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List of Internet phenomena

December 18, 2023

"Internet phenomena" and "Internet sensation" redirect here. For people who have achieved fame through the Internet, see Internet celebrity.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Internet phenomena are social and cultural phenomena specific to the Internet, such as Internet memes, which include popular catchphrases, images, viral videos, and jokes. When such fads and sensations occur online, they tend to grow rapidly and become more widespread because the instant communication facilitates word of mouth transmission.

The below partial list focuses more on Internet phenomena that are not restricted by regional Internet laws; other countries such as China or Pakistan do have Internet phenomena specific there that are not blocked by regional laws. These are covered in List of Internet phenomena in China and List of Internet phenomena in Pakistan.

Advertising and products

See also: List of viral music videos § Ads and campaigns
 
The Shake Weight
  • Shake Weight – Infomercial clips of the modified dumbbell went viral as a result of the product's sexually suggestive nature.[26]
  • Vans (2016) – Featured in the "Damn Daniel" viral internet meme.
  • What Would You Do For A Klondike Bar? – A slogan at the end of commercials advertising the ice cream sandwich Klondike bar. People on YouTube and Facebook began posting videos depicting people in dangerous and absurdist situations attempting to reach a Klondike Bar in response to the slogan.[27]
  • Whopper Whopper – A song by American restaurant fast-food chain Burger King which serves as a jingle for the restaurant's signature burger, the Whopper[28]
  • Will It Blend? – The blender product Blendtec, claimed by its creator Tom Dickson to be the most powerful blender, is featured in a series of YouTube videos, "Will It Blend?" where numerous food and non-food items are used within the blender.[29]
  • Xtranormal – A website allowing users to create videos by scripting the dialog and choosing from a menu of camera angles and predesigned CGI characters and scenes. Though originally designed to be used to ease storyboard development for filmmakers, the site quickly became popular after videos made with the tool, including "iPhone 4 vs HTC Evo", became viral.[30][31]

Animation and comics

  • Animutations – Early Flash-based animations, pioneered by Neil Cicierega in 2001, typically featuring foreign language songs (primary Japanese, such as "Yatta"), set to random pop-culture images. The form is said to have launched the use of Flash for inexpensive animations that are now more common on the Internet.[32][33][34]
  • Arthur – A 1996 PBS educational series that became popular on the Internet in July 2016 through humorous stills, including a still of the title character's clenched fist.[35][36]
  • Ate my balls – One of the earliest examples of an internet meme, which involved web pages depicting a particular celebrity, fictional character, or other subject's relish for eating testicles.[37]
  • Axe Cop – Initially a web comic series with stories created by five-year-old Malachai Nicolle and drawn into comic form by his 29-year-old brother Ethan, the series gained viral popularity on the Internet due to the vividness and non-sequitur nature of Malachai's imagination, and has led to physical publication and a series of animated shorts in the 2012–2013 season for the Fox Television Network.[38][39][40]
  • Badger Badger Badger – A hypnotic loop of animal calisthenics set to the chant of "badger, badger, badger", created by Jonti "Weebl" Picking.[41]
  • Big Chungus – A still frame of the 1941 Merrie Melodies short Wabbit Twouble when Bugs Bunny mocks a fat Elmer Fudd. The meme originated from fictitious cover art for a video game titled Big Chungus (with "chungus" being a neologism associated with video game commentator James Stephanie Sterling), which featured a still from the scene, and was popularized by a Facebook post by a GameStop manager who alleged that a colleague's mother had inquired about purchasing the "game" as a gift.[42][43] Warner Bros. later incorporated Big Chungus into its own video game Looney Tunes World of Mayhem.[44]
 
Bongo Cat
  • Bongo Cat – Originated on Twitter on 7 May 2018 when a simple animated cat GIF, was edited for it to play the song "Athletic" from the Super Mario World soundtrack. This cat has since been edited to play various songs on bongos, and later other instruments.[45][46]
  • "Caramelldansen" – A spoof from the Japanese visual novel opening Popotan that shows the two main characters doing a hip swing dance with their hands over their heads, imitating rabbit ears, while the background song plays the sped-up version of the song "Caramelldansen", sung by the Swedish music group Caramell. Also known as Caramelldansen Speedycake Remix or Uma uma dance in Japan, the song was parodied by artists and fans who then copy the animation and include characters from other anime performing the dance.[47][48][49]
  • Charlie the Unicorn – A five-part series of videos involving the titular unicorn who is repeatedly hoodwinked by two other blue and pink unicorns, Lolz and Roffle, who take him on elaborate adventures in order to steal his belongings or cause him physical harm.[50]
  • Dancing baby – A 3D-rendered dancing baby that first appeared in 1996 by the creators of Character Studio for 3D Studio MAX, and became something of a late 1990s cultural icon, in part due to its exposure on worldwide commercials, editorials about Character Studio, and the popular television series Ally McBeal.[51]
  • The End of the World – A Flash-animated video by Jason Windsor in 2003 that depicts a situation when the entire world is nuked by rivalling countries.[52][53][54]
  • Happy Tree Friends – A series of Flash cartoons featuring cartoon animals experiencing violent and gruesome accidents.[55]
  • Homestar Runner – A Flash animated Internet cartoon by Mike Chapman, Craig Zobel, and Matt Chapman, created in 1996 and popularized in 2000. The cartoon contains many references to popular culture from the 1980s and 1990s, including video games, television, and popular music.[56]
  • I'll take a potato chip... and eat it!!! – A scene from the English-language dub of episode 8 of the anime adaptation of Death Note, showing the main character Light Yagami taking a potato chip from a bag of chips and eating the chip[57] in a dramatic way. The scene includes dramatic music and action movie-style camera cuts.
  • Joe Cartoon – Creator of interactive Flash animations Frog in a Blender[58] and Gerbil in a Microwave,[59][60] which were two of the first Flash cartoons to receive fame on the Internet.[61]
  • Kung Fu Bear – an Internet meme involving an Asian black bear who skillfully twirls, throws and catches a long staff.[62]
  • Loituma Girl (also known as Leekspin) – A looped Flash animation of an anime girl Orihime Inoue from the Bleach series twirling a leek, set to a scat singing section of the traditional Finnish folk song "Ievan Polkka", sung by the Finnish quartet Loituma on their 1995 debut album Things of Beauty.[63] The band's popularity rose tremendously[64] after the animation was posted in Russian LiveJournal in 2006. The song clip soon enjoyed overwhelming popularity as a ringtone.[65]
  • "Loss" – A webcomic strip published on June 2, 2008, by Tim Buckley for his gaming-related webcomic Ctrl+Alt+Del. Set during a storyline in which the main character Ethan and his fiancée Lilah are expecting their first child, the strip — presented as a four-panel comic with no dialogue — shows Ethan entering a hospital, where he sees Lilah weeping in a hospital bed; she has suffered a miscarriage. It has received negative reception from critics and webcomic creators and been adapted and parodied many times.[66][67][68][69]
  • Motu Patlu – An Indian cartoon aired on Nickelodeon (India), made widely popular by a Nick India ad celebrating Teacher's Day in India, which has been reposted under the title "D se Dab".[70]
  • Nyan Cat – A YouTube video of an animated flying cat, set to a Utau song.[71]
 
A group of Polandball characters
  • Polandball (more commonly known as Countryballs) – A user-generated Internet meme which originated on the /int/ board of German imageboard Krautchan.net in the latter half of 2009. The meme is manifested in a large number of online comics, where countries are presented as spherical personas that interact in often broken English, poking fun at national stereotypes and international relations, as well as historical conflicts.[72]
  • Pusheen – An animated grey tabby cat, originally drawn as a character in the webcomic "Everyday Cute" by artists Clare Belton and Andrew Duff.[73] Belton has since released a Pusheen book.[74]
  • Rage comics – A large set of pre-drawn images including crudely drawn stick figures, clip art, and other artwork, typically assembled through website generators, to allow anyone to assemble a comic and post to various websites and boards. The New York Times reports that thousands of these are created daily.[75] Typically these are drawn in response to a real-life event that has angered the comic's creator, hence the term "rage comics", but comics assembled for any other purpose are also made. Certain images from rage comics are known by specific titles, such as "trollface" (a widely grinning man), "forever alone" (a man crying to himself), or "rage guy" (a man shouting "FUUUUU...").
  • Salad Fingers – A Flash animation series surrounding a green man with severely elongated fingers in a desolate world populated mostly by deformed, functionally mute people.[76]
  • Shut the fuck up, TERF - A crudely photoshopped image featuring Zombie Land Saga character Lily Hoshikawa, a trans girl, holding a gun with the caption "Shut the fuck up, TERF".[77][78] The image was criticized as constituting a threat of violence, and presented in UK Parliament in May 2019 during a convening of the Human Rights Committee while questioning a Twitter employee on the subject of abuse.[77][78] In a tweet in January 2023, J. K. Rowling likened the meme to early twentieth century anti-suffragist artwork.[79]
  • Simpsonwave – A genre of videos where clips of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons are filtered with tinted, VHS-like effects and played over psychedelic vaporwave or chillwave tracks.[80]
  • Skibidi Toilet - A series of viral YouTube animations made by animator Alexey Gerasimov using Source Filmmaker which depicts a war between skibidi toilets (disembodied heads inside moving toilets which can be killed by being flushed down) and a faction of people with cameras, TVs and loudspeakers for heads.
  • The Spirit of Christmas – Consists of two different animated short films made by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, which are precursors to the animated series South Park. To differentiate between the two homonymous shorts, the first short is often referred to as Jesus vs. Frosty (1992), and the second short as Jesus vs. Santa (1995). Fox executive Brian Graden sent copies of Jesus vs. Santa to several of his friends, and from there it was copied and distributed, including on the internet, where it became one of the first viral videos.[81] They were created by animating construction paper cut-outs with stop motion, and features prototypes of the main characters of South Park.[82]
  • Steamed Hams – Remixes of a segment of The Simpsons episode "22 Short Films About Springfield" involving Principal Skinner and Superintendent Chalmers, in which Skinner has invited Chalmers over to dinner, inadvertently sets his ham on fire, and covers it up by serving fast food hamburgers as "steamed hams".[83]
  • "This is fine" – A two-panel comic drawn in 2013 by KC Green as part of the Gunshow webcomic, showing an anthropomorphic dog sitting in a room on fire, and saying "This is fine". The comic emerged as a meme in 2016, used in situations, as described by The New York Times, "halfway between a shrug and complete denial of reality". Numerous derivatives of the "This is fine" comic have been made.[84]
  • "Tuxedo Winnie the Pooh" – A photoshopped image of Winnie the Pooh sitting in an armchair from the featurette Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, which became popular on Reddit in 2019. The meme, which is also known as "A fellow man of culture", features Winnie the Pooh wearing a tuxedo and smiling.[85][86][87]
  • The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny – A lethal battle royale between many notable real and fictitious characters from popular culture. Set to a song of the same name, written and performed by Neil Cicierega under his musician alias, "Lemon Demon."[88]
 
xkcd's "Wikipedian Protester" comic
  • Ultra Instinct Shaggy – A character interpretation that the Scooby-Doo character Shaggy is immensely more powerful than he presents himself. The meme is usually presented as still frames of a behind-the-scenes interview of the 2002 live-action movie with subtitles implying that Shaggy is restraining his power to prevent catastrophe.[89][90][91] Subsequently, Warner Bros. canonized the meme as part of a credits gag in the animated film Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms,[92] as well as including Shaggy as a fighter in the MultiVersus crossover fighting game.[93]
  • Weebl and Bob – A series of Flash cartoons created by Jonti Picking featuring two egg-shaped characters that like pie and speak in a stylistic manner.
  • xkcd – A webcomic created by Randall Munroe, popularized on the Internet due to a high level of math-, science- and geek-related humor,[94] with certain jokes being reflected in real-life, such as using Wikipedia's "[citation needed]" tag on real world signs[95] or the addition of an audio preview for YouTube comments.[96]

Challenges

Main article: List of Internet challenges

Challenges generally feature Internet users recording themselves performing certain actions, and then distributing the resulting video through social media sites, often inspiring or daring other users to repeat the challenge.

Dance

 
Two screenshots from before and after the drop in a Harlem Shake video
  • Coffin Dance/Dancing Pallbearers – A group of Ghana pallbearers that respectfully dance during funeral processions had been covered by the BBC in 2017 and gained some initial Internet popularity.[97] In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a popular TikTok video mashed the BBC footage with the EDM song "Astronomia" from Russian artist Tony Igy, creating a meme that appeared to spread as a morbidly humorous reminder about the dangers of COVID-19.[98][99]
  • Dab – A dance move where a person drops their head into a bent, slanted arm, with the other arm out straight and parallel.
  • "Dancing Banana" – A banana dancing to the song "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" by the Buckwheat Boyz.[100][101]
  • Hampster Dance – A page filled with hamsters dancing, linking to other animated pages. It spawned a fictional band complete with its own CD album release.[102]
  • Harlem Shake – A video based on Harlem shake dance, originally created by YouTube personality Filthy Frank, and using an electronica version of the song by Baauer. In such videos, one person is dancing or acting strange among a room full of others going about routine business. After the drop in the song and a video cut, everyone starts dancing or acting strangely. The attempts to recreate the dance led to a viral spread on YouTube.[103][104]
  • "Hit the Quan" – A viral dance challenge to the song "Hit the Quan" by American rapper iLoveMemphis. Rich Homie Quan originally performed this dance in his music video for his song "Flex (Ooh, Ooh, Ooh)". iLoveMemphis produced the "Hit The Quan" based around Rich Homie Quan's dance. iLoveMemphis' song launched the "Hit the Quan" viral dance challenge because of its convenient lyrics to dance to.[105] "Hit the Quan" reached 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart because of the popularity of the dance.[105] The dance challenge was very popular on social media platforms, especially Vine. Many celebrities participated in the popular dance challenge.[106]
  • "Indian Thriller" – A viral scene from the Indian film Donga with added subtitles phonetically approximating the original lyrics as English sentences.[107]
  • JK Wedding Entrance Dance – The wedding procession for Jill Peterson and Kevin Heinz of St. Paul, Minnesota, choreographed to the song "Forever" by Chris Brown. Popularized on YouTube with 1.75 million views in less than five days in 2009.[108] The video was later imitated in an episode of The Office on NBC.[109]
  • "Kiki Challenge" or "#DoThe Shiggy" – A viral dance challenge to the song "In My Feelings" by Drake. This challenge was started by a comedian named Shiggy on the night that Drake released the album Scorpion. Shiggy posted a video of himself on his Instagram account dancing along to part of the lyrics in what looks like in the middle of a neighborhood street.[110] Shiggy commented #DoTheShiggy.[110] Drake claims the success of the song was due to Shiggy's popular dance to his song.[110] The dance challenge is often filmed with a twist of the original. The most popular twist of the dance is filmed from the passenger side of a moving vehicle through the open driver door where the would be driver is dancing moves along with the slowly moving car. This challenge received a lot of controversy due to the fact nobody was in control of the car. Performers have received fines and sometimes suffered injury.[111] This viral dance challenge was performed by a number of professional athletes and celebrities.[110] The dance challenge was performed by people in the U.S. and spread to the rest of the world.[112]
  • Little Superstar – A video of Thavakalai, a short Indian actor, break-dancing to MC Miker G & DJ Sven's remix of the Madonna song "Holiday". The clip comes from a 1990 Tamil film Adhisaya Piravi, featuring actor Rajnikanth.[113][114]
  • Running Man Challenge – A dance move where participants in a way resembling running to the 1996 R&B song "My Boo" by Ghost Town DJ's^ . First posted to Vine by two teenagers from New Jersey, the dance went viral in 2016 after two University of Maryland basketball players posted their rendition.[115][116] The dance gets its name because it is an adaptation of the original running man dance move.
  • T-pose – A surrealist "dance move" that became popular in April 2018 modelled after the default pose (also known as a bind pose) that many 3D models in games, animations, and more take in their raw file form.[117]
  • Techno Viking – A muscular Nordic raver dancing in a technoparade in Berlin.[118]
  • "Thriller" by the CPDRC Dancing Inmates – A recreation of Michael Jackson's hit performed by prisoners at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) in the Philippines.[119] In January 2010, it was among the ten most popular videos on YouTube with over 20 million hits.[120]
  • Triangle Dance Challenge – Three individuals place hands on each other's shoulders and jump to a different point on an invisible triangle. This gained popularity in 2019.[121][122]

