An (sometimes called an '''Internet users may participate in spreading the phenomenon more than others. Most of the internet phenomena have begun from certain websites, which include EBaum's World , 4chan , Albino Blacksheep , Fark , GameFAQS , Newgrounds , Slashdot , Something Awful , Tribalwar and YTMND . Some people point to these sort of Internet phenomena as good examples of Meme s. In William Gibson 's Novel '' Pattern Recognition '' an interesting kind of Internet phenomenon—"the footage"—plays an important role.
Internet phenomena include:
- — Before he got His Own Show on MTV , he uploaded a lot of short films on the Internet, including guitar songs like "The Superbowl is Gay" and Freestyle s like "Crispy". Those songs were famous for their very bizarre, obscene and unrealistic lyrics.
- — every major accomplishment of mankind is attributed to the actor, as well as fake "facts" , which originated as an offshoot of the "Vin Diesel Facts" meme.
- — 2004 Democratic presidential candidate and current chairman of the DNC . His famous 2004 "scream" after polling third in the Iowa caucuses has been widely parodied. {Link without Title}
- — Iraqi Minister of Information, who became popular from making outlandish comments during the 2003 Iraq War.
- — The popular 80s actor has become the protagonist of a series of websites featuring him, via photo editing programs, battling other celebrities, fictional characters, politicians, and others.
- — An American Televangelist whose preachings were dubbed with flatulence in a series called ''The Farting Preacher''.
- — Actor who is most known for his role as James Bond in the James Bond series of movies. A website was created honoring a moment in the film Finding Forrester where he says "You're the man now dog". This quote was made into a website which eventually became YTMND .
- — She was discovered by Playboy scouts, but became popular as being the most-viewed profile on MySpace . Her song "Straight Up" is included in the MySpace compilation record.
- — the actor was the subject of the original version of the humorous "Facts" phenomenon, where often ludicrous "facts" about Vin Diesel's supposed "abilities" are invented for humorous purposes.
- — Known for his MIDI and vocal renditions of Iron Maiden songs.
- — Keyboard/Synth player best known for his videos The Bittorrent Song and Space Camp , he achieved popularity due to his unique melodies and lyrics. There is a documentary titled '' Brentumentary '' about a day in his life. On April 19th, 2006, nerdpunk.com was launched as Brent's official website. By popular demand, Brent is recording a CD and will be selling other merchandise off his official site.
- — An unconventional animator, he is the man behind animations such as '' Salad Fingers '' and '' Burnt Face Man ''. His different, surrealistic style is often what draws people to his animation. {Link without Title}
- — A Professional Wrestling fan from Atlanta, Georgia who proclaimed, "It's still real to me, dammit!" then proceeded to cry during a question-and-answer segment at a Spartanburg, South Carolina wrestling convention. The video clip was later featured on Jimmy Kimmel Live . He has since became a regular guest on wrestling radio shows and podcasts and also writes on occasion for World Wrestling Insanity.com as guest columnist. Wills' personal website can be found [http://www.itsstillrealtome.com here .
- - Backup catcher for the Boston Red Sox . "Dougie's Going Deep Tonight"
- — A teenage girl featured in an Apple Computer advertisement, whose slurred speech and disoriented eyes provoked speculation that she was under the influence of illicit drugs.
- — Under the nickname ''KiddOfSpeed'' posted photographs of her alleged motorcycle trips in the area around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant .
- — A Homeless African-American man from Kentucky , Earl became famous primarily because of his extensive police record, mostly for non-violent alcohol-related offenses, and the subsequent often humorous and widely varied mug shots. Henry has made numerous talk show appearances and has been featured in national and international media venues, including MSNBC , the UK Sunday Mail , and Jimmy Kimmel Live .
- — A man claiming to be a time traveler from the year 2036 who made many strange statements about future events.
- — a Brazilian girl who received a kiss from Bono during a U2 show. People watching the show on TV quickly discovered her Orkut profile and in less then 48 hours she received more than 1,500,000 scraps on the relationship site.
- — a 32 year-old Miami, FL based underground boxer and street fighter. He has appeared in three full-length bare-knuckle fights available through the internet and P2P file-sharing networks.
