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Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

Tuesday, March 25, 2008
16 years ago8,063 views

Not to sound stupid but is the 'can has' internet meme talking about lolcats?

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Yes exactly.
http://icanhascheezburger.com

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Edit: Changed the second link in the post from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_phenomenon to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_phenomena

Wayne Elgin [PersonRank 1]

16 years ago #

Heh, my friends and I talked about this exact same thing a couple of months ago. We couldn't find an internet fad that exceeds "numa numa," though.

http://google.com/trends?q=%22numa+numa%22%2C%22all+your+base%22%2C+%22dancing+baby%22%2C+%22can+has%22%2C+%22rick+roll%22&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

Haochi [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

2G1C totally dwarfs all those other memes... *sigh*

John [PersonRank 0]

16 years ago #

wasn't goatse before 2G1C though

Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

So were the dancing hamsters the original internet meme?

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

BTW, a French blogger is reverse engineering Google Trends in order to get a scale, that is to say the number of queries for each request. If anyone is doing that, please contact me.

Barrens Tortured [PersonRank 0]

16 years ago #

Add "Chuck Norris" into that list and see what happens.

/sigh

Stephen Tordoff [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

"We couldn't find an internet fad that exceeds "numa numa," though. "

http://google.com/trends?q=%22numa+numa%22%2C+%222girls1cup%22%2C+%22find+chuck+norris%22&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

John [PersonRank 0]

16 years ago #

Interestingly enough, Yahoo has always been more popular than Google according to the chart.

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

More popular in searches for it at least, John. Not as many people may search Google for Google (as they're already there) but it makes somewhat more sense to search Google for Yahoo. Even so the following chart is telling...

http://www.google.com/trends?q=google+answers%2C+yahoo+answers&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

Haochi [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

http://blogoscoped.com/forum/127197.html#id127339
You're doing it wrong! :)
http://google.com/trends?q=%22numa+numa%22%2C+%222++girls+1+cup%22%2C+%22find+chuck+norris%22

Haochi [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Sorry for the double posting, but this is interesting.
http://google.com/trends?q=%22two+girls+one+cup%22%2C+%222girls1cup%22%2C+%222+girls+1+cup%22%2C+%222+girls+one+cup%22%2C+%22two+girls+1+cup%22%2C

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Talking about wave patterns...

http://google.com/trends?q=2004%2C+2005%2C+2006%2C+2007%2C+2008&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

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