Younger days: Music
In 2010, this 16-year-old Canadian singer released the most-viewed YouTube video of its time, featuring Ludacris.
Justin Bieber
This Disney-owned virtual world featured penguin avatars and was a staple of after-school computer time until it closed in 2017.
Club Penguin
Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote the music for this 2021 film about the magical Madrigal family, though we "don't talk about" one specific member.
Encanto
In this Cartoon Network series, a boy and his magical dog, Jake, live in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo.
In Adventure Time, this is the name of the ancient, tragic wizard who was once a human archaeologist named Simon Petrikov.
The Ice King
In 2014, Taylor officially "shook off" her country roots and released this album named after her birth year.
1989
This 2017 obsession featured three-pronged plastic devices that you balanced on your finger to relieve stress (or distract your classmates)
Fidget Spinners
This actor voiced the "Legendary" Emmet in The Lego Movie and the raptor-training Owen Grady in Jurassic World
Chris Pratt
This Netflix series featured "The Baudelaire Orphans" attempting to escape the clutches of Count Olaf, played by Neil Patrick Harris
A Series of Unfortunate Events
This show features three "Bears"—Grizzly, Panda, and Ice Bear—who try to fit into human society in San Francisco.
We Bare Bears
In 2021, Olivia Rodrigo got her first #1 hit with this song about getting a legal permit to travel to an ex's house.
Drivers license
These small, collectible "grocery" items had names like "Kooky Cookie" and "Apple Blossom" and came in tiny shopping baskets.
Shopkins
In Frozen, this character shocked audiences by revealing he was the villain during the song "Love Is an Open Door.
Prince Hans
This martial-arts-focused series, which debuted on YouTube Red before moving to Netflix, serves as a sequel to The Karate Kid
Cobra Kai
This pet platypus lives a double life as "Agent P," a secret agent fighting Dr. Doofenshmirtz.
Perry the Platypus
This 2021 song, which features the lyrics "I take my girl to the city," was a collaboration with Ariana Grande
This Swedish building game allowed kids to create entire worlds out of blocks and became a global phenomenon during the early 2010
Minecraft
This singer-songwriter, known for the hit "Happy," wrote the entire soundtrack and original songs for the Despicable Me franchise.
Pharrell Williams
Based on a series of Archie Comics, this dark mystery show featured a group of teens in a town plagued by serial killers and cults.
Riverdale
In The Fairly OddParents, these are the names of Timmy Turner's two fairy godparents.
Cosmo and Wanda
Ariana Grande: "I've got so much love, got so much patience, I've learned from the pain, I'm turned out amazing... say..."
thank you, next
These battle tops were launched alongside an anime series and featured a "Ripcord" to launch them into a plastic "Beystadium."
Beyblades
He wrote the songs for Moana, but before that, he won a Tony for a musical about a "Founding Father" that every 2008-born child had on their Spotify in 2016
Lin-Manuel Miranda
This Disney series was a spinoff of the 90s classic Boy Meets World, following Cory and Topanga’s daughter, Riley.
Girl Meets World
In Regular Show, this high-skipping yeti is the strongest worker at the park.
Skips