2006

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...

Will it Blend?

Oct 2006

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

Sep 30, 2006

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...

Muffins

Sep 24, 2006

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...

Kung Fu Baby

Sep 23, 2006

No de nuevo decia

Sep 19, 2006

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...

Noah Takes a Photo Of Himself For 6 Years

Aug 27, 2006

A little slide show of pictures of Noah from 2000 to 2006.

Snakes on a Plane

Aug 17, 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...

Caramelldansen

Aug 8, 2006

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 ...

Ghost Car

Aug 2006

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 ...

Little Superstar

Jul 30, 2006

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

Jul 15, 2006

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...

Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series

Jul 13, 2006

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...

Zidane's Headbutt

Jul 9, 2006

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...

Chicken Noodle Soup

Jul 5, 2006

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...

Shoop da whoop

Jul 1, 2006

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. ...

A Series Of Tubes

Jun 28, 2006

Senator Stevens quite aptly describes teh internets as a "series of tubes."

Moped Dance

Jun 26, 2006

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

Jun 25, 2006

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

Jun 21, 2006

"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...

User tries to cancel AOL account

Jun 14, 2006

"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?

Jun 13, 2006

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...

Beatbox Flute

Jun 2006

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...

Jeremias the Drunk

May 1, 2006

One of the most successful YouTube memes in Brazil is an interview with a drunk kid, made in a police station by a Jerry Springer-like "news" show. The kid is really wasted, and he curses, sings, t...

Falcon Punch!!!

Apr 30, 2006

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...

Stephen Colbert @ Whitehouse Dinner

Apr 28, 2006

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

Apr 27, 2006

"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...

Hasselhoff 's Hooked on a Feeling

Apr 22, 2006

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...

Laughing Interview - In De Gloria

Apr 22, 2006

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 ...

David Hasselhoff is Drunk

Apr 13, 2006

America's Got Talent Host David Hasselhoff drunk and eats a burger and on camera in this shocking video shot by his own daughter.

The Angry Video Game Nerd

Apr 8, 2006

This is an internet series which revolves retro video game reviews that involve rants against the particularly low-quality video games, generally being 8-bit video games. The Nerd character is an...

Evolution of Dance

Apr 5, 2006

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 ...

Onyxia Wipe

Apr 5, 2006

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.

Leekspin Loituma Girl

Apr 2006

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...

Nintendo Sixty-FOOOOOOOOOOUR

Mar 26, 2006

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 Ze Frank

Mar 17, 2006

"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 ...

Barbie Girl

Mar 6, 2006

Years after this song became a worldwide hit, it also became a YouTube phenomenon. Not only was the original music video posted, but other people did their own video featuring them lip syncing or p...

Kevin Federline's PopoZão

Mar 2006

A video of K-Fed jamming to one of his worst songs ever.

The Lion Sleeps Tonight

Feb 2006

The French language CGI hippo & dog duo Pat & Stanley lip sync the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by The Tokens.

Batiman

Jan 30, 2006

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

2006

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,...

LazyTown

2006

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...

Free Hugs Campaign

2006

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 ...

"Du bist Deutschland" Anticampaign

Jan 2006

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 critizized to be cheesy, had a ...

Mudkips

2006

So I heard you like Mudkips...

funtwo plays JerryC's "Canon Rock"

Dec 20, 2005

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

Dec 16, 2005

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...

The Maze Game

Dec 2005

"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

Nov 26, 2005

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

Nov 23, 2005

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...

Birth of Braden

Nov 22, 2005

Braden is born

Smosh

Nov 19, 2005

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...

Lemon Demon

Nov 6, 2005

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...

Diet Coke and Mentos

Aug 31, 2005

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...

Million Dollar Homepage

Aug 25, 2005

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...

Leeroy Jenkins

Aug 2005

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...

One Red Paperclip

Jul 12, 2005

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

Jul 10, 2005

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...

We're Not Afraid

Jul 7, 2005

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

Robot Dance

Jun 14, 2005

Just a few guys doing robot dances at their school's talent show.

DO NOT WANT!

Jun 7, 2005

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...

Tom Cruise Goes Crazy on Oprah

May 23, 2005

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...

Boom Goes The Dynamite

Apr 19, 2005

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.

Back Dorm Boys

Apr 2005

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...

"Where the Hell is Matt?"

Feb 28, 2005

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...