What the internet is sharing, and everything it remembers

Memes, videos, photographs and posts — where they came from, and where you can still see them.

• is this real life
• cat playing keyboard
• panda sneeze
• charlie bit me

What people are sharing lately

• The story Italian brainrot 2025The last few years
• The story 6-7 meme 2025The last few years
• The story AI slop 2024Short-form and streams
• The story Hawk Tuah 2024Short-form and streams
• Look Moo Deng 2024Short-form and streams
• Read Looking for a Man in Finance 2024Short-form and streams
• The story Brain rot 2024Short-form and streams
• The story Chill guy 2024Short-form and streams
• The story Brat summer 2024Short-form and streams

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The ones people know by name

The viral moments that got a name and kept it. Oldest first.

• Watch Leeroy Jenkins 2005Early YouTube
• Watch Me at the zoo 2005Early YouTube
• Watch Evolution of Dance 2006Early YouTube
• Watch Keyboard Cat 2007Early YouTube
• Read The :-) emoticon 1982funny
• The story The Trojan Room coffee pot 1991Early web, before YouTube
• The story Eternal September 1993Early web, before YouTube
• Look Dancing Baby 1996Early web, before YouTube

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Memes, photographs, posts and the early web

The internet was sharing things long before it was uploading them, and it never stopped sharing things that are not clips.

Early YouTube, when all of this started

• The story Kelly Shoes 2007Early YouTube
• The story Lolcat 2007Early YouTube
• The story Bilibili 2009Early YouTube
• The story r/IAmA 2009Early YouTube
• The story Maru the cat 2008Early YouTube
• Look Pepe the Frog 2008Early YouTube
• The story Dove Evolution 2006Early YouTube
• The story Nico Nico Douga 2006Early YouTube
• The story Grass Mud Horse 2009Early YouTube
• The story I'mma let you finish 2009Early YouTube

Things everybody made their own version of

• The story Italian brainrot 2025The last few years
• The story FoodTok 2021Short-form and streams
• The story Noodle 2021Short-form and streams
• The story Dancing Pallbearers 2017The platform era
• The story Lofi Girl 2017The platform era
• The story Dab dance 2015The platform era
• The story r/IAmA 2009Early YouTube
• The story Crazy Frog 2003Early web, before YouTube
• The story Shipping 1996Early web, before YouTube
• The story AI slop 2024Short-form and streams

Browse by when you saw it

Only years with enough records to be worth opening.

Things that happened to everybody at once

Some viral moments were never a single upload. These are the ones this index tracks as a phenomenon with many versions.

By what it was like

Theme coverage is partial. Records without defensible theme evidence are left unthemed rather than guessed at, so these lists are smaller than the catalogue.