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Beavis and Butt-Head
Ryan Gosling and Mikey Day silently derailed a serious AI town hall by looking uncannily like Beavis and Butt-Head.
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Internet archive / 2024
Internet moments from 2024
Backdrop
The Internet in 2024
Year reference
The May aurora stormA rare sky lit up cameras and group chats everywhere.
Source: NASA Earth Observatory- Algorithmic short video remained the internet’s fastest cultural conveyor belt, making sounds, phrases, and visual identities travel across platforms.
- Generative AI was no longer a novelty; it was becoming part of everyday questions about what online material is made by, and for, people.
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Trails from 2024
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Archive picks
02
Domingo: Bridesmaid Speech
Four bridesmaids tried to cover a wedding speech with an off-key pop parody, but every rhyme led back to Domingo.
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03
We’re Costco Guys
Chicken bakes. Double-chunk chocolate cookies. A father-son duo with exactly one setting: BOOM.
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04
Timothée Chalamet Lookalike Contest
A few paper flyers turned a Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest into a widely shared public event.
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05
Brat Summer
A lime-green album cover turned “brat” into a widely used summer adjective.
Archive score90
06
Sushi Glory Hole
Two men pitch sushi delivered through a bathroom-wall hole—and refuse to accept that anyone could find this strange.
Archive score90
07
Leland Dancing
A gleeful two-second dance became a common reaction to unexpectedly good news.
Archive score90
08
BBL Drizzy
A comedian’s AI-assisted joke song became the sample for a diss-track beat giveaway and a wave of remixes.
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09
Looking for a Man in Finance
“Man in finance. Trust fund. Six-five. Blue eyes.” Nineteen seconds of couch-side satire became a summer earworm.
Archive score89
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Very Demure, Very Mindful
A makeup-for-work joke turned “very demure, very mindful” into a widely used comic phrase.
Archive score88
011
“I… Am Steve”
Jack Black looked straight at the camera in a Minecraft trailer and introduced himself with a line that immediately sounded too simple to survive.
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012
Chika Waga
“Is this the first meme of 2024?” A short sibling sketch attempted to create a meme and found an audience.
Archive score87
013
Tanka Jahari
A fake name from a pizza counter became a 2024 soundbite because “Tanka Jahari” is funnier every time someone says it like it is perfectly normal.
Archive score87