Dancing Baby
A 3D baby performs a looping cha-cha dance.
Video memes
1996
1998
Hampster Dance
Rows of dancing hamsters became an early musical single-serving website.
2002
Peanut Butter Jelly Time
A dancing pixel banana bounces to the Buckwheat Boyz’s song, turning a simple loop into a portable musical joke.
2003
Badger Badger Badger
Dancing badgers, mushrooms and a snake form a looping musical cartoon whose repetition is the joke.
Potter Puppet Pals
Familiar wizard characters become comic puppets, moving from Flash animation to filmed performances and inspiring fan-made responses.
Star Wars Kid
A teenager’s pretend lightsaber routine became widely remixed footage after other people put his private recording online.
2004
Bananaphone
A children’s song about a banana telephone becomes an earworm loop, with pitched-up audio and competing Flash interpretations.
Breadfish
A green fish passes through a loaf of bread while a repeating song asks whether you have seen the marvelous Breadfish: an impossible sandwich turned musical loop.
Kitty Cat Dance
Photos of a black-and-white cat become a stop-motion dance, paired with a chant built for repetition and playful remixes.
Numa Numa
Gary Brolsma enthusiastically lip-syncs O-Zone’s “Dragostea din tei” in a webcam performance.
Salad Fingers
A green, long-fingered character finds fascination in rusty spoons, giving early web animation an unsettling, surreal voice.
The Llama Song
A rapid stream of llama pictures, odd objects and a recurring duck turns a nonsense song into a picture-by-picture visual rhythm: the repetition is the point, not a coherent story.
You Are a Pirate
A cheerful pirate singalong escaped children’s television to become a soundtrack for web loops, game-character performances and jokes about software piracy.
2005
Charlie the Unicorn
Two relentlessly cheerful unicorns lead a reluctant Charlie toward Candy Mountain, where a sugary fantasy takes a dark turn.
He-Man Sings (Fabulous Secret Powers)
A fantasy cartoon hero appears to belt out a pop chorus, making exaggerated animation and an unexpected musical performance collide.
Leeroy Jenkins
A player’s shouted name interrupts an elaborate raid plan, turning a disastrous charge into a reusable joke about acting before thinking.
The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny
A musical crossover throws fictional heroes and real celebrities into an absurd escalating battle: recognition, unlikely matchups and a repeating chorus make the collision the joke.
They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard
A serious fantasy-film report becomes a dance-like refrain: clipped dialogue, repeating faces and a musical loop turn Legolas’s destination into the whole joke.
What Is Love?
Three synchronized head-bobs turned a television car scene into a web-loop template, with pixel-art variations and new musical arrangements.
2006
Do You Like Waffles?
An enthusiastic breakfast-food singalong becomes a short cartoon and a soundtrack for fan-made character edits.
Evolution of Dance
One performer jumps between recognizable dance styles as the soundtrack changes, compressing a pop-cultural dance tour into a single comic routine.
It's Over 9000!
Vegeta’s shouted power-level reading becomes an exaggerated way to say that a quantity is enormous.
Kelly’s Shoes
A fictional shopper turns a fixation on footwear into an electronic comedy song, with deadpan repetition and an increasingly exaggerated shopping trip.
Leekspin / Loituma Girl
An anime character spins a spring onion in an endlessly repeating loop, synchronized with a Finnish vocal hook: a compact recipe for redraws, parodies and musical remixes.
Thomas the Tank Engine Remixes
A familiar television theme becomes an unexpected backing track for rap vocals, making musical mismatch the recurring joke.
2007
Charlie Bit My Finger
Two brothers’ home-video interaction spawns captions, remakes and remixes.
Chocolate Rain
Tay Zonday sings over a repeating keyboard figure, with his low voice and distinctive microphone technique becoming online signatures.
Dramatic Chipmunk
A prairie dog turns toward the camera as a dramatic musical sting transforms a tiny movement into an enormous revelation.
Nyan Nyan Dance
A tiny restaurant-advertising dance escapes its anime scene into loops, reenactments and musical remixes.
2008
Maru the Cat
Cardboard boxes become an obstacle course for a round-faced cat: sliding, squeezing and investigating turn ordinary pet footage into a recognizable recurring performance.
Simon’s Cat
A hungry, mischievous drawn cat turns the ordinary struggle to wake its owner into expressive, mostly visual internet comedy.
Wombo Combo
An exuberant reaction to a doubles combo becomes a reusable soundtrack for improbable teamwork and spectacular finishes.
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Minimal black-and-white characters deliver abrupt, absurd punchlines in a rapid sketch anthology that also lends itself to reaction clips and remixes.
2009
All Star Remixes
A familiar pop chorus becomes reusable material for incongruous covers, mashups and lyric substitutions.
Annoying Orange
A fruit with a human mouth and eyes pesters its kitchen neighbors, turning repeated calls, puns and an abrasive laugh into a recurring character.