Email

See also: Virus hoax and Chain-letter
  • Bill Gates Email Beta Test – An email chain-letter that first appeared in 1997 and still circulates. The message claims that America Online and Microsoft are conducting a beta test and for each person one forwards the email to, they will receive a payment from Bill Gates of more than $200. Realistic contact information for a lawyer appears in the message.[123][124]
  • Craig Shergold – A British former cancer patient who is most famous for receiving an estimated 350 million greeting cards, earning him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records in 1991 and 1992. Variations of the plea for greeting cards sent out on his behalf in 1989 are still being distributed through the Internet, making the plea one of the most persistent urban legends.[125][clarification needed]
  • Goodtimes virus – An infamous, fraudulent virus warning that first appeared in 1994. The email claimed that an email virus with the subject line "Good Times" was spreading, which would "send your CPU into a nth-complexity infinite binary loop", among other dire predictions.[126][127]
  • Lighthouse and naval vessel urban legend – Purportedly an actual transcript of an increasingly heated radio conversation between a U.S. Navy ship and a Canadian who insists the naval vessel change a collision course, ending in the punchline. This urban legend first appeared on the Internet in its commonly quoted format in 1995, although versions of the story predate it by several decades.[128] It continues to circulate; the Military Officers Association of America reported in 2011 that it is forwarded to them an average of three times a day.[129] The Navy has a page specifically devoted to pointing out that many of the ships named weren't even in service at the time.[130]
  • MAKE.MONEY.FAST – One of the first spam messages that was spread primarily through Usenet, or even earlier BBS systems, in the late 1980s or early 1990s. The original email is attributed to an individual who used the name "Dave Rhodes", who may or may not have existed.[131] The message is a classic pyramid scheme – one receives an email with a list of names and is asked to send $5 by postal mail to the person whose name is at the top of the list, add their own name to the bottom, and forward the updated list to a number of other people.[132]
  • Neiman Marcus Cookie recipe – An email chain-letter dating back to the early 1990s, but originating as Xeroxlore, in which a person tells a story about being ripped off for over $200 for a cookie recipe from Neiman Marcus. The email claims the person is attempting to exact revenge by passing the recipe out for free.[133][134]
  • Nigerian Scam/419 scam – A mail scam attempt popularized by the ability to send millions of emails. The scam claims the sender is a high-ranking official of Nigeria with knowledge of a large sum of money or equivalent goods that they cannot claim but must divest themselves of; to do so, they claim to require a smaller sum of money up front to access the sum to send to the receiver. The nature of the scam has mutated to be from any number of countries, high-ranking persons, barristers, or relationships to said people.[135]

Film and television

 
Tommy Wiseau of The Room (2003)
  • The Babadook (2014) – An Australian-Canadian psychological horror film that started trending on Twitter in June 2017 when the title character became an unofficial mascot for the LGBT community.[136] Prior to that, rumors of the Babadook's sexuality began in October 2016, when some Netflix users reported seeing the film categorized as an LGBT movie on Netflix.[137][138][139]
  • Barbenheimer (2023) – A portmanteau of Barbie and Oppenheimer. Barbenheimer began circulating ahead of the theatrical release of both films on July 21, 2023, with social media users creating and sharing memes noting the juxtaposition between the films.[140][141]
  • Bee Movie (2007) – Sped-up or slowed-down clips of the film have become popular on YouTube.[142][143] One upload by "Avoid at All Costs" exceeded 12 million views as of December 2016.[144] Many of the edited videos in this trend were taken down for spam due to the volume of videos posted by some channels.[145] From September 2013 onwards, a few Internet users posted the entirety of the Bee Movie script on sites like Tumblr and Facebook.[146]
  • The Blair Witch Project (1999) – The film's producers used Internet marketing to create the impression that the documentary-style horror film featured real, as opposed to fictional events.[147]
  • Cloverfield (2008) – Paramount Pictures used a viral marketing campaign to promote this monster movie.[148]
  • Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (2022) – An anthology thriller true crime series by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan for Netflix. after its release, it became viral over Twitter and TikTok.[149]
  • Downfall (2004) – A film depicting Adolf Hitler (portrayed in this film by Swiss actor Bruno Ganz) during his final days of his life. Multiple scenes in which Hitler rants in German have been parodied innumerable times on the Internet, including when Hitler finds out that Felix Steiner has failed to carry out his orders and when Hitler finds out SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein has gone AWOL. This scene often has its English subtitles replaced by mock subtitles to give the appearance that Hitler is ranting about modern, often trivial topics, and sometimes even breaks the fourth wall by referencing the Internet meme itself. While the clips are frequently removed for copyright violations, the film's director, Oliver Hirschbiegel, has stated that he enjoys them, and claimed to have seen about 145 of them.[150][151]
  • Figwit (abbreviated from "Frodo is great...who is that?") – A background elf character with only seconds of screen time and one line of dialog from The Lord of the Rings film trilogy played by Flight of the Conchords member Bret McKenzie, which became a fascination with a large number of fans. This ultimately led to McKenzie being brought back to play an elf in The Hobbit.[152][153][154]
  • Goncharov - A nonexistent film invented by users on Tumblr.[155] It is purported to be "the greatest mafia movie ever made," released in 1973.[156][157] In 2020, a user posted a picture of a tag found on a pair of boots which featured details on the nonexistent film Goncharov in place of a brand label, which suggested it was "A film by Matteo JWHJ0715" and "presented" by Martin Scorsese. Users have inconsistently described the film as being directed by either Matteo JWHJ0715 or Scorsese. This label was speculated by several users to be a misprint of Gomorrah.[158] Goncharov picked up traction again in late November 2022 when a user created a poster for the film that featured a lineup of actors and character names, ultimately sparking an elaborate fiction of the film's existence.[159] Discussion of the film involved detailed critical analysis of the plot, themes, symbolism, and characters, as well as creation of gifs, fan art, and theme music, all presented as if the film were real.[160] The meme's popularity caused it to become a trending topic on the Tumblr platform.[156][157][158] A similar meme that emerged on TikTok nine months later—about a fictional 1980s horror film, Zepotha—drew comparisons to Goncharov.[161][162][163]
  • LazyTown (2004) – A children's television program originating from Iceland, which became very popular after one of the primary actors, Stefán Karl Stefánsson, was diagnosed with cancer and set up a GoFundMe page for support. The song "We are Number One" became a meme in October 2016, and many videos were created. It became one of the fastest growing memes in history, with 250 videos uploaded in 5 days.[164]
  • The Lord of the Rings trilogy – Released between 2001 and 2003, just as meme culture was taking off, several moments from the films became part of the online culture, with, most notably, Sean Bean's character of Boromir stating "One does not simply walk into Mordor" as one of the most commonly referenced.[165][166]
  • Marble Hornets – A documentary-style horror, suspense short film series based on alternate reality experiences of the Slenderman tale. Marble Hornets was instrumental in codifying parts of the Slender Man mythos, but is not part of the inter-continuity crossover that includes many of the blogs and vlogs that followed it, although MH does feature in other canons as either a chronicle of real events or a fictional series.[167][168]
  • Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus (2009) – The theatrical trailer released in mid-May 2009 became a viral hit, scoring over one million hits on MTV.com and another 300,000 hits on YouTube upon launch, prompting brisk pre-orders of the DVD.[169]
  • Minions - The mischievous yellow creatures from the Despicable Me franchise have, since their introduction in 2010, become ubiquitous in certain layers of meme culture.[170] The memes created with images of Minions have frequently been derided as bland or unintentionally absurd.[171][172] In 2022, a phenomenon known as "Gentleminions" arose, in which young men and teen boys would arrive to Minions: The Rise of Gru in formal attire.[173][174]
 
The adult brony fandom of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic grew from its 4chan roots.
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic – Hasbro's 2010 animated series to revive its toy line was discovered by members of 4chan and subsequently spawned a large adult, mostly male fanbase calling themselves "bronies" and creating numerous Internet memes and mashups based on elements from the show.[175][176]
  • Re-cut trailer – User-made trailers for established films, using scenes, voice-overs, and music, to alter the appearance of the film's true genre or meaning or to create a new, apparently seamless, film. Examples include casting the thriller-drama The Shining into a romantic comedy, or using footage from the respective films to create Robocop vs. Terminator.[177][178][179]
  • The Nutshack (2007) – a Filipino-American adult animated television series that has been widely mocked for its obnoxious characters, bad writing and animation, and especially for the theme song.[180] The series became an internet meme in the summer of 2016, though it died out a year later.
  • The Room (2003) – Written, produced, directed, and starring Tommy Wiseau, the low- budget independent film is considered one of the worst films ever made. However, through social media and interest from comedians, gained a large number of ironic fans and turned into a cult classic. It is a popular source for memes based on some of the poorly delivered lines in the movie, such as "You're tearing me apart, Lisa!" (a shoehorned reference to an iconic James Dean line in Rebel Without a Cause) and "Oh hi, Mark."[181][182]
  • Sharknado (2013) – A made-for-television film produced by The Asylum and aired on the SyFy network as a mockbuster of other disaster films, centered on the appearance of a tornado filled with sharks in downtown Los Angeles. Though similar to other films from the Asylum, elements of the film, such as low-budget effects and choice of actors, led to the film becoming a social media hit and leading to at least four additional sequels.[183]
  • Shrek – A DreamWorks franchise that has an internet fandom likes the series.[184] The viral video "Shrek is Love, Shrek is Life" was based on a homoerotic story on 4chan depicting the titular ogre engaging in anal sex with a young boy.[185][186]
  • Snakes on a Plane (2006) – Attracted attention a year before its planned release, and before any promotional material was released, due to the film's working title, its seemingly absurd premise, and the piquing of actor Samuel L. Jackson's interest to work on the film. Producers of the film responded to the Internet buzz by adding several scenes and dialogue imagined by the fans.[187]
  • SpongeBob SquarePants – A Nickelodeon animated television series that has spawned various Internet memes. These memes include "Surprised Patrick",[188] "Mr. Krabs Blur",[189] "Caveman SpongeBob",[190][191] "Handsome Squidward",[188] and "Mocking SpongeBob".[192][193] In 2019, Nickelodeon officially released merchandise based on the memes.[194][195]
  • Star War: The Third Gathers: The Backstroke of the West – Around the time of release, a bootleg recording circulated on the internet via peer-to-peer sharing websites. It quickly became notorious for its notable use of Engrish, like the translation of Darth Vader's line "No!" rendered as "Do not want". About a decade after the release of the bootleg, a fandub matching its subtitles was posted on YouTube.[196][197]
  • Steamed Hams – A clip from the season seven episode of The Simpsons, 22 Short Films About Springfield, gained popularity with many remixes and edits to the Skinner and The Superintendent segment.[198]
  • Take This Lollipop (2011) – An interactive horror short film and Facebook app, written and directed by Jason Zada to personalize and underscore the dangers inherent in posting too much personal information about oneself on the Internet. Information gathered from a viewer's Facebook profile by the film's app, used once and then deleted, makes the film different for each viewer.[199][200][201]
  • The Three Bears (1939) – An animated short film made by Terrytoons based on the story Goldilocks and the Three Bears. One of the scenes from the short depicting Papa Bear saying "Somebody toucha my spaghet!" in a stereotypically thick Italian accent became an internet meme in December 2017.[202]
  • Treasure Island (1988) - A Russian animated film developed and distributed by Kievnauchfilm based on the novel of the same name by Robert Louis Stevenson. A loop of a scene from the film showing three characters in a walk cycle with Dr. Livesey showing a highly pronounced swagger, often overlaid with the phonk song, "Why Not" by Ghostface Playa, became an internet meme in August 2022.
  • West Side Story (2021) – A clip of the opening long take shot of "The Dance at the Gym" sequence from Steven Spielberg's 2021 film version of the musical was uploaded to Twitter on February 25, 2022, and went viral over the weekend, reaching 3 million views and over 32,000 likes. It led to many users sharing images and clips of their favorite scenes and shots from the film during that time, while praising Spielberg's direction and Janusz Kamiński's cinematography.[203][204] This was further amplified by a Twitter thread by filmmaker Guillermo del Toro analyzing the camerawork and blocking on this particular shot.[205]

Gaming

 
Bowsette is a fan-made, gender-swapped version of the Mario franchise character Bowser.
  • "All your base are belong to us" – Badly translated English from the opening cutscene of the European Mega Drive version of the 1989 arcade game Zero Wing. It has become a catchphrase, inspiring videos and other derivative works.[206][207]
  • Angry Birds - A mobile game series made by Rovio Entertainment in December 2009 for the iOS and Nokia app stores, with a Google Play version releasing in October 2010.[208] Since its release, the game has amassed a large following on both the internet and in media for its visuals and simple-to-understand game mechanics of launching a bird from a slingshot.[209] The game has also seen many forms of merchandising, with 30% of Rovio Entertainment's revenue coming from merchandise sales in 2011.[210] In the early 2010s, the game and the game's characters were added to various image macros, which mentioned the irony of the story and difficult nature of obtaining a high score in the game.[211] The mobile game has seen a resurgence in the 2020s for being featured in various shitposts, including "realistic angry birds" and "i'm the biggest bird".[212][213]
  • Among Us – A game made by game studio Innersloth released on Steam in 2018. The game reached internet fame in 2020 due to Twitch streamers and YouTubers playing the game frequently. Still images from the game, phrases from the game like "Emergency Meeting" and "Dead body reported" as well as typical gameplay events have influenced internet memes. Other terms like "Sus", "Sussy", "Sussy Baka", "Amogus", and "When the imposter is sus" also became notable modern ironic memes on social media platforms.[214][215]
  • Arrow in the knee – City guards in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim would utter the line: "I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow in the knee". The latter part of this phrase quickly took off as a catchphrase and a snowclone in the form of "I used to X, but then I took an arrow in the knee" with numerous image macros and video parodies created.[216][217][218]
  • Bowsette – A fan-made depiction of the Super Mario character Bowser using Toadette's Super Crown power-up from the Nintendo Switch title New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe to transform into a lookalike of Princess Peach. The character became popular following a four-panel webcomic posted by a user on Twitter and DeviantArt in September 2018.[219]
  • But can it run Crysis? – A question often asked by PC gaming and hardware enthusiasts. When released in 2007, Crysis was extremely taxing on computer hardware, with even the most advanced consumer graphics cards of the time unable to provide satisfactory frame rates when the game was played on its maximum graphical settings.[220] As a result, this question is asked as a way of judging a certain computer's capability at gaming.
  • Can it run Doom? – A common joke question with any hardware that has a CPU. It has even gotten to the point where people are developing source ports of the game to unconventional hardware such as a Canon printer, the VIC-20, the Touch Bar on the 2016 MacBook Pro, a smart fridge, an ATM, and the game itself among other things.[221][222][223]
  • Doomguy and Isabelle – The pairing of Isabelle from the Animal Crossing video game series and Doomguy from the Doom franchise due to the shared release date of Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Doom Eternal.[224]
  • Elden Ring – A 2022 video game that spawned multiple memes, such as:
    • Let me solo her – The colloquial name for an Elden Ring player who specializes in fighting Malenia, the game's most difficult boss fight, and whose character wears no armor but a jar as a helmet.[225] "Let me solo her" became widely acclaimed within the game's online community after volunteering to deal with Malenia on behalf of other players through the game's player summoning feature, and successfully defeating her at least four thousand times without assistance.[226] Videos of the player's performances became popular and widely shared on multiple social news websites.[225] The player's exploits was acknowledged by the game's publisher,[227] and became the subject of fan labor.[228][229] Let me solo her was awarded PC Gamer's Player of the Year award for 2022.[230]
    • "Maidenless" – a term repeated by multiple non-player characters. Its original context is that the player character has yet to achieve an important gameplay milestone, but it has been appropriated by the player community as a joke or insult.[231][232]
  • Flappy Bird – A free-to-play casual mobile game released on the iOS App Store on 24 May 2013, and on Google Play on 30 January 2014, by indie mobile app developer Dong Nguyen. The game began rapidly rising in popularity in late-December 2013 to January 2014 with up to 50 million downloads by 5 February. On 9 February, Nguyen removed the game from the mobile app stores citing negative effects of the game's success on his health and its addictiveness to players. Following the game's removal from the app stores, numerous clones and derivatives of the game were released with varying similarities to the original game.[233][234]
  • I Love Bees – An alternate reality game that was spread virally after a one-second mention inside a Halo 2 advertisement. Purported to be a website about honey bees that was infected and damaged by a strange artificial intelligence, done in a disjointed, chaotic style resembling a crashing computer. At its height, over 500,000 people were checking the website every time it updated.[235]
  • Lamar Roasts Franklin – A cutscene in the 2013 action-adventure video game Grand Theft Auto V where Lamar Davis, portrayed by comedian Slink Johnson, berates Franklin Clinton, portrayed by actor and former rapper Shawn Fonteno, for Franklin's haircut and his relationship with his girlfriend, ending in Lamar uttering the word "nigga" in a condescending, sing-song voice and giving Franklin the middle finger, much to the latter's chagrin. The cutscene experienced a resurgence in popularity in late 2020 when parodies of the scene were uploaded on YouTube and other video hosting sites. It usually involves Lamar's character model being replaced with various popular culture icons such as Darth Vader, Vegeta, and Snow White among others, with Lamar's dialogue dubbed to account for the characters used. In 2021, Fonteno and Johnson reprised their roles as Franklin and Lamar respectively in a live-action re-enactment of the cutscene.[236][237] Later that year, Fonteno and Johnson once again reprised their roles in The Contract DLC for Grand Theft Auto Online, complete with a homage to the original roast cutscene.[238]
  • Leeroy Jenkins – A World of Warcraft player charges into a high-level dungeon with a distinctive cry of "Leeeeeeeerooooy... Jeeenkins!", ruining the meticulous attack plans of his group and getting them all killed.[239]
  • Let's Play – Videos created by video game players that add their commentary and typically humorous reactions atop them playing through a video game. These videos have created a number of Internet celebrities who have made significant money through ad revenue sharing, such as PewDiePie who earned over $12 million from his videos in 2015.[240][241]
  • Line Rider – A Flash game where the player draws lines that act as ramps and hills for a small rider on a sled.[242]
  • Mafia City – A mobile game that has become infamous for its odd advertising involving a person drastically increasing their stats for doing various mob-related activities, and for the phrase "That's how mafia works".[243]
 
