Talk:List of Internet phenomena

FYI, the MSNBC Chris Crocker reference links to this article: "If Wikipedia hasn’t recognized Chris as an official Internet phenomenon, he certainly is now." Jason McHuff (talk) 21:56, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Celebrities

The definition of an internet phenomenon can not be limited to the definition suggested; that one rises from the unknown to internet fame. The definition is faulty, as compiled and edited editions of content featuring celebrities very well can be regarded as a phenomenon, and is created by people whom are NOT celebrities.

A Mexican Video Out of Link

As said by the user who talked about Delfin Quishpe, I think the article about MeAnda - Don should be listed here because IT IS an internet phenomena in Latin America. You can check this googleing "MeAnda" "MeAnda Don" and "VideoGENTE" and you should see all blogs and pages that mention the video. Also, try a search for "Meanda" in YouTube and you'll find at least 4 pages for the video uploaded by different users (not counting all results that don't appear with that word).

In the other hand, the site has claimed his videos are copyright-free (they have a CC license posted in their site [1]) and the owners of the site have included an article there about the "MeAnda - Don" wikipedia entry. Please bring comments to revert the unincluding. --Kalfusion 06:46, 25 January 2007

Nobody's Watching

Isnt anyone gona mention Nobody's Watching a failed tv pilot that was uploaded on to YouTube and now has its own website and myspace profile.

Klay World

This is a very large Internet series, like Neroticaly Yours. Itshould have its own article. It is posted on mainly 2 websites. They are Newgrounds, and KnoxsKorner. It made by Robert Leon Benfer, who goes by the name Knox. It has become very successful, it even has its own movie, which is listed in the article List of stop-motion films. It was going to have its own article, but was chosen not to be one. There is possibly going to be a sequel to the movie, and a different one called "Lakeside Ghost".

Anti Clinton Ad

I think this article shuold enclude at least somthing about that. It was on internet and talked at on the news many time.

Deadpile

Instead of deleting unsourced but real-looking phenomena I'm adding some here. If you do find and link an external source, pls. feel free to re-insert.

• Indian Thriller — A promotional clip from a film featuring Indian actor Chiranjeevi (aka Chiru) in the 1985 Telegu movie Donga. The video features a tribute to the Michael Jackson hit video Thriller. [2] [3]
• Chocolate Rain - A song by Tay Zonday, a 25-year-old with an unusually deep voice. The odd movements he makes in his video add to the awkward feeling of the video, one of the reasons it became an internet phenomenon. [4]
• Tay Zonday — A Youtube user who's original music has become immensly popular. His particular song "Chocolate Rain" has received 1,199,879 views as of 28/07/07. His popularity seems to have emerged from his status as an internet meme on sites such as 4chan
• Rickrolling — In mid-2007, a fad arose of tricking users into viewing the music video to Rick Astley's debut single, Never Gonna Give You Up, by claiming that the link is to some other video of great interest. The fad managed to escape the internet when talk show host Carson Daly "rickrolled" his studio audience by promising video of Paris Hilton. The name derives from "duckroll", an image of a duck with wheels set to various music, most popularly the title by Rick Astley.
• Flea Market Montgomery — A music-video-style commercial for a Montgomery, Alabama furniture store, written and performed by the store's owner Sammy Stephens, gained popularity on YouTube and other sites and earned Stephens appearances on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, VH1, and many other television programs.
• "Crichton Leprechaun" - A news story on some residents in Mobile, Alabama who claimed they saw a leprrechaun on a tree. Both the original news story[5] and the accompanying parody rap video [6] took YouTube by storm and inspired several fan sites [7].
• Old Politicians - Includes instances such as when Sen. Ted Stevens R-Ak, used the now infamous series of tubes metaphor to describe the internet. A more recent example is the speech used by Robert Byrd where he repeatedly shouts "BARBARIC".

Milk and Cereal

There's the VT finest milk and cereal webcam

Ryan vs. Dorkman

Is there any good reason why Ryan vs. Dorkman isn't on the list?

-Yes, I'd like to see them on the list as well. Besides being a YouTube phenomenon, they also inspired a lot of amateur-filmmakers with their homemade, high quality FX, which also boosted the number of visitors of Detonation Films (a free source for special effects).

"I like turtles" Jonathan the Zombie Kid

This may make the list... but I am not a meme authority.
[8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [www.cafepress.com/buy/i+like+turtles/-/pv_design_details/pg_1/id_21583648/opt_/fpt_/c_666/] [13] [14] —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Travisthurston (talk • contribs) 19:15, August 22, 2007 (UTC).

The Impossible Quiz (a.k.a. SHOOP DAH WHOOP)

It's not the game itself that is the meme, it's a part within it. The three most popular quotes are: 1. "I'm a chargin' mah laser"

2. "I'm a firin' mah laser"

3. "SHOOP DAH WHOOP"

abdul traya?

i am suprised that abdul traya is on this site?

Tourette Guy is faking it

In the article it says that the so called 'tourette guy' suffers from tourette syndrome. That doesn't seem to be true or - at least - got nothing to do with what you see. Even the page TourettesGuy.com states that 'Although he has been diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome, his actions are influenced by other problems (including alcohol) and are not consistent with most Tourettes syndrome sufferers'.

