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Internet culture & memes Videos Recommended on Hacker News (170)
Internet culture & memes is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 170 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2008 and 2026 — 202 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Internet culture: early web, memes, viral videos, forums, social media history, Wikipedia, YouTube creators, online communities, nostalgia for Windows 95 and the 90s web.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on This Is Phil Fish: “possibly the most important video on youtube - is "This Is Phil Fish"[1] by Innuendo Studios.” — an HN commenter, 2022.
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11 mo on HNThis Is Phil Fish
Innuendo Studios
5 HN recommender · 2014–2025
10 mo on HNYouTube's copyright system isn't broken. The world's is.
Tom Scott
13 HN recommender · 2020–2024
9 mo on HNThe Problem With Facebook
2veritasium
3 HN recommender · 2014–2018
8 mo on HNVidMe or Why Platforms Aren't Your Friends
Folding Ideas
8 HN recommender · 2017–2023
7 mo on HNThis is Financial Advice
Folding Ideas
9 HN recommender · 2023–2026
7 mo on HNWhy Are You So Angry? Part 1: A Short History of Anita Sarkeesian
Innuendo Studios
7 HN recommender · 2015–2022
7 mo on HNIncels | ContraPoints
ContraPoints
7 HN recommender · 2018–2024
6 mo on HNDarius Kazemi, Tiny Subversions - XOXO Festival (2014)
XOXO Festival
7 HN recommender · 2015–2024
6 mo on HNWhat Languages Sound Like To Foreigners
Sara Forsberg
6 HN recommender · 2014–2021
6 mo on HNCan You Watch This Without Getting Angry?
CGP Grey
6 HN recommender · 2015–2025
6 mo on HNCanceling | ContraPoints
ContraPoints
7 HN recommender · 2020–2025
4 mo on HNYoutube duet: Miles Davis improvising on LCD Soundsystem
Alessandro Grespan
4 HN recommender · 2021–2024
5 mo on HNHow Facebook is Stealing Billions of Views
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
3 HN recommender · 2015–2019
5 mo on HNClickbait is Unreasonably Effective
Veritasium
5 HN recommender · 2021–2025
5 mo on HNFacebook Fraud
Veritasium
7 HN recommender · 2014–2025
4 mo on HNFlat Earth: A Measured Response
hbomberguy
3 HN recommender · 2019–2024
4 mo on HNBBS The Documentary: Episode 1 of 8: BAUD (The Beginning)
Jason Scott
4 HN recommender · 2019–2025
3 mo on HNDEFCON 17: That Awesome Time I Was Sued For Two Billion Dollars
Christiaan008
3 HN recommender · 2015–2026
3 mo on HNWelcome to the Internet - Bo Burnham (from "Inside" -- ALBUM OUT NOW)
boburnham
4 HN recommender · 2021–2026
3 mo on HNARCHIVE TEAM: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack
textfilesdotcom
3 HN recommender · 2014–2016
3 mo on HNAngry Voicemail We Got From an Alamo Drafthouse Customer
Alamo Drafthouse
3 HN recommender · 2011–2026
3 mo on HNA real person, a lot like you
Derek Sivers
3 HN recommender · 2011–2013
3 mo on HNWhat 40,000 Videos Tell Us About The Trending Tab
Coffee Break
3 HN recommender · 2019–2020
3 mo on HNVeritasium: A Story of YouTube Propaganda
Tom Nicholas
3 HN recommender · 2021–2023
3 mo on HNEmojli: Behind the Scenes and Why You Should Never Build An App
Tom Scott
3 HN recommender · 2016–2019
2 mo on HNPOLYBIUS - The Video Game That Doesn't Exist
Ahoy
2 HN recommender · 2023–2026
2 mo on HNGacha Drama and the Korean Gender War
Moon Channel
1 HN recommend · 2024–2026
2 mo on HNManipulating the YouTube Algorithm - (Part 1/3) Smarter Every Day 213
SmarterEveryDay
2 HN recommender · 2019–2021
2 mo on HNWeb 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
Michael Wesch
2 HN recommender · 2022–2025
2 mo on HNThe Alt-Right Playbook: The Card Says Moops
Innuendo Studios
2 HN recommender · 2019–2025
2 mo on HNBrain Crack (Explicit Version) :: Best of the Show :: 07-11-06
Ze Frank
2 HN recommender · 2014–2023
2 mo on HNMaking Sense of VRChat, the "Metaverse" People Actually Like
People Make Games
2 HN recommender · 2022–2025
2 mo on HNGame Theory: How PewDiePie Conquered YouTube
The Game Theorists
2 HN recommender · 2014–2017
2 mo on HNThe Really Dark Truth About Bots
Benn Jordan
3 HN recommender · 2024–2025
2 mo on HNUpdate on my Brain Injury & the Future of Strange Parts
Strange Parts
4 HN recommender · 2023–2024
2 mo on HNMatsuoka Shuzo [松岡修造 ] - あきらめかけているあなた (NEVER GIVE UP!!) [English]
Ryuujin131
2 HN recommender · 2018–2025