Keyboard Cat
An orange cat appears to play a keyboard, then becomes the musical exit cue editors attach to other people’s mishaps.
Llamas with Hats
Two hat-wearing llamas turn a calm conversation into dark absurdity: Paul confronts Carl about increasingly monstrous behavior.
Narwhals
Cartoon narwhals swim through an exuberant musical tribute: a catchy refrain turns an unlikely animal into a repeatable web-song character.
Running in the 90s
A Eurobeat track becomes a reusable soundtrack for speed, improbable driving and energetic video edits.
Surprised Kitty
A tiny kitten opens its front paws whenever the tickling pauses: a repeatable gesture turns a short pet video into an instantly readable reaction.
The Duck Song
A duck keeps asking a lemonade seller for grapes: a repeating question, a waddling refrain and a patient escalation turn a simple joke into a sing-along web reference.
2010
Double Dream Hands
A music teacher’s exuberant instructional dance turns its open-palmed signature move into a repeatable performance and remix motif.
Double Rainbow
A view of two rainbows becomes a memorable reaction video through Paul Vasquez’s audible amazement and wonder.
Epic Sax Guy
A saxophone solo and exuberant stage moves become a repeatable musical loop, remixed into new settings and used in surprise-link jokes.
Spooky Scary Skeletons
A cheerful Halloween song becomes a soundtrack for dancing skeletons, looping edits and seasonal remixes.
Steamed Hams
Skinner disguises a ruined dinner with increasingly implausible explanations, giving remixers a recognizable scene to rebuild in other styles.
Trololo Guy
Eduard Khil’s buoyant wordless singing turns an older television performance into a musical internet greeting, remix subject and unexpected link destination.
2011
Diggy Diggy Hole
An improvised dwarf-mining chant escapes a Minecraft playthrough and becomes material for fan animations, remixes and a later full song.
Honey Badger
An irreverent voiceover recasts a honey badger’s wildlife encounters as a story of stubborn indifference, turning narration into the joke.
Nyan Cat
A pixel cat with a pastry body flies through space, trailing a rainbow over an insistent musical loop. Its appeal lies in cheerful repetition and an instantly remixable audiovisual package.
Wii Shop Channel Theme Remixes
Music written for a console storefront becomes material for covers, added lyrics and unlikely musical mashups.
2012
Dumb Ways to Die
A sweet-sounding chorus accompanies cartoon disasters, turning a rail-safety message into a singalong that invited covers and parodies.
Gandalf Sax
Gandalf smiles and nods in time with a saxophone hook: a brief film moment becomes a loop, a multi-screen joke and an endurance-length remix.
Gangnam Style
PSY’s comic music video made a horse-riding dance into a global participatory routine. Copycat performances and parodies let audiences join the spectacle rather than only watch it.
2013
Harlem Shake
One person dances while a room seems to ignore them; a cut at the beat drop reveals everyone joining the chaos. The predictable before-and-after structure makes each new setting the punchline.
The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)
An ordinary animal-sounds question swerves into an extravagant dance track with deliberately impossible answers.
2014
Luigi’s Death Stare
A sideways glance during a kart race becomes a miniature revenge movie when players slow it down and supply the soundtrack.
2015
Dog of Wisdom
A low-poly dog flying a plane meets a dog on a cloud, exchanging gibberish and improbable wisdom.
Left Shark
A costumed backup shark's loose dancing briefly upstages a tightly produced halftime show.
2016
Damn Daniel
Repeated enthusiastic compliments, especially about white Vans, turn an ordinary friend's wardrobe into a catchphrase.
Deja Vu
A racing-anime soundtrack becomes a comic accelerator: familiar Eurobeat turns ordinary movement into an exaggerated drifting scene.
Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen (PPAP)
A deadpan performer combines imaginary fruit and pens with a tiny dance, turning an absurd word game into a repeatable routine.
We Are Number One
A television villain’s musical lesson becomes material for mashups and edits that change the song whenever a particular word or moment recurs.
2017
Dancing Hot Dog
A dancing cartoon hot dog enters everyday camera scenes, then escapes the lens into remixed images and jokes.
Fireflies
A familiar synth-pop song returns as deliberately mismatched background music, while its dreamlike lyrics invite literal-minded jokes.
Shooting Stars
An ordinary fall or jump becomes a cosmic journey when editors send the subject drifting through space to Bag Raiders’ synth-pop track.
2018
Bongo Cat
A simply drawn cat taps out a beat: fans swap its instruments and soundtrack to turn a tiny animation into an imaginary band.
Crab Rave
Computer-animated crabs dance on an island, providing an exuberant backdrop for remixes and deliberately incongruous captions.
Yanny / Laurel
One spoken word seems to sound like two different names, turning listening itself into an online disagreement.
2020
Coffin Dance / Dancing Pallbearers
Ghanaian dancing pallbearers became an ominous punchline and remix subject.