"The cake is a lie", based on the false promise of a Black Forest cake as a reward, is popularized from the video game series Portal.
 
QWOP's title refers to the four keyboard keys used to move the muscles of the sprinter avatar.
 
An example of a solution from the viral game "Wordle", developed by Josh Wardle
  • Roblox – a sandbox game that has spawned several memes, such as its "oof" sound.[citation needed]
  • QWOP – A browser-based game requiring the player to control a sprint runner by using the Q, W, O, and P keys to control the runner's legs. The game is notoriously difficult to control, typically leaving the runner character flailing about. The concept developed into memes based on the game, as well as describing real-life mishaps as attributable to QWOP.[248]
  • Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon – A trivia/parlor game based around linking an actor to Kevin Bacon through a chain of co-starring actors in films, television, and other productions, with the hypothesis that no actor was more than six connections away from Bacon. It is similar to the theory of six degrees of separation or the Erdős number in mathematics. The game was created in 1994, just at the start of the wider spread of Internet use, populated further with the creation of movie database sites like IMDb, and since has become a board game and contributed towards the field of network science.[249][250][251]
  • Sonic the Hedgehog – A video game series created by Sega that has spawned multiple memes, such as:
    • Sonic Real-Time Fandubs – The YouTube channel SnapCube has produced a series of improvised fandubs of several Sonic titles, including Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) and Shadow the Hedgehog which have themselves earned their own fandom and derivative works based on jokes from the series.[252][253]
    • Sanic – A purposely misdrawn Sonic that has been referenced by Sega themselves, and used in merchandise;[254]
    • and "Ugandan Knuckles" – A meme that gained high popularity thanks to the social game VRChat, where players with a crude Knuckles model asked other players if they "knew da wae" ("know the way"), who their "queen" was, clicking their tongue, and spitting repeatedly.[255][256]
  • Surprised Pikachu – An image of the Pokémon Pikachu with a blank look and an open mouth. It is used as a reaction image to show either shock or lack thereof.[257][258]
  • Twitch Plays Pokémon – An "experiment" and channel created by an anonymous user on the Twitch in February 2014. Logged-in viewers to the channel can enter commands in chat corresponding to the physical inputs used in the JRPG video game Pokémon Red. These are collected and parsed by a chat software robot that uses the commands to control the main character in the game, which is then live-streamed from the channel. The stream attracted more than 80,000 simultaneous players with over 10 million views with a week of going live, creating a chaotic series of movements and actions within the game, a number of original memes, and derivative fan art. The combination has been called an entertainment hybrid of "a video game, live video and a participatory experience," which has inspired similar versions for other games.[259][260]
  • U R MR GAY – A message allegedly hidden in the Super Mario Galaxy box art, which appears when each letter not decorated with a star is removed from the art. It was first noticed by a NeoGAF poster in September 2007. Video game journalists have debated as to whether the message was placed on purpose or was simply a humorous coincidence.[261][262]
  • Untitled Goose Game – A 2019 video game developed by Australian game studio House House, in which the player controls a goose causing mischief in an English village. An early teaser for the game in 2017 led to strong interest in the title, and on release, the game quickly became an Internet meme.[263][264]
  • Wordle – A word-guessing game similar to Jotto and Mastermind, where the player has only six tries to guess a five-letter word each day, the game indicating whether letters are in the word and/or in the correct position. The game grew popular over a few weeks after the ability to share results with others via social media was added near the end of 2021.[265][266] The game's popularity led to The New York Times Company acquiring the game from its creator Josh Wardle at the end of January 2022 for an undisclosed seven-figure sum.[267]

Images

 
Babylonokia
 
A Lolcat
 
U.S. President Barack Obama jokingly mimics the "McKayla is not impressed" expression in the Oval Office, November 2012.
 
Tron Guy
  • Baby mugging and Baby suiting – MommyShorts blogger Ilana Wiles began posting pictures of babies in mugs, and later adult business suits, both of which led to numerous others doing the same.[268][269][270]
  • Babylonokia – A clay tablet, shaped like a mobile phone designed by Karl Weingärtner. Fringe scientists and alternative archaeology proponents subsequently misrepresented a photograph of the artwork as showing an 800-year-old archaeological find; that story was popularised in a video on the YouTube channel Paranormal Crucible and led to the object being reported by some press sources as a mystery.[271]
  • Bert is Evil – A satirical website stated that Bert of Sesame Street is the root of many evils. A juxtaposition of Bert and Osama bin Laden subsequently appeared in a real poster in a Bangladesh protest.[272][273]
  • Blinking white guy – An animated GIF of former Giant Bomb video producer Drew Scanlon blinking in surprise, originating from a 2013 video on the website, became an internet meme in 2017.[274] Multiple outlets have noted the versatility of the GIF's use as a reaction.[275][276]
  • Blue waffle – An Internet hoax originating in 2010 purporting an unknown sexually transmitted disease affecting only women, causing severe infection and blue discoloration to the vagina. The disease has been confirmed as false.[277] Kathy McBride, a New Jersey councilwoman in the city of Trenton, cited it in a 2013 city council meeting, not realizing that it was a hoax.[278][279]
  • #BreakTheInternet – The November 2014 issue of Paper included a cover image of Kim Kardashian in a partially nude pose, exposing her buttocks, taken by photographer Jean-Paul Goude. It was captioned "#breaktheinternet", as the magazine desired to set a record in social media response from it. Several other photos from the shoot were also released, including one that mimicked one that Goude took for his book Jungle Fever involving a "campaign incident". Paper's campaign set a record for hits for their site, and the photographs became part of Internet memes.[280][281]
  • Brian Peppers – In 2005, a photo surfaced of a man named Brian Peppers, noted for his appearance, which suggests Apert syndrome or Crouzon syndrome. Found on the Ohio sex offender registry website, the photo gained traction after being shared on website YTMND. Peppers died in 2012 at the age of 43.[282]
  • Crasher Squirrel – A photograph by Melissa Brandts of a squirrel which popped up into a timer-delayed shot of Brandts and her husband while vacationing in Banff National Park, Canada, just as the camera went off. The image of the squirrel has since been added into numerous images on the Internet.[283][284][285]
  • CSI: Miami Puts on Sunglasses – The cold opening for nearly all CSI: Miami episodes ended with star David Caruso as Horatio Caine, in the initial stages of an investigation, putting on his sunglasses and making a quip or pun related to the crime, before the show hard cut to the opening credits, played against the scream of "Yeah!" in The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again".[286] Image macros of Caruso putting on sunglasses, or similar images for other fictional characters, and the introductory scenes of the CSI: Miami opening became frequent, typically used as response to other puns made on user forums or with the puns and the following "YEAH!" incorporated into the image macro.[287][288]
  • Cursed images – Images (usually photographs) that are perceived as odd or disturbing due to their content, poor quality or both.[289]
  • Dat Boi – An animated GIF of a unicycling frog associated with the text "here come dat boi!" that began on Tumblr in 2015 before gaining popularity on Twitter in 2016.[290][291][292][293]
  • DashCon Ball Pit – A convention held in July 2014 by users of Tumblr that "imploded" due to a number of financial difficulties and low turnout. During the convention, a portable ball pit was brought into a large empty room. When some premium panels were cancelled, the attendees were offered an extra hour in the ball pit as compensation. The implosion and absurdity of aspects like the ball pit quickly spread through social media.[294]
  • DALL-E - A web-based program introduced in 2022 that uses artificial intelligence to construct an array of images from a text prompt. The resulting images, often shared across social media, can range from humorous, to uncanny, to near-perfect results.[295]
  • Distracted boyfriend – A stock photograph taken in 2015 which went viral as an Internet meme in August 2017.[296]
  • Dog shaming – Originating on Tumblr, these images feature images of dogs photographed with signs explaining what antics they recently got up to.[297]
  • Doge – Images of dogs, typically of the Shiba Inus, overlaid with simple but poor grammatical expressions, typically in the Comic Sans MS font, gaining popularity in late 2013.[298] The meme saw an ironic resurgence towards the end of the decade,[299] and was recognised by multiple media outlets as one of the most influential memes of the 2010s.[300][301] The meme has also spawned Dogecoin, a form of cryptocurrency.[302]
  • Don't talk to me or my son ever again – Images of a subject, be they product or individual, pictured with a smaller version of themself, captioned with the text "don't talk to me or my son ever again". Popular in 2016.[303]
  • The Dress – An image of a dress posted to Tumblr that, due to how the photograph was taken, created an optical illusion where the dress would either appear white and gold, or blue and black. Within 48 hours, the post gained over 400,000 notes and was later featured on many different websites.[304][305]
  • Ecce Homo / Ecce Mono / Potato Jesus – An attempt in August 2012 by a local woman to restore Elías García Martínez's aging fresco of Jesus in Borja, Spain led to a botched, amateurish, monkey-looking image, leading to several memes.[306][307]
  • Every time you masturbate... God kills a kitten – An image featuring a kitten being chased by two Domos, and has the tagline "Please, think of the kittens".[308]
  • First World problems – A stock image of a woman crying with superimposed text mocking people with trivial complaints compared to that of issues in the Third World.[309]
     
    Big Floppa

  • Floppa - a collection of images either portraying caracals or a specific caracal by the name of Goshe, Shlepa or more commonly Big Floppa. The collection of images do not portray to a specific theme per se, but always hold Floppa as a centerpoint or personification of something.[310][311]
  • Goatse.cx – A shock image of a distended anus.[312]
  • Grogu – The popularity of the TV series The Mandalorian led to many memes of the "Baby Yoda" character.[313][314]
  • Grumpy Cat – A cat named Tardar Sauce that appears to have a permanent scowl on her face due to feline dwarfism, according to its owner. Pictures of the cat circulated the Internet, leading it to win the 2013 Webby for Meme of the Year, and her popularity has led her to star in a feature film.[315] Tardar Sauce died on 14 May 2019.[316]
  • Hide the Pain Harold – A Hungarian electrical engineer named András Arató became a meme after posing for stock photos on the websites iWiW and Dreamstime. He initially wasn't very happy with his popularity, but has grown to accept it. He realized he did similar things when he was younger such as drawing on Hungarian poet John Arany's portraits, making him look like a pirate. The meme depicts photos of Arató smiling, while viewers believe the smile masks serious sorrow and pain, hence the name "Hide the Pain Harold".[317]
  • Homophobic dog – A series of images of a white dachshund accompanied by homophobic captions, such as "not too fond of gay people" and "let's hope it's just a phase". According to the dog's owners, a gay couple, most of those memes were made and shared by members of the LGBTQ community to mock homophobic people.[318][319] A fake Washington Post headline describing the dog as "the new face of online homophobia"[320][321] was criticized by Christina Pushaw, press secretary of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, unaware that it was not a real article.[322][323]
  • Hurricane Shark or Street Shark, a recurring hoax circulated after a variety of natural disasters,[324] appearing to show a shark swimming in a flooded urban area, usually after a hurricane. Several images have been used, most often one of a freeway that first appeared during Hurricane Irene in 2011. However, a 2022 video of a shark or other large fish swimming in Hurricane Ian's floodwaters in Fort Myers, Florida, proved to be real, itself becoming part of the phenomenon and leading to phrases like "Hurricane Shark is real".[325][326]
  • Instagram egg – A photograph of an egg on Instagram, which formerly received the most number of likes on both the platform[327][328] and the highest in any social media.[A]
  • Islamic Rage Boy – A series of photos of Shakeel Bhat, a Muslim activist whose face became a personification of angry Islamism in the western media. The first photo dates back to his appearance in 2007 at a rally in Srinigar, the capital of Indian-administered Kashmir. Several other photos in other media outlets followed, and by November 2007, there were over one million hits for "Islamic Rage Boy" on Google and his face appeared on boxer shorts and bumper stickers.[330]
  • Keep Calm and Carry On – A phrasal template or snowclone that was originally a motivational poster produced by the UK government in 1939 intended to raise public morale. It was rediscovered in 2000, became increasingly used during the 2009 global recession, and has spawned various parodies and imitations.[331][332]
  • Listenbourg – An image of a photoshopped map of Europe with a red arrow pointing to the outline of a fictional country adjacent to Portugal and Spain.[333][334]
  • Little Fatty – Starting in 2003, the face of Qian Zhijun, a student from Shanghai, was superimposed onto various other images.[335][336]
  • Lolcat – A collection of humorous image macros featuring cats with misspelled phrases, such as "I Can Has Cheezburger?".[337] The earliest versions of LOLcats appeared on 4chan, usually on Saturdays, which were designated "Caturday", as a day to post photos of cats.[338]
  • Manul – A Russian meme that was introduced in 2008. It is typically an image macro with a picture of an unfriendly and stern-looking Pallas's cat (also known as a manul) accompanied by a caption in which the cat invites you to pet it.[344]
  • McKayla is not impressed – A Tumblr blog that went viral after taking an image of McKayla Maroney, the American gymnast who won the silver medal in the vault at the 2012 Summer Olympics, on the medal podium with a disappointed look on her face, and photoshopping it into various "impressive" places and situations, e.g. on top of the Great Wall of China and standing next to Usain Bolt.[345][346][347]
  • Nimoy Sunset Pie – A Tumblr blog that posted mashups combining American actor Leonard Nimoy, sunsets, and pie.[348][349][350][351][352][353]
  • O RLY? – Originally a text phrase on Something Awful, and then an image macro done for 4chan. Based around a picture of a snowy owl.[354]
  • Oolong – Photos featured on a popular Japanese website of a rabbit that is famous for its ability to balance a variety of objects on its head.[355]
  • Pepe the Frog – A cartoon frog character from a 2005 web cartoon became widely used on 4chan in 2008, often with the phrase "feels good man".[356][357][358][359][360] In 2015, the New Zealand government accepted proposals for a new national flag and a flag with Pepe, known as "Te Pepe", was submitted.[361][362][363]
  • Seriously McDonalds – A photograph apparently showing racist policies introduced by McDonald's. The photograph, which is a hoax, went viral, especially on Twitter, in June 2011.[364]
  • Spider-Man Pointing at Spider-Man – An image of the episode "Double Identity" of the 1967 TV series Spider-Man where the character Spider-Man and a criminal with the same costume point at each other.[365] It is often used online when a person coincidentally acts or looks like another person.[366] The meme was referenced in the post-credit scene of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and a real-life version with three Spider-Man actors - Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire - was tweeted by Marvel to announce the release of Spider-Man: No Way Home on 4K UHD and Blu-ray.[366][365]
  • Stonks – An image featuring Meme Man in a suit against an image of the stock market, used to highlight or satirize absurd topics related to finance or the economy.[367]
  • Success Kid – An image of a baby who is clenching his fist while featuring a determined look on his face.[368]
  • Trash Doves – A sticker set of a purple bird for iOS, Facebook messenger, Facebook comments, and other messaging apps created by Syd Weiler. The animated headbanging pigeon from the sticker set started to go viral in Thailand[369] and it became globally viral on social media.[370][371][372][373][374][375]
  • Tron Guy – Jay Maynard, a computer consultant, designed a Tron costume, complete with skin-tight spandex and light-up plastic armor, in 2003 for Penguicon 1.0 in Detroit, Michigan. The Internet phenomenon began when an article was posted to Slashdot, followed by Fark, including images of this costume.[376]
  • Vancouver Riot Kiss – An image supposedly of a young couple lying on the ground kissing each other behind a group of rioters during the riots following the Vancouver Canucks' Stanley Cup loss to the Boston Bruins on 15 June 2011. The couple, later identified as Australian, Scott Jones, and local resident, Alexandra Thomas, were not actually kissing but Jones was consoling Thomas after being knocked down by a police charge.[377]
  • Wojak – also known "Feels Guy", a bald male character with a sad expression on his face, often used as a reaction image to represent feelings such as melancholy, regret or loneliness. It has been used to convey different feelings by means of memetic transformation and modification into many various unique forms, all with different meanings. Some represent specific ideas or roles in certain situations, such as the NPC meme, which mocks supposed groupthink and a lack of individuality among a group of people. It has also spawned many derived characters, all based on the original but used to represent different emotions.[378][379]
  • Woman yelling at a cat – A screenshot of the members of the television show The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Taylor Armstrong and Kyle Richards showing Armstrong shouting and pointing with the finger, followed by a photo of a confused cat (identified as Smudge) sitting behind a table with food. The meme emerged in mid-2019, when Twitter users joined the photos and included texts that looked like a mockery of the cat to the angry woman.[380][381]
  • Worst person you know - a satirical article by ClickHole with a picture of Josep Maria García.[382]
  • Wood Sitting on a Bed – An image of a nude man sitting on a bed that gained notoriety at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.[383]
  • "You are not immune to propaganda." – A glitch art representation of Garfield, with the caption "You are not immune to propaganda" surrounding it.[384]

