Internet memes

(This is a Chinese name; the family name is Yao (姚).) Yao Ming (Chinese: 姚明; born September 12, 1980) is a Chinese retired professional basketball player who played for the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) and the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Crazy Frog, originally known as The Annoying Thing, is a computer-animated character created in 2003 by Swedish actor and playwright Erik Wernquist.

Simon's Cat is an animated cartoon and book series by the British animator Simon Tofield featuring a hungry house cat who uses increasingly heavy-handed tactics to get his owner to feed him.

Moonbase Alpha is a video game that provides a realistic simulation of life on a natural satellite based on potential moon base programs.

Naked News, billing itself as "the program with nothing to hide", is a subscription website featuring a real television newscast.

WikiScanner (also known as Wikipedia Scanner) was a publicly searchable database that linked millions of anonymous edits on the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia to the organizations where those edits apparently originated, by cross-referencing the edits with data on the owners of the associated block of IP addresses (WikiScanner did not investigate edits made under a username.) It was created by Virgil Griffith and released on August 14, 2007.

John Titor is the name used on several bulletin boards during 2000 and 2001 by a poster claiming to be a military time traveler from 2036.

"United Breaks Guitars" is a trio of protest songs by Canadian musician Dave Carroll and his band, Sons of Maxwell.

"Prisencolinensinainciusol" [prizeŋkolinensinainˈtʃuːzol] is a song composed by Adriano Celentano, and performed by Celentano and his wife, singer/actress-turned-record producer Claudia Mori.

"Run Away" is a song performed by SunStroke Project and Olia Tira, and represented Moldova at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 in May 2010 in Oslo, Norway.

Portal is a first-person puzzle-platform video game developed and published by Valve Corporation.

The Game is a mental game where the objective is to avoid thinking about The Game itself.

Patrick Star is a fictional character in the American animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants.

"Ocean's Three and a Half" is the seventh episode of the seventh season of American animated television series Family Guy.

Rickrolling, alternatively rick-rolling, is a prank and an Internet meme involving an unexpected appearance of the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up".

2 Girls 1 Cup is the unofficial nickname of the trailer for Hungry Bitches, a 2007 Brazilian scat-fetish pornographic film produced by MFX Media.

"I'm a Gummy Bear (The Gummy Bear Song)" is a novelty dance song by Gummibär, in reference to the gummy bear, a type of bear-shaped candy originating in Germany.

"R U Professional" is a 2009 satirical song by the American indie rock band The Mae Shi, inspired by a July 2008 outburst by actor Christian Bale on the set of Terminator Salvation.

"Amy's Baking Company" is the sixteenth episode of the sixth season of Kitchen Nightmares, and the 82nd episode of the series overall.

Gino the Chicken (Gino il pollo), also known as Gino the Chicken lost in the net, is an Italian television series.

Limbo of the Lost is a traditional point-and-click adventure game that follows the adventures of Benjamin Briggs, captain of the Mary Celeste, as he explores the depths of Limbo in the Keep of Lost Souls.

Floral Shoppe (Japanese: フローラルの専門店 Hepburn: Furōraru no Senmon-ten) is the ninth studio album by the American electronic musician Vektroid (under the one-time alias Macintosh Plus), released on December 9, 2011 by Beer on the Rug.

Goblin 2 is an upcoming German horror film by producers Eric Hordes and Alexander König.

Jay Maynard (born July 27, 1960) is an American computer programmer and system administrator and the volunteer project maintainer for Hercules, a free emulator of IBM mainframe hardware.

Densha Otoko (電車男, translated as Train Man) is a Japanese movie, television series, manga, novel, and other media, all based on the purportedly true story of a 23-year-old otaku who intervened when a drunk man started to harass several women on a train.

Alfredo Siojo Lim (Chinese: 林雯洛; pinyin: Lín Wénluò; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lîm Bûn-lo̍k; born 21 December 1929) is a Chinese Filipino politician who served as Mayor of the City of Manila from 1992 to 1998 and 2007 to 2013 and senator of the Philippines from 2004 to 2007.

Someecards.com is a free online e-cards service created by Brook Lundy and Duncan Mitchell.

Soraya Montenegro is a fictional character in the Mexican telenovela María la del Barrio.

Germano Mosconi (11 November 1932 – 1 March 2012) was an Italian sportswriter, news presenter and a Television personality.

A Bacon Explosion is a pork dish that consists of bacon wrapped around a filling of spiced sausage and crumbled bacon.

Charles Marvin "Charlie" Green Jr.

Embrace Life is a short British public information film made for the Sussex Safer Roads Partnership (SSRP) about the importance of wearing seat belts.

Eric Conveys an Emotion is a humor website in which the site's owner Eric Wu (born 1976 or 1977) has taken requests for emotions, and then posts photos of himself acting out the emotions.

Fulla Nayak (died 18 November 2006) was an Indian woman who was claimed to have died aged 125, which would make her the oldest woman ever.

Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager is an American comedy fan web series created by Aaron Yonda and Matt Sloan, who wrote, directed and appeared in the series, which parodied Star Wars.

Yacht Rock was an online video series following the fictionalized lives and careers of American soft rock stars of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Yasuri Yamileth is a fictional character created by Panamanian model and radio producer Katherine Severino who works sometimes on the Panamanian radio station "Los 40 Principales".

