What the internet is sharing, and everything it remembers
#1 Latest documented
Golden
A song by a group that does not exist won an Academy Award and a Grammy.
Jul 2025SoundPlayable here
#2 Latest documented
Nothing beats a Jet2 holiday
An airline advert became the internet's standard soundtrack for things going wrong.
Jul 2025SoundPlayable here
#3 Latest documented
Pretty Little Baby
A B-side from 1962 became the most-used sound on TikTok sixty-three years later.
May 2025SoundPlayable here
#4 Latest documented
Sigma Boy
A Russian-language children's song that topped global viral charts.
Dec 2024VideoPlayable here
#5 Latest documented
Corn Kid
The most widely quoted short video of its year, with a clearly identified interview source.
2022VideoPlayable here
#6 Latest documented
Wellerman
The sea-shanty revival that showed short-video duetting could build collaborative performance.
2021VideoPlayable here
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What people have been talking aboutRecently
Trends, phrases and moments from the last stretch of the internet. Most of these were never one video, so there is nothing to play — there is something to read.
- Merlin the Duck A duck in a football kit became the unofficial mascot of a World Cup.
- The Viking Row An entire nation's supporters mimed rowing a longship, in stadiums and then everywhere else.
- Scientology speedrunning A challenge scored like a video game, played inside real buildings.
- Punch the Monkey An orphaned macaque adopted a stuffed orangutan and sold it out worldwide.
- Conformity Gate A fandom decoded a secret episode from a clock in a promotional video, and there was no episode.
- Macron's "for sure" A head of state's verbal tic eclipsed his own speech.
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This week in internet historyThis week
- 2020 · 9 October6 years ago
Kyanka sells the site to a long-standing member and moderator. Read on
- 2016 · 13 October10 years ago
Stefánsson announces that he has cancer. Read on
- 2017 · 15 October9 years ago
Alyssa Milano makes #MeToo widely known. Read on
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Funniest videos on the internetStill funny
HomestuckWorth knowing
For much of its seven years it had about a million readers a day, and its readers gave two and a half million dollars to fund a game.
Homestuck, 2011 — 3 dated events, with sources.
Most viral everThe big ones
Gangnam Style
Gangnam Style
You might remember it as Psy Gangnam Style, horse dance video
The first video to a billion views and the moment non-Anglophone pop became globally default.
The original and the version you rememberNot the same thing
A ringtone, a television advertisement and a chart single from 2004 and 2005.
A sound file that had circulated on file-sharing networks for years, and an animation made by somebody else who did not know whose sound it was.
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JK Wedding Entrance Dance
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Ken Lee
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Lazy Sunday
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Lil Bub
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The most-watched thing on the internet, and every time it changed hands
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