There is a lot of discussion on the web about whether he is a total fake or a tourette's patient who happens to be trying to be funny but though it might or might not be true that he got Tourette's, regarding his appearance in the internet public it does't seem to matter. I would be glad if an editor of this page could take that into account and at least change the part where it says that he 'suffers from ...' to something like 'mocks the syndroms commonly associated with ...'.

There is a page that deals with the issue in details and seems to be quite serious, you can find it here: http://www.tourettes-disorder.com/extra/tourettes_guy.html Thank you and greetings, Bl1rt (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 17:56, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

That sounds a bit biased --SKiPMacD (talk) 17:26, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

To be fair, The tourette's guy acts absolutely nothing like a person with with Tourette's syndrome, or in his case, Coprolalia, would. Tourette's syndrome (Or at least the the type that he has) means Involuntary swearing, completely out of context. The tourette's guy sounds just grumpy, as each disagreeable word that he says is somewhat in context and is always linked to some other action. --Aun'va (talk) 08:54, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

I herd u liek mudkipz

Seriously who doesn't? This should have been on here eon8 ago.159.92.57.11 (talk) 18:57, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes, yes...this page needz moar mudk1pz!!!1!! --SKiPMacD (talk) 17:23, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Way moar mudkipz. 24.226.77.23 (talk) 02:28, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Batman

Well haven't you seen a video with batman saying: "I'm Batman" Anyway if batman is put on the list it should start a new comic books catagory. Oh and here are some examples: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yavK0mnE3wI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzjMI2ie6nM&NR=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azGhHh9mV_Q&feature=related

Elektronik Supersonik

Should Zladko "Zlad!" Vladcik not be added to the Music list? This fictional character of the equally fictional nation of Molvanîa has become a kind of Internet phenomenon since 2003.

Elektronik Supersonik

--Skaravageur (talk) 14:29, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Rick Roll

When a user posts a video of Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley, claiming that it's relevant to the subject.

Thegluestickman (talk) 23:09, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Seconded. Rickrolling is huge. --Aun'va (talk) 08:49, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Angry German Kid

Angry German Kid — A German boy becomes very angry while playing Unreal Tournament

Bit misleading as it apparently was all acted out and that was just one segment of the whole series. (source) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.78.254.21 (talk) 08:42, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Shoes, Street Magic, and possibly Muffins

liamklyesullivan's Shoes should be on this list. I remember it was all the talk at my school when it came out. Muffins should MIGHT be on this lift, also a work of liamkylesullivan. Also, the David Blaine's street magic parody, which was very big and very funny.

--Harvey "Two-Face" Dent (talk) 16:49, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

"Shorter FOO"

The internet tradition which launched the phrase "I am aware of all internet traditions" was "Shorter FOO"--e.g., "Shorter Ann Coulter", "Shorter George Bush"--in which a longer statement by FOO is linked and summarized in a clever, extremely unflattering, though preferably not completely unfair, way.

But does it make sense to list this type of stylized discourse here? Does this risk turning this page into a glossary, or worse a list of catchphrases ("fisk", "and a pony", "Friedman Unit"), or, worst, of bad rhetorical habits ("Barry HUSSEIN OSAMA")?

Fred

A six year old with anger management and an achaholic mom.

The people list

Please, for God's sake, put "potentionally bad games" instead of "bad games" at the part about Angry Video Game Nerd. Don't make it a statement that the games are bad, considering it's his OPINION, when Wikipedia is about FACTS. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Swiiman (talk • contribs) 21:01, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Mudkip - sourced suggestion for addition

As per this edit, I suggest someone add the Mudkips meme to this list. I'm not sure where it should go as I'm not familiar with the list. —Giggy 14:53, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Technoviking

should be linked to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuckparade#2000

• I have a better idea. Until you find a reference that isn't a blog, it shouldn't be linked at all. JuJube (talk) 12:20, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Evolution of Dance

Just to point this out, Evolution of Dance is currently the 3rd-most viewed video on YouTube, not the most-viewed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.17.98.151 (talk) 00:40, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

As stated before, Evolution of Dance is no longer the most viewed video, however it is the 2nd not the third. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Edthefreak (talk • contribs) 04:47, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Juggernaut Bitch

No references to the Juggernaut Bitch video? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juggernaut_(comics)#Internet_parody I'm really surprised that wasn't added.

carmen winstead

i dont know if this is true or just a myth but if it was then it is just wrong what happened. things like this should never happen to people. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Env1234 (talk • contribs) 03:05, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Master Chief Sucks at Halo

A video by a Youtube user under the name "Digitalph33r", about a Master Chief figure (voiced by Microsoft Sam) that comes to life and plays Halo. While playing however, he demonstrates poor skill at the game, and talks trash to other players. The "Chief" is unintelligent, vulgar, and shows poor speaking skills by speaking in "L33tsp33k", "Lolspeak", and using internet slang.

It later becomes "Arby N' The Chief" with the addition of an action figure of the Arbiter (voiced by Microsoft Mike), who is The Chief's polar opposite. He is intelligent and good at Halo, although he does have a bit of a mouth for swearing occasionally. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hahaedit (talk • contribs) 18:25, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

• Not notable. JuJube (talk) 18:30, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

THIS IS SPARTA

Let's not forget this infamous scene from 300, somebody should add that in