- — A registered sex offender with a facial malformity; his picture became widely circulated after its posting on eSORN and became the subject of a Fad On YTMND . {Link without Title}
- — A young adult who was a frequent poster on Sherdog.com who received wide criticism on the forums while posting pictures of himself, family, and friends for all having long straight spiked hair, overly tanned skin, a flipped up shirt collar, and headband. Subsequent videos and pictures were created using the original pictures. The original and edited pictures spread across the Internet in a matter of weeks. A website, {Link without Title} was created within a month.
- — Claiming to be a "pirate", Maddox is the online pseudonym of George Ouzounian, author of the popular website, The Best Page In The Universe , with over 100,000,000 visits. The individual articles from this site often spread Memetically .
- — A woman on the FOX program Trading Spouses whose obesity, maniacal rants about gargoyles and psychics, and proclamations of religious superiority quickly made her an overnight punch line.
- — A Grandmother noted for her interest in Video Games and her excessive preoccupation with them, even at the age of 70.
- — A Quebecois teen named Ghyslain Raza filmed himself acting like the '' Star Wars '' character Darth Maul . The video was subsequently placed on the Internet by classmates. It became widely parodied on the Internet and on TV shows such as Arrested Development and American Dad . He also appeared in a secret place in the Tony Hawk's Underground 2 video game.
- — A slightly overweight computer consultant who made a costume inspired by the programs in the movie '' TRON '', Jay Maynard's website showing the costume's creation in detail quickly became a parody fixture. Maynard appeared on numerous episodes of Jimmy Kimmel Live in 2004. {Link without Title}
- — Creator of MySpace , who automatically adds himself as a friend to everyone who joins, he has become the subject of numerous parodies based on his well-known default photo. {Link without Title}
- — A Civil Engineering student from Hong Kong and failed American Idol contestant who became famous for his poor singing and dancing abilities. His talent (or lack thereof) ironically led to a record deal and CD titled ''Inspiration'', in which he butchers more songs by Ricky Martin, among others. Hung has done numerous performanes at football games as well as a guest appearance on Arrested Development .
- — A Satire band that played music combined from songs written by the Beatles and Metallica . The band received most of its initial fame (and its name) from Milwaukee resident David Dixon who created a web page about them in 2001.
- — A late-70s to mid-80s group that was practically unknown in the US until the " Moskau " fad. Besides being a short video with crazy dancing and happy German music, the Dschinghis Khan clip is also included in some Flash files.
- — A disco-rock band that became infamous after a video for their song "Gay Bar" surfaced on the Internet featuring dubbed vocals with George W. Bush and Tony Blair.
- — Makers of the songs "Bang Bang Bang", "SchfiftyFive", "Too Many Guys", and "Mario Twins," the latter of which is a parody of the Super Mario Bros. theme song. Many of their songs have been adapted into Flash videos.
- — A Norwegian band that appeared in a video where they cover a Bonnie Tyler song using kitchen appliances, later being sponsored by Ford for a mock U.S. tour.
- — A one-man band by Neil Cicierega , music videos were animated, particularly by Andrew Kepple and Shawn Vulliez . Famous moment at Vulliez's " Ultimate Showdown Of Ultimate Destiny "
- — Became famous in part due to the Numa Numa Dance meme.
- — A Belgian teenager with acne going by the name of Gellieman lip-synchs a love song for his girlfriend. Numerous parodies have resulted as well as a false rumor of him committing suicide after the video. {Link without Title}
- (or numerous variations with the name '''German Kid''') — German boy gets angry on his computer and smashes up his keyboard while spewing German Expletive s and maniacal laughter. Similar to Super Angry Gamer. {Link without Title}
- - A white middleclass rapper who's rapping about coming from a middleclass suburban life & not coming from a poor urban life, like the most other rappers do. {Link without Title}
- — A Chinese male duo who gained fame for their lip-synch videos to songs by the Backstreet Boys .
- '''''. The final scene has Darth Vader bellowing a long, anguished "No!" that is translated literally as "Do not want". {Link without Title}
- — A man takes out his rage on his computer.
- — Leonard Nimoy sings an up-tempo Bubblegum Pop song about the J.R.R. Tolkien character in a 1968 music video.
- ''' students the mock trailer re-worked scenes from the '' Back To The Future '' to show a previously non-existent romance between Marty McFly and Doctor Emmett Brown , led to many other movies and TV shows to be re-worked in the same way.
