Internet phenomenon Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
An Internet phenomenon is akin to a fad, in which something relatively unknown becomes increasingly popular, but usually for a short duration of time. It is nearly impossible to accurately measure the depth of a phenomenon's popularity, and different groups of the Internet may participate more than others. The Internet's lack of physical boundaries leads to a much faster and wider spread of information and ideas, especially when the subject is based around humor or curiosity. Most Internet phenomena can be often seen as good examples of memes, the self-propagating ideas.Internet phenomena include:
- Absurdist Flash animations like "The Demented Cartoon Movie" [1] or "You are a chef!" [1]
- Animutations
- All your base are belong to us - a phrase from the English translation of the video game Zero Wing, adapted into a popular flash animation.
- Badger Badger Badger
- Bananaphone
- Bonsai Kitten
- Chin2 (link)
- Clock Spider
- Dancing baby - A 3D rendered dancing baby.
- Exploding whale
- The End of the World a flash animation using Group X-style voices.
- Emotion Eric
- Goatse.cx, a shock site frequently linked from webpages and IRC channels.
- Group X, makers of the songs Bang Bang Bang and SchfiftyFive, adapted into Flash.
- The Hamster Dance - a page filled with animated GIFs of hamsters, linking to other animated pages. It now has its own CD soundtrack.
- Hello My Future Girlfriend link
- Limecat
- Mahir Cagri - personal website of a Turkish man; has received mass adoration by fans, mainly for its overly enthusiastic text.
- Mr. T Ate My Balls - a Yahoo site with images of Mr. T, captioned with various absurd and questionable statements. Repeatedly done with other subjects, both fictional and non-fictional. Spawned an entire Yahoo category under Tasteless Humor > Ate My Balls.
- Oolong the Rabbit A Japanese rabbit owner who places various objects on top of his pet's head.
- OS-tan link - Operating Systems personified as cutesy mascots by various Japanese artists
- Real Ultimate Power
- The Spongmonkeys
- The Star Wars kid, a video, digitally edited numerous times, of a Quebecois teenager from Trois-Rivieres named Ghyslain Raza, student at the Séminaire Saint-Joseph.
- Tai Mai Shu
- The individual articles from The Best Page in the Universe often spread memetically.
- Thundercats outtakes - outtakes of the animated 1980s television series Thundercats.
- Tourist Guy (link), the same person photoshopped into photos of different events, mostly disasters.
- Weeee, a squirrel based Flash animation.
- Whassup ([1]) Budweiser commercial series that took a new life when it was parodied with the SuperFriends ([1])
- Yatta
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