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The internet in 2020

2020 was the year of Doggface208 Dreams video, Khaby Lame, Among Us and Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Part of the short-form era.

Doggface208 Dreams video
The one from 2020

Doggface208 Dreams video

You might remember it as Doggface208, Dreams skateboard video and 1 more

The defining TikTok of its year, and the clearest case of a short video reviving a fifty-year-old song.

Defining moments of 2020What the year is remembered for

2020, month by monthAs it happened

  1. Dalgona coffee Jung Il-woo orders it in Macau on a Korean television programme and gives it a name. Wikipedia — Dalgona coffee

  2. Dalgona coffee A Korean YouTuber’s video of making it gains attention. Wikipedia — Dalgona coffee

  3. The Sonic movie redesign The film is released, three months later than planned. Wikipedia — Sonic the Hedgehog (film)

  4. Dalgona coffee It spreads on TikTok during social distancing in South Korea. Wikipedia — Dalgona coffee

  5. Khaby Lame Lame is laid off from his job as a machine operator at a factory near Turin and begins posting to TikTok. Wikipedia — Khaby Lame

  6. Dancing Pallbearers A version posted to TikTok is viewed more than 2.9 million times. Wikipedia — Dancing Pallbearers

  7. Animal Crossing: New Horizons The game is released worldwide. Wikipedia — Animal Crossing: New Horizons

  8. Tiger King The series is released. Wikipedia — Tiger King

  9. Animal Crossing: New Horizons Nintendo counts 11.77 million copies sold. Wikipedia — Animal Crossing: New Horizons

  10. Woman yelling at a cat It is named Meme of the Year at the Shorty Awards, presented to Armstrong and to Smudge. Wikipedia — Woman yelling at a cat

  11. Stonks Elon Musk tweets the word as Tesla’s shares rise. Wikipedia — Meme Man

  12. Blackout Tuesday Music companies pause business for a day, and users of Instagram and Facebook post black squares. Wikipedia — Blackout Tuesday

  13. Among Us The streamer Sodapoppin plays it on Twitch. Others with larger audiences follow. Wikipedia — Among Us

  14. M to the B Poarch posts a close-up of herself lip-syncing and nodding to the track. Wikipedia — Bella Poarch

  15. VTubers Seven of the ten biggest earners from paid comments on YouTube are VTubers. Wikipedia — VTuber

  16. Copypasta A baseball commentator interrupts his own on-air apology to describe a home run, and the sentence becomes a copypasta. Wikipedia — Copypasta

  17. BTS’s Dynamite drew more than three million concurrent viewers to its premiere, a YouTube record. Official YouTube Blog

  18. BTS's Dynamite set the record for the most views a YouTube video has taken in 24 hours, at 101.1 million. Guinness World Records

  19. Jerusalema The video passes 100 million views on YouTube, as versions of the dance arrive from nuns and priests, airport ground crews and police forces challenging one another across borders. Wikipedia — Jerusalema (song)

  20. Among Us It passes 100 million downloads, and late in the month 3.8 million people are playing at once. The studio cancels a planned sequel to repair the original. Wikipedia — Among Us

  21. Doggface208 Dreams video Dreams re-enters the Hot 100 at number 21, forty-three years after it was released, and climbs to number 12. Wikipedia — Dreams (Fleetwood Mac song)

  22. Baby Shark Dance With 7.04 billion views it passes Despacito to become the most-viewed video on YouTube. Wikipedia — Baby Shark

  23. Four Seasons Total Landscaping At 9.35 a.m. Trump tweets that the event will be at “Four Seasons, Philadelphia”, then corrects it. It begins at about 11.50, and the Associated Press projects Joe Biden as the winner soon after. Wikipedia — Four Seasons Total Landscaping press conference

  24. Dogecoin Elon Musk tweets about it for the first time. Wikipedia — Dogecoin

Also in 2020Older things, still moving

  1. Hatsune Miku She is announced for the Coachella festival, which is then cancelled. She is announced again in January 2024. Wikipedia — Hatsune Miku

  2. OK boomer It is a clue on the quiz show Jeopardy! Wikipedia — OK boomer

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

  4. Lofi Girl YouTube removes the channel without explanation and restores it after protests. Wikipedia — Lofi Girl

  5. Dancing Pallbearers By this date clips of the pallbearers are being paired with Astronomia. Wikipedia — Dancing Pallbearers

  6. YTMND It is relaunched. Wikipedia — YTMND

  7. PPAP (Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen) Kosaka releases a version about washing hands. Wikipedia — PPAP (Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen)

  8. Dancing Pallbearers The city of Caldas Novas in Brazil puts the men on billboards reading “stay home or dance with us”. The group then releases a video of its own with the same message. Wikipedia — Dancing Pallbearers

  9. Giphy Facebook announces that it is buying the company. Wikipedia — Giphy

  10. Double Rainbow Vasquez dies aged 57 in hospital in Mariposa, California. Wikipedia — Double Rainbow (viral video)

  11. Jerusalema A remix with the singer Burna Boy is released. Wikipedia — Jerusalema (song)

  12. Jerusalema Dance Challenge A report describes nuns and priests doing the dance. Wikipedia — Jerusalema (song)

  13. Jerusalema Dance Challenge The song’s video reaches 100 million views. Wikipedia — Jerusalema (song)

  14. Animal Crossing: New Horizons Sales reach 26 million in six months. Wikipedia — Animal Crossing: New Horizons

  15. VTubers The agency Hololive launches an English-language branch. Wikipedia — VTuber

  16. Wojak An imageboard devoted to one variant, the soyjak, is founded. Wikipedia — Wojak

  17. Among Us Two members of the United States Congress play it on Twitch to encourage voting, watched by almost 700,000 people at once. Wikipedia — Among Us

  18. r/AmItheAsshole It is receiving about 800 disputes a day. Wikipedia — r/AmItheAsshole

  19. Something Awful Kyanka sells the site to a long-standing member and moderator. Wikipedia — Something Awful

  20. Despacito Baby Shark overtakes it as the most-viewed video on YouTube. Wikipedia — Despacito

  21. Will It Blend? The final episode is released, shortly before the company is sold. Wikipedia — Will It Blend?

  22. Animal Crossing: New Horizons Nintendo issues guidelines banning political use of the game, after an American presidential campaign and Hong Kong protesters had both used it. Wikipedia — Animal Crossing: New Horizons

  23. ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Pat Quinn dies, aged 37. Wikipedia — Ice Bucket Challenge

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On this page: 17 named things from 2020, 3 videos, 1 meme, 1 sound or saying and 9 trends among them.

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