99 Fun Facts About Viral Internet Moments

Which 2007 home video of two English brothers was once YouTube's most-viewed upload?

Charlie Bit My Finger, filmed in May 2007, shows one-year-old Charlie Davies-Carr biting his brother Harry; the clip sold as an NFT for $760,999 in 2021.

Which bait-and-switch prank ambushes people with a 1987 pop video instead of the link they clicked?

Rickrolling began on 4chan in 2007 as a twist on an older link trick called duckrolling; years of ambushes helped Rick Astley's 1987 video pass one billion YouTube views in 2021.

Which 2013 meme cut from one masked dancer being ignored to a whole room thrashing?

The Harlem Shake, set to a 2012 track by Baauer, peaked at about 4,000 new uploads a day in February 2013; all those YouTube views sent the song to the top of the Billboard chart.

Which 2014 craze raised over $100 million for ALS research in a single summer?

The Ice Bucket Challenge raised $115 million for the ALS Association in summer 2014; the money helped fund the 2016 discovery of NEK1, a gene linked to the disease.

Which feline internet celebrity, real name Tardar Sauce, rose to fame in 2012?

Grumpy Cat, whose real name was Tardar Sauce, became an internet sensation due to her unique facial expression caused by feline dwarfism and an underbite. She passed away in 2019.

Which 2013 meme features a Shiba Inu with Comic Sans monologue captions?

Doge grew from a 2010 photo of Kabosu, a Shiba Inu in Japan; the joke got so big that Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency started as a parody in December 2013, borrowed its name and face.

Which 2017 meme came from a stock photo of a man turning to ogle a passing woman?

Distracted Boyfriend began as a 2015 stock photo shot in Girona, Spain, by Antonio Guillem for a set about infidelity; he said he had only just learned what a meme was when it took off.

Which phrase, slurred by teenager Danielle Bregoli on a 2016 Dr. Phil episode, became a meme and her nickname?

Cash Me Outside, in Bregoli's accent 'Cash me ousside, how bow dah', made her the 'Cash Me Outside' Girl before she became the rapper Bhad Bhabie.

What brand were the white shoes complimented in the 2016 viral video 'Damn Daniel'?

Vans gave Daniel Lara a lifetime supply of shoes when the clip landed him and filmer Josh Holz on The Ellen DeGeneres Show; the pair then donated pairs to young patients at a California hospital.

What was the title of Chris Crocker's tearful 2007 YouTube video defending a pop star's VMA comeback?

'Leave Britney Alone!' was Chris Crocker's tearful defence of Spears after her widely panned MTV VMA comeback in September 2007; the plea made Crocker, now Cara Cunningham, an overnight internet celebrity.

The viral 'Numa Numa Dance' video features lip-syncing to a song by which Moldovan group?

O-Zone's 'Dragostea Din Tei' had already topped charts across Europe when Gary Brolsma mimed to it at his webcam in December 2004; T.I. and Rihanna later borrowed its hook for their US number one 'Live Your Life'.

Which music video became the first on YouTube to reach one billion views, in December 2012?

Gangnam Style hit one billion views on 21 December 2012; two years later it passed 2,147,483,647, the most YouTube's 32-bit counter could show, and the site had to upgrade it.

'Baby Shark Dance', YouTube's most-viewed video from 2020, was produced by which South Korean brand?

Pinkfong released its version of the children's song in 2016 and it overtook Despacito as YouTube's most-viewed video in November 2020; a year earlier the Washington Nationals had made it their World Series anthem.

Which Norwegian brothers scored a 2013 viral hit with 'What Does the Fox Say'?

Ylvis, brothers Vegard and Bård Ylvisåker, made the song as a joke to promote their Norwegian talk show; it climbed to No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100.

'The Dress', the 2015 viral photo many viewers saw as white and gold, really showed a garment of which colors?

Blue and black was the real dress, as its maker Roman Originals confirmed; the retailer sold out within 30 minutes the next day and later made a single white and gold version for a charity auction.

The 2018 'Yanny or Laurel' clip came from a 2007 vocabulary.com recording by what kind of speaker?

An opera singer, Jay Aubrey Jones, recorded 'laurel' for Vocabulary.com in 2007; listeners who pick up the clip's higher frequencies hear 'Yanny' instead, which is why shifting the pitch flips the word.

Which 2017 luxury event in the Bahamas, hyped by influencers and models, collapsed into a viral disaster?