- — A man who rose to fame thanks to a humorous local TV broadcast where he was interviewed on the topic of Whistle Tip s.
- — A popular music video based on the song, featuring a male in a female Aerobics class. Many spoofs followed, the most famous of which features a female in a male Naval aerobics class. [http://www.collegehumor.com/?movie_id=91110
- — Two Korean youths dancing in front of a mirror.
- — An allegedly Eastern European pop song and music video, featured on the Molvania website. It was intended as a parody of Eastern European pop culture.
- — An old news story, thought to be myth, gets a second following with the postage of a news footage video. {Link without Title}
- {Link without Title} — Fan films range from simple backyard antics to professional looking films such as "Duality"
- — A video of Irina Kazakova doing a contortion routine. {Link without Title}
- — Public service announcements that appeared at the end of the '' G.I. Joe '' animated series, re-edited by Fenslerfilm to be completely silly and random. {Link without Title}
- — Appalachian State University promotional video that had an unintended response. [http://www.theapp.appstate.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=734&Itemid=0
- — Spoof music video of Peter Kay 's version of " Is This The Way To Amarillo " made by UK troops stationed in Iraq. It was so popular it crashed the army's server. {Link without Title}
- — A singer who makes up for his lack of ability and his unusual voice with bizarre facial expressions.
- — The German coffee company released horror-themed commercials to simulate the effects of caffeine; the most (in)famous of the commercials was titled " Auto " and was linked, e-mailed, and mirrored extensively by horrified people wanting others to see what they had seen. All of their commercial ads can be accessed from their site .
- — Parodying '' The Passion Of The Christ '', this is one of many mock trailers made from re-cut footage of existing films.
- — is a tokusatsu children's comedy show from Japan.
- — A music video starring Saturday Night Live cast members Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg that aired on the December 17 , 2005 episode of the show.
- — A party of World Of Warcraft players gets wiped out thanks to the actions of one of their group. {Link without Title}
- — A group of people playing Ping Pong " Matrix style" with the aid of several stage-hands. The clip originates from a Japanese Game Show . {Link without Title}
- — two college guys lip-synch to "Milk and Cereal" with milk and cereal props in their dorm room.
- - An excerpt from a German music video with happy lyrics and crazy dancing, thus the fame from YTMND .
- - An angry Gangsta Rap video from Saturday Night Live which has become quite popular.
- — A boy who continuously screams after getting a Nintendo 64 on Christmas Day. The video is possibly from late 1996 or early 1997, where Nintendo 64 was released. He has a website at kuzmadv.com. {Link without Title}
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- — A video of an overweight prepubescent boy with a mullet singing along to the Pokémon theme song in a room full of Pokémon merchandise. {Link without Title}
- '''s, was widely circulated on the Internet in June of 2005.
- - A video which very accurately depicts the Simpsons intro with real actors. {Link without Title}
- — A short film by music video director Chris Cunningham , accompanied by music from Aphex Twin , which was thought by some to depict an actual mutant teenager in a wheelchair when excerpts from it began appearing on the Internet. {Link without Title}
- — Videos of people rocking out behind unknowing victims.
- - A teenager playing the online video game '' Halo 2 '' (under the screenname "'''Croyt'''") kept losing, and thus had violent tantrums, shouting profanity at the TV screen, and even going as far as ravaging the X-Box and/or the TV set. Has become the genesis for the recent popular "angry gamer" video meme. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMErDsTgGmQ&search=angry%20gamer
- {Link without Title} — A site that contains loops which infinitely repeat themselves over and over again.
- — Piano player who plays both old and new video games' themes. Formerly called " The Blindfolded Pianist ."
- — A display of Christmas lights synchronized to a song (The Trans-Siberian Orchestra's "Wizards in Winter") by electrical engineer Carson Williams , this video was recently adopted by Miller Lite for a TV advertisement. {Link without Title}
- — A Flash animation with a montage of images depicting the famous '' Zero Wing '' quote, "All your base are belong to us" in various images. This quote is more familiar with the video gaming world since ''Zero Wing'' is a game that received its infamy from its poorly translated dialogue. The phrase is an example of Engrish .
- — Simple Flash animations usually containing foreign music and pop-culture references, such as " We Drink Ritalin ". The fad first gained widespread popularity with " Hyakugojyuuichi ".
