Internet People – Who Are They?
YesButNoButYes pointed me to a video called Internet People from MethMinute39 which does a fairly quick and comprehensive rundown of a lot of the people who become well known through Internet memes:
- Dramatic Prairie Dog
- South Park – The Spirit of Christmas
- Star Wars Kid
- Numa Numa Kid
- Back Dorm Boys
- Napster Bad*
- Winnebago Salesman Gets Mad
- Evil Bert
- Goatse (link to Wikipedia for obvious reasons)
- JibJab’s This Land
- GI Joe PSAs
- You’re the Man Now Dog
- Spongemonkies Like the Moon*
- Andy Milonakis Sings the Super Bowl is Gay*
- Ask a Ninja
- Average Homeboy Denny Blaze*
- LonelyGirl15
- House of Cosbys
- Chad Vader*
- ZeFrank
- Lazy Sunday Rap
- Kid from Brooklyn
- Bubb Rubb
- George Lucas in Love
- Racist Kramer
- MySpace the Movie
- Chuck Norris Facts
- Geriatric192
- Mahir (I Kiss You)
- Stanley Kubrick Audition
- Leroy Jenkins
- Homestar Runner
- Grape Stomping Fall
- Paris Hilton Sex Tape
- All Your Base Are Belong To Us
- Diet Coke and Mentos
- OK Go – Here It Goes Again
- Shine (The Shining trailer remix)
- Sneezing Panda
- Dick in a Box
- Rocketboom
- Yacht Rock
- Snakes on a Plane
- Angry German Kid*
- Otters Holding Hands
- Dax Flame
- Bride Cuts Off Hair
- Colbert’s National Correspondents Dinner
- Little Superstar
- Lightning Bolt
- Kelly Shopping for Shoes*
- Tom Cruise on Oprah
- White and Nerdy
- Kevin Federline’s Popozao Interview
- Washington Washington*
- Ashlee Simpson Lipsynch
- Boom Goes the Dynamite
- Lily Tomlin Swearing from I Heart Huckabees
- Peanut Butter Jelly Time
- Christmas Lights
- Captain Kirk sings Rocket Man
- Evolution of Dance
- People Getting Hurt (general)
- Talking to Webcam (general)
- Chocolate Rain
- I Like Turtles
* I hadn’t seen the starred items before creating this list.
September 7th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
Thanx so much!!! I’m checking out all of them, both for a walk down memory lane and because there were some that I didn’t recognize. You are a fine public servant!
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September 7th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
1) the song itself is a great callback to the “we didn’t start the fire” and “1985″ style run-down songs.
2) no HamsterDance?!
3) i love how this is basically the “end credits” for the internet. it’s nostalgic and makes me laugh. i really think they should just destroy the internet completely and play this video whenever anyone tries to access it. “sorry everyone! the internet is over!”
4) no RumorsDaily?!!
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September 7th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
Awesome! Thanks for posting all those links, too, for the few which I wasn’t aware of. It brings back some great memories. “Lightning bolt!!”
But I have to say, you missed Tay Zonday near the end! Chocolate rain!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwTZ2xpQwpA
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September 7th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
You forgot in the middle of People Talking on Webcam and I Like Turtles was ‘Chocolate Rain’. I have the original right here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwTZ2xpQwpA
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September 7th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
aw, they also forgot “i will find my frog.”
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September 7th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
aw, they also forgot those kung-fu stick figures!! they were AWESOME.
also, “tokyo breakfast.”
there needs to be a sequel to this song.
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September 8th, 2007 at 12:31 am
Quite right, I did indeed miss Chocolate Rain. I’ve added it. Thanks for catching that.
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September 8th, 2007 at 12:32 am
Also, it is very We Didn’t Start the Fire-esque.
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September 8th, 2007 at 12:42 am
Other things missing: Peter Pan and the Tron guy.
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September 8th, 2007 at 1:01 am
Going into the chorus before choclate rain is reminisent of the original hamster dance page if you ask me (white page with various repeating animated gifs).
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September 8th, 2007 at 2:18 am
Aww…I was really hoping to see “Animation vs Animator ” or whatever it’s called.
BTW, the I
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September 8th, 2007 at 2:19 am
Oh, and PLEASE find a better version of “Dick in a Box”. The one you link to is…well…honestly, it’s shit. That person just RUINED it.