Fyre Festival, promoted by Kendall Jenner and other influencers, collapsed in April 2017 into disaster tents and cheese sandwiches; co-founder Billy McFarland pleaded guilty to wire fraud and got six years in 2018.

Which meme shows a toddler on a beach clenching a fistful of sand with a determined look?

Success Kid is Sammy Griner, photographed by his mother Laney in 2007; in 2015 the meme's fame helped the family crowdfund his father's transplant operation.

The 'Disaster Girl' meme shows a smirking four-year-old in front of what?

A burning house in Mebane, North Carolina, is behind Zoë Roth, though firefighters had set the blaze on purpose as a controlled burn; she sold the original photo as an NFT in 2021, saying she would pay off her student loans.

Which meme name was given to Hungarian engineer and stock-photo model András Arató?

Hide the Pain Harold is András Arató, a retired engineer who was unhappy at first when his stock photos were memed; he later embraced it, giving a TEDx talk and fronting a Coca-Cola campaign in Hungary.

The 'Side Eyeing Chloe' meme captured a toddler's wary reaction to news of a surprise trip to where?

Disneyland was the surprise in her sister Lily's 2013 video; Chloe Clem's side-eye became the meme, and in 2021 her family sold the image as an NFT, saying it could help put her through college.

Which meme filled VRChat in early 2018 with squat red avatars asking if you 'know da wae'?

Ugandan Knuckles began as YouTuber Gregzilla's squashed take on Sonic's Knuckles; players took its lines from Who Killed Captain Alex?, a Ugandan action film made on a shoestring budget.

Which looping-video app, shut down by Twitter in 2017, limited every clip to six seconds?

Vine was bought by Twitter in October 2012, three months before it had even launched; Twitter retired the app in January 2017, renaming what was left Vine Camera.

TikTok star Charli D'Amelio popularized the 'Renegade' dance, but which Atlanta-area 14-year-old actually created it?

Jalaiah Harmon posted the Renegade in September 2019; after a New York Times story traced the dance to her, she performed it at the 2020 NBA All-Star Game.

Which 2019 hit spent a then-record 19 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100?

Old Town Road led the Hot 100 for 19 weeks, beating the 16 of 'One Sweet Day' and 'Despacito'; Billboard had earlier pulled it from the country chart, shortly before the Billy Ray Cyrus remix arrived.

The oversized mittens Bernie Sanders wore in his viral 2021 inauguration photo were made by whom?

A Vermont schoolteacher, Jen Ellis, made the mittens from repurposed wool sweaters and fleece from recycled plastic bottles; she had given them to Sanders as a gift and had none left to sell.

Nathan Apodaca's viral 2020 'Dreams' skateboard video featured which juice brand?

Ocean Spray Cran-Raspberry was in Apodaca's hand as he skated to work because his truck had broken down; the clip sent 'Dreams' back up the charts, and the brand gave him a new truck.

The 2019 'Storm Area 51' Facebook joke targeted a secret Air Force site in which state?

Area 51 lies in the Nevada desert near the tiny town of Rachel; Matty Roberts posted the 'raid' as a joke, and the September 2019 date brought alien-themed festivals to Rachel and Hiko instead of an invasion.

What early-2010s fad involved lying face down, hands by your sides, in unusual public places and being photographed?

Planking was a viral photo fad that emerged in the early 2010s, where participants would lie rigidly face down in odd or unexpected locations, like a plank of wood, and photograph themselves.

Which detergent brand's laundry pods were at the centre of a dangerous 2018 eating 'challenge'?

Tide's maker, Procter & Gamble, answered with a video of NFL star Rob Gronkowski telling people the pods were for washing and nothing else, while YouTube began taking down challenge clips.

Whose song did people dance to beside a slow-moving car in 2018's 'Kiki Challenge'?

Drake's 'In My Feelings' became the challenge's soundtrack after the comedian Shiggy posted a clip of himself dancing to it in the street; Drake later gave Shiggy a cameo in the song's official video.

In which YouTube series does Sean Evans interview celebrities as they eat increasingly spicy chicken wings?

Hot Ones launched on the First We Feast channel in 2015; in 2024 host Sean Evans joined the group of investors that bought the show's maker from BuzzFeed.

Which meme stars Fatso, a pet filmed in 1984, 'playing off' people after their on-camera blunders?

Keyboard Cat is Fatso, whose paws owner Charlie Schmidt worked like a puppet's from inside an infant's T-shirt; the 1984 tape reached YouTube only in 2007 and became a meme two years later.