Music

Main article: List of viral music videos

People

  • Meme Man – Fictional character often featured in surreal memes, depicted as a 3D render of a smooth, bald, and often disembodied and blue-eyed male head.[385]
  • Salt Bae – Turkish chef and restaurateur Nusret Gökçe earned fame in 2017 for his camera-friendly approach to preparing and seasoning meat, including a video in 2017 which he sprinkles salt, sparkling in the sunlight, onto a steak.[386][387] Gökçe's approach has been compared to dinner theater, in that his actual finished product is secondary to the performance.[388]
  • Hide the Pain Harold – Hungarian retired model András István Arató became the subject of a meme in 2011, due to seemingly fake smile as the model in stock images.

Politics

See also: Category:Political Internet memes
 
Amber Lee Ettinger, a.k.a. "Obama Girl"

Videos

Main article: List of viral videos

Other phenomena

  • "And I oop" – A video of drag queen Jasmine Masters stopping a story to say the phrase "and I oop" after accidentally hitting himself in the testes.[426]
  • April the Giraffe – A reticulated giraffe who had two of her live births streamed on the Internet to much fanfare.[427]
  • "Banana for scale" – An internet meme that became popular for humorously measuring lengths of various objects. In this internet phenomenon, other objects juxtaposed with a banana are accompanied with the text "banana for scale".[428]
  • Ben Drowned – A self-published three-part multimedia ARG web serial and web series inspired by creepypasta and The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, created by Alexander D. Hall.[429]
  • Binod (meme) – An internet fad which became popular in India in 2020.[430] It originated from a comment by a user with the screen name 'Binod', who had added only the word 'Binod' as a comment. This was followed by a video by Slayy Point, mocking "Binod" and YouTube comment sections in general. People started spamming the word 'Binod' across social media, primarily in YouTube comments and stream chats.[431] A number of organisations also posted memes, including Netflix India,[432] Twitter and Tinder.[432] Paytm temporarily changed its Twitter name to 'Binod'.[430]
  • Brad's Wife – On 27 February 2017, Brad Byrd of Harrison County, Indiana posted on Cracker Barrel's Facebook page, asking them why they fired his wife, Nanette, after 11 years of service. The intense and serious nature of the post drew viral attention, and internet users began semi-sarcastically demanding answers, using hashtags such as #BradsWife and #JusticeForBradsWife. This meme was notable for being popular with baby boomers as well as younger internet users. After the post was about a week old, several corporations jumped on the viral bandwagon and began to publicly send job offers to Nanette Byrd.[433][434][435]
  • Cats on the Internet – Images of cats are very popular on the Internet, and have seen extensive use in internet memes, as well as some cats becoming Internet celebrities.[436][437][438]
  • Chuck Norris facts – Satirical factoids about martial artist and actor Chuck Norris that became popular culture after spreading through the Internet.[439]
  • Creepypasta – Urban legends or scary stories circulating on the Internet, many times revolving around specific videos, pictures, or video games.[440] The term "creepypasta" is a mutation of the term "copypasta": a short, readily available piece of text that is easily copied and pasted into a text field. "Copypasta" is derived from "copy/paste", and in its original sense commonly referred to presumably initially sincere text (e.g. a blog or forum post) perceived by the copy/paster as undesirable or otherwise preposterous, which was then copied and pasted to other sites as a form of trolling. In the pre-Internet era, such material regularly circulated as faxlore.
  • Dicks out for Harambe – A slogan that was popularized months after the death of Harambe, a gorilla in a Cincinnati zoo, which could be interpreted as telling individuals to expose their penises in public in honor of the gorilla (although the word "dicks" here is slang for guns). The line was notably uttered by actor Danny Trejo.[441][442]
  • Dumb Ways to Die – A 2012 Metro Trains Melbourne safety campaign that became popular on the Internet in November 2012.[443]
  • Elsagate – controversy surrounding children's YouTube videos in the late 2010's.[444]
  • Florida Man – Crimes involving bizarre behavior, perpetrated by men from the state of Florida.[445][446][447]
  • Freecycling – The exchange of unwanted goods via the Internet.[448]
  • Gabe the Dog – Gabe was a miniature American Eskimo dog owned by YouTube user gravycp. In January 2013, gravycp uploaded a short video of Gabe barking. The footage itself never went viral though it was used in dozens of song remixes, some of which accrued up to half a million views.[449]
  • Get stick bugged lol – a video clip of a stick insect swaying as bait-and-switch meme similar to Rickrolling, in which an irrelevant video would unexpectedly transition to the clip when the stickbug revealed with the caption "Get stick bugged LOL".[450]
  • Get Out of My Car – an animated video created by Psychicpebbles, which uses the real audio of a man yelling at a woman to get out of his car.[451]
  • Have You Seen This Man? – A viral website that emerged on the Internet in the late 2000s, claiming to gather data about a mysterious figure only known as This Man that appears in dreams of people who never saw him before.[452]
  • Horse ebooks / Pronunciation Book – A five-year-long viral marketing alternate reality game for a larger art project developed by Synydyne. "Horse_ebooks" was a Twitter account that seemed to promote e-books, while "Pronunciation Book" was a YouTube channel that provided ways to pronounce English words. Both accounts engaged in non-sequiturs, making some believe that the accounts were run by automated services. Pronunciation Book shifted to pronouncing numerals in a countdown fashion in mid-2013, concluding in late September 2013 revealing the connection to Horse_ebook and identity of Synydyne behind the accounts, and the introduction of their next art project.[453][454]
  • Hou de Kharcha, a meme in Marathi[455]
  • Unregistered HyperCam 2 – The watermark which displayed in the upper-left corner of footage recorded with free versions of the HyperCam 2 screen capture software developed by Hyperionics, Inc. The software was widely used to screen record for YouTube videos during late 2000s to early 2010s, and was frequently used in the production of tutorial videos and Club Penguin gameplay. Videos with the watermark were often accompanied by "Trance" or "Dreamscape" by 009 Sound System.
  • I am lonely will anyone speak to me – A thread created on MovieCodec.com's forums, which has been described as the "Web's Top Hangout for Lonely Folk" by Wired magazine.[456]
  • Johnny Johnny Yes Papa – a children's nursery rhyme series.[457]
  • Ligma joke - a meme to set up a crude joke.[458][459]
 
The paperclip that Kyle MacDonald converted into a house, after 14 trade-ups
  • Netflix and chill – An English language slang term using an invitation to watch Netflix together as a euphemism for sex, either between partners or casually as a booty call. The phrase has been popularized through the Internet.[460][461]
  • Omission of New Zealand from maps – New Zealand is often excluded from world maps, which has caught the attention of New Zealander users on the Internet.[462]
  • One red paperclip – The story of a Canadian blogger who bartered his way from a red paperclip to a house in a year's time.[463]
  • Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally - A mnemonic used to memorize the order of operations (parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction). Fondly remembered by students of the United States school curriculum.[464]
  • Planking – Also known as the Lying Down Game. An activity consisting of lying in a face down position, with your palms touching your sides and youe toes touching the ground, sometimes in bizarre locations. Some compete to find the most unusual and original location in which to play.[465]
  • Reality shifting – A mental phenomenon similar to lucid dreaming or maladaptive daydreaming that appeared on TikTok, in which practitioners believe they travel to alternate realities, usually fictional (for example the Wizarding World of the Harry Potter franchise).[466]
  • Rickrolling – an internet prank in which a video unexpectedly plays the music video for "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley instead of what was advertised.[467]
  • Savage Babies – also known as the Most Savage Babies in Human History, a meme popular in 2016 that uses clips from the Indian children's YouTube channel VideoGyan 3D Rhymes, namely their series of nursery rhymes "Zool Babies". The videos are heavily distorted and given edgy, ironic titles that exaggerate the meaning of the video, such as "Five Little Babies Dressed as Pilots" becoming "Savage Babies Cause 9/11".[468]
  • SCP Foundation – A creative writing website that contains thousands of fictitious containment procedures for paranormal objects captured by the in-universe SCP Foundation, a secret organization tasked with securing and documenting objects that violate natural law and/or pose a threat to humanity's perception of normalcy and further existence.[469][470] The website has inspired numerous spin-off works, including a stage play and video games such as SCP – Containment Breach.[470][471]
  • Siren Head – A fictional cryptid which has an air raid siren as a head, created by horror artist Trevor Henderson. It has accumulated a fan following which has spawned numerous pieces of fan works and fan-made video games. Many video edits have depicted Siren Head playing various songs over a populated area.[472] Siren Head has been erroneously recognized as an SCP, most notably when the character was briefly submitted to the SCP Foundation Wiki as SCP-6789; the entry was removed after Henderson and site users expressed intention to keep Siren Head independent of the SCP Foundation Wiki.[473][474] Another entry, SCP-5987, was inspired by the character name and the controversy from the deleted entry.[475]
  • Smash or Pass – A game in which players decide whether they would hypothetically "smash" (have sex with) someone or "pass" (choose not to).[476]
  • Spiders Georg - A meme which imagines that the (untrue) statistic that the "average person eats 3 spiders a year" is the result of a statistical error caused by the incorporation of "Spiders Georg", a fictional character who resides in a cave and eats over ten thousand spiders every day, into the study from which this conclusion was drawn. The meme originated with a Tumblr post by user Max Lavergne, and has inspired many derivative works about the character.[477] Variations of the meme have imagined other characters named "Georg" to explain other real or imagined statistics and beliefs.[478]
  • Steak and Blowjob Day – A meme suggesting that a complementary holiday to Valentine's Day, primarily for men, takes place on 14 March each year.[479]
  • Storm Area 51 – A joke event created on Facebook to "storm" the highly classified Area 51 military base, with over 1,700,000 people claiming to be attending and another 1,300,000 claiming they were "interested" in going.[480] 1,500 people arrived in the vicinity of Area 51 the day of the event, September 20, 2019, only one of whom actually breached the boundary and was quickly escorted off the premises.[481][482]
  • Slender Man or Slenderman – A creepypasta meme and urban-legend fakelore tale created on 8 June 2009 by user Victor Surge on Something Awful as part of a contest to edit photographs to contain "supernatural" entities and then pass them off as legitimate on paranormal forums. The Slender Man gained prominence as a frightening malevolent entity: a tall thin man wearing a suit and lacking a face with "his" head only being blank, white, and featureless. After the initial creation, numerous stories and videos were created by fans of the character.[167][168] Slender Man was later adapted into a video game in 2012 and became more widely known. There is also a film released in 2018 to negative reviews.
  • Surreal memes – A type of meme that are artistically bizarre in appearance and whose humor derives from their absurd style. Certain qualities and characters, such as Meme Man, Mr. Orange, and a minimalist style, are frequent markers of the meme.[483]
  • The Million Dollar Homepage – A website conceived in 2005 by Alex Tew, a student from Wiltshire, England, to raise money for his university education. The home page consists of a million pixels arranged in a 1000 × 1000 pixel grid. The image-based links on it were sold for $1 per pixel in 10 × 10 blocks.[484]
  • Three Wolf Moon – A t-shirt with many ironic reviews on Amazon.[485]
  • Throwback Thursday – The trend of posting older, nostalgic photos on Thursdays under the hashtag #ThrowbackThursday or #TBT.[486]
  • The Undertaker vs. Mankind – A copypasta where at the end of a comment of an irrelevant topic, the event is referenced.[487]
  • Vibe Check – Generally ascribed as a spiritual evaluation of a person's mental and emotional state.[488][489]
  • Vuvuzelas – The near-constant playing of the buzz-sounding vuvuzela instrument during games of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa led to numerous vuvuzela-based memes, including YouTube temporarily adding a vuvuzela effect that could be added to any video during the World Cup.[490][491]
  • Yanny or Laurel – An audio illusion where individuals hear either the word "Yanny" or "Laurel".[492]
  • YouTube Poop – Video mashups in which users deconstruct and piece together video for psychedelic or absurdist effect.[493]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ A source from 14 January 2019,[329] says that with over 25 million likes, the only online post with more likes than the egg is the "Despacito" YouTube music video with 31 million likes; however, the egg as of March 2019 has 54.5 million likes, making it the most-liked online post of all time

