Videos
- 2 Girls 1 Cup – Videos of two girls engaging in coprophilia.[205] This video has also originated a series of amateur videos showing the reactions of people seeing the original video.
- Angry German Kid/Keyboard Crasher – A video of a German teenage boy getting so frustrated in playing an online video game that he begins ranting at the screen and smashing his keyboard. Though later shown to be staged, numerous parodies of the video were made, with made-up translations from the initial ranting, and became popular in Japan under the name "Keyboard Crasher".[206][207]
- Anime Music Videos/MADs – A staple of anime conventions both in Japan and Western countries, these fan-made videos take footage from various anime works and re-edit them in different order, addition of new soundtracks (including to full-length songs), and other manipulations such as lip-syncing characters to lyrics; with the propagation of the Internet and popularity of anime in the United States in 2003, this type of user-created content flourished, and grew to include footage from other works including video games and Western animated shows.[208][209]
- The Annoying Orange – A series of comedy sketches featuring a talking orange annoying other fruits and vegetables, as well as some appliances, with his one-liners and puns.[210]
- "Arrest of Vladimir Putin" – A viral video showing mock arrest of Vladimir Putin and his trial.[211][212]
- Ask a Ninja – Popular podcast featuring a ninja who answers viewers' questions.[151]
- Auto-tune the News/Songify This – a web series by the Gregory Brothers of news videos auto-tuned and remixed into songs. The group achieved mainstream success with their "Bed Intruder Song" video, which became the most watched YouTube video of 2010 and a Billboard Hot 100 hit.[213]
- Benny Lava – A video created as a soramimi to Kalluri Vaanil by Indian dancer Prabhu Deva.[214]
- Boom goes the dynamite – Brian Collins, a nervous sports anchor, fumbles highlights, concluding with this infamous catch phrase.[151][215] Popularly used in an episode of Family Guy among numerous other popular references, and made popular by Will Smithwhen he flubbed a line on stage during the 81st Academy Awards telecast. As of March 2009, Collins was a reporter for KXXV in Waco, Texas.
- Charlie Bit My Finger – It features two young brothers; the younger bites the finger of the older brother.[216][217]
- Charlie Chaplin Time Travel Video – A YouTube video posted in October 2010 by Irish filmmaker George Clarke in which he suggested that additional footage contained in a DVD release of the Charlie Chaplin film The Circus depicted a time traveler talking on a cell phone received millions of hits and became the subject of widespread Internet discussion.[218]
- The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger – A YouTube video posted in 2011 by Randall featuring a comedic narration dubbed over pre-existing National Geographic footage.[219]
- Dancing Matt – Video game designer Matt Harding became famous in 2003 when he filmed himself dancing in front of various world landmarks. Eventually, a chewing gum company sent him off to dance on seven continents, and by October 2006, five million viewers have seen his videos.[220][221] Harding compiled two similar videos in 2008[222] and 2012.[223]
- Diet Coke and Mentos – Geysers of carbonated drink mixed with Mentos.[151][224]
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