01
Gritty
The Flyers unveiled an orange mascot with googly eyes, prompting immediate online attention.
Archive score94
Internet archive / 2018
Internet moments from 2018
Backdrop
The Internet in 2018
Year reference
In My FeelingsA song became a global participatory format.
Source: DrakeVEVO on YouTube- Vertical video and Stories made the phone screen the main stage for internet culture.
- GDPR took effect in Europe, putting privacy, data collection, and platform power at the center of the internet conversation.
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Archive picks
02
Smash Mouth’s “All Star” Meme Resurgence
A 1999 pop hit returned as a meme-culture staple through hundreds and thousands of increasingly strange All Star variations.
Archive score94
03
RedditPoop Knife
A Redditor learned that his family’s standard bathroom tool was not standard at all.
Archive score93
04
Diner Lobster
Someone ordered lobster at a diner, so SNL answered with a full Les Misérables revolution.
Archive score92
05
Bongo Cat
A two-frame cat-like blob slapped the table, acquired bongos, and learned every instrument on the internet.
Archive score90
06
Shrek Retold
More than 200 creators remade Shrek scene by scene, changing the film’s visual style every few seconds.
Archive score89
07
Yanny / Laurel
It was Laurel. Unless it was Yanny. Unless it was both.
Archive score88
08
Dame Tu Cosita
A green alien’s tiny dance gave an older track a new social-video life.
Archive score88
09
Is This a Pigeon?
A confused android pointing at a butterfly became a format for captioning confident misidentification.
Archive score87
010
Dundee
For two weeks, Australia pretended a Crocodile Dundee sequel was coming. The Super Bowl trailer’s punchline was that the movie was an ad.
Archive score86
011
They Did Surgery on a Grape
A surgical robot demonstrating precision on a grape became the internet’s favorite understated scientific fact.
Archive score84
012
Zendaya Is Meechee
Gabriel Gundacker turned a movie poster’s cast credit into a tiny, extremely committed song.
Archive score83