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Internet phenomena and Internet sensation redirect here For people who have achieved fame through the Internet see Internet celebrity This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources Internet phenomena are social and cultural phenomena specific to the Internet such as Internet memes which include popular catchphrases images viral videos and jokes When such fads and sensations occur online they tend to grow rapidly and become more widespread because the instant communication facilitates word of mouth transmission The below partial list focuses more on Internet phenomena that are not restricted by regional Internet laws other countries such as China or Pakistan do have Internet phenomena specific there that are not blocked by regional laws These are covered in List of Internet phenomena in China and List of Internet phenomena in Pakistan Contents 1 Advertising and products 2 Animation and comics 3 Challenges 4 Dance 5 Email 6 Film and television 7 Gaming 8 Images 9 Music 10 People 11 Politics 12 Videos 13 Other phenomena 14 See also 15 Notes 16 ReferencesAdvertising and productsSee also List of viral music videos Ads and campaigns Amazon Coat an unnamed coat sold on the online store Amazon com by the Chinese clothing brand Orolay previously known for its home furnishings It became a viral phenomenon from the period between December 2018 and the COVID 19 pandemic 1 Beanie Babies Cited as being the world s first Internet sensation in 1995 2 Cooks Source infringement controversy This publication drew backlash after it committed copyright infringement by using an online article without permission for commercial purposes This backlash further increased due to Cooks Source s response which showed a misunderstanding of copyright and an increasing agitation to the original writer of the article 3 Elf Yourself 2006 and Scrooge Yourself 2007 Interactive websites created by Jason Zada and Evolution Bureau for OfficeMax s holiday season advertising campaign Elf Yourself allows visitors to upload images of themselves or their friends see them as dancing elves 4 5 and includes options to save or share the video 6 According to ClickZ visiting the Elf Yourself site has become an annual tradition that people look forward to 7 While not selling any one specific product the two were created to raise consumer awareness of the sponsoring firm 8 Flex Tape An infomercial of the product Flex Tape It became a meme after YouTuber JonTron made a video reviewing the infomercial 9 FreeCreditReport com A series of TV commercials that were posted on the Internet many spoofs of the commercials were made and posted on YouTube 10 HeadOn A June 2006 advertisement for a homeopathic product claimed to relieve headaches Ads featured the tagline HeadOn Apply directly to the forehead stated three times in succession accompanied by a video of a model using the product without ever directly stating the product s purpose The ads were successively parodied on sites such as YouTube and rapper Lil Jon even made fun of it 11 Little Darth Vader An advertisement by Volkswagen featuring young Max Page dressed in a Darth Vader costume running around his house trying to use the Force It was released on the Internet a few days prior to Super Bowl XLV in 2011 and quickly became popular 12 As of 2013 it was the most shared ad of all time 13 LowerMyBills com Banner ads from this mortgage company feature endless loops of cowboys women aliens and office workers dancing 14 15 The Man Your Man Could Smell Like A television commercial starring Isaiah Mustafa reciting a quick deadpan monologue while shirtless about how anything is possible if men use Old Spice It eventually led to a popular viral marketing campaign which had Mustafa responding to various Internet comments in short YouTube videos on Old Spice s YouTube channel 16 Mac Tonight Moon Man A McDonald s commercial made to promote dinner sales Starting in 2007 the character in the commercial Mac Tonight was utilized in videos where he is depicted promoting violence against minorities and promoting the KKK with racist parodies of rap songs The best known parody Notorious KKK a parody of Hypnotize by The Notorious B I G has accumulated over 119 000 views on YTMND 17 Nope Chuck Testa A local commercial made for Ojai Valley Taxidermy owned by Chuck Testa suggesting that the stuffed creatures were alive until Testa appeared saying Nope Chuck Testa the ad soon went viral 18 19 Potato Parcel a web site that allows the user to send anonymous personalized messages on potatoes via the mail 20 21 22 Pepsi MAX amp Jeff Gordon Present Test Drive A short film where NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon poses as an average car buyer to prank a cars salesman 23 A sequel Test Drive 2 was released the following year with Gordon pranking a writer who had branded the original video as fake 24 Rivals A commercial for video game retailer EB Games that promoted Call of Duty Advanced Warfare The commercial drew criticism for its concept and the performances of its actors 25 nbsp The Shake WeightShake Weight Infomercial clips of the modified dumbbell went viral as a result of the product s sexually suggestive nature 26 Vans 2016 Featured in the Damn Daniel viral internet meme What Would You Do For A Klondike Bar A slogan at the end of commercials advertising the ice cream sandwich Klondike bar People on YouTube and Facebook began posting videos depicting people in dangerous and absurdist situations attempting to reach a Klondike Bar in response to the slogan 27 Whopper Whopper A song by American restaurant fast food chain Burger King which serves as a jingle for the restaurant s signature burger the Whopper 28 Will It Blend The blender product Blendtec claimed by its creator Tom Dickson to be the most powerful blender is featured in a series of YouTube videos Will It Blend where numerous food and non food items are used within the blender 29 Xtranormal A website allowing users to create videos by scripting the dialog and choosing from a menu of camera angles and predesigned CGI characters and scenes Though originally designed to be used to ease storyboard development for filmmakers the site quickly became popular after videos made with the tool including iPhone 4 vs HTC Evo became viral 30 31 Animation and comicsAnimutations Early Flash based animations pioneered by Neil Cicierega in 2001 typically featuring foreign language songs primary Japanese such as Yatta set to random pop culture images The form is said to have launched the use of Flash for inexpensive animations that are now more common on the Internet 32 33 34 Arthur A 1996 PBS educational series that became popular on the Internet in July 2016 through humorous stills including a still of the title character s clenched fist 35 36 Ate my balls One of the earliest examples of an internet meme which involved web pages depicting a particular celebrity fictional character or other subject s relish for eating testicles 37 Axe Cop Initially a web comic series with stories created by five year old Malachai Nicolle and drawn into comic form by his 29 year old brother Ethan the series gained viral popularity on the Internet due to the vividness and non sequitur nature of Malachai s imagination and has led to physical publication and a series of animated shorts in the 2012 2013 season for the Fox Television Network 38 39 40 Badger Badger Badger A hypnotic loop of animal calisthenics set to the chant of badger badger badger created by Jonti Weebl Picking 41 Big Chungus A still frame of the 1941 Merrie Melodies short Wabbit Twouble when Bugs Bunny mocks a fat Elmer Fudd The meme originated from fictitious cover art for a video game titled Big Chungus with chungus being a neologism associated with video game commentator James Stephanie Sterling which featured a still from the scene and was popularized by a Facebook post by a GameStop manager who alleged that a colleague s mother had inquired about purchasing the game as a gift 42 43 Warner Bros later incorporated Big Chungus into its own video game Looney Tunes World of Mayhem 44 nbsp Bongo CatBongo Cat Originated on Twitter on 7 May 2018 when a simple animated cat GIF was edited for it to play the song Athletic from the Super Mario World soundtrack This cat has since been edited to play various songs on bongos and later other instruments 45 46 Caramelldansen A spoof from the Japanese visual novel opening Popotan that shows the two main characters doing a hip swing dance with their hands over their heads imitating rabbit ears while the background song plays the sped up version of the song Caramelldansen sung by the Swedish music group Caramell Also known as Caramelldansen Speedycake Remix or Uma uma dance in Japan the song was parodied by artists and fans who then copy the animation and include characters from other anime performing the dance 47 48 49 Charlie the Unicorn A five part series of videos involving the titular unicorn who is repeatedly hoodwinked by two other blue and pink unicorns Lolz and Roffle who take him on elaborate adventures in order to steal his belongings or cause him physical harm 50 Dancing baby A 3D rendered dancing baby that first appeared in 1996 by the creators of Character Studio for 3D Studio MAX and became something of a late 1990s cultural icon in part due to its exposure on worldwide commercials editorials about Character Studio and the popular television series Ally McBeal 51 The End of the World A Flash animated video by Jason Windsor in 2003 that depicts a situation when the entire world is nuked by rivalling countries 52 53 54 Happy Tree Friends A series of Flash cartoons featuring cartoon animals experiencing violent and gruesome accidents 55 Homestar Runner A Flash animated Internet cartoon by Mike Chapman Craig Zobel and Matt Chapman created in 1996 and popularized in 2000 The cartoon contains many references to popular culture from the 1980s and 1990s including video games television and popular music 56 I ll take a potato chip and eat it A scene from the English language dub of episode 8 of the anime adaptation of Death Note showing the main character Light Yagami taking a potato chip from a bag of chips and eating the chip 57 in a dramatic way The scene includes dramatic music and action movie style camera cuts Joe Cartoon Creator of interactive Flash animations Frog in a Blender 58 and Gerbil in a Microwave 59 60 which were two of the first Flash cartoons to receive fame on the Internet 61 Kung Fu Bear an Internet meme involving an Asian black bear who skillfully twirls throws and catches a long staff 62 Loituma Girl also known as Leekspin A looped Flash animation of an anime girl Orihime Inoue from the Bleach series twirling a leek set to a scat singing section of the traditional Finnish folk song Ievan Polkka sung by the Finnish quartet Loituma on their 1995 debut album Things of Beauty 63 The band s popularity rose tremendously 64 after the animation was posted in Russian LiveJournal in 2006 The song clip soon enjoyed overwhelming popularity as a ringtone 65 Loss A webcomic strip published on June 2 2008 by Tim Buckley for his gaming related webcomic Ctrl Alt Del Set during a storyline in which the main character Ethan and his fiancee Lilah are expecting their first child the strip presented as a four panel comic with no dialogue shows Ethan entering a hospital where he sees Lilah weeping in a hospital bed she has suffered a miscarriage It has received negative reception from critics and webcomic creators and been adapted and parodied many times 66 67 68 69 Motu Patlu An Indian cartoon aired on Nickelodeon India made widely popular by a Nick India ad celebrating Teacher s Day in India which has been reposted under the title D se Dab 70 Nyan Cat A YouTube video of an animated flying cat set to a Utau song 71 nbsp A group of Polandball charactersPolandball more commonly known as Countryballs A user generated Internet meme which originated on the int board of German imageboard Krautchan net in the latter half of 2009 The meme is manifested in a large number of online comics where countries are presented as spherical personas that interact in often broken English poking fun at national stereotypes and international relations as well as historical conflicts 72 Pusheen An animated grey tabby cat originally drawn as a character in the webcomic Everyday Cute by artists Clare Belton and Andrew Duff 73 Belton has since released a Pusheen book 74 Rage comics A large set of pre drawn images including crudely drawn stick figures clip art and other artwork typically assembled through website generators to allow anyone to assemble a comic and post to various websites and boards The New York Times reports that thousands of these are created daily 75 Typically these are drawn in response to a real life event that has angered the comic s creator hence the term rage comics but comics assembled for any other purpose are also made Certain images from rage comics are known by specific titles such as trollface a widely grinning man forever alone a man crying to himself or rage guy a man shouting FUUUUU Salad Fingers A Flash animation series surrounding a green man with severely elongated fingers in a desolate world populated mostly by deformed functionally mute people 76 Shut the fuck up TERF A crudely photoshopped image featuring Zombie Land Saga character Lily Hoshikawa a trans girl holding a gun with the caption Shut the fuck up TERF 77 78 The image was criticized as constituting a threat of violence and presented in UK Parliament in May 2019 during a convening of the Human Rights Committee while questioning a Twitter employee on the subject of abuse 77 78 In a tweet in January 2023 J K Rowling likened the meme to early twentieth century anti suffragist artwork 79 Simpsonwave A genre of videos where clips of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons are filtered with tinted VHS like effects and played over psychedelic vaporwave or chillwave tracks 80 Skibidi Toilet A series of viral YouTube animations made by animator Alexey Gerasimov using Source Filmmaker which depicts a war between skibidi toilets disembodied heads inside moving toilets which can be killed by being flushed down and a faction of people with cameras TVs and loudspeakers for heads The Spirit of Christmas Consists of two different animated short films made by Trey Parker and Matt Stone which are precursors to the animated series South Park To differentiate between the two homonymous shorts the first short is often referred to as Jesus vs Frosty 1992 and the second short as Jesus vs Santa 1995 Fox executive Brian Graden sent copies of Jesus vs Santa to several of his friends and from there it was copied and distributed including on the internet where it became one of the first viral videos 81 They were created by animating construction paper cut outs with stop motion and features prototypes of the main characters of South Park 82 Steamed Hams Remixes of a segment of The Simpsons episode 22 Short Films About Springfield involving Principal Skinner and Superintendent Chalmers in which Skinner has invited Chalmers over to dinner inadvertently sets his ham on fire and covers it up by serving fast food hamburgers as steamed hams 83 This is fine A two panel comic drawn in 2013 by KC Green as part of the Gunshow webcomic showing an anthropomorphic dog sitting in a room on fire and saying This is fine The comic emerged as a meme in 2016 used in situations as described by The New York Times halfway between a shrug and complete denial of reality Numerous derivatives of the This is fine comic have been made 84 Tuxedo Winnie the Pooh A photoshopped image of Winnie the Pooh sitting in an armchair from the featurette Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree which became popular on Reddit in 2019 The meme which is also known as A fellow man of culture features Winnie the Pooh wearing a tuxedo and smiling 85 86 87 The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny A lethal battle royale between many notable real and fictitious characters from popular culture Set to a song of the same name written and performed by Neil Cicierega under his musician alias Lemon Demon 88 nbsp xkcd s Wikipedian Protester comicUltra Instinct Shaggy A character interpretation that the Scooby Doo character Shaggy is immensely more powerful than he presents himself The meme is usually presented as still frames of a behind the scenes interview of the 2002 live action movie with subtitles implying that Shaggy is restraining his power to prevent catastrophe 89 90 91 Subsequently Warner Bros canonized the meme as part of a credits gag in the animated film Mortal Kombat Legends Battle of the Realms 92 as well as including Shaggy as a fighter in the MultiVersus crossover fighting game 93 Weebl and Bob A series of Flash cartoons created by Jonti Picking featuring two egg shaped characters that like pie and speak in a stylistic manner xkcd A webcomic created by Randall Munroe popularized on the Internet due to a high level of math science and geek related humor 94 with certain jokes being reflected in real life such as using Wikipedia s citation needed tag on real world signs 95 or the addition of an audio preview for YouTube comments 96 ChallengesMain article List of Internet challenges This section needs expansion You can help by adding to it July 2023 Challenges generally feature Internet users recording themselves performing certain actions and then distributing the resulting video through social media sites often inspiring or daring other users to repeat the challenge Dance nbsp Two screenshots from before and after the drop in a Harlem Shake videoCoffin Dance Dancing Pallbearers A group of Ghana pallbearers that respectfully dance during funeral processions had been covered by the BBC in 2017 and gained some initial Internet popularity 97 In the wake of the COVID 19 pandemic a popular TikTok video mashed the BBC footage with the EDM song Astronomia from Russian artist Tony Igy creating a meme that appeared to spread as a morbidly humorous reminder about the dangers of COVID 19 98 99 Dab A dance move where a person drops their head into a bent slanted arm with the other arm out straight and parallel Dancing Banana A banana dancing to the song Peanut Butter Jelly Time by the Buckwheat Boyz 100 101 Hampster Dance A page filled with hamsters dancing linking to other animated pages It spawned a fictional band complete with its own CD album release 102 Harlem Shake A video based on Harlem shake dance originally created by YouTube personality Filthy Frank and using an electronica version of the song by Baauer In such videos one person is dancing or acting strange among a room full of others going about routine business After the drop in the song and a video cut everyone starts dancing or acting strangely The attempts to recreate the dance led to a viral spread on YouTube 103 104 Hit the Quan A viral dance challenge to the song Hit the Quan by American rapper iLoveMemphis Rich Homie Quan originally performed this dance in his music video for his song Flex Ooh Ooh Ooh iLoveMemphis produced the Hit The Quan based around Rich Homie Quan s dance iLoveMemphis song launched the Hit the Quan viral dance challenge because of its convenient lyrics to dance to 105 Hit the Quan reached 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart because of the popularity of the dance 105 The dance challenge was very popular on social media platforms especially Vine Many celebrities participated in the popular dance challenge 106 Indian Thriller A viral scene from the Indian film Donga with added subtitles phonetically approximating the original lyrics as English sentences 107 JK Wedding Entrance Dance The wedding procession for Jill Peterson and Kevin Heinz of St Paul Minnesota choreographed to the song Forever by Chris Brown Popularized on YouTube with 1 75 million views in less than five days in 2009 108 The video was later imitated in an episode of The Office on NBC 109 Kiki Challenge or DoThe Shiggy A viral dance challenge to the song In My Feelings by Drake This challenge was started by a comedian named Shiggy on the night that Drake released the album Scorpion Shiggy posted a video of himself on his Instagram account dancing along to part of the lyrics in what looks like in the middle of a neighborhood street 110 Shiggy commented DoTheShiggy 110 Drake claims the success