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16 January in internet history

Things that can be dated to 16 January: the day something was posted, a record that changed hands, an event research has pinned to a date. Every entry links to where it was read.

What is dated to this day16 January

  1. Project Chanology Users of 4chan and other boards plan a response. Wikipedia — Project Chanology

  2. TikTok refugees RedNote is the most-downloaded free app in Apple’s American store, with millions of new users. Wikipedia — Restrictions on TikTok in the United States

Also around this weekWithin three days

These did not happen on 16 January. They are shown because the day itself is thin, and each one carries its own date.

  1. Baby Shark Dance Baby Shark Dance became the first video in history to reach ten billion views. Guinness World Records

  2. Italian brainrot A post pairing the audio with an AI-generated shark in shoes reaches seven million views. Wikipedia — Italian brainrot

  3. TikTok refugees American TikTok users begin signing up to RedNote. Wikipedia — Restrictions on TikTok in the United States

  4. Tenor It announces that the service other apps use to fetch its GIFs will be switched off at the end of June. Wikipedia — Tenor (website)

  5. Project Chanology A Scientology video of Tom Cruise is posted to YouTube, and removed after a copyright claim. Wikipedia — Project Chanology

  6. Bilibili It is relaunched as Bilibili. Wikipedia — Bilibili

  7. Fyre Festival Hulu releases a documentary, Fyre Fraud. Netflix releases its own, Fyre, four days later. Wikipedia — Fyre Festival

  8. Instagram egg It passes her, in just under ten days. Within two more days it has 45 million likes. Wikipedia — Instagram egg

  9. The snowclone Whitman proposes “snowclone”. Pullum adopts it the next day. Wikipedia — Snowclone

  10. OK boomer Chief Justice John Roberts uses the phrase during argument in the US Supreme Court case Babb v. Wilkie. Wikipedia — OK boomer

  11. Techno Viking A case brought by the man in the video against Fritsch, over the use of his image, opens in Berlin. Wikipedia — Technoviking

  12. Boo He dies, aged twelve. Wikipedia — Boo (dog)

  13. TikTok refugees TikTok suspends its service in the United States, late in the evening. Wikipedia — Restrictions on TikTok in the United States

  14. Dean Scream Howard Dean, having come third in the Iowa caucus, lists the states he says he will win and ends with a scream of “Yeah!” Wikipedia — Dean scream

  15. Dogecoin Its users begin raising 50,000 dollars for the Jamaican bobsleigh team. Wikipedia — Dogecoin

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