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2020·Short-form and streams

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The first thing the whole internet watched at the same time in lockdown.

You might remember it as Joe Exotic, Carole Baskin

A trend people joined in with

The story

What this was

A documentary released in March 2020 that 34 million people watched within ten days, producing a fortnight in which almost every online conversation referenced the same programme.

It first appeared in 2020, during short-form and streams.

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The same internet

Short-form and streams

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Where it came from

There is no original to identify: this spread through many separate posts at once rather than from a first one. ViralWorld holds no copy of it either — what it was, when it spread and what people called it is the record.

Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this, because research established there was not one — it appeared in many places at once.

Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.

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A documentary released in March 2020 that 34 million people watched within ten days, producing a fortnight in which almost every online conversation referenced the same programme.
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