of the song was due to Shiggy s popular dance to his song 110 The dance challenge is often filmed with a twist of the original The most popular twist of the dance is filmed from the passenger side of a moving vehicle through the open driver door where the would be driver is dancing moves along with the slowly moving car This challenge received a lot of controversy due to the fact nobody was in control of the car Performers have received fines and sometimes suffered injury 111 This viral dance challenge was performed by a number of professional athletes and celebrities 110 The dance challenge was performed by people in the U S and spread to the rest of the world 112 Little Superstar A video of Thavakalai a short Indian actor break dancing to MC Miker G amp DJ Sven s remix of the Madonna song Holiday The clip comes from a 1990 Tamil film Adhisaya Piravi featuring actor Rajnikanth 113 114 Running Man Challenge A dance move where participants in a way resembling running to the 1996 R amp B song My Boo by Ghost Town DJ s First posted to Vine by two teenagers from New Jersey the dance went viral in 2016 after two University of Maryland basketball players posted their rendition 115 116 The dance gets its name because it is an adaptation of the original running man dance move T pose A surrealist dance move that became popular in April 2018 modelled after the default pose also known as a bind pose that many 3D models in games animations and more take in their raw file form 117 Techno Viking A muscular Nordic raver dancing in a technoparade in Berlin 118 Thriller by the CPDRC Dancing Inmates A recreation of Michael Jackson s hit performed by prisoners at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center CPDRC in the Philippines 119 In January 2010 it was among the ten most popular videos on YouTube with over 20 million hits 120 Triangle Dance Challenge Three individuals place hands on each other s shoulders and jump to a different point on an invisible triangle This gained popularity in 2019 121 122 EmailSee also Virus hoax and Chain letter Bill Gates Email Beta Test An email chain letter that first appeared in 1997 and still circulates The message claims that America Online and Microsoft are conducting a beta test and for each person one forwards the email to they will receive a payment from Bill Gates of more than 200 Realistic contact information for a lawyer appears in the message 123 124 Craig Shergold A British former cancer patient who is most famous for receiving an estimated 350 million greeting cards earning him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records in 1991 and 1992 Variations of the plea for greeting cards sent out on his behalf in 1989 are still being distributed through the Internet making the plea one of the most persistent urban legends 125 clarification needed Goodtimes virus An infamous fraudulent virus warning that first appeared in 1994 The email claimed that an email virus with the subject line Good Times was spreading which would send your CPU into a nth complexity infinite binary loop among other dire predictions 126 127 Lighthouse and naval vessel urban legend Purportedly an actual transcript of an increasingly heated radio conversation between a U S Navy ship and a Canadian who insists the naval vessel change a collision course ending in the punchline This urban legend first appeared on the Internet in its commonly quoted format in 1995 although versions of the story predate it by several decades 128 It continues to circulate the Military Officers Association of America reported in 2011 that it is forwarded to them an average of three times a day 129 The Navy has a page specifically devoted to pointing out that many of the ships named weren t even in service at the time 130 MAKE MONEY FAST One of the first spam messages that was spread primarily through Usenet or even earlier BBS systems in the late 1980s or early 1990s The original email is attributed to an individual who used the name Dave Rhodes who may or may not have existed 131 The message is a classic pyramid scheme one receives an email with a list of names and is asked to send 5 by postal mail to the person whose name is at the top of the list add their own name to the bottom and forward the updated list to a number of other people 132 Neiman Marcus Cookie recipe An email chain letter dating back to the early 1990s but originating as Xeroxlore in which a person tells a story about being ripped off for over 200 for a cookie recipe from Neiman Marcus The email claims the person is attempting to exact revenge by passing the recipe out for free 133 134 Nigerian Scam 419 scam A mail scam attempt popularized by the ability to send millions of emails The scam claims the sender is a high ranking official of Nigeria with knowledge of a large sum of money or equivalent goods that they cannot claim but must divest themselves of to do so they claim to require a smaller sum of money up front to access the sum to send to the receiver The nature of the scam has mutated to be from any number of countries high ranking persons barristers or relationships to said people 135 Film and television nbsp Tommy Wiseau of The Room 2003 The Babadook 2014 An Australian Canadian psychological horror film that started trending on Twitter in June 2017 when the title character became an unofficial mascot for the LGBT community 136 Prior to that rumors of the Babadook s sexuality began in October 2016 when some Netflix users reported seeing the film categorized as an LGBT movie on Netflix 137 138 139 Barbenheimer 2023 A portmanteau of Barbie and Oppenheimer Barbenheimer began circulating ahead of the theatrical release of both films on July 21 2023 with social media users creating and sharing memes noting the juxtaposition between the films 140 141 Bee Movie 2007 Sped up or slowed down clips of the film have become popular on YouTube 142 143 One upload by Avoid at All Costs exceeded 12 million views as of December 2016 144 Many of the edited videos in this trend were taken down for spam due to the volume of videos posted by some channels 145 From September 2013 onwards a few Internet users posted the entirety of the Bee Movie script on sites like Tumblr and Facebook 146 The Blair Witch Project 1999 The film s producers used Internet marketing to create the impression that the documentary style horror film featured real as opposed to fictional events 147 Cloverfield 2008 Paramount Pictures used a viral marketing campaign to promote this monster movie 148 Dahmer Monster The Jeffrey Dahmer Story 2022 An anthology thriller true crime series by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan for Netflix after its release it became viral over Twitter and TikTok 149 Downfall 2004 A film depicting Adolf Hitler portrayed in this film by Swiss actor Bruno Ganz during his final days of his life Multiple scenes in which Hitler rants in German have been parodied innumerable times on the Internet including when Hitler finds out that Felix Steiner has failed to carry out his orders and when Hitler finds out SS Gruppenfuhrer Hermann Fegelein has gone AWOL This scene often has its English subtitles replaced by mock subtitles to give the appearance that Hitler is ranting about modern often trivial topics and sometimes even breaks the fourth wall by referencing the Internet meme itself While the clips are frequently removed for copyright violations the film s director Oliver Hirschbiegel has stated that he enjoys them and claimed to have seen about 145 of them 150 151 Figwit abbreviated from Frodo is great who is that A background elf character with only seconds of screen time and one line of dialog from The Lord of the Rings film trilogy played by Flight of the Conchords member Bret McKenzie which became a fascination with a large number of fans This ultimately led to McKenzie being brought back to play an elf in The Hobbit 152 153 154 Goncharov A nonexistent film invented by users on Tumblr 155 It is purported to be the greatest mafia movie ever made released in 1973 156 157 In 2020 a user posted a picture of a tag found on a pair of boots which featured details on the nonexistent film Goncharov in place of a brand label which suggested it was A film by Matteo JWHJ0715 and presented by Martin Scorsese Users have inconsistently described the film as being directed by either Matteo JWHJ0715 or Scorsese This label was speculated by several users to be a misprint of Gomorrah 158 Goncharov picked up traction again in late November 2022 when a user created a poster for the film that featured a lineup of actors and character names ultimately sparking an elaborate fiction of the film s existence 159 Discussion of the film involved detailed critical analysis of the plot themes symbolism and characters as well as creation of gifs fan art and theme music all presented as if the film were real 160 The meme s popularity caused it to become a trending topic on the Tumblr platform 156 157 158 A similar meme that emerged on TikTok nine months later about a fictional 1980s horror film Zepotha drew comparisons to Goncharov 161 162 163 LazyTown 2004 A children s television program originating from Iceland which became very popular after one of the primary actors Stefan Karl Stefansson was diagnosed with cancer and set up a GoFundMe page for support The song We are Number One became a meme in October 2016 and many videos were created It became one of the fastest growing memes in history with 250 videos uploaded in 5 days 164 The Lord of the Rings trilogy Released between 2001 and 2003 just as meme culture was taking off several moments from the films became part of the online culture with most notably Sean Bean s character of Boromir stating One does not simply walk into Mordor as one of the most commonly referenced 165 166 Marble Hornets A documentary style horror suspense short film series based on alternate reality experiences of the Slenderman tale Marble Hornets was instrumental in codifying parts of the Slender Man mythos but is not part of the inter continuity crossover that includes many of the blogs and vlogs that followed it although MH does feature in other canons as either a chronicle of real events or a fictional series 167 168 Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus 2009 The theatrical trailer released in mid May 2009 became a viral hit scoring over one million hits on MTV com and another 300 000 hits on YouTube upon launch prompting brisk pre orders of the DVD 169 Minions The mischievous yellow creatures from the Despicable Me franchise have since their introduction in 2010 become ubiquitous in certain layers of meme culture 170 The memes created with images of Minions have frequently been derided as bland or unintentionally absurd 171 172 In 2022 a phenomenon known as Gentleminions arose in which young men and teen boys would arrive to Minions The Rise of Gru in formal attire 173 174 nbsp The adult brony fandom of My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic grew from its 4chan roots My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic Hasbro s 2010 animated series to revive its toy line was discovered by members of 4chan and subsequently spawned a large adult mostly male fanbase calling themselves bronies and creating numerous Internet memes and mashups based on elements from the show 175 176 Re cut trailer User made trailers for established films using scenes voice overs and music to alter the appearance of the film s true genre or meaning or to create a new apparently seamless film Examples include casting the thriller drama The Shining into a romantic comedy or using footage from the respective films to create Robocop vs Terminator 177 178 179 The Nutshack 2007 a Filipino American adult animated television series that has been widely mocked for its obnoxious characters bad writing and animation and especially for the theme song 180 The series became an internet meme in the summer of 2016 though it died out a year later The Room 2003 Written produced directed and starring Tommy Wiseau the low budget independent film is considered one of the worst films ever made However through social media and interest from comedians gained a large number of ironic fans and turned into a cult classic It is a popular source for memes based on some of the poorly delivered lines in the movie such as You re tearing me apart Lisa a shoehorned reference to an iconic James Dean line in Rebel Without a Cause and Oh hi Mark 181 182 Sharknado 2013 A made for television film produced by The Asylum and aired on the SyFy network as a mockbuster of other disaster films centered on the appearance of a tornado filled with sharks in downtown Los Angeles Though similar to other films from the Asylum elements of the film such as low budget effects and choice of actors led to the film becoming a social media hit and leading to at least four additional sequels 183 Shrek A DreamWorks franchise that has an internet fandom likes the series 184 The viral video Shrek is Love Shrek is Life was based on a homoerotic story on 4chan depicting the titular ogre engaging in anal sex with a young boy 185 186 Snakes on a Plane 2006 Attracted attention a year before its planned release and before any promotional material was released due to the film s working title its seemingly absurd premise and the piquing of actor Samuel L Jackson s interest to work on the film Producers of the film responded to the Internet buzz by adding several scenes and dialogue imagined by the fans 187 SpongeBob SquarePants A Nickelodeon animated television series that has spawned various Internet memes These memes include Surprised Patrick 188 Mr Krabs Blur 189 Caveman SpongeBob 190 191 Handsome Squidward 188 and Mocking SpongeBob 192 193 In 2019 Nickelodeon officially released merchandise based on the memes 194 195 Star War The Third Gathers The Backstroke of the West Around the time of release a bootleg recording circulated on the internet via peer to peer sharing websites It quickly became notorious for its notable use of Engrish like the translation of Darth Vader s line No rendered as Do not want About a decade after the release of the bootleg a fandub matching its subtitles was posted on YouTube 196 197 Steamed Hams A clip from the season seven episode of The Simpsons 22 Short Films About Springfield gained popularity with many remixes and edits to the Skinner and The Superintendent segment 198 Take This Lollipop 2011 An interactive horror short film and Facebook app written and directed by Jason Zada to personalize and underscore the dangers inherent in posting too much personal information about oneself on the Internet Information gathered from a viewer s Facebook profile by the film s app used once and then deleted makes the film different for each viewer 199 200 201 The Three Bears 1939 An animated short film made by Terrytoons based on the story Goldilocks and the Three Bears One of the scenes from the short depicting Papa Bear saying Somebody toucha my spaghet in a stereotypically thick Italian accent became an internet meme in December 2017 202 Treasure Island 1988 A Russian animated film developed and distributed by Kievnauchfilm based on the novel of the same name by Robert Louis Stevenson A loop of a scene from the film showing three characters in a walk cycle with Dr Livesey showing a highly pronounced swagger often overlaid with the phonk song Why Not by Ghostface Playa became an internet meme in August 2022 West Side Story 2021 A clip of the opening long take shot of The Dance at the Gym sequence from Steven Spielberg s 2021 film version of the musical was uploaded to Twitter on February 25 2022 and went viral over the weekend reaching 3 million views and over 32 000 likes It led to many users sharing images and clips of their favorite scenes and shots from the film during that time while praising Spielberg s direction and Janusz Kaminski s cinematography 203 204 This was further amplified by a Twitter thread by filmmaker Guillermo del Toro analyzing the camerawork and blocking on this particular shot 205 Gaming nbsp Bowsette is a fan made gender swapped version of the Mario franchise character Bowser All your base are belong to us Badly translated English from the opening cutscene of the European Mega Drive version of the 1989 arcade game Zero Wing It has become a catchphrase inspiring videos and other derivative works 206 207 Angry Birds A mobile game series made by Rovio Entertainment in December 2009 for the iOS and Nokia app stores with a Google Play version releasing in October 2010 208 Since its release the game has amassed a large following on both the internet and in media for its visuals and simple to understand game mechanics of launching a bird from a slingshot 209 The game has also seen many forms of merchandising with 30 of Rovio Entertainment s revenue coming from merchandise sales in 2011 210 In the early 2010s the game and the game s characters were added to various image macros which mentioned the irony of the story and difficult nature of obtaining a high score in the game 211 The mobile game has seen a resurgence in the 2020s for being featured in various shitposts including realistic angry birds and i m the biggest bird 212 213 Among Us A game made by game studio Innersloth released on Steam in 2018 The game reached internet fame in 2020 due to Twitch streamers and YouTubers playing the game frequently Still images from the game phrases from the game like Emergency Meeting and Dead body reported as well as typical gameplay events have influenced internet memes Other terms like Sus Sussy Sussy Baka Amogus and When the imposter is sus also became notable modern ironic memes on social media platforms 214 215 Arrow in the knee City guards in The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim would utter the line I used to be an adventurer like you then I took an arrow in the knee The latter part of this phrase quickly took off as a catchphrase and a snowclone in the form of I used to X but then I took an arrow in the knee with numerous image macros and video parodies created 216 217 218 Bowsette A fan made depiction of the Super Mario character Bowser using Toadette s Super Crown power up from the Nintendo Switch title New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe to transform into a lookalike of Princess Peach The character became popular following a four panel webcomic posted by a user on Twitter and DeviantArt in September 2018 219 But can it run Crysis A question often asked by PC gaming and hardware enthusiasts When released in 2007 Crysis was extremely taxing on computer hardware with even the most advanced consumer graphics cards of the time unable to provide satisfactory frame rates when the game was played on its maximum graphical settings 220 As a result this question is asked as a way of judging a certain computer s capability at gaming Can it run Doom A common joke question with any hardware that has a CPU It has even gotten to the point where people are developing source ports of the game to unconventional hardware such as a Canon printer the VIC 20 the Touch Bar on the 2016 MacBook Pro a smart fridge an ATM and the game itself among other things 221 222 223 Doomguy and Isabelle The pairing of Isabelle from the Animal Crossing video game series and Doomguy from the Doom franchise due to the shared release date of Animal Crossing New Horizons and Doom Eternal 224 Elden Ring A 2022 video game that spawned multiple memes such as Let me solo her The colloquial name for an Elden Ring player who specializes in fighting Malenia the game s most difficult boss fight and whose character wears no armor but a jar as a helmet 225 Let me solo her became widely acclaimed within the game s online community after volunteering to deal with Malenia on behalf of other players through the game s player summoning feature and successfully defeating her at least four thousand times without assistance 226 Videos of the player s performances became popular and widely shared on multiple social news websites 225 The player s exploits was acknowledged by the game s publisher 227 and became the subject of fan labor 228 229 Let me solo her was awarded PC Gamer s Player of the Year award for 2022 230 Maidenless a term repeated by multiple non player characters Its original context is that the player character has yet to achieve an important gameplay milestone but it has been appropriated by the player community as a joke or insult 