01
The Ice Bucket Challenge
A bucket of ice, three nominations, and one of the rare viral loops that changed more than a timeline.
Archive score96
Internet time machine / 2014
2014, kept in the archive.
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The Internet in 2014
Year reference
Instagram HyperlapseThe phone camera learned a new kind of motion.
Source: Instagram on YouTube- Algorithmic feeds and autoplaying video increasingly determined what traveled, rewarding instantly legible images and reactions.
- The Ice Bucket Challenge showed that a participatory social format could jump from personal timelines to news, celebrities, and fundraising.
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Archive picks
02
“Shia LaBeouf” Live
A children’s choir, an orchestra, and one increasingly doomed hiker turned a cannibal joke into a full civic event.
Archive score95
03
Too Many Cooks
It takes a lot to make a stew. A pinch of salt, a dash of dread.
Archive score94
04
Potato Salad
A $10 Kickstarter to make potato salad became a $55,492 lesson in what happens when the internet commits to a bit.
Archive score93
05
Kermit Sipping Tea
Kermit took one sip of iced tea, and the whole internet learned to mind its own business very loudly.
Archive score91