"The lore you know"
This baby pygmy hippo from a Thai zoo became 2024’s most famous bad-tempered animal.
Who is Moo Deng?
Before TikTok, this app capped videos at six seconds and shut down in 2017.
What is Vine?
"Takis", "lit", and "Tesla" all appear in the lyrics of this KATSEYE song.
What is Gnarly?
This phrase refers to someone acting like a video game background character.
This 2025 animated film became Netflix’s most-watched movie ever
What is KPop Demon Hunters?
This toothy, grinning Pop Mart monster sent people lining up for blind boxes in 2025.
What is Labubu?
n 2011, this 13-year-old’s song about the weekend became YouTube’s most-disliked video.
Who is Rebecca Black? (Or What is “Friday”?)
This celebrity went viral in March 2026 for their low effort Coachella performance that called back to some of the most viral moments of their career.
Because of releases like Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan and Barbie (2024) this summer was coined "for the girls" and was named after this Charli XCX album.
What is Brat Summer
This 2024 musical’s press tour gave us the viral meme term “holding space.”
What is Wicked?
“Imagine if Ninja got a low ___” became a 2024 song and meme.
What is a taper fade?
This Cincinnati Zoo gorilla became an enduring meme after his death in 2016.
Who is Harambe?
The popularity of the singer's improvised outros eventually led to an official Christmas version of this song.
What is Nonsense/A Nonsense Christmas
An Australian breakdancer’s kangaroo hop at this 2024 event was clowned into oblivion
What are the Paris Olympics?
After this 2019 video game movie’s first trailer, the backlash was so bad the studio redesigned the main character’s whole body.
After turning a viral June 2024 interview into merchandise and a podcast, this internet personality later faced controversy over a memecoin.
Who is Haliey Welch/What is Hawk Tuah
In 2018, an audio clip split the internet over whether the voice said one of these two names
What is Yanny or Laurel?
This Drake diss track by Kendrick Lamar was released less than an hour after "Family Matters," shocking the internet with its speed and timing.
What is "Meet the Grahams"?
Kids were stuck at home in April 2020, so Travis Scott played a giant in-game concert inside this video game.
What is Fortnite?
this phrase started as a meme mocking this 2022 Jared Leto flop. The studio re-released it in theatres because of the memes, and it flopped a second time.
what is “It’s Morbin’ time”
This phrase became internet shorthand for looking cool, mysterious, or untouchable.
Aura Farming/Looksmaxxing
In 2009, Lucas Cruikshank’s high-pitched character made this the first YouTube channel to reach 1 million subscribers.
who/What is Fred
This project girl group, which included Business Proposal star Kim Sejeong, reunited in 2026 to celebrate its 10th anniversary
What is I.O.I
In 2023, Blackpink became the first Asian act to headline this festival.
What is Coachella?
A rumor asked whether Harry Styles spat on his co-star at the premier of this movie
What is " Don't Worry Darling "