- — An animation to a repetitive song about dancing Badgers , a mushroom, and a snake produced several variations.
- — Various animations with the song "Bananaphone" by Raffi Cavoukian have been created, the first and most widespread featuring Osaka with a "Gundam Bananaphone".
- ''''' in which Dante and Randal find themselves in a car driven by a bear, just one of the surreal events that occurs after The Episode is handed over to Korean animators.
- — A repetitive game, loosely based on BT Broadband, hosted on the BT website as an advertisement for their wholesale broadband product. The game has become phenomenally popular with schools in England in which Safety Filters block out most games sites. BT PipeSkater
- — A 3D-rendered dancing baby first appeared in 1997 and became something of a late '90s Cultural Icon .
- — An animated icon that became famous after being adapted in an animation with the song " Peanut Butter Jelly Time ".
- — A very long, minimalist Flash animation full of silliness (about 30 minutes long). {Link without Title}
- — The opening theme to a hypothetical anime starring the OS-Tans
- — A series of Flash animations made by the "Barney Bunch" about the notorious Rugrats character.
- — A Flash animation using Group X -style voices. {Link without Title}
- - A Flash animation about a strawberry and a baby. {Link without Title}
- — A page filled with animated GIF s of hamsters dancing, linking to other animated pages. It now has its own CD.
- — A series featuring cute animals that meet violent ends.
- — A Swedish animation featuring an assortment of bizarre imagery (centered around a floating hat) and Swedish phonetic "subtitles" to Middle Eastern music.
- — An online series that features cartoons of varying lengths, games, and the popular " Strong Bad Emails", in which viewers can email one of the main characters, to which he wittily responds. The site is updated on a weekly basis; thus, it is more of an Internet fixture rather than a short-lived phenomenon.
- — AwesomeFunny.com is best known for this video, which is a parody of the novel '' To Kill A Mockingbird '' that quickly deviates into a fantasy about pirates, dinosaurs, robots, and ninja.
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- — An episode of the Marvel television series was dubbed over by two amateur filmmakers; the recreated episode features comedy based upon the series' characters, as well as a gangster version of the Juggernaut infamously yelling "I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!" Interestingly, the Wikipedia page about this particular phenomenon has become very popular by association, appearing high on search engine results for the film.
- — This Weebl cartoon extolls the virtues of a holiday in Kenya : "We've got the lions/tigers, Only in Kenya! Come to Kenya, we've got lions/tigers..."
- — Flash-based video featuring a dancing cat saying "Cat, I'm a kitty-cat, and I dance, dance, dance, and I dance, dance, dance."
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- — A highly violent series.
- — A Flash cartoon about a magician.
- — A series featuring a Goth and her pet Squirrel .
- — This spoof of the '' Harry Potter '' series created by Neil Cicierega uses animated puppets to tell comical stories. Its storyline, limited movements of the puppets and the character's mindlessness contribute to the humor. {Link without Title}
- — Flash animations that tend to catch people off guard. They can be heart jumping "screamers" or just simply flashes such as " You Are An Idiot ".
- '' — A popular and commercially successful Machinima series using the Microsoft ''Halo'' And ''Halo 2'' video game engines. A popular, fan-created outgrowth is '' Sponsors Vs Freeloaders ''.
- — A story of an animator and the effects of rejection, created by Don Hertzfeldt .
- — An obscene Flash series about the vice-filled lives of various pet animals.
- — Featuring Star Wars characters rapping through '' A New Hope '' and '' Empire Strikes Back '', this was one of the first popular Flash movies.
- — A Korean series about a girl rabbit that fell in love with a cat.
- — A fight to the death from various pop culture icons and other characters. Animated by AltF4 and audio by Lemon Demon
- — A series about two egg shaped friends.
- Another wacky Flash song/animation.
- — A series of stick-figure action animations. "Xiao Xiao #3" was particularly popular.
- — This fad using Photoshopped pictures of the Muppet Bert placed with questionable people and situations gained notoriety when one was seen on a poster in a crowd of Osama Bin Laden supporters.
- — A woman's dog relieves itself on a subway car floor and she refuses to clean it up; the Internet community heard about the story and punished her.
- — A large mouse with large ambitions.
- — A customizable image of a laughing Quaker minister gained popularity on Fark .
