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Enjoy the rags-to-riches stories of all your favorite memes, including Keyboard Cat, David After Dentist, and Mr. LOLcat himself. With a special cameo by BuzzFeed’s own Jessica Amason.
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Debra Invades MTV
If you’ve been looking for Internet sensation Debra, she’s been hanging out backstage at MTV, talking sh*t about Kim Kardashian and Kristin Cavallari. Meanwhile, outside MTV’s Times Square studio, the dummy dum dums were in fine form, lending their opinion on Kim Kardashian’s fashion faux pas. IMPORTANT! View Media ›
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Internet Famous Class
Current.tv features a mini-doc on Jamie Wilkinson’s Internet Famous class at the Parson’s School of Design — which encourages students to battle for the “A” by becoming “famous” on the web by any means possible. Read More ›
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The CollegeHumor Show
It’s official: MTV is giving the fratty geeks at College Humor their own TV show, to debut on February 8, 2009. The show will focus on the College Humor office, meaning it will basically be a string of their “Hardly Working” shorts with lush, Hills-like cinematography. Maybe Whitney Port will make a cross-promotional cameo! Read More ›
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Viral Video Film Schools
Because we’re fascinated with the uniquely amateurish nature of viral videos, we keep treating them like movies. The web show “Internet Superstar” is the latest to the game, joining Current TV’s underrated Viral Video Film School and the comedy series Viralcom, about a viral video production house. Read More ›
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Baby’s First Internet
Baby’s First Internet is a nursery rhyme that explains all the ridiculousness of the web. With simple wisdom like, “Do not stop to think or edit: You must be the first who said it,” writer Kevin Fanning and illustrator Kean Soo manage to satirize all the best elements of the innerwebs. They even called out the bacon obsession we’ve documented so meticulously. “In order to increase renown, add ‘bacon’ to most any noun.” Read More ›
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Little Kid Sings “Touch My Body”
If Mariah Carey’s sexy jam was meant to be sung into a webcam by anyone, it was definitely this extremely young, completely unsupervised little kid. Well, now we know what they’re singing around the campfire at Camp Mariah. Watch Video ›
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Microfame
Rex Sorgatz of Fimoculous gives us the 8 easy steps to becoming a small-scale Internet celebrity in the new issue of New York. It’s funny. Unless you only hang out with other bloggers, you come to realize that most people really have no idea who any of these people are. Read More ›
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Tay Zonday Tattoo
A video of a guy getting a Tay Zonday tattoo. Pointless tattoos like this make me wonder if there have been any breakthroughs in tattoo removal technology lately. Watch Video ›
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Sticky Sweetie
A girl on YouTube who makes fetish videos that consist of her wearing high heels and trying to escape giant gobs of sticky gum. For those who feel that saving the helpless teenage goth from a bathtub filled with pre-chewed gum is a valid fantasy. Read More ›
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Lauren Bernat
A guy films his girlfriend playing WiiFit in her underwear with his cameraphone and makes her into an inadvertent YouTube celeb. She’s like the Allison Stokke of Wii Hula Hooping. Read More ›
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Sometimesdaily
After a series of recent career stumbles, Amanda Congdon, the former Rocketboom hostess is back with an interactive variety show. See what happens when you get too big for your britches? You come crawling back to the stinkin’ Internet. It’s not so bad around here after all, is it, Congdon? Read More ›
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Justine Ezarik
As “lifecaster” iJustine, this designer from Pittsburgh is a certified ce-web-rity. You may also know her from last year’s 300 page iPhone video. So…how long until she gets a book/movie/record deal? Start counting. Read More ›
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ROFLcon
The first official convention celebrating Internet memes will take place at Harvard University, where hundreds of web nerds will actually hear each other LOL. Buzzfeed won’t be in attendance, but we can only hope there’s a party DJ on hand to awkwardly beckon Tron Guy to the dance floor. Read More ›
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Stairway To Stardom
We love the ’80s, if only for this timeless New York City cable access series that speaks volumes about that magical era when American culture was, apparently, devoid of all irony. If only we could find a time machine, we’d finally have a place to perform that jazz-tap interpretation of the theme from Beverly Hills Cop. Read More ›
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Tina Brown And Barry Diller
The media giants announced their collaboration on a news aggregator website. Will the dynamic duo knock friend/foible Arianna Huffington off her throne as the Internet’s Master Commander? Only time will tell. Read More ›
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Blood Cell
Lonelygirl15 is back with a new online horror series with a most ridiculous plotline: if your cell phone dies, your kidnapped friend dies along with it. It’s kind of like Speed meets the Ring meets an annoying MySpace ad. You can’t do that on television! Read More ›
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YouTube Awards Winners
Remember those viral videos everyone was sending you six months ago? Now they’re being given awards. The talk about this being the new Oscars is a wee bit premature, but it’s nice to know that YouTube viewers aren’t just all about 2 Girls, 1 Cup reaction videos. Here are the winners in all 12 categories. Read More ›
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Allison Stokke, College Athlete
The internet’s favorite pole vaulter is now at the University of California at Berkeley, and her first college photo has surfaced online. In a recent championship at Cal, she set a school and freshman record for indoor pole vaulting with a mark of 3.99m (which a teammate tied). Meanwhile, internet sites are comparing the new pic with the old one. Read More ›
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Fail Dogs
Hey, if cats can has their cheezburgers, why shouldn’t their canine brethren? Hanging with these unlucky pups might not necessarily prevent a heart attack, but they sure are cute. Read More ›
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magibon / MRirian
One of the most popular profiles on YouTube features videos of a young girl named “magibon” or “MRirian” staring bashfully into a webcam. Her profile says she is 21-years old but various sources say she is actually only 14. Wonder if her parents know she is getting hundreds of thousands of views each week? She looks like she is either gonna break out into tears or peals of laughter. Read More ›
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Internet Famous
A class being taught at Parsons gives you a grade based on how “internet famous” you are. Posting some porn videos can now earn you an easy A! Oh, how we miss our days of art school. Read More ›
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Amanda Cicchini
West Virginia soccer player is being touted as the new Allison Stokke. Well, we wouldn’t go that far. We still feel partial to Allison for everything she’s done for us, and for making pole vaulting exciting again. Read More ›
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Internet People
Meth Minute releases a viral video featuring people made famous by the Internet. As a public service, BuzzFeed provides you with a comprehensive list of the viral videos and memes mentioned in the video. Read More ›
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Vanessa Hudgens
Naughty pictures of the High School Musical starlet are all over the internet. Until recently, 18-year-old Hudgens was much less well-known than her co-star boyfriend Zac Efron, for whom she apparently took these shots. Yikes! Next she’ll shave her head, then comes rehab. Read More ›
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Alice the Snorg Girl
The girl-next-door who models for Snorg Tees has become somewhat of an internet celebrity. Do you reload your FaceBook homepage over and over again in hopes of seeing her ad pop-up? You’re not the only one. (Thanks for the tip!) Read More ›
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Allison Stokke
Star pole vaulter and high school senior Allison Stokke is plagued by unwanted internet popularity. Oops, we’re giving her even more internet attention. Sorry, Allison! Don’t hate us. Read More ›
