Un des premiers memes d'Internet !

Tout ça pour un concours entre frères et soeurs

Transcript

00:00 You probably know this one.

00:01 Well, this song, "Insupportable", is one of the first memes in history

00:10 and it was born thanks to a competition between a brother and a sister.

00:13 We are in 1998 and at that time there is no social network

00:17 but there is a trend that is starting to emerge on the internet,

00:19 it's the personal websites.

00:21 It means that instead of having a profile on a social network,

00:24 you could create your own website.

00:26 And that's what we decided to do, of Edrey and his sister, with a challenge.

00:29 The one who has the most visits on his website before December 31st, 1998, wins.

00:34 Edrey's sister already has an idea, she creates a very serious website about music,

00:38 but Edrey himself has no idea.

00:40 It's not a question that he gives up in front of his sister,

00:42 so he dives into his childhood memories and creates a website about hamsters.

00:45 His website is very simple, when you download it,

00:47 there are 392 hamster gifs dancing

00:50 and a song that starts automatically, the famous "Insupportable" music.

00:54 Anyway, it's December 31st and the two brothers and sisters compare their results

00:58 and it's without appeal.

00:59 Edrey and his website "Trolls on hamsters" are the winners, with 800 visitors.

01:04 But it doesn't stop there, because the next day,

01:06 Edrey realized that the numbers were still increasing,

01:08 until reaching, a month later, 1 million visitors.

01:12 And things are not going to stop there.

01:14 The buzz will continue to grow, the website will be in the newspapers, on TV,

01:18 there will be journalists at Edrey's,

01:20 and they will receive hundreds of letters from children who say they love the website.

01:23 All thanks to hamsters dancing.