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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 [...]

O RLY?, short for “Oh, really?” is typically presented as an image macro featuring a Snowy Owl. The usual conversation flow starts with O RLY?, triggering a YA RLY (“Yes, really”) response, followed by a NO WAI! (“No way”), and then possibly a YA SRSLY (“Seriously”). These may be used in combination with any number [...]

A Mentos eruption (also known as a Mentos and Diet Coke geyser, Soda Geyser) has become a backyard science experiment fad first demonstrated by “science guy,” Steve Spangler. It has also become an internet phenomenon, with videos of Mentos eruptions and even Mentos performance art pieces being posted on sites like Google Video and YouTube. [...]

Numa Numa (or “the Numa Numa Dance”) is an Internet phenomenon based on amateur videos, particularly one by Gary Brolsma, made for the song “Dragostea din tei” by Moldovan pop band O-Zone. Brolsma first published his “Numa Numa Dance” on the Newgrounds site on December 6, 2004, where it has since been seen more than [...]

The Hampster Dance or Hampsterdance was originally a simple Geocities page featuring rows of animated hamsters dancing in various ways to a sped-up sample from the song “Whistle Stop” by Roger Miller. Hamsterdance.com includes Hampton, Fuzzy, Hado, and Dixie as the singing Hamsters. Hampsterdance2.com original Geocities version Original Hamster Dance

Peanut Butter Jelly Time is a Flash animation that emerged in the early 2000s. Based upon a song of the same name recorded by the Buckwheat Boyz, the best known version of the animation (usually distributed as a Flash clip) shows a heavily pixelated animated Dancing Banana (itself a well-known emoticon) moving back and forth [...]

The Dancing Baby, also known as “Baby Cha-Cha”, is a video file of an animated, 3D-rendered baby dancing for several seconds. The video became popular in 1996-1997 after being distributed widely over the Internet. The dancing baby originated as a motion capture demo file for the 3D modeling program 3D Studio Max; it sometimes dances [...]