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The internet in 2015

2015 was the year of The Dress, Deez Nuts, Distracted boyfriend and Finsta. Part of the platform era.

The one from 2015

The Dress

You might remember it as blue black white gold dress

One of the largest internet events ever measured, and a photograph rather than a video.

Defining moments of 2015What the year is remembered for

2015, month by monthAs it happened

  1. Dancing Pallbearers The oldest clip later reused in the meme is uploaded to YouTube. Wikipedia — Dancing Pallbearers

  2. The complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir It becomes an internet meme, probably starting on Reddit and moving to Tumblr. Wikipedia — Complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir

  3. The Dress Cecilia Bleasdale photographs the dress in a shop, about a week before her daughter Grace is married on the Scottish island of Colonsay. Grace posts the picture to Facebook. Wikipedia — The dress

  4. Left Shark Two dancers in shark costumes flank Katy Perry during Teenage Dream and California Gurls. The one on the left is out of time with the other. Wikipedia — Left Shark

  5. The Dress Caitlin McNeill reposts the photograph to Tumblr. Wikipedia — The dress

  6. The Dress BuzzFeed publishes “The Dress Is Blue And Black”. Its Tumblr page peaks at 673,000 people on it at once, and the hashtag reaches eleven thousand tweets a minute. Wikipedia — The dress

  7. Duang By the start of the month the word has more than eight million mentions on Weibo. Wikipedia — Duang

  8. King Bach He becomes the most-followed person on Vine. Wikipedia — King Bach

  9. Lofi Girl The channel is created. Wikipedia — Lofi Girl

  10. The Button The button appears, on April Fools’ Day. Only accounts that already exist may press it. Wikipedia — The Button (Reddit)

  11. We Are Number One The song is uploaded to LazyTown’s YouTube channel. Wikipedia — We Are Number One

  12. Deez Nuts A candidate called Deez Nuts is registered with the Federal Election Commission. Wikipedia — Deez Nuts (politician)

  13. Deez Nuts A polling firm includes the name and finds 8 per cent support in Iowa and Minnesota and 9 per cent in North Carolina. Wikipedia — Deez Nuts (politician)

  14. YouTube removed the "301+" freeze, ending the years in which a popular upload visibly stopped counting at 301 views while it was checked for fraud. Wikipedia — Timeline of YouTube

  15. Deez Nuts The person behind it is identified as a fifteen-year-old. Wikipedia — Deez Nuts (politician)

  16. Why You Always Lying Nicholas Fraser posts the parody to Vine. Wikipedia — Too Close (Next song)

  17. Baby Shark Dance Pinkfong uploads its first, Korean-language version. Wikipedia — Baby Shark

Also in 2015Older things, still moving

  1. Duang A parody of it set to another song is posted on Bilibili. Wikipedia — Duang

  2. The Dress Roman Originals, having sold out of the dress within half an hour, announces it will make a single white-and-gold one to auction for Comic Relief. Wikipedia — The dress

  3. Netflix and chill Urban Dictionary adds the sexual definition. Wikipedia — Netflix and chill

  4. Success Kid The family launches a GoFundMe for a kidney transplant for Sammy’s father, Justin. He receives the transplant. Wikipedia — Success Kid

  5. Darude Sandstorm For April Fools’ Day YouTube answers music searches with “Did you mean: Darude – Sandstorm”. Wikipedia — Sandstorm (instrumental)

  6. Trollface In an interview with Kotaku, Ramirez says licensing and settlements have brought him more than 100,000 US dollars. Wikipedia — Trollface

  7. The Button A user called BigGoron presses it at 21:49:53. Nobody presses in the next sixty seconds, and it ends after 1,008,316 presses. Wikipedia — The Button (Reddit)

  8. r/IAmA Hundreds of subreddits close themselves in protest after the Reddit employee who helped run the sessions is dismissed. Wikipedia — r/IAmA

  9. Leave Britney Alone Cunningham closes the YouTube channel. Wikipedia — Leave Britney Alone!

  10. Why You Always Lying A full-length version follows on YouTube. Wikipedia — Too Close (Next song)

  11. 4chan Poole’s sale of the site to Hiroyuki Nishimura is announced. Wikipedia — 4chan

  12. The monkey selfie The animal-rights group PETA sues on the macaque’s behalf. Wikipedia — Monkey selfie copyright dispute

  13. Loss Buckley says in an interview that he does not regret the strip, and that women have told him the storyline helped them. Wikipedia — Loss (Ctrl+Alt+Del)

  14. Animator vs. Animation Animation vs. Minecraft is uploaded. Wikipedia — Animator vs. Animation

The videos of 2015Watched

What everybody was doingJoined in

More from 2015Also remembered

On this page: 17 named things from 2015, 6 videos, 1 meme, 3 sounds and sayings and 5 trends among them.

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