231 232 Flappy Bird A free to play casual mobile game released on the iOS App Store on 24 May 2013 and on Google Play on 30 January 2014 by indie mobile app developer Dong Nguyen The game began rapidly rising in popularity in late December 2013 to January 2014 with up to 50 million downloads by 5 February On 9 February Nguyen removed the game from the mobile app stores citing negative effects of the game s success on his health and its addictiveness to players Following the game s removal from the app stores numerous clones and derivatives of the game were released with varying similarities to the original game 233 234 I Love Bees An alternate reality game that was spread virally after a one second mention inside a Halo 2 advertisement Purported to be a website about honey bees that was infected and damaged by a strange artificial intelligence done in a disjointed chaotic style resembling a crashing computer At its height over 500 000 people were checking the website every time it updated 235 Lamar Roasts Franklin A cutscene in the 2013 action adventure video game Grand Theft Auto V where Lamar Davis portrayed by comedian Slink Johnson berates Franklin Clinton portrayed by actor and former rapper Shawn Fonteno for Franklin s haircut and his relationship with his girlfriend ending in Lamar uttering the word nigga in a condescending sing song voice and giving Franklin the middle finger much to the latter s chagrin The cutscene experienced a resurgence in popularity in late 2020 when parodies of the scene were uploaded on YouTube and other video hosting sites It usually involves Lamar s character model being replaced with various popular culture icons such as Darth Vader Vegeta and Snow White among others with Lamar s dialogue dubbed to account for the characters used In 2021 Fonteno and Johnson reprised their roles as Franklin and Lamar respectively in a live action re enactment of the cutscene 236 237 Later that year Fonteno and Johnson once again reprised their roles in The Contract DLC for Grand Theft Auto Online complete with a homage to the original roast cutscene 238 Leeroy Jenkins A World of Warcraft player charges into a high level dungeon with a distinctive cry of Leeeeeeeerooooy Jeeenkins ruining the meticulous attack plans of his group and getting them all killed 239 Let s Play Videos created by video game players that add their commentary and typically humorous reactions atop them playing through a video game These videos have created a number of Internet celebrities who have made significant money through ad revenue sharing such as PewDiePie who earned over 12 million from his videos in 2015 240 241 Line Rider A Flash game where the player draws lines that act as ramps and hills for a small rider on a sled 242 Mafia City A mobile game that has become infamous for its odd advertising involving a person drastically increasing their stats for doing various mob related activities and for the phrase That s how mafia works 243 nbsp The cake is a lie based on the false promise of a Black Forest cake as a reward is popularized from the video game series Portal Portal The games in the Portal series introduced several Internet memes including the phrase the cake is a lie 244 and the space obsessed Space Core character 245 Press F to pay respects A prompt for the player to press a button on the PC version of Call of Duty Advanced Warfare where the player character would approach the coffin of a fallen comrade in response The mechanic is repeatedly criticized and ridiculed for both being arbitrary and unnecessary as well as being inappropriate to the tone of the funeral the game otherwise intends to convey 246 The phrase has since become an Internet meme in its own right sometimes used unironically during the tribute stream for the Jacksonville Landing shooting viewers posted a single letter F in the chat 247 nbsp QWOP s title refers to the four keyboard keys used to move the muscles of the sprinter avatar nbsp An example of a solution from the viral game Wordle developed by Josh WardleRoblox a sandbox game that has spawned several memes such as its oof sound citation needed QWOP A browser based game requiring the player to control a sprint runner by using the Q W O and P keys to control the runner s legs The game is notoriously difficult to control typically leaving the runner character flailing about The concept developed into memes based on the game as well as describing real life mishaps as attributable to QWOP 248 Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon A trivia parlor game based around linking an actor to Kevin Bacon through a chain of co starring actors in films television and other productions with the hypothesis that no actor was more than six connections away from Bacon It is similar to the theory of six degrees of separation or the Erdos number in mathematics The game was created in 1994 just at the start of the wider spread of Internet use populated further with the creation of movie database sites like IMDb and since has become a board game and contributed towards the field of network science 249 250 251 Sonic the Hedgehog A video game series created by Sega that has spawned multiple memes such as Sonic Real Time Fandubs The YouTube channel SnapCube has produced a series of improvised fandubs of several Sonic titles including Sonic Adventure 2 Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 and Shadow the Hedgehog which have themselves earned their own fandom and derivative works based on jokes from the series 252 253 Sanic A purposely misdrawn Sonic that has been referenced by Sega themselves and used in merchandise 254 and Ugandan Knuckles A meme that gained high popularity thanks to the social game VRChat where players with a crude Knuckles model asked other players if they knew da wae know the way who their queen was clicking their tongue and spitting repeatedly 255 256 Surprised Pikachu An image of the Pokemon Pikachu with a blank look and an open mouth It is used as a reaction image to show either shock or lack thereof 257 258 Twitch Plays Pokemon An experiment and channel created by an anonymous user on the Twitch in February 2014 Logged in viewers to the channel can enter commands in chat corresponding to the physical inputs used in the JRPG video game Pokemon Red These are collected and parsed by a chat software robot that uses the commands to control the main character in the game which is then live streamed from the channel The stream attracted more than 80 000 simultaneous players with over 10 million views with a week of going live creating a chaotic series of movements and actions within the game a number of original memes and derivative fan art The combination has been called an entertainment hybrid of a video game live video and a participatory experience which has inspired similar versions for other games 259 260 U R MR GAY A message allegedly hidden in the Super Mario Galaxy box art which appears when each letter not decorated with a star is removed from the art It was first noticed by a NeoGAF poster in September 2007 Video game journalists have debated as to whether the message was placed on purpose or was simply a humorous coincidence 261 262 Untitled Goose Game A 2019 video game developed by Australian game studio House House in which the player controls a goose causing mischief in an English village An early teaser for the game in 2017 led to strong interest in the title and on release the game quickly became an Internet meme 263 264 Wordle A word guessing game similar to Jotto and Mastermind where the player has only six tries to guess a five letter word each day the game indicating whether letters are in the word and or in the correct position The game grew popular over a few weeks after the ability to share results with others via social media was added near the end of 2021 265 266 The game s popularity led to The New York Times Company acquiring the game from its creator Josh Wardle at the end of January 2022 for an undisclosed seven figure sum 267 Images nbsp Babylonokia nbsp A Lolcat nbsp U S President Barack Obama jokingly mimics the McKayla is not impressed expression in the Oval Office November 2012 nbsp Tron GuyBaby mugging and Baby suiting MommyShorts blogger Ilana Wiles began posting pictures of babies in mugs and later adult business suits both of which led to numerous others doing the same 268 269 270 Babylonokia A clay tablet shaped like a mobile phone designed by Karl Weingartner Fringe scientists and alternative archaeology proponents subsequently misrepresented a photograph of the artwork as showing an 800 year old archaeological find that story was popularised in a video on the YouTube channel Paranormal Crucible and led to the object being reported by some press sources as a mystery 271 Bert is Evil A satirical website stated that Bert of Sesame Street is the root of many evils A juxtaposition of Bert and Osama bin Laden subsequently appeared in a real poster in a Bangladesh protest 272 273 Blinking white guy An animated GIF of former Giant Bomb video producer Drew Scanlon blinking in surprise originating from a 2013 video on the website became an internet meme in 2017 274 Multiple outlets have noted the versatility of the GIF s use as a reaction 275 276 Blue waffle An Internet hoax originating in 2010 purporting an unknown sexually transmitted disease affecting only women causing severe infection and blue discoloration to the vagina The disease has been confirmed as false 277 Kathy McBride a New Jersey councilwoman in the city of Trenton cited it in a 2013 city council meeting not realizing that it was a hoax 278 279 BreakTheInternet The November 2014 issue of Paper included a cover image of Kim Kardashian in a partially nude pose exposing her buttocks taken by photographer Jean Paul Goude It was captioned breaktheinternet as the magazine desired to set a record in social media response from it Several other photos from the shoot were also released including one that mimicked one that Goude took for his book Jungle Fever involving a campaign incident Paper s campaign set a record for hits for their site and the photographs became part of Internet memes 280 281 Brian Peppers In 2005 a photo surfaced of a man named Brian Peppers noted for his appearance which suggests Apert syndrome or Crouzon syndrome Found on the Ohio sex offender registry website the photo gained traction after being shared on website YTMND Peppers died in 2012 at the age of 43 282 Crasher Squirrel A photograph by Melissa Brandts of a squirrel which popped up into a timer delayed shot of Brandts and her husband while vacationing in Banff National Park Canada just as the camera went off The image of the squirrel has since been added into numerous images on the Internet 283 284 285 CSI Miami Puts on Sunglasses The cold opening for nearly all CSI Miami episodes ended with star David Caruso as Horatio Caine in the initial stages of an investigation putting on his sunglasses and making a quip or pun related to the crime before the show hard cut to the opening credits played against the scream of Yeah in The Who s Won t Get Fooled Again 286 Image macros of Caruso putting on sunglasses or similar images for other fictional characters and the introductory scenes of the CSI Miami opening became frequent typically used as response to other puns made on user forums or with the puns and the following YEAH incorporated into the image macro 287 288 Cursed images Images usually photographs that are perceived as odd or disturbing due to their content poor quality or both 289 Dat Boi An animated GIF of a unicycling frog associated with the text here come dat boi that began on Tumblr in 2015 before gaining popularity on Twitter in 2016 290 291 292 293 DashCon Ball Pit A convention held in July 2014 by users of Tumblr that imploded due to a number of financial difficulties and low turnout During the convention a portable ball pit was brought into a large empty room When some premium panels were cancelled the attendees were offered an extra hour in the ball pit as compensation The implosion and absurdity of aspects like the ball pit quickly spread through social media 294 DALL E A web based program introduced in 2022 that uses artificial intelligence to construct an array of images from a text prompt The resulting images often shared across social media can range from humorous to uncanny to near perfect results 295 Distracted boyfriend A stock photograph taken in 2015 which went viral as an Internet meme in August 2017 296 Dog shaming Originating on Tumblr these images feature images of dogs photographed with signs explaining what antics they recently got up to 297 Doge Images of dogs typically of the Shiba Inus overlaid with simple but poor grammatical expressions typically in the Comic Sans MS font gaining popularity in late 2013 298 The meme saw an ironic resurgence towards the end of the decade 299 and was recognised by multiple media outlets as one of the most influential memes of the 2010s 300 301 The meme has also spawned Dogecoin a form of cryptocurrency 302 Don t talk to me or my son ever again Images of a subject be they product or individual pictured with a smaller version of themself captioned with the text don t talk to me or my son ever again Popular in 2016 303 The Dress An image of a dress posted to Tumblr that due to how the photograph was taken created an optical illusion where the dress would either appear white and gold or blue and black Within 48 hours the post gained over 400 000 notes and was later featured on many different websites 304 305 Ecce Homo Ecce Mono Potato Jesus An attempt in August 2012 by a local woman to restore Elias Garcia Martinez s aging fresco of Jesus in Borja Spain led to a botched amateurish monkey looking image leading to several memes 306 307 Every time you masturbate God kills a kitten An image featuring a kitten being chased by two Domos and has the tagline Please think of the kittens 308 First World problems A stock image of a woman crying with superimposed text mocking people with trivial complaints compared to that of issues in the Third World 309 nbsp Big Floppa Floppa a collection of images either portraying caracals or a specific caracal by the name of Goshe Shlepa or more commonly Big Floppa The collection of images do not portray to a specific theme per se but always hold Floppa as a centerpoint or personification of something 310 311 Goatse cx A shock image of a distended anus 312 Grogu The popularity of the TV series The Mandalorian led to many memes of the Baby Yoda character 313 314 Grumpy Cat A cat named Tardar Sauce that appears to have a permanent scowl on her face due to feline dwarfism according to its owner Pictures of the cat circulated the Internet leading it to win the 2013 Webby for Meme of the Year and her popularity has led her to star in a feature film 315 Tardar Sauce died on 14 May 2019 316 Hide the Pain Harold A Hungarian electrical engineer named Andras Arato became a meme after posing for stock photos on the websites iWiW and Dreamstime He initially wasn t very happy with his popularity but has grown to accept it He realized he did similar things when he was younger such as drawing on Hungarian poet John Arany s portraits making him look like a pirate The meme depicts photos of Arato smiling while viewers believe the smile masks serious sorrow and pain hence the name Hide the Pain Harold 317 Homophobic dog A series of images of a white dachshund accompanied by homophobic captions such as not too fond of gay people and let s hope it s just a phase According to the dog s owners a gay couple most of those memes were made and shared by members of the LGBTQ community to mock homophobic people 318 319 A fake Washington Post headline describing the dog as the new face of online homophobia 320 321 was criticized by Christina Pushaw press secretary of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis unaware that it was not a real article 322 323 Hurricane Shark or Street Shark a recurring hoax circulated after a variety of natural disasters 324 appearing to show a shark swimming in a flooded urban area usually after a hurricane Several images have been used most often one of a freeway that first appeared during Hurricane Irene in 2011 However a 2022 video of a shark or other large fish swimming in Hurricane Ian s floodwaters in Fort Myers Florida proved to be real itself becoming part of the phenomenon and leading to phrases like Hurricane Shark is real 325 326 Instagram egg A photograph of an egg on Instagram which formerly received the most number of likes on both the platform 327 328 and the highest in any social media A Islamic Rage Boy A series of photos of Shakeel Bhat a Muslim activist whose face became a personification of angry Islamism in the western media The first photo dates back to his appearance in 2007 at a rally in Srinigar the capital of Indian administered Kashmir Several other photos in other media outlets followed and by November 2007 there were over one million hits for Islamic Rage Boy on Google and his face appeared on boxer shorts and bumper stickers 330 Keep Calm and Carry On A phrasal template or snowclone that was originally a motivational poster produced by the UK government in 1939 intended to raise public morale It was rediscovered in 2000 became increasingly used during the 2009 global recession and has spawned various parodies and imitations 331 332 Listenbourg An image of a photoshopped map of Europe with a red arrow pointing to the outline of a fictional country adjacent to Portugal and Spain 333 334 Little Fatty Starting in 2003 the face of Qian Zhijun a student from Shanghai was superimposed onto various other images 335 336 Lolcat A collection of humorous image macros featuring cats with misspelled phrases such as I Can Has Cheezburger 337 The earliest versions of LOLcats appeared on 4chan usually on Saturdays which were designated Caturday as a day to post photos of cats 338 Manul A Russian meme that was introduced in 2008 It is typically an image macro with a picture of an unfriendly and stern looking Pallas s cat also known as a manul accompanied by a caption in which the cat invites you to pet it 344 McKayla is not impressed A Tumblr blog that went viral after taking an image of McKayla Maroney the American gymnast who won the silver medal in the vault at the 2012 Summer Olympics on the medal podium with a disappointed look on her face and photoshopping it into various impressive places and situations e g on top of the Great Wall of China and standing next to Usain Bolt 345 346 347 Nimoy Sunset Pie A Tumblr blog that posted mashups combining American actor Leonard Nimoy sunsets and pie 348 349 350 351 352 353 O RLY Originally a text phrase on Something Awful and then an image macro done for 4chan Based around a picture of a snowy owl 354 Oolong Photos featured on a popular Japanese website of a rabbit that is famous for its ability to balance a variety of objects on its head 355 Pepe the Frog A cartoon frog character from a 2005 web cartoon became widely used on 4chan in 2008 often with the phrase feels good man 356 357 358 359 360 In 2015 the New Zealand government accepted proposals for a new national flag and a flag with Pepe known as Te Pepe was submitted 361 362 363 Seriously McDonalds A photograph apparently showing racist policies introduced by McDonald s The photograph which is a hoax went viral especially on Twitter in June 2011 364 Spider Man Pointing at Spider Man An image of the episode Double Identity of the 1967 TV series Spider Man where the character Spider Man and a criminal with the same costume point at each other 365 It is often used online when a person coincidentally acts or looks like another person 366 The meme was referenced in the post credit scene of Spider Man Into the Spider Verse and a real life version with three Spider Man actors Tom Holland Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire was tweeted by Marvel to announce the release of Spider Man No Way Home on 4K UHD and Blu ray 366 365 Stonks An image featuring Meme Man in a suit against an image of the stock market used to highlight or satirize absurd topics related to finance or the economy 367 Success Kid An image of a baby who is clenching his fist while featuring a determined look on his face 368 Trash Doves A sticker set of a purple bird for iOS Facebook messenger Facebook comments and other messaging apps created by Syd Weiler The animated headbanging