01
David S. Pumpkins
Tom Hanks in a pumpkin suit, two skeletons, and 73 floors of questions nobody could answer.
Archive score94
Internet time machine / 2016
2016, kept in the archive.
Backdrop
The Internet in 2016
Year reference
Pokémon GOThe map, the phone, and the street briefly became one game.
Source: The Official Pokémon YouTube channel- Short-form video, reaction GIFs, and screenshot-friendly social feeds made internet language travel at absurd speed.
- The election made platform algorithms, online communities, misinformation, and networked politics impossible to treat as niche concerns.
Archive order
Archive picks
02
Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared 6
A cheerful lesson about dreams becomes an eight-minute puppet nightmare with a TV set at the center of it all.
Archive score93
03
We Are Number One
Hey! One, two, three, four, and suddenly every edit on YouTube had a new rule.
Archive score92
04
Arthur’s Fist
A cropped cartoon fist said every frustrated thing the timeline did not have room to type.
Archive score91
05
PPAP
I have a pen. I have an apple. Uh! Apple-pen.
Archive score90
06
Damn Daniel
A friend’s escalating admiration for Daniel’s outfits—and especially his white Vans—became the most repeatable thirty seconds of February 2016.
Archive score89