Next Media Animation (Chinese: 蘋果動新聞; pinyin: Píngguǒ Dòng Xīnwén) is a Taiwan-based subsidiary of Hong Kong-based Next Media that creates humorous and simple CGI-animated coverage of recent news stories and sporting events and releases them through Tomo News.

L.W. Hodge (born Logan Wesley Hodge; March 28, 1987) is an American filmmaker, musician and sometimes actor best known for directing and appearing in short films that have found major success on video sharing sites like YouTube.

Kanye Zone is a browser game developed by Otter Spice Productions.

"Yatta!" is a 2001 parody song by the fictional Japanese boy band Green Leaves (はっぱ隊 Happa-tai).

Rosanna Pansino (born June 8, 1985) is an American baker, actress, and YouTube personality.

The Feeling Nuts movement is a social media campaign created by Check One Two in London, to encourage young men to regularly check their testicles for early signs of testicular cancer.

Bananaphone is a popular children's album released by Raffi and Michael Creber (father of actress, singer, and voice over artist Michelle Creber) in 1994.

lonelygirl15 is an interactive web series that ran from June 2006 to August 1, 2008.

Seapunk is a subculture that originated on Tumblr in 2011.

Smosh: The Movie is a 2015 American science fiction comedy film directed by Alex Winter, and distributed by 20th Century Fox in the U.

Bredcrum is a Canadian rapper from Southwestern Ontario, Canada.

"Loadsamoney (Doin' Up the House)" (often shortened to "Loadsamoney") is a novelty song by English comedian Harry Enfield.

Bernie Sanders' Dank Meme Stash (BSDMS) is a Facebook group where members can share and discuss Internet memes relating to American politician and junior United States senator Bernie Sanders.

Froggy Fresh (formerly known as Krispy Kreme; born 1990/1991) is a "Southern speaking" American rapper who became known after uploading "The Baddest", a rap music video on YouTube whose original upload earned over 11 million views.

"Pusong Bato" (lit. Stone Heart) is a single originally released by Filipino singer Aimee Torres, in 2003.

Prabhu Deva (born 3 April 1973) is an Indian dance choreographer, film director and actor, who has worked in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam and Kannada films.

The Hampster [sic] Dance or Hampsterdance is a song by Hampton the Hampster.

Dick Figures The Movie is a 2013 American independent animated adventure-action comedy film, written, directed by and starring Ed Skudder and Zack Keller, distributed by Mondo Media.

Pro Wrestling (プロレス Puroresu) is a Nintendo Entertainment System game, as well as a Family Computer Disk System game for one or two players first released in 1986.

Philip Lee "Phil" Davison (born July 1, 1971) is a former councilman and Deputy Mayor for the village of Minerva, Ohio, United States, who became an internet celebrity due to the aggressive and passionate manner of speaking he employed while unsuccessfully seeking the Republican Party nomination for the office of the Stark County Treasurer in September 2010.

Rod, Jane and Freddy was the best known name for a singing trio who appeared in children's programming on the British TV channel ITV in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s.

The Most Interesting Man in the World is an advertising campaign for the Dos Equis brand of beer.

"Chacarron Macarron" (usually shortened to "Chacarron") is a hit song by Panamanian artists Rodney Clark ('El Chombo') and Andy De La Cruz (also known as Andy Val Gourmet).

"Here It Goes Again" is an alternative rock/power pop song by OK Go, and is the third released single (the fifth including radio-only singles) from the album Oh No.

Shuzo Matsuoka (松岡 修造 Matsuoka Shūzō, born 6 November 1967 in Tokyo) is a retired Japanese professional tennis player.

Ekrem Jevrić (Cyrillic: Екрем Јеврић, pronounced [ɛ̌krɛm jɛ̌ːʋritɕ]; born 25 October 1961 – 4 March 2016) was a Montenegrin and American singer and musician based in Yonkers, New York.

Mahir Çağrı (IPA: Turkish pronunciation: [maːhir t͡ʃaːɾɯ], born 1962) became an Internet celebrity in 1999.

"Marly-Gomont" is the first single by French "agricultural" rapper Kamini, recorded in 2006.

Pwn is a leetspeak slang term derived from the verb own, as meaning to appropriate or to conquer to gain ownership.

Diary of a Bad Man (often abbreviated as DOABM) is a British comedy drama web series that premiered on 6 September 2010 and ended on 10 October 2013.

Dogs On Acid (also known as its abbreviation DOA by its users), is a UK-based electronic music website, established in 2001.

Looking for... the Best of David Hasselhoff is an album released by David Hasselhoff in 1995.

Ajdar better known as Ajdar the World Hyper Star (born in Mardin, Turkey on 10 February 1973) is a Kurdish origin mechanical engineer from Turkey who is also a singer and songwriter.

The Similou were an electronic music duo from Gothenburg, Sweden, comprising Dizzy Crane (Joel Eriksson) and Jesse Nectar (Erik Niklasson).

Canal Livre was a popular news program in Brazil.

Hyperbole and a Half is a combination of webcomic and blog written by Allie Brosh.

I Can Has Cheezburger? (abbreviated as ICHC) is a blog-format website featuring videos (usually involving animals) and image macros.