2009·Early YouTube
Grass Mud Horse
The central artefact of Chinese internet censorship-evasion culture.
You might remember it as Cao Ni Ma, grass mud horse song
A trend people joined in with
This Moment began as a web page, not as a video.
- SourceNot an upload originally
- MediaNot held by ViralWorld
What this was
A phenomenon classified under farm-animals.
It first appeared in 2009, during early YouTube.
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Grouped by explicit relationships where evidence exists, and by shared theme otherwise.
Behind the recordWhere it came from
There is no original upload to identify: this Moment did not begin as one. ViralWorld holds no copy of it either — what it was, when it appeared and what people called it is the record.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first publication of this Moment, because the first publication was not an upload. This Moment began as a web page, not as a video.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.
- What happens
- A phenomenon classified under farm-animals.