A timeline of Internet viral phenomena from the 1990s to today
Discover some of the most silly and impactful challenges, memes, Internet phenomena through this timeline created by Emily Griffin.
Discover some of the most silly and impactful challenges, memes, Internet phenomena through this timeline created by Emily Griffin.
“How cats became the undisputed mascot of the internet. The advertising slogan of the social news site Reddit is “Come for the cats. Stay for the empathy.” Journalists and their readers seem to need no explanation for the line, “The internet is made of cats.” Everyone understands the joke, but few know how it started. A … Continued
Arturo Deza, Devi Parikh, “Understanding Image Virality”, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2015, pp. 1818-1826. Abstract: (…) In this paper we study viral images from a computer vision perspective. We introduce three new image datasets from Reddit, and define a virality score using Reddit metadata. We train classifiers … Continued