Remember Flappy Bird? "Gangam Style?" Rebecca Black's unstoppable ear-worm "Friday?"
Somehow, despite feeling like a lifetime ago, all those viral hits happened this decade.
Using Google's annual "Year in Search" summary, the YouTube channel V1 Analytics created a video that recapped the viral trends of the decade — down to the day — and it's a wonderful little trip down memory lane. It's especially pleasant to visit the more innocent days of internet culture.
Things really do feel more quaint in the early years of the decade because by the time you get to 2020, well, most of the searches are awful: Harvey Weinstein, impeachment, Kobe Bryant, coronavirus, pandemic, George Floyd.
Here's to the next decade's trends being a little more bright.
