Now That We’ve Hit Peak Meme, Let’s Take A Deep Dive Into Meme Culture

The Dancing Baby

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One of the first Internet memes was an animated dancing baby. Some millennials might remember the 3D baby dancing in the corner of your friend’s personal website. The dancing baby was created for Character Studio for LucasFilms and the creator thought it was strange and funny, so attached it in an e-mail to some coworkers and the rest is history.

The dancing baby took the 1996-internet by storm in a very organic way. Seriously, it even ended up on an episode of Ally McBeal. Looking back on it, it’s actually a little creepy.