It’s been twelve years since Numa Numa and viral videos suck now

Remember 2004? It was the year Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room, Google introduced the world to Gmail and DreamWorks thought it was a good idea to release Shrek 2. It was also the year of Numa Numa, one of the first viral internet videos. On December 6, Gary Brolsma uploaded a video to Newgrounds, which used to be the hotbed of internet creativity in the early 00s. He had filmed himself dancing to O-Zone’s Dragostea Din Tei on a $5 webcam, and because YouTube didn’t exist yet, converted the video to a flash file to get it on the…
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