- — Pictures with superimposed text used in discussions. Common accompanying texts include " Owned ", " STFU ", and " O RLY? ".
- — A cat with a helmet made from a lime on its head (a.k.a. Meloncat).
- This man was photographed looting beer while walking through waist deep waters in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina .
- — 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, it spawned an entire Yahoo! category under "Tasteless Humor → Ate My Balls".
- — Picture of a supposed fast food employee spilling mustard all over himself.
- — A seller submits a photo of a tea kettle to EBay unaware that the picture is revealing a reflection of his naked image. The photo led to a trend known as "reflectoporn". {Link without Title}
- — An Imageboard Meme featuring CG Artwork of a Japanese schoolgirl who murdered her classmate.
- — A Japanese rabbit whose owner placed various objects on top of its head (the most well-known being pancakes) and then posted pictures (also known as "Pancakebunny").
- '''s are personified as cute mascots by various Japanese artists.
- — The same person Photoshopped into photos of different events, (mostly disasters), it was originally a hoax based on the 9/11 Attacks . {Link without Title}
- — A very fat cat.
- — This 2006 film starring Samuel L. Jackson became an Internet meme due to its ridiculous title and premise a year before its planned release, and before any promotional material was released. Producers of the films responded to the wide Internet buzz by adding several scenes to the film which catered to the fans. {Link without Title}
- — 6 guys set out with a camera to produce a collection of short movies about random things.[http://www.the-show.tk/ The show homepage.]
- — A website with an extremely popular humorous link-based newsletter and plenty of Photoshopped user-submitted images. {Link without Title}
- — A person makes various emotional expressions by request.
- — Alex Tew sells one million pixels for $1 each. This spawned the craze for pixel advertising.
- - The popular Social Networking website, now an increasing part of Teenage Culture . {Link without Title}
- - A recent development which has a modest collection of humorous rants about things the two authors find irritating. {Link without Title}
- — The web's largest Flash video/game archive.
- — This mysterious art project/social experiment/life role play website was initially advertised with no information other than its slogan, "get out of your mind".
- — A humorous cartoon about a ninja who delivers fast food. Later published as a book, ''Ninja Burger: Honorable Employee Handbook''.
- — This and many similar sites represent a trend in posting funny overheard snippets online. Overheardin.net
- — A rabbit was found and scheduled to be eaten unless money was donated. Several copycat pages followed.
- — Examples include a 10-year-old Grilled Cheese sandwich with a supposed semblance to the Virgin Mary .
- — As the name suggests, these websites are constructed primarily to shock the visitor. Sites such as ''' Goatse.cx ''', ''' Lemonparty ''' & ''' Tubgirl ''' (now offline), are Shock Sites frequently linked from Internet forums and IRC channels, while ''' Rotten.com ''', which is still running as of April 2006, contains various images and news.
- - A person named Andrew Pants writes humorous songs based on ideas and requests sent to him by email.
- — A site where users can contribute and define their own words. {Link without Title}
- — Various comics and their characters have gained large followings. They come in multiple formats ranging from hand-drawn illustrations to Sprite Comic s submitted images.
- {Link without Title} — Parodies the dot-com boom.
- - websites set to generate chain referrals for freebies.
- — An Asian "rock star" who set up a Website on Geocities to look for a girlfriend.
- — A woman who started a modelling career by posting pictures of herself on the Internet. Her image became one of the most highly-downloaded on the Internet. {Link without Title}
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- — A resident of İzmir , Turkey , Çağrı became an Internet Celebrity in 1999 , when his picture-laden homepage, which exclaimed in broken English his love of the Accordion and travel, was visited by millions and spawned numerous fansites and parodies, one featured on Fox's '' MadTV '' (season 4, episode 20). Mahir was ranked #2 in CNET 's ''Top 10 Web fads'' ( July 15 , 2005 ). {Link without Title}
- — The personal website of a man named "Hitoshi" from from Tokyo, Japan, who likes milk, among other things. Created sometime before April 2001. Became an internet phenomenon, most likely due to Hitoshi's use of Engrish . {Link without Title}
- — Jennifer Ringley created the website "Jennicam", in which people could watch her via webcam. She also had her own Internet program, "The Jenni Show".
- — An American Computer Programmer living in Australia , Harding quit his job and started a website, documenting himself dancing wildly in front of various world landmarks. He was featured on a variety of television programs, including MSNBC 's Countdown with Keith Olbermann and the Ellen Degeneres talk show.