Which music-video maker shot the much-memed 2015 'Hotline Bling' clip, with its James Turrell-inspired glowing rooms?

Director X, a Toronto-born director who trained under Hype Williams, shot the clip; Apple financed it and premiered it on Apple Music in October 2015, about a week before it reached YouTube.

'The Most Interesting Man in the World', the ad character behind 'I don't always…' memes, sold which beer?

Dos Equis ran the campaign from 2006 with actor Jonathan Goldsmith; when the brand retired him in 2016, his farewell ad sent him on a one-way trip to Mars.

What meme created by Matt Furie in 2005 depicts a green frog with a humanoid body?

Pepe the Frog debuted in Matt Furie's 2005 comic Boy's Club; after the image was adopted as a hate symbol, Furie killed the character off in a 2017 comic strip.

What 2007 viral video shows a University of Florida student shouting a memorable phrase while tasered?

'Don't Tase Me, Bro!' was shouted by Andrew Meyer as police subdued him at a John Kerry forum on 17 September 2007; Meyer later applied to trademark the phrase and sold T-shirts.

Paul 'Bear' Vasquez filmed his ecstatic 2010 'Double Rainbow' video near which national park?

Vasquez filmed the double rainbow from his home near Yosemite National Park in January 2010; the clip took off that July after Jimmy Kimmel tweeted it.

The five-second 2007 clip known as 'Dramatic Chipmunk' actually shows which animal?

A prairie dog is the real star: the clip pairs its sudden turn to the camera with the three-note 'dun dun duuun' sting from the 1974 film Young Frankenstein.

Who is the singer-songwriter known for the viral 2007 YouTube song 'Chocolate Rain'?

Tay Zonday wrote Chocolate Rain as a metaphor for racism; his on-screen note that he moves away from the mic to breathe became a running joke of its own.

In the 2009 viral video 'David After Dentist', what does woozy David famously ask his father?

'Is this real life?' asked seven-year-old David DeVore, groggy after a 2008 operation to remove an extra tooth; in 2021 the family auctioned the clip as an NFT to help pay for his college.

Which 2006 YouTube video shows a performer running through a chronological history of dance styles?

The 'Evolution of Dance' is a popular YouTube video created by Judson Laipply and uploaded in 2006, featuring him performing a continuous medley of various dance moves and styles from different eras.

Leeroy Jenkins, who ruined a meticulous raid plan in a 2005 viral video, was a character in which game?

World of Warcraft's Leeroy Jenkins charged into Upper Blackrock Spire in the May 2005 video; Blizzard later made him an in-game NPC and a Hearthstone minion card.

What did the 'Star Wars Kid' Ghyslain Raza swing around like a lightsaber in his 2002 video?

Raza was swinging a golf ball retriever in the tape he recorded in November 2002 at his Trois-Rivières school; classmates leaked it online, and he later spoke out about bullying.

Rebecca Black's 'Friday' exploded in March 2011 after a mocking post on the blog of which TV show?

Tosh.0's blog linked to the video under the heading 'Songwriting Isn't for Everyone', the same day comedian Michael J. Nelson tweeted that it was the worst video ever made; millions of views followed within days.

The 'Bad Luck Brian' photo was originally taken for what purpose?

A school yearbook photo was the plan: Kyle Craven rubbed his face red and pulled a goofy grin, and though the principal made him retake it, a friend kept the original and posted it to Reddit in 2012.

The woman in the 'Woman yelling at a cat' meme was on which reality show?

Taylor Armstrong, the pointing woman, is from a 2011 episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills; in 2019 a Twitter user paired her with an unrelated photo of Smudge, a cat scowling at a salad.

Which song usually plays in the background of the Mannequin Challenge videos of late 2016?

'Black Beatles' by Rae Sremmurd rode the craze to No. 1 on the Hot 100 in November 2016; Paul McCartney, an actual Beatle, joined in with a frozen-pose video of his own.

The Nyan Cat song originally featured which Vocaloid virtual singer when uploaded to Niconico in 2010?

Daniwell's 'Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!' used Hatsune Miku when uploaded to Niconico in July 2010; the April 2011 Nyan Cat video paired Momone Momo's cover with a Pop-Tart cat trailing a rainbow.

The 2012 'Overly Attached Girlfriend' video was an entry in a song contest run by whom?

Laina Morris made the clip in June 2012 for a Justin Bieber contest inviting 'girlfriend' answers to his single 'Boyfriend'; an image of it sold as an NFT for $411,000 in 2021.

