If you count cute videos of hamsters dancing—and we definitely do—you could argue that hamster memes are among the first memes to attract online attention. Dating back to 1998, hamster memes have ...

Editor’s Note: Ben Huh is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cheezburger. The former journalist turned entrepreneur has been credited with pioneering Internet culture as entertainment and ...

TikTok users are just discovering the viral "Hamster Dance Song" is originally from the classic Disney animated film Robin Hood. Fans of the social media app will be familiar with the popular samples ...

Gone are the days of hamster dance and Star Wars kid, of Leeroy Jenkins and Peanut Butter Jelly Time. In their place a new generation of Internet memes is emerging. They’re just as much fun as ever, ...

Memes have become part of Internet life. In the late nineties, a GeoCities Web page titled Hamster Dance featured rows of GIFs of rodents dancing to a sped-up version of a song from Disney’s “Robin ...

The Internet giveth, and it taketh away (your sanity). When it first came online, the Hampster Dance was an innocent little animated-GIF project by a Canadian Web nerd that used a sped-up snippet from ...