Techno Viking
You might remember it as Technoviking, Fuckparade dancer
A possible copy is known, but ViralWorld has not verified that it is the right one.
2000·Early web, before YouTube
A defining early meme whose original was later removed by court order, making provenance the whole question.
At a glanceThe facts
- Remembered as
- Technoviking
- Spread in
- 2000
- Began as
- A video upload
- Where it started
- web
- Format
- Video
- Made by
- Matthias Fritsch, a video artist
- Original title
- Kneecam No. 1
- Recorded
- At the Fuckparade in Berlin, on 8 July 2000
- Origin
- Origin not yet established
- Available
- Not held by ViralWorld
Why it matteredWhat changed
A man filmed dancing at a street parade became famous seven years later, sued the artist who filmed him over the use of his image, and won.
TimelineIn order
- Made
Matthias Fritsch films a parade on Rosenthaler Straße in Berlin.1
- Posted
Fritsch puts the video online as Kneecam No. 1.1
- Posted
An unknown user republishes it to YouTube.1
- Took off
Having been posted to Break.com, it is being watched more than a million times a day.1
- Later
A case brought by the man in the video against Fritsch, over the use of his image, opens in Berlin.1
- Corrected
The court finds for the man. Fritsch is ordered to pay 13,000 euros in damages and to stop publishing his image.1
- Later
Fritsch releases a crowdfunded documentary, The Story of Technoviking.1
The version you rememberNot the same thing
A 2006 re-upload by somebody unknown.1
An art video Fritsch posted to the internet in 2001, five years before YouTube had it.1
What people misrememberSet straight
Commonly remembered asHe is confronting a stranger who bothered a dancer.
ActuallyThe man he sends away was a friend, being pointed back to the truck set aside for people who had drunk too much.1
Commonly remembered asHe was identified as the fighter Keith Jardine.
ActuallyFans proposed that in 2008. The man’s lawyer denied it.1
Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later
Originally published on web.
Where it came fromWhat we know
Original source uncertain. This is the earliest copy currently known.
No original upload has been established for this record. The index is showing the earliest copy it currently knows about, and says so rather than guessing.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.
- Where
- Known on YouTube.
SourcesWhat was read
Sources last read on . That date is about the history on this page. Whether the media still plays is checked separately and can change any day. How ViralWorld documents things