- — He posted pictures of himself on his website wearing self-made Peter Pan costumes. {Link without Title}
- — A sarcastic, sadistic, and foulmouthed man reviews Video Games and talks about Hostess snacks, ''The Superfriends '', and other oddities.
- — Thousands of webpages turned black for 48 hours to protest the Communications Decency Act .
- — Many webpages have linked to a blue ribbon image from EFF to raise awareness to laws that may affect online freedom of speech.
- — Parody Religion set up to satirize Intelligent Design .
- — A site made up of images of Americans holding signs telling the world they're sorry that Bush won the recent election.
- — This site contains thousands of pictures of people around the world holding signs showing they're not afraid of terrorism.
- — A website devoted to ninjas.
- — A freespirit Chinese blogger.
- — A Chinese woman that wrote about her sexual encounters. She is credited as starting a new sexual revolution in an otherwise suppressed China .
- — An ongoing community art project where people mail-in their secrets anonymously on homemade postcards. {Link without Title}
- — The blog of a teenage girl who wrote "just to let everyone know, my mother was murdered," and was arrested shortly thereafter. Her LiveJournal blog received over 5,000 comments, before it was deleted. Mirrors still exist.
- — Stories written by various Special Education teachers, notably a woman assuming the identity "Riti Sped."
- — The log of a caver who supposedly makes a strange discovery while caving. Also known as "Ted the Caver". {Link without Title}
- — Millions of hits as well as a cult following to a "man's man," whose skill with alcohol, women, and witty insults are unmatched.
- — Beguiled by promises of an easy way to publish poetry on-line and, later, with letters announcing that their poem is in the semi-finals of a poetry writing contest, poets from all parts of the world were scammed into giving money to The International Library Of Poetry so that they can get a book with their poem on it, and more money to attend "poetry reading" conventions.
- — Scams by Nigerians that steal people's credit card numbers. Some intended victims have documented their experiences in reversing the scam onto the person who tried to scam them.
- — A popular trend using audio clips of Arnold Schwarzenegger from the movie '' Kindergarten Cop '' to prank unsuspecting victims began, which led to many other celebrities' voices to be used in the same way. {Link without Title}
- — An angered woman calls 911 from a Burger King drive-thru because the employees refuse to make her Western cheeseburger the right way. (It should be noted that Carl's Jr offers a Western Burger, not Burger King.) {Link without Title}
- — Originated as a sound file spread on the Internet and used in insanity tests.
- — "You kicked my dog!" prank call.
- — Part of the soundtrack of the Broadway Musical '' Avenue Q ''.
- — A text-to-speech rapper based on Stephen Hawking 's synthesized voice.
- — A song about a crocodile sung by a very young German girl, whose huge commercial success would not have been possible without P2P networks.
- — A Chinese freestyle rapper.
- — An eerie sound taken from a game based on the anime JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and put into a strange Flash animation.
- — A song by the Fig Leaf -wearing group Happa-tai that was also made into the Animutation "Irrational Exuberance" .
- — Originating from the Pro Wrestling game for NES, this phrase is an example of Engrish .
- — A collection of online IRC Chat Log s at {Link without Title} .
- — Online postings about a man who meets someone by saving her on a train, which was later adapted into a comic book and TV-movie.
- — Participants strive to be the first person to add a comment (post) to a new article or discussion thread.
- & ''' AOL Speak ''' — These may also be considered forms of memetic Internet phenomenon.
- — ASCII Art originating on the GameFAQs message board, LUE .
- — Exchanging words of famous phrases. See List Of Snowclones for examples.
- — A phrase used on Usenet .
- — Inflammatory messages in order to provoke others. Slashdot is particularly known for this.
- — A simple ASCII Art bunny is often posted on web forums, accompanied by the text: "This is bunny. Copy and Paste bunny into your signature/webpage and help him on his way to world domination."
- — A pretentious criticism or insult that sprang to popularity after its use by Peter Griffin in a 2005 episode of Family Guy .
- — A Japanese construction company's advertisement about "growing".
- — Bizarre creatures that sing, later used to advertise for Quiznos .
- — A Burger King promotional website that features a "live" chicken that can obey thousands of typed commands.
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