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Outlet · 49 cases · 2010–2026 · news division of the publicly funded British Broadcasting Corporation

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Where they moved it

  • Press48
  • YouTube1

ChatGPT

73
Current official ChatGPT iOS screenshot from OpenAI’s Apple App Store listing.

100M users

Elmo Is Just Checking In

61
Wow! Elmo is glad he asked! Elmo learned that it is important to ask a friend how they are doing. Elmo will check in again soon, friends! Elmo loves you.❤️ #EmotionalWellBeing

300M impressions

Kermencement

62
Kermit the Frog to Grads: ‘Leap Together’

9.6B impressions

Anthropic (Claude): A Time and a Place

55
Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude. Keep thinking.

8.3B impressions

Tiger King

71
Tiger King: poster

Peaked at #1

Pokémon Go

73
Current official Google Play store artwork showing the Pokémon capture screen.

$894M revenue

Chewbacca Mom

63
Facebook’s year-end screenshot of Candace Payne laughing in her Chewbacca mask.

164M views

Ever Given in the Suez Canal

59
Hopes and memes rest on ‘tiny’ excavator digging out Suez Canal ship - National | Globalnews.ca

152.2K Wikipedia views in a day

Vine launch

64
Official screenshot of Vine's later Xbox One viewing interface, released in 2014.

6M users

Rang-tan

51
Rang-tan: the story of dirty palm oil

4B impressions

Gentleminions

53
🍌#fyp #minions #banana

500 derivatives

iPad launch

52
A 1st generation Apple iPad. This is the 32GB WiFi model.

7.3M sold

RRR and "Naatu Naatu"

67
RRR poster with Ram Charan and N. T. Rama Rao Jr.

$166.6M box office

Jiggle Jiggle dance

50
my money don’t jiggle jiggle.

73.6M views on the original

Norwich City and Samaritans: Check In on Those Around You

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𝗔𝘁 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀, 𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲 𝗼𝗯𝘃𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗲, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝘁. Check…

300M views incl. reuploads

Crash Landing on You

56
Crash Landing on You poster

Peaked at #1

Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton

48
Wedding of Prince William of Wales and Kate Middleton

72M views

The Matrix

71
Official poster for The Matrix with Neo, Trinity and Morpheus

$472.4M box office

John Lewis: The Long Wait

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John Lewis' TV ad song twinkles in this week's Official Chart Update

86K sold

No Man's Sky launch

51
No Man's Sky launch

212.3K concurrent players

PS5 design parodies

49
Sony’s official PS5 console photo; the reveal was the precursor to the audience parodies.

Peaked the next day

Furby

53
An original 1998 Furby

$247M on a $10M media spend

Club Penguin

51
Official illustrated map of the Club Penguin island

6.4M players

Friends

60
Official Warner Bros. banner of the six Friends cast members

$425M revenue

Spice Girls “Wannabe”

55
Spice Girls - Wannabe (Official Music Video)

3M sold

Roll Safe

50
When you piss her off on purpose, so she can say goodnight at 6pm and you can just play FIFA for the rest of the day in peace.

345.5K derivatives

Crocs

48
Official product photograph of a pair of slate-grey Classic Clogs, showing the heel straps and ventilation holes.

$1.4B on a $101M media spend

Remove the new Snapchat Update

44
1,248,801 people signed and won this petition

1.2M petition signatures

Heat Waves (fan fiction)

41
Minecraft YouTubers at VidCon 2023.

1.2M views

Jellycat

40
Official retail product photograph of Jellycat's Amuseable Croissant Small.

52.3K derivatives