Internet memes

Admiral Ackbar is a fictional character in the Star Wars movies and novels. ...more on Wikipedia about "Admiral Ackbar"

"All your base are belong to us" (sometimes referred to as "All Your Base" or abbreviated AYBABTU or simply AYB) is a phrase that sparked an Internet phenomenon in 2001 and 2002. The text is taken from the opening found in the English version of the Japanese video game Zero Wing, the translation of which was terrible to the point of hilarity. The game was originally produced by Toaplan in 1989. Groups of game enthusiasts began digitally altering various images to include the phrase. Eventually, these images were collected together onto one site, Tribalwar, and a Flash animation produced from them, which was widely downloaded. The original QuickTime movie can be found here . The most popular version of the video, set to music by The Laziest Men on Mars, can be found here . ...more on Wikipedia about "All your base are belong to us"

Anabukinchan or Anabukin-chan (Japanese: あなぶきんちゃん) is a young girl who is the mascot of Anabuki Construction Inc. . ...more on Wikipedia about "Anabukinchan"

Animutation is a form of art using Macromedia Flash to create pop culture influenced videos of foreign-language, independent, or (more rarely) mainstream music. The style was popularized by Neil Cicierega (a.k.a. Trapezoid) from Kingston, Massachusetts at the age of 13. The genre is currently expanding to include many other Flash artists. ...more on Wikipedia about "Animutation"

Arfenhouse is a series of Flash cartoons and RPGs, created by Paul Netto (Misteroo), and developed by Disaster Labs. All are intentionally poorly produced. The graphics are rudimentary and the plot is incoherent to an extreme degree. As such, the series can be passed on as comedy and has developed a fanbase within the Newgrounds and deviantART communities. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arfenhouse"

Asian Prince is a parody website revolving around an Asian rock star named Wo-Hen Nankan search for a girlfriend - a Prince in search of a Princess. The website first appeared in 1999 and may be responsible for coining the phrase "Am I not hot?". Throughout the website Wo-Hen brags about his long hair styled into a mullet which, as he puts it, is "soft, thick and easy to style", his moustache, expensive European suits, cars and money, as well as his ability to attract chicks. ...more on Wikipedia about "Asian Prince"

Ate my balls was a relatively early example of an Internet meme. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ate my balls"

: Bad Day is also the title of a song and single by R.E.M. . It is also a song and single by rapper Bizarre , and is also the name of Daniel Powter's only major hit. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bad Day"

The Bad Times virus is an Internet meme which emerged in response to the Goodtimes virus hoax. The email was given the subject 'Bad times virus', and in a similar fashion to the Goodtimes virus, implored the reader to delete any email with that title immediately. The main difference between the two is that the various effects of the Bad Times virus were humorous and highly implausible. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bad times virus"

Badgers (aka "Badger Badger Badger") is a Flash cartoon by Jonti Picking, the creator of Weebl and Bob, consisting mainly of images of badgers doing calisthenics, a mushroom in front of a tree, and a snake in the desert. ...more on Wikipedia about "Badger Badger Badger"

BALEETED! is a synonym for "deleted" that has some popularity on the Internet, especially on Internet forums. ...more on Wikipedia about "BALEETED!"

Bananaphone is the name of a children's album, as well as a humorous song by Raffi, released in 1994. The lyrics describe a combination between a banana and a telephone, using many puns ("It's a phone with appeal!") and nonce words like "bananular" and "interactive-odular" as Raffi extols the virtues of his unique telephone. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bananaphone"

"Bert is Evil" is the name of a heavily mirrored web site, founded by Dino Ignacio, which featured Bert, a Muppet character on the American children's television program Sesame Street. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bert is Evil"

Bonsai Kitten (bonsaikitten.com) is a website created by a graduate student at MIT in 2000, which claims that kittens can be sealed into small containers and kept as elaborate ornaments rather than pets. It is a well-made hoax, an elaborate dead baby joke. The site is in part a parody of the Japanese art of bonsai, but also resembles the mythical practice of comprachicos (in which the subjects are human). ...more on Wikipedia about "Bonsai Kitten"

Bubb Rubb is an Internet phenomenon started by a television broadcast on KRON-TV channel 4 in San Francisco, California. Bubb Rubb is also the nickname of the subject of the meme. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bubb Rubb"

Chin2 (named after the original filename chin2.mpeg) is a humorous video that became a popular Internet phenomenon. The video features two shirtless Korean youths who dance and lip-sync along with a sped-up version of the Korean language song "Jung Hwa Ban Jeom" (중화반점 "Chinese Restaurant") by the Korean artist Louis. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chin2"

"Chuck Norris Facts" are an internet phenomenon in which people invent satirical "facts" about actor Chuck Norris. The "facts" tend to involve absurdly exaggerated claims of Norris' toughness, attitude, virility, and masculinity; for example: ...more on Wikipedia about "Chuck Norris Facts"

The Clock Spider is an internet meme consisting of three photographs of a massive huntsman spider. The Clock Spider is a spider who, according to members of the Web community, "ate" a wall clock. Obviously, it was simply hiding behind the clock, and the photographer removed the clock to take the latter photos. ...more on Wikipedia about "Clock Spider"

The colorbar was created by LiveJournal user "shared_boxers" (also known as Alan Gerow) in February 2004 to support the controversial same-sex marriage movement that was being widely discussed at the time. In a post timestamped 01:45 am February 12th, he posted a simple HTML table rendering of the rainbow flag under the heading "Show Your Support", and requested that others duplicate it in their own weblogs. (However, he initially used seven colors rather than the six below.) ...more on Wikipedia about "Colorbar"

(Crazy Frog) The sound effect was quickly included in other Flash animations that spread virally among Internet users. The most notable example was the Insanity test, which required test subjects to keep a straight face while staring at a photograph of Rubens Barrichello in a Ferrari Formula 1 car as the sound effect was played. ...more on Wikipedia about "Crazy Frog"

Dance Monkeyboy is an Internet meme and a widely-circulated video of Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer at an employee convention. The video features Ballmer dancing and screaming wildly to "Get on Your Feet" by Gloria Estefan for almost a minute. The video became immensly popular on the Internet, especially on sites like Slashdot where links to it are often included in articles relating to Microsoft. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dance Monkeyboy"

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The Dancing Baby is a video file of an animated, 3D-rendered baby dancing for several seconds, with dance moves that are humorously unlike a typical baby, that was widely popular in 1996/ 1997, being distributed widely over the Internet. The dancing baby originated as a motion capture demo file for the 3D modeling program 3D Studio Max; it usually dances to the intro of Blue Swede's cover of the song Hooked on a Feeling. Several edited versions and parodies were created shortly after, including a drunken baby. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dancing baby"

The Dancing Banana is a popular emoticon. By late 2001, the banana was already being used on several forums as a standard emoticon. Most of these forums would replace the typed text ":banana:" with the graphical image. As the popularity of the banana grew, hundreds of variations of the image had been created for forums or other purposes. These new images typically would have to be either uploaded or linked to, instead of replacing text. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dancing Banana"

"Dog Poop Girl" is the English-translated name given by South Korean bloggers to a woman who refused to clean up when her dog defecated on the floor of a subway car. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dog poop girl"

Domo-kun (どーもくん) is the mascot of Japan's NHK television station, appearing in several short stop-motion sketches. He acquired his name during an episode of his show in which a TV announcer said, "Domo Konnichiwa" (roughly translated to English as "Thanks, hello"). Domo-kun is known to fart repeatedly when nervous or in a bad mood. ...more on Wikipedia about "Domo-kun"

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