The internet in 2010

2010 was the year of The Duck Song, Double Rainbow, ASMR and Mukbang. Part of the social era.

The Duck Song ▶

The one from 2010

The Duck Song

You might remember it as Duck Song lemonade stand

A children's song animation with a durable catchphrase and hundreds of millions of views.

• Double Rainbow Video · 2010
• The story ASMR Trend · 2010
• The story Mukbang Trend · 2010
• The story Shitposting Post · 2010
• The Man Your Man Could Smell Like Video · 2010
• The story The reaction video Trend · 2010
• Trololo Video · 2010

1. 8 January

   Double Rainbow Paul Vasquez films two rainbows from his property in Mariposa County and uploads the video the same day. Wikipedia — Double Rainbow (viral video)

2. 14 January

   Bilibili It is relaunched as Bilibili. Wikipedia — Bilibili

3. 4 February

   The Man Your Man Could Smell Like The advertisement is posted online. Wikipedia — The Man Your Man Could Smell Like

4. 21 February

   Trololo The clip begins appearing across other sites. A site built around it draws three million visits in a month. Wikipedia — Trololo

5. 1 April

   Lady Gaga's Bad Romance took the title — the first music video to do so, beginning a hold by music videos that has never since been broken. Wikipedia — List of most-viewed YouTube videos

6. 5 April

   Will It Blend? He blends an iPad. Wikipedia — Will It Blend?

7. 6 April

   Miracles (Insane Clown Posse) The music video is released. Wikipedia — Miracles (Insane Clown Posse song)

8. 7 May

   Waka Waka Waka Waka is released as the official song of the World Cup in South Africa. Wikipedia — Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)

9. June

   The Man Your Man Could Smell Like It wins the Film Grand Prix at the Cannes Lions festival. By the end of the month it has been watched eleven million times online. Wikipedia — The Man Your Man Could Smell Like

10. 25 June

    Will It Blend? He blends an iPhone 4. Wikipedia — Will It Blend?

11. July

    The Man Your Man Could Smell Like It wins the Emmy for outstanding commercial. Wikipedia — The Man Your Man Could Smell Like

12. 1 July

    Justin Bieber's Baby became the most-viewed video on YouTube, and held the title for roughly 863 days. CBC News

13. 3 July

    Double Rainbow The television host Jimmy Kimmel tweets a link to it, calling it the funniest video in the world. It passes a million views soon afterwards. Wikipedia — Double Rainbow (viral video)

14. 25 July

    Nyan Cat The musician daniwell uploads the song Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya! to the Japanese video site Niconico, sung by the voice synthesiser Hatsune Miku. Wikipedia — Nyan Cat

15. October

    Boo A tweet by the singer Kesha linking to his page brings a surge of followers. Wikipedia — Boo (dog)

16. October

    Doge A Reddit post of a Welsh Corgi titled “LMBO LOOK @ THIS FUKKEN DOGE” helps attach the misspelling to pictures of dogs. Wikipedia — Doge (meme)

17. 11 November

    Copypasta The earliest known posting of the Navy Seal copypasta, on 4chan. Wikipedia — Copypasta

18. 26 November

    PogChamp The video the face is taken from is uploaded to Cross Counter TV. Wikipedia — PogChamp

1. February

   CPDRC Dancing Inmates The governor suspends the programme pending a review of how donations were accounted for. Wikipedia — CPDRC Dancing Inmates

2. 8 February

   The Man Your Man Could Smell Like It is first shown on American television. Wikipedia — The Man Your Man Could Smell Like

3. March

   Keyboard Cat Schmidt releases “Keyboard Cat REINCARNATED!” with a second cat, Bento. Wikipedia — Keyboard Cat

4. March

   Omegle Video is added. Wikipedia — Omegle

5. 3 March

   Trololo It is shown on The Colbert Report. Wikipedia — Trololo

6. 17 April

   Miracles (Insane Clown Posse) Saturday Night Live broadcasts a parody of it. Wikipedia — Miracles (Insane Clown Posse song)

7. 5 July

   Double Rainbow The Gregory Brothers post an Auto-Tuned Double Rainbow Song made from his voice. Wikipedia — Double Rainbow (viral video)

8. 26 July

   Double Rainbow Vasquez is interviewed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Wikipedia — Double Rainbow (viral video)

9. 27 July

   Trollface Ramirez registers Trolls with the United States Copyright Office. Wikipedia — Trollface

10. August

    Hatsune Miku More than 22,000 original songs have been made with her voice. A year later the figure reported is 100,000. Wikipedia — Hatsune Miku

11. 25 August

    Digg A new version is launched, full of faults. Traffic falls and many users move to Reddit. Wikipedia — Digg

12. 29 October

    GeoCities The volunteer group Archive Team releases a copy of what it saved, about 900 gigabytes. Wikipedia — GeoCities

• Waka Waka
• Weird Twitter The story
• Wojak Look
• Kids React The story
• Miracles (Insane Clown Posse)
• Never Say No to Panda
• Newport State of Mind View original
• PogChamp
• QWOP The story
• This Too Shall Pass
• Vuvuzela The story

On this page: 19 named things from 2010, 7 videos, 2 memes, 1 sound or saying and 5 trends among them.