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2011early-2010sViralAnimalsMusic
2011
Year born
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Nyan Cat
Origin Story
Created by Christopher Torres in April 2011, Nyan Cat is an 8-bit animation of a cat with a Pop-Tart body flying through space trailing a rainbow, set to a looping Japanese pop song by Momone Momo. The YouTube video was submitted to a 24-hour marathon stream and accumulated over 100 million views. It sold as an NFT in 2021 for approximately $600,000.
Era: early-2010s
Memes went fully mainstream. Vine launched and died. Instagram filtered everything. Every major brand tried to 'do memes'. Content spread in seconds globally and the irony era of internet humor began.
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