pigeon from the sticker set started to go viral in Thailand 369 and it became globally viral on social media 370 371 372 373 374 375 Tron Guy Jay Maynard a computer consultant designed a Tron costume complete with skin tight spandex and light up plastic armor in 2003 for Penguicon 1 0 in Detroit Michigan The Internet phenomenon began when an article was posted to Slashdot followed by Fark including images of this costume 376 Vancouver Riot Kiss An image supposedly of a young couple lying on the ground kissing each other behind a group of rioters during the riots following the Vancouver Canucks Stanley Cup loss to the Boston Bruins on 15 June 2011 The couple later identified as Australian Scott Jones and local resident Alexandra Thomas were not actually kissing but Jones was consoling Thomas after being knocked down by a police charge 377 Wojak also known Feels Guy a bald male character with a sad expression on his face often used as a reaction image to represent feelings such as melancholy regret or loneliness It has been used to convey different feelings by means of memetic transformation and modification into many various unique forms all with different meanings Some represent specific ideas or roles in certain situations such as the NPC meme which mocks supposed groupthink and a lack of individuality among a group of people It has also spawned many derived characters all based on the original but used to represent different emotions 378 379 Woman yelling at a cat A screenshot of the members of the television show The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Taylor Armstrong and Kyle Richards showing Armstrong shouting and pointing with the finger followed by a photo of a confused cat identified as Smudge sitting behind a table with food The meme emerged in mid 2019 when Twitter users joined the photos and included texts that looked like a mockery of the cat to the angry woman 380 381 Worst person you know a satirical article by ClickHole with a picture of Josep Maria Garcia 382 Wood Sitting on a Bed An image of a nude man sitting on a bed that gained notoriety at the beginning of the COVID 19 pandemic 383 You are not immune to propaganda A glitch art representation of Garfield with the caption You are not immune to propaganda surrounding it 384 MusicMain article List of viral music videosPeopleMeme Man Fictional character often featured in surreal memes depicted as a 3D render of a smooth bald and often disembodied and blue eyed male head 385 Salt Bae Turkish chef and restaurateur Nusret Gokce earned fame in 2017 for his camera friendly approach to preparing and seasoning meat including a video in 2017 which he sprinkles salt sparkling in the sunlight onto a steak 386 387 Gokce s approach has been compared to dinner theater in that his actual finished product is secondary to the performance 388 Hide the Pain Harold Hungarian retired model Andras Istvan Arato became the subject of a meme in 2011 due to seemingly fake smile as the model in stock images PoliticsSee also Category Political Internet memesThe examples and perspective in this section deal primarily with the United States and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject You may improve this section discuss the issue on the talk page or create a new section as appropriate July 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message nbsp Amber Lee Ettinger a k a Obama Girl Arrest of Vladimir Putin A viral video showing the mock arrest of Vladimir Putin and his trial 389 390 Barack Obama vs Mitt Romney A fictitious rap battle between 2012 election candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney As of October 2020 the video has over 150 million views 391 Bernie or Hillary A political poster that compares the positions of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders on certain issues It was typically used by Sanders supporters to make fun of Clinton s attempts to seem relatable to the voter base while they perceived Sanders to be more knowledgeable and in depth on the issues 392 393 394 However some critiqued the meme by saying that it played into sexist stereotypes 392 394 Joe Biden There are numerous iterations of President Joe Biden as a meme 395 The portrayal of Biden in The Onion was popular on the Internet and influenced other memes about him as well as his broader public image 396 397 After Donald Trump won the 2016 U S presidential election images of Biden as the Biden Bro or Prankster Joe Biden began circulating online In these memes Biden was paired with Barack Obama and captioned with various fictional conversations planning pranks and jokes on the president elect Biden is portrayed as the immature prankster of the duo with Obama as his exasperated straight man 398 needs update Bush shoeing incident During a press conference in 2008 Muntadhar al Zaidi threw both of his shoes at then president George W Bush Afterwards various Flash based browser games and gifs were created to poke fun of the incident 399 Crush on Obama A music video by Amber Lee Ettinger that circulated during the 2008 United States presidential election As well as its sequels the video caught the attention of bloggers mainstream media and other candidates and achieved 12 5 million views on YouTube by 1 January 2009 400 Dean scream Former Governor of Vermont Howard Dean s concession speech following the 2004 New Hampshire Democratic primaries included Dean rattling off a list of states in escalating volume as crowd noise rose resulting in increasingly distorted audio and culminating in an unusual yeehaw scream It was one of the first political Internet memes 401 Delete your account A phrase used on Twitter to criticize the opinions of opponents On 9 June 2016 Hillary Clinton tweeted this phrase towards Donald Trump Afterwards the tweet has become her most retweeted tweet of all time 402 403 404 Don t Tase Me Bro An incident at a campus talk by Senator John Kerry where a student yelled his now infamous phrase while being restrained by police 405 Eastwooding After Clint Eastwood s speech at the 2012 Republican National Convention in which he spoke to an empty chair representing President Barack Obama photos were posted by users on the Internet of people talking to empty chairs with various captions referring to the chair as either Obama or Eastwood 406 407 408 Epstein didn t kill himself A bait and switch joke originating on the app iFunny in October 2019 409 two months after his death in August Many memes alleged involvement of Donald Trump Hillary Clinton or other notable figures 410 The meme saw mainstream popularity in late 2019 being unexpectedly snuck into cable news interviews by guests such as on FOX News and MSNBC 411 It was also referenced by Ricky Gervais at the 77th Golden Globe Awards due to the alleged connections between Epstein and people in the Hollywood film industry 412 Forest raking After U S President s Donald Trump s comments that Finland spent a lot of time on raking and cleaning its forest floor Finnish people began circulating satirical images of themselves raking the forests to stop wildfires 413 Jesusland map A map created shortly after the 2004 U S presidential election that satirizes the red blue states scheme by dividing the United States and Canada into The United States of Canada and Jesusland 414 Kekistan A fictional country created by 4chan members that has become a political meme and online movement used notably by the alt right 415 Miss Me Yet Billboards that appeared on American highways in early 2010 that featured George Bush asking Miss me yet 416 Inspired a series of themed merchandise from online agencies such as CafePress 417 Mug shot of Donald Trump the first ever mugshot of a former U S president Donald Trump in August 2023 418 Series of tubes A phrase originally coined as an analogy by Senator Ted Stevens to describe the Internet in the context of opposing network neutrality His statement was later remixed on YouTube and YTMND 419 420 Strong A political advertisement issued by Texas Governor Rick Perry presidential campaign in December 2011 for the 2012 Republican Party presidential primaries The video was parodied 421 and became one of the most disliked videos on YouTube 422 Ted Cruz Zodiac meme A mock conspiracy theory suggesting that American Senator and Presidential candidate Ted Cruz was the Zodiac Killer an unidentified Californian serial killer of the late 1960s and early 1970s 423 Thanks Obama A sarcastic expression used by critics of President Barack Obama to blame personal troubles and inconveniences on public policies supported or enacted by the administration 424 This Land Flash animation produced by JibJab featuring cartoon faces of George W Bush and John Kerry singing a parody of This Land Is Your Land that spoofs the 2004 United States presidential election The video became a viral hit and viewed by over 100 million leading to the production of other JibJab hits including Good to Be in D C and Big Box Mart 425 VideosMain article List of viral videosOther phenomena And I oop A video of drag queen Jasmine Masters stopping a story to say the phrase and I oop after accidentally hitting himself in the testes 426 April the Giraffe A reticulated giraffe who had two of her live births streamed on the Internet to much fanfare 427 Banana for scale An internet meme that became popular for humorously measuring lengths of various objects In this internet phenomenon other objects juxtaposed with a banana are accompanied with the text banana for scale 428 Ben Drowned A self published three part multimedia ARG web serial and web series inspired by creepypasta and The Legend of Zelda Majora s Mask created by Alexander D Hall 429 Binod meme An internet fad which became popular in India in 2020 430 It originated from a comment by a user with the screen name Binod who had added only the word Binod as a comment This was followed by a video by Slayy Point mocking Binod and YouTube comment sections in general People started spamming the word Binod across social media primarily in YouTube comments and stream chats 431 A number of organisations also posted memes including Netflix India 432 Twitter and Tinder 432 Paytm temporarily changed its Twitter name to Binod 430 Brad s Wife On 27 February 2017 Brad Byrd of Harrison County Indiana posted on Cracker Barrel s Facebook page asking them why they fired his wife Nanette after 11 years of service The intense and serious nature of the post drew viral attention and internet users began semi sarcastically demanding answers using hashtags such as BradsWife and JusticeForBradsWife This meme was notable for being popular with baby boomers as well as younger internet users After the post was about a week old several corporations jumped on the viral bandwagon and began to publicly send job offers to Nanette Byrd 433 434 435 Cats on the Internet Images of cats are very popular on the Internet and have seen extensive use in internet memes as well as some cats becoming Internet celebrities 436 437 438 Chuck Norris facts Satirical factoids about martial artist and actor Chuck Norris that became popular culture after spreading through the Internet 439 Creepypasta Urban legends or scary stories circulating on the Internet many times revolving around specific videos pictures or video games 440 The term creepypasta is a mutation of the term copypasta a short readily available piece of text that is easily copied and pasted into a text field Copypasta is derived from copy paste and in its original sense commonly referred to presumably initially sincere text e g a blog or forum post perceived by the copy paster as undesirable or otherwise preposterous which was then copied and pasted to other sites as a form of trolling In the pre Internet era such material regularly circulated as faxlore Dicks out for Harambe A slogan that was popularized months after the death of Harambe a gorilla in a Cincinnati zoo which could be interpreted as telling individuals to expose their penises in public in honor of the gorilla although the word dicks here is slang for guns The line was notably uttered by actor Danny Trejo 441 442 Dumb Ways to Die A 2012 Metro Trains Melbourne safety campaign that became popular on the Internet in November 2012 443 Elsagate controversy surrounding children s YouTube videos in the late 2010 s 444 Florida Man Crimes involving bizarre behavior perpetrated by men from the state of Florida 445 446 447 Freecycling The exchange of unwanted goods via the Internet 448 Gabe the Dog Gabe was a miniature American Eskimo dog owned by YouTube user gravycp In January 2013 gravycp uploaded a short video of Gabe barking The footage itself never went viral though it was used in dozens of song remixes some of which accrued up to half a million views 449 Get stick bugged lol a video clip of a stick insect swaying as bait and switch meme similar to Rickrolling in which an irrelevant video would unexpectedly transition to the clip when the stickbug revealed with the caption Get stick bugged LOL 450 Get Out of My Car an animated video created by Psychicpebbles which uses the real audio of a man yelling at a woman to get out of his car 451 Have You Seen This Man A viral website that emerged on the Internet in the late 2000s claiming to gather data about a mysterious figure only known as This Man that appears in dreams of people who never saw him before 452 Horse ebooks Pronunciation Book A five year long viral marketing alternate reality game for a larger art project developed by Synydyne Horse ebooks was a Twitter account that seemed to promote e books while Pronunciation Book was a YouTube channel that provided ways to pronounce English words Both accounts engaged in non sequiturs making some believe that the accounts were run by automated services Pronunciation Book shifted to pronouncing numerals in a countdown fashion in mid 2013 concluding in late September 2013 revealing the connection to Horse ebook and identity of Synydyne behind the accounts and the introduction of their next art project 453 454 Hou de Kharcha a meme in Marathi 455 Unregistered HyperCam 2 The watermark which displayed in the upper left corner of footage recorded with free versions of the HyperCam 2 screen capture software developed by Hyperionics Inc The software was widely used to screen record for YouTube videos during late 2000s to early 2010s and was frequently used in the production of tutorial videos and Club Penguin gameplay Videos with the watermark were often accompanied by Trance or Dreamscape by 009 Sound System I am lonely will anyone speak to me A thread created on MovieCodec com s forums which has been described as the Web s Top Hangout for Lonely Folk by Wired magazine 456 Johnny Johnny Yes Papa a children s nursery rhyme series 457 Ligma joke a meme to set up a crude joke 458 459 nbsp The paperclip that Kyle MacDonald converted into a house after 14 trade upsNetflix and chill An English language slang term using an invitation to watch Netflix together as a euphemism for sex either between partners or casually as a booty call The phrase has been popularized through the Internet 460 461 Omission of New Zealand from maps New Zealand is often excluded from world maps which has caught the attention of New Zealander users on the Internet 462 One red paperclip The story of a Canadian blogger who bartered his way from a red paperclip to a house in a year s time 463 Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally A mnemonic used to memorize the order of operations parentheses exponents multiplication division addition subtraction Fondly remembered by students of the United States school curriculum 464 Planking Also known as the Lying Down Game An activity consisting of lying in a face down position with your palms touching your sides and youe toes touching the ground sometimes in bizarre locations Some compete to find the most unusual and original location in which to play 465 Reality shifting A mental phenomenon similar to lucid dreaming or maladaptive daydreaming that appeared on TikTok in which practitioners believe they travel to alternate realities usually fictional for example the Wizarding World of the Harry Potter franchise 466 Rickrolling an internet prank in which a video unexpectedly plays the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley instead of what was advertised 467 Savage Babies also known as the Most Savage Babies in Human History a meme popular in 2016 that uses clips from the Indian children s YouTube channel VideoGyan 3D Rhymes namely their series of nursery rhymes Zool Babies The videos are heavily distorted and given edgy ironic titles that exaggerate the meaning of the video such as Five Little Babies Dressed as Pilots becoming Savage Babies Cause 9 11 468 SCP Foundation A creative writing website that contains thousands of fictitious containment procedures for paranormal objects captured by the in universe SCP Foundation a secret organization tasked with securing and documenting objects that violate natural law and or pose a threat to humanity s perception of normalcy and further existence 469 470 The website has inspired numerous spin off works including a stage play and video games such as SCP Containment Breach 470 471 Siren Head A fictional cryptid which has an air raid siren as a head created by horror artist Trevor Henderson It has accumulated a fan following which has spawned numerous pieces of fan works and fan made video games Many video edits have depicted Siren Head playing various songs over a populated area 472 Siren Head has been erroneously recognized as an SCP most notably when the character was briefly submitted to the SCP Foundation Wiki as SCP 6789 the entry was removed after Henderson and site users expressed intention to keep Siren Head independent of the SCP Foundation Wiki 473 474 Another entry SCP 5987 was inspired by the character name and the controversy from the deleted entry 475 Smash or Pass A game in which players decide whether they would hypothetically smash have sex with someone or pass choose not to 476 Spiders Georg A meme which imagines that the untrue statistic that the average person eats 3 spiders a year is the result of a statistical error caused by the incorporation of Spiders Georg a fictional character who resides in a cave and eats over ten thousand spiders every day into the study from which this conclusion was drawn The meme originated with a Tumblr post by user Max Lavergne and has inspired many derivative works about the character 477 Variations of the meme have imagined other characters named Georg to explain other real or imagined statistics and beliefs 478 Steak and Blowjob Day A meme suggesting that a complementary holiday to Valentine s Day primarily for men takes place on 14 March each year 479 Storm Area 51 A joke event created on Facebook to storm the highly classified Area 51 military base with over 1 700 000 people claiming to be attending and another 1 300 000 claiming they were interested in going 480 1 500 people arrived in the vicinity of Area 51 the day of the event September 20 2019 only one of whom actually breached the boundary and was quickly escorted off the premises 481 482 Slender Man or Slenderman A creepypasta meme and urban legend fakelore tale created on 8 June 2009 by user Victor Surge on Something Awful as part of a contest to edit photographs to contain supernatural entities and then pass them off as legitimate on paranormal forums The Slender Man gained prominence as a frightening malevolent entity a tall thin man wearing a suit and lacking a face with his head only being blank white and featureless After the initial creation numerous stories and videos were created by fans of the character 167 168 Slender Man was later adapted into a video game in 2012 and became more widely known There is also a film released in 2018 to negative reviews Surreal memes A type of meme that are artistically bizarre in appearance and whose humor derives from their absurd style Certain qualities and characters such as Meme Man Mr Orange and a minimalist style are frequent markers of the meme 483 The Million Dollar Homepage A website conceived in 2005 by Alex Tew a student from Wiltshire England to raise money for his university education The home page consists of a million pixels arranged in a 1000 1000 pixel grid The image based links on it were sold for 1 per pixel in 10 10 blocks 484 Three Wolf Moon A t shirt 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