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September 8th, 2007 at 7:32 am
Didn’t realize I grabbed a bad link for Dick in a Box; I’ve got the right one now. Sorry about that, and thanks for catching it.
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September 8th, 2007 at 10:16 am
They forgot JenniCAM! LOL
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September 8th, 2007 at 10:18 am
i cant belive there was no “leprachaun” reference…and it would have been nice to see “silent library”
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September 8th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
DEFINITELY needs a sequel.
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September 8th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
My suggestions for the sequel:
- The Simpsons introduction with real people
- Little Loca
- One Red Paperclip
- The Tron Guy
- Gino The Ginny
- Mr. Pregnant
- Gem Sweater
- Tila Tequila
- Perez Hilton
- Myspace Tom
- Noah Kalina takes a picture of himself everyday for 6 years
- Lee Paige (Cop shoots himself)
- Tyson the skateboarding bulldog
- Alabama Leprechaun
- Where The Hell Is Matt? (Matt dancing in every country he visits)
- save karyn (Internet Beggar)
- Ryan Holt (Balloon Prank)
- JenniCAM
- Rags the boxing kangaroo attacks Marty the Monster
- Cindy Margolis (World’s Most Downloaded Woman)
- Ethan Chandler (Bank Of America singer)
- Joanna Repsold (Ate a live praying mantis)
Most of them I saw at Vh1’s 40 Greatest Internet Superstars. :P
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September 8th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
More:
- Hampster Dance
- Tourette’s Guy
- eBay
- ArtieTSMITW
- Smosh
- saladfingers
- Teen Girl Squad
- Maniac In a Speedo
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September 9th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
he kinda got teen girl squad with the homestarrunner mention.
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September 9th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
Hmm, how bout the LeekSpin (Louituma Lava’s Polka) for sheer awesome and how could anyone forget Ultimate Warrior of Ultimate Destiny! Must have sequel!
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September 10th, 2007 at 5:24 am
What about John Titor the time traveler?
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September 10th, 2007 at 9:35 am
Oh, and End of Ze World.
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September 10th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
Plus Animation vs Animator.
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September 10th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
Oh, and Tubgirl and Lemonparty.
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September 10th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
I’m REALLY ok with leaving off TubGirl and Lemonparty.
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September 11th, 2007 at 8:39 am
Ellen Feiss should have been on there.
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September 11th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
nice to see lorelei’s ex made the list.
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September 14th, 2007 at 5:31 am
needs some MONKEY VS. ROBOT
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September 16th, 2007 at 3:54 am
yeah, they totally forgot the pioneer, jennicam haha =)
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September 16th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Also, the Laughing Swedish Baby.
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September 21st, 2007 at 6:37 pm
And daft hands
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September 28th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
I thought I didn’t get a bunch of the references but then when I actually watched them, i realized i had seen far more than I expected. Very disappointing because i wanted to see some new stuff!
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October 2nd, 2007 at 6:10 pm
No Badger Badger Badger! D:
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October 22nd, 2007 at 4:47 pm
Hey ! Don’t tell me you forgot Chris Crocker with “Leave Britney Alone!” … XD My god, this one deserves it for the next “Internet People”.
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October 22nd, 2007 at 11:34 pm
The people getting hurt is actually from Dan Meth’s (The guy who made Internet People) “Smart Ass Guide to The USA”. It’s shown when you click on Massachusetts.
http://www.danmeth.com/smartassusa.htm
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October 29th, 2007 at 10:27 am
the dick in a box video is unavalable, can you fix that?
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October 29th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
Why would he be able to fix that? Does he own NBC?
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October 29th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
Ok, I’ve fixed all the broken links I found. All the SNL videos should now be working (Dick in a Box, Ashlee Simpson, and Lazy Sunday) as well as the South Park video and the Pandas Sneezing (not sure why that one was down). Enjoy.
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November 29th, 2007 at 2:52 am
Awesome, I finally got through them all, you saved me hours of searching to find all the references.
Nomination for the sequel: Miss South Carolina (the Irag)
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March 8th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Nobody on here even mentioned 2girls1cup?!?
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September 19th, 2009 at 8:26 am
I thought I didn’t get a bunch of the references but then when I actually watched them, i realized i had seen far more than I expected. Very disappointing because i wanted to see some new stuff!
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