#Memes

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Placeholder graphic for eBaum's World
Trends 2001–2008

eBaum's World

The early-2000s comedy and media dump every kid browsed instead of doing homework. Flash cartoons, prank-call soundboards, funny clips, and simple games — all stamped with the site's inescapable watermark, which became the running joke and the scandal at once.

Video thumbnail — MTV Pimp My ride Music Theme / Opening
TV 2004–2007

Pimp My Ride

Xzibit takes your hopeless beater to the shop and it comes back with a fish tank, seven screens, and flames. MTV's most gloriously absurd makeover show — and the birthplace of "yo dawg, I heard you like…"

Video thumbnail — How YTMND came to be
Trends 2004–present

YTMND

"You're the Man Now, Dog." A whole website built on one dumb, perfect formula: a single looping image, a blaring sound clip, and a line of zooming text — repeated forever until it was either hypnotic or unbearable.