The Verge

Outlet · 97 cases · 2012–2026 · American technology news and media website

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Where they moved it

  • Press94
  • Open web2
  • YouTube1

ChatGPT

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

100M users

Threads launch

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Meta’s launch screenshots show the original Threads feed and a profile.

163M downloads a month

Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1

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Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1

268M views

Hollow Knight: Silksong

65
Hollow Knight: Silksong key art with Hornet

$