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Crazy Frog is a character used in the marketing of a ring tone based on The Annoying Thing, a computer animation created by Erik Wernquist. Marketed by the ringtone provider Jamba!, the animation was originally created to accompany a sound effect produced by Daniel Malmedahl while attempting to imitate the sound of a two-stroke moped [...]

Jeong-Hyun Lim, also known by the online alias funtwo, is a 23-year-old South Korean guitarist known for his cover of JerryC's Canon Rock. Jeong-Hyun Lim played and recorded his cover of Canon Rock during 2005. Funtwo's cover of Canon Rock has been mentioned on CNN, 20/20, The New York Times, and National Public Radio in addition to [...]

"Bride Has Massive Hair Wig Out" was the name of a viral video uploaded to YouTube in early 2007. Apparently shot by one of three bridesmaids, it shows a bride so unhappy with her hairstyle on her wedding day that she starts cutting it off. It quickly became popular and widely linked to. Viewers, and eventually [...]

"The Bus Uncle" is a Cantonese video clip capturing a verbal altercation aboard a bus in Hong Kong on April 27, 2006. The video clip was taken by a passenger, uploaded to HK Golden Forum, and then quickly mirrored on YouTube and Google Video. Soon after its debut on YouTube, the 6-minute video became a cultural [...]

Ghyslain Raza became widely known on the Internet in May 2003 as the “Star Wars kid”. At the time of his celebrity as an “internet phenomenon,” he was a high school student in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. On November 4, 2002 Raza made a video of himself swinging a golf ball retriever around as a weapon, imitating the [...]

Bad Day (also known as Computer rage or Office rage) is the name of a 25-second viral video clip that has circulated the Internet since 1997, making it one of the earliest video clips that became an Internet meme. The video contains footage of a man in his office cubicle, getting gradually irritated with the [...]

The Spongmonkeys are an Internet phenomenon, created by Joel Veitch, that has crossed over into television in the form of Quiznos commercials. They appear to be a pair of graphically edited tarsiers with human mouths, and appear on the web at the rathergood.com website. These creatures float in the air in front of a hydrangea [...]

Oolong (July 28, 1994 – January 8, 2003) (named after the oolong variety of tea) was the name of a domestic rabbit owned by photographer Hironori Akutagawa, of Hokkaidō, Japan. The rabbit was mainly famous for its ability to balance a variety of objects on his head. Oolong has become a well known Internet phenomenon since [...]