Which charity made 'Kony 2012', the film that hit 100 million views within days?

Invisible Children, a San Diego nonprofit, posted Kony 2012 on 5 March 2012 and watched it pass 100 million views; the US Senate answered with a resolution condemning warlord Joseph Kony.

Left Shark stole the show during whose 2015 Super Bowl halftime performance?

Katy Perry's beach-themed number featured two dancing sharks; Bryan Gaw was the out-of-step Left Shark, and her lawyers later went after a designer selling 3D-printed Left Shark figurines.

Undecided voter Ken Bone went viral at a 2016 presidential debate thanks largely to what?

A bright red sweater made Ken Bone the star of the 9 October 2016 town-hall debate; Izod, which made it, quickly signed the Illinois power-plant worker for a commercial.

Where did 'Chewbacca Mom' Candace Payne buy the mask that set off her 2016 laughing fit?

Kohl's sold Candace Payne the talking Chewbacca mask in May 2016 and later sent her gift cards and Star Wars toys; her laughing fit became the most-watched Facebook Live video to that point.

The 1996 'Dancing Baby' animation became a recurring gag on which TV show?

Ally McBeal's heroine kept hallucinating the cha-cha-ing baby from 1998; it had begun as a sample file for Character Studio, a 3D animation plug-in, before spreading by email.

The Hampster Dance page looped a sped-up tune sung by a rooster minstrel in which Disney film?

Robin Hood's opening tune, Roger Miller's 'Whistle-Stop', is the loop; Canadian art student Deidre LaCarte built the page to win a web-traffic contest with her sister and a friend.

The mangled line 'All your base are belong to us' opens which video game?

Zero Wing's Mega Drive version, released in English only in Europe, opened with the mangled line; it went unnoticed for years until fans turned the intro into animations around 2000.

Whose 2010 TV news interview, warning neighbors to 'hide your kids, hide your wife', became the 'Bed Intruder Song'?

Antoine Dodson's interview aired on a Huntsville, Alabama, station in July 2010; the Auto-Tuned song reached the Billboard Hot 100, and his share of the sales moved his family into a new home.

Sweet Brown's 2012 'Ain't nobody got time for that' interview followed her escape from what?

An apartment fire in Oklahoma City sent Kimberly 'Sweet Brown' Wilkins running in April 2012; she told KFOR she had got up for a cold pop and then ran for her life.

Harambe, the gorilla shot in May 2016 after a boy fell into his moat, lived in which city's zoo?

Harambe lived at the Cincinnati Zoo, where he was shot on 28 May 2016, a day after his 17th birthday, after a three-year-old climbed into the enclosure; the zoo later deactivated its Twitter account amid meme trolling.

In 2015's 'Pizza Rat' video, where exactly was the rat hauling its slice?

Down subway station steps in Manhattan is where Matt Little filmed the rat in September 2015; Little denies claims that the artist Zardulu staged it with a trained rat.

The 2016 bottle-flipping craze began when teen Mike Senatore landed a flip at what event?

A school talent show at Ardrey Kell High School in Charlotte was the stage in May 2016; a third-full bottle works because the water sloshing inside slows its spin, so it can land upright.

Engineer Catherine Hettinger was widely but wrongly credited with inventing which 2017 craze?

Fidget spinners were credited to Hettinger by papers including The Guardian and The New York Times, but her 1997 patent, which lapsed in 2005, covered a different spinning toy with no central bearing.

The tear-streaked 'Crying Jordan' meme photo was taken during which 2009 event?

Jordan wept during his Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame induction speech in Springfield on 11 September 2009; AP photographer Stephan Savoia caught the moment, later pasted onto every losing athlete imaginable.

What is the grinning man doing in the 'Roll Safe' reaction meme?

Tapping his temple is Kayode Ewumi as Roll Safe, a deluded would-be rapper in his web mockumentary Hood Documentary; the 2016 scene only became a reaction image months later.

Who actually snapped the record-breaking 2014 Oscars selfie Ellen DeGeneres tweeted?

Bradley Cooper took the shot, which Ellen posted with the caption 'If only Bradley's arm was longer'; it drew over three million retweets and briefly knocked Twitter offline.

In 2017 the Oscars selfie lost its retweet record to a teen asking which chain for nuggets?

Carter Wilkerson asked Wendy's how many retweets would earn a year of free nuggets; told 18 million, he passed Ellen's 3.4 million in May 2017, and Wendy's gave him the nuggets anyway.

