Internet Trends
This trend was created in order to raise money and awareness for the medical condition ALS.
What is ALS Ice Bucket Challenge/Ice Bucket Challenge
This Ukrainian-American Youtuber, previously a freelance violinist, has become known for his mukbangs and his over-the-top freakouts.
Who is Nikocado Avocado/Nicholas Perry?
Debatably the most popular fanfic platform today, this site hosts over 10 million fan works.
What is AO3/Archive of our Own?
This convention was seen as a "Tumblr User's Dream" and even had a ballpit.
What is Dashcon?
This famous phrase was uttered when a player on the video game World of Warcraft broke from his team and rushed into a dungeon.
What is Leeroy Jenkins?
This trend involved a common kitchen ingredient being snorted or ingested.
What is the Cinnamon Challenge
This creator is known for their avant-garde VHS aesthetic animations and albums such as "Oh Klahoma".
Who is Jack Stauber?
This ship, originating in 2009 and technically being canonized 11 years later in 2020, remains the most popular ship on AO3 to this day.
What is Destiel?
This famous internet activism campaign sought to expose a brutal African warlord to the world but the campaign fell apart after much initial success.
What is Kony 2012?
This site is famous for starting the careers of animators and artists online such as Egoraptor.
What is Newgrounds?
This trend swept the internet in the early 2010s where participants would lay on their stomachs in odd places.
What is the planking challenge/planking
This creator is known for their smash hit song "The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny" among other musical endeavors.
Who is Neil Cicierega?
Commonly known as the worst fanfic of all time, this emo inspired Harry Potter fic's sincerity is hotly debated.
What is My Immortal?
This famous cereal mascot's new avatar debut was met with strange sexual advances online from furry artists and meme creators.
Who is Tony the Tiger?
A famous gif shows a scene from the movie Night at the Roxbury with three men in a car bobbing their heads to this song.
What is "What is Love?"
This ouija-adjacent challenge saw participants invoking the name of a supposed demon and waiting for the demon to move a pencil on a sheet of paper to signify its presence.
What is the Charlie-Charlie Challenge?
This creator, known for his loud and hyper persona, was famous in thee the early 2010s for his skits on Youtube and eventually produced three movies where his father is portrayed by John Cena.
Who is Fred/Lucas Cruikshank?
This author was notorious in the early 2000s for frequently suing fanfiction authors for using her work.
Who is Anne Rice?
This internet hoax purported that a new IOS 8 update allowed users to charge their phones using a microwave.
What is Wave Charging/iWave?
One of the earliest memes shows an animated GIF of a domesticated rodent dancing to a sped-up sample of the song "Whistle-Stop"
What is Hampster Dance?
This challenge caused participants to put ice and a common household ingredient on their arm in order to create a burning sensation.
What is the Salt and Ice Challenge
This OG Minecraft YouTuber is known for his lets plays and his Minecraft parodies including a cover of "Viva La Vida".
Who is CaptainSparklez?
This term, common on particularly dark fic, originates from a clip from the 2003 TV show, "Arrested Development".
What is Dead Dove Do Not Eat?
This animation of a policewoman and a bear became widely popular on Tumblr but eventually, the development of a full animated series fell apart with 80k dollars going missing.
What is Miss Officer and Mr Truffles?
This site, once popular for hosting memes and remixes such as Brian Peppers or NEDM, has lost relevancy to sites such as Youtube and Reddit in the modern era.
What is YTMND/You're the Man Now Dog?