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Peanut Butter Jelly Time
Peanut Butter Jelly Time (PBJT) is a viral flash video consisting of an animated Dancing Banana emoticon and the song "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" by The Buckwheat Boyz. Known for being both annoying and funny, the Dancing Banana video became a hit, leading to PBJT-related merchandise, and many subsequent tribute videos.
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Single Serving Sites
Single-serving sites are web sites comprised of a single page with a dedicated domain name and do only one thing. While such sites have existed since the dawn of the internet, the meme was detailed & named by popular linkblogger Jason Kottke in 2008 In fact, one of the earliest intenet memes was a single serving site: the Hampster Dance
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Christian Bale Rant
Christian Bale Rant is an audio segment released by celebrity blog TMZ, featuring the voice of American actor Christian Bale going ballistic on the director of photography Shane Hurlbut on the set of "Terminator Salvation" in July 2008.
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Yo Dawg
Yo Dawg is an image macro series based on the MTV show Pimp My Ride, well known for putting awesome things like fishtanks, clothes dryers, and even fireplaces in the back of your car. Pimp.
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Numa Numa
Numa Numa is a viral video series based on a lipdub dance performance by Gary Brolsma, featuring the 2004 Moldovan pop song "Dragostea din tei" by O-Zone.
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Boxxy
Boxxy is an internet personality who posted a series of hyperactive and seemingly innocuous monologues in January 2009.
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Star Wars Kid
Star Wars Kid is a viral video created by Ghyslain Razaa, a Canadian teenager who filmed himself fighting against imaginary sentries with a golf-ball retriever, as though it were a double-sided light saber such as the one Darth Maul uses in Star Wars: Episode I. Over the last decade, it is estimated that the original, unmodified Star Wars Kid video has accumulated over a billion views.
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Project Chanology
Project Chanology is a series of protest movements launched against the practices of the Church of Scientology by members of Anonymous. The project was started in response to the Church of Scientology's attempts to remove video clips from a highly publicized interview with Scientologist Tom Cruise from the Internet in January 2008.
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Disaster Girl
Disaster Girl refers to a series of photoshopped images using an exploitable photo of a little girl smiling devilishly in front of a burning house.
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Lip Dub
Lip Dubs are do-it-yourself music videos featuring an individual or a group lip synching to a popular song of choice. Such videos are usually shot in one-take and later dubbed with the original track.
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Magibon
Magibon is a YouTube celebrity most well known for her minimalist, staring-contest-esque videos, which exhibit her extraordinarily large eyes. Since her online debut in July 2006, Magibon has become an official partner of YouTube and boasts over 100,000 subscribers.
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GW Shoe Throw
Iraqi Shoe Toss is a series of video remixes and animations based on the footage of former US president George W. Bush dodging shoes at a news conference held in Baghdad, Iraq in late 2008. With the lowest ratings of any president in the history of the United States saying goodbye to the war-torn country that he bombed on false pretenses, for many, the event represented a fitting “fairwell kiss”.