The 2019 'world record egg' set out to beat whose Instagram likes record?

Kylie Jenner's birth announcement for her daughter Stormi held the record at 18 million likes until a plain photo of an egg beat it in January 2019; Jenner answered with a clip of herself cracking an egg onto hot pavement.

When the record-breaking Instagram egg 'cracked' on Hulu in 2019, what did it promote?

Mental health awareness was the point: the cracking egg said 'the pressure of social media is getting to me' and urged anyone struggling to talk to someone.

'Bree', the teenage vlogger of 2006's YouTube hit Lonelygirl15, was exposed as what?

An actress in a scripted series: Bree was played by Jessica Rose, who had answered a Craigslist casting call, and fans exposed the hoax in September 2006 after tracing her messages to a Hollywood talent agency.

After 'Boaty McBoatface' won a 2016 poll, the UK research ship was named after whom instead?

Science Minister Jo Johnson overruled the poll and named the polar ship RRS Sir David Attenborough in May 2016; Boaty McBoatface, the winner with 124,109 votes, went to an autonomous submarine the ship carries.

Which invented word ended Donald Trump's midnight tweet of May 2017 about 'the constant negative press'?

Covfefe stayed up for about six hours before the tweet was deleted; press secretary Sean Spicer then insisted that 'the President and a small group of people know exactly what he meant'.

Miss Teen South Carolina's rambling 2007 pageant answer said some Americans 'don't have' what?

Upton said some Americans 'don't have maps' when asked why a fifth can't find the US on one; she still finished third runner-up and later placed third on The Amazing Race in 2010.

Players of 2014's 'Twitch Plays Pokémon' jokingly worshipped which inventory item as a god?

The Helix Fossil, an item the chat kept opening by accident, became 'Lord Helix'; over 1.16 million people typed commands to beat Pokémon Red in 16 days, a Guinness record, and the Pidgeot was dubbed 'Bird Jesus'.

Barack Obama's 2014 'Between Two Ferns' appearance was timed to promote what?

Healthcare.gov sign-ups were the goal: the appearance grew out of White House talks on how Hollywood could help sell health reform, and Funny or Die became the site's top referrer.

Flappy Bird's creator pulled the hit game from app stores in February 2014, citing what?

Guilt over how addictive it was led Dong Nguyen to pull a game reportedly earning $50,000 a day; phones with it still installed were soon listed on eBay for thousands of dollars.

In the 2011 'Fenton!' video, what was the runaway Labrador chasing through Richmond Park?

Fenton, a black Labrador, chased a herd of deer across Richmond Park in November 2011 while his owner bellowed 'Fenton! Jesus Christ!'; a 13-year-old filmed it, and a Where's Wally-style book, Find Fenton!, followed.

The 2010 'Trololo' meme came from a 1976 TV clip of a crooner from which country?

Russia's Eduard Khil sang the wordless tune on Soviet TV in 1976; he said it once had lyrics about a cowboy riding home, and Google honoured him with a playable doodle in 2017.

Who set a 2011 Guinness record for the fastest climb to one million Twitter followers?

Charlie Sheen reached one million followers in 25 hours 17 minutes in March 2011, during his 'tiger blood' and 'winning' interview spree, a Guinness record at the time.

Nathan Evans, whose 'Wellerman' sea shanty swept TikTok in 2021, is a singer from where?

Scotland's Nathan Evans was a postman near Glasgow when his shanty videos took off; the song itself is a 19th-century New Zealand whaling tune, and a dance remix took it to No. 1 in the UK.

Who remixed a 2022 Recess Therapy chat with corn-loving kid Tariq into the song 'It's Corn'?

The Gregory Brothers (Schmoyoho) turned Tariq's August 2022 Recess Therapy interview into 'It's Corn'; Kevin Bacon posted an acoustic cover, and South Dakota's governor declared September 3 'Official Corn-bassador Tariq Day'.

Which 2023 Gen Alpha YouTube obsession drew Michael Bay into talks for a film?

Skibidi Toilet began in February 2023 as an 11-second clip of a head singing from a toilet, animated by Alexey Gerasimov; for much of that summer his channel drew more views than MrBeast's.

On which video-call app did a kitten filter make a Texas lawyer say 'I'm not a cat' in 2021?

Zoom showed attorney Rod Ponton as a worried kitten at a February 2021 hearing; he was using his secretary's computer, and Judge Roy Ferguson shared the clip as a tip to check filters before joining.

