• Enkrod@feddit.org
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    16 hours ago

    I need to share this with someone: Minecraft Style hit me right when I was playing Feed The Beast Modded Minecraft with my Girlfriend years ago and I am still in awe.

  • FishFace@piefed.social
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    17 hours ago

    I feel like Gangnam Style was a watershed moment in some way. It was the first time someone in my office said to me, “FishFace, have you seen this video…”. It was a break-out of internet culture into mainstream culture in a way I’d never experienced before. A few years later, 2017, I was in a sports club where most of the members were a fair bit younger than me, and they were all talking constantly in memes and I (as someone who had been talking in memes to my fellow terminally-online nerd friends forever) felt instantly at home - but I realised that the change had truly happened; internet memes and culture were no longer the niche preserve of nerds, but were well and truly mainstream.

    So at the same time as I was enjoying having “my culture” something I could share with more people and be understood, there was a sad aspect that it was no longer special either.

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      13 hours ago

      It’s certainly one of the first examples of viral internet trends.

      I can’t really think of one bigger than it before it. First YouTube video to hit 1B views as well.

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        12 hours ago

        There were the occasional things like Star Wars Kid that would leak from containment into the mainstream, but nothing quite the scale of Gangnam Style.

      • FishFace@piefed.social
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        12 hours ago

        Yeah I remember the 1B record. I wouldn’t say it was the first viral internet trend, but it was the MOST viral at its time - everything viral up until then was dwarfed!