Know Your Meme Episodes

Boxxy

Boxxy is an internet personality who posted a series of hyperactive and seemingly innocuous monologues in January 2009.

Published on 03/10/09

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.

Published on 01/02/09

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.

Published on 12/31/08

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.

Published on 12/29/08

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.

Published on 12/26/08

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.

Published on 12/24/08

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”.

Published on 12/23/08

Boom Goes the Dynamite

Boom Goes the Dynamite is a popular catchphrase derived from a college sportscast hosted by Brian Collin, a freshman journalism student at Ball State University who made his on-air debut in 2005.

Published on 12/22/08

O RLY?

O RLY is internet slang for “OH REALLY?” with implicit sarcasm. Since gaining traction through with usage on Internet forums, O RLY has become a popular deadpan response to any statement that is deemed either highly doubtful or obviously true.

Published on 10/10/08

FAIL

FAIL is turn-of-the-century internet slang that came to popularity through image macros and short videos depicting situations with unfortunate outcomes.

Published on 09/24/08

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