Tessica Brown went viral in 2021 after using which product in place of hair spray?

Brown sprayed Gorilla Glue Spray Adhesive on her hair when she ran out of Göt2b Glued, and it set for a month; Beverly Hills surgeon Michael Obeng removed it free in a four-hour procedure.

Which Trump lawyer fronted the November 2020 press conference outside Four Seasons Total Landscaping?

Rudy Giuliani spoke in the Philadelphia firm's car park, near a crematorium and a sex shop, on 7 November 2020; the landscapers cashed in with 'Make America Rake Again' T-shirts.

After slapping Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars, Will Smith was banned from the event for how long?

The Academy banned Smith from its events, including the Oscars, for 10 years on 8 April 2022; Rock's joke about Jada Pinkett Smith's shaved head was ad-libbed, and Smith took Best Actor about forty minutes after the slap.

Wordle, the puzzle that flooded Twitter with colored grids in 2022, got its name how?

A pun on its creator's surname: Josh Wardle built Wordle as a private game for his partner, Palak Shah, then sold it to The New York Times in January 2022 for a low seven-figure sum.

Pokémon Go launched in July 2016 in the United States and which two other countries first?

Australia and New Zealand got Pokémon Go alongside the United States on 6 July 2016; overloaded servers then slowed the rollout, and Japan, the series' home, had to wait until 22 July.

Which spice did a viral 2012 challenge dare people to swallow by the spoonful, with no water, inside a minute?

Cinnamon coats and dries the mouth and throat, which is why the dare so often ended in coughing fits; US poison control centers took over a hundred calls about it in the first three months of 2012.

Steve Harvey mistakenly crowned which country's contestant at Miss Universe 2015?

Harvey named Miss Colombia, Ariadna Gutiérrez, who wore the crown for a few minutes before he returned to say he had read the card wrong; Pia Wurtzbach of the Philippines was the real winner.

Which 2016 presidential hopeful told a silent New Hampshire crowd, 'Please clap'?

Jeb Bush said 'Please clap' at a town hall in Hanover, New Hampshire, on 2 February 2016, a day after finishing sixth in Iowa with 2.8% of the vote; he quit the race on February 20.

Which Pixar film did TikTok users turn into a crowdsourced musical, streamed as a 2021 benefit concert?

Ratatouille's fan-made musical grew from teacher Emily Jacobsen's TikTok ode to Remy; the 1 January 2021 stream starred Tituss Burgess as the rat and raised $2 million for The Actors Fund.

Which waterway did the Ever Given block for six days in March 2021, launching countless memes?

The Suez Canal stayed shut until a full moon's high water helped a fleet of tugboats haul the 400-metre ship free, with around 400 vessels waiting to pass.

Besides the badgers, the looping 2003 'Badger Badger Badger' cartoon shows a mushroom and what?

A snake slithers into a desert scene as the voice shouts its name; Jonti Picking, aka Mr Weebl, posted the loop to B3ta on 2 September 2003, and the badger chant began as placeholder lyrics that stuck.

In the 2005 'Charlie the Unicorn' cartoon, what do the other unicorns steal from Charlie?

The blue and pink unicorns lure Charlie to Candy Mountain and take his kidney; Jason Steele made the 2005 short as a birthday present for his mother, and a 2016 Kickstarter for a finale raised over $200,000.

'Dalgona coffee', the whipped drink of 2020 lockdown, takes its name from a Korean what?

Dalgona is a Korean honeycomb toffee, a street sugar candy whose taste the whipped coffee recalled for actor Jung Il-woo, who named it on Korean TV in January 2020; the drink itself comes from a café in Macau.

The early-2019 'Bird Box challenge' had people attempt everyday tasks while doing what?

Netflix itself tweeted a plea not to get hurt; days later a Utah teen drove blindfolded into oncoming traffic and YouTube banned dangerous challenge videos.

Which team's logo is on the backwards flat-brim cap in the 'Scumbag Steve' meme?

Red Sox is the logo on the New Era cap, worn backwards; Blake Boston's mother took the photo at home in Massachusetts when he was 16, and Reddit turned it into 'Scumbag Steve' in January 2011.

OK Go's one-take 2006 'Here It Goes Again' video had the band dancing on what?

Eight treadmills were arranged in two rows for the single take; Damian Kulash's sister Trish Sie choreographed it, and the video won the 2007 Grammy for Best Short Form Music Video.