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7 unusual facts about Internet meme


Arkady Ostrovsky

In 2009, a 1976 video of singer Eduard Khil singing Ostrovsky's vocalise I am very glad, because I’m finally going home (Я очень рад, ведь я, наконец, возвращаюсь домой) was uploaded to YouTube and quickly became an Internet meme known as "Trololololololololololo."

Desu

An Internet meme originating from the television show Rozen Maiden, involving a character from the show who repeats the word "desu" (see above) as a verbal tic.

Failure

"Fail" is the name of a popular Internet meme where users superimpose a caption, often the word "fail" or "epic fail", onto photos or short videos depicting unsuccessful events or people falling short of expectations.

Internet humor

Varying from different communities, Internet forum humor often involves image macros, Internet memes, random objects and people, false news stories and sarcasm.

Seat of the European Parliament in Strasbourg

Urban legends and Internet memes have long alleged that its design consciously mirrors the Tower of Babel as painted by Bruegel (the Vienna version), and although unfounded, the rumour has entered mainstream media through Glenn Beck.

Someday Came Suddenly

The video is infamous for starting the Internet meme "crabcore", which shows one of the band members squatting in a "crab-like" stance whilst nodding his head and playing the guitar.

The '90s Are All That

The week before Memorial Day 2013 featured "Meme-orial Week," in which fans submitted their '90s Nick-themed memes for air during the block.


Backwoods Home Magazine

The ad has been copied repeatedly, and inspired an internet meme as well as the 2012 film Safety Not Guaranteed.

Bush hid the facts

While "Bush hid the facts" is the sentence most commonly presented on the Internet to induce the error, the bug can be triggered by many sentences with characters and spaces in a particular order so that the bytes match the UTF-16LE encoding of valid (if nonsensical) Chinese Unicode characters.

Clocky

Within two weeks information about the device became an Internet meme and Nanda, the inventor, had been booked to demonstrate the device on Good Morning America.

Futaba Channel

Futaba has spawned a number of strange visual gags and characters; the OS-tans would be one such meme that has spread to western internet culture.

Hello! Morning

The program is best known outside of Japan due to the "Dramatic Chipmunk", an online phenomenon video.

Kimmo Wilska

Wilska received much support from viewers after the incident, and the clip of the gag became an Internet meme amongst Finnish YouTube users.

Masami Hisamoto

She has become something of an internet meme on video sharing websites such as Nico Nico Douga and rarely YouTube (due to most of them usually being removed from YouTube by Shinano Art (sometimes called "Shiano Art" or "Shinano Kikaku")), where users create MAD movies out of videos of her television appearances.

Popotan

Sales of the visual novel and its fan disc made the top 50 list of bestselling bishōjo games in Japan multiple times and it spawned an internet meme when the opening was put to sped-up music by the Swedish band Caramell.


see also

Accidental Tourist

Tourist guy, an internet meme of altered photos showing a tourist in unusual locations

Paffendorf

Their song, Under My Skin, had become an Internet meme, featuring Momo, a character from the anime series Sumomomo Momomo repetitively imitating a train engine with her hands and jumping up and down.

SpokAnarchy!

Several of the cast have achieved notoriety since the perod depicted in the film, including Paul D'Amour, the original bassist for the band Tool, circus sideshow performer Zamora the Torture King, and the creator of Internet meme Keyboard Cat.