Internet Culture and Memes

What this quiz asks

• Which video site, founded in 2005, began with a clip called Me at the zoo?
• Which app launched in 2010 with square photos and a set of retro filters?
• When Facebook launched in February 2004, anybody in the world could sign up.
• Which app, shut down by Twitter in 2017, was built around six-second looping videos?
• Which company owns TikTok, which went worldwide in 2018 after absorbing Musical.ly?
• This statue emoji became shorthand for deadpan online humour. The real statues stand on which island?
• The Rickroll prank, which spread online from 2007, sends people to a 1987 music video by whom?
• Select ALL of these platforms that launched before 2010.
• The Ice Bucket Challenge of 2014 raised money for research into which illness?
• Was Twitter renamed X in 2023?
• The Doge meme, which spread in 2013, is built around a dog of which breed?
• What does the image format GIF stand for?
• Which 2012 video by the South Korean singer Psy became the first on YouTube to pass a billion views?
• Put these internet moments in order, earliest first.
• Grumpy Cat, whose photo went viral in 2012, was really named what?
• The word meme was coined by the biologist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene.
• The Dress, the photo that divided the internet in 2015, was seen by people as which two colour pairs?
• Select ALL of these apps that are owned by Meta.
• Which site, launched in 2005, organises its discussions into communities called subreddits?
• Which website, started in 2007, exists to research and catalogue internet memes?