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Among Us
Emergency meeting: a small independent game became a common way to describe suspicion among friends.
Archive score95
Internet archive / 2020
Internet moments from 2020
Backdrop
The Internet in 2020
Year reference
Tiger KingLockdown produced a strange collective watch.
Source: Netflix on YouTube- Pandemic isolation moved work, school, concerts, games, and social life online at once.
- TikTok, Twitch, Discord, Zoom, and multiplayer games became not just entertainment services but places to gather.
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Archive picks
02
Coffin Dance
A bass drop, a hard cut, and Ghanaian pallbearers made every bad decision feel immediately final.
Archive score94
03
Bored in the House
“I’m bored in the house and I’m in the house bored” became a widely repeated refrain of early lockdown.
Archive score93
04
Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical
A short “Ode to Remy” developed into a collaboratively imagined Broadway musical on TikTok.
Archive score92
05
Everything Is Cake
A knife cut through a Croc and revealed cake. Within days, viewers began questioning whether ordinary objects might be desserts.
Archive score92
06
Dreams Skateboard
A broken-down commute, cranberry juice, and Fleetwood Mac became the most peaceful 22 seconds of 2020.
Archive score91
07
Explaining the Pandemic to my Past Self
An early creator-controlled upload reveals the comedy voice before it became a larger internet rabbit hole.
Archive score90
08
Daddy Chill / “What the Hell Is Even That?”
One character yells “Daddy, chill,” and the answer—“What the hell is even that?”—became a reusable reaction sound.
Archive score89
09
Everything’s a Drum
Three roommates turn a household percussion lesson into a chant that keeps escalating because, apparently, everything is a drum.
Archive score88
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Bottom Gear
A fake car show promised silent electric cars, impossible budgets, and absolutely no usable information.
Archive score86
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Dalgona Coffee
Three pantry ingredients, one long whisk, and a photogenic cloud of coffee foam became a stay-at-home ritual.
Archive score83