Grass Mud Horse
You might remember it as Cao Ni Ma, grass mud horse song
The archive has not found a surviving copy.
2009·Early YouTube
The central artefact of Chinese internet censorship-evasion culture.
At a glanceThe facts
- Remembered as
- Cao Ni Ma
- Spread in
- 2009
- Began as
- A web page
- Format
- Phenomenon
- Origin
- Not an upload originally
- Available
- Not held by ViralWorld
What this wasThe story
A phenomenon classified under farm-animals.
Why it is here: it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later
This began as a web page, not as a video.
Where it came fromWhat we know
There is no original upload to identify: this did not begin as one. There is no copy of it here either — what it was, when it appeared and what people called it is what this page can tell you.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first publication of this Moment, because the first publication was not an upload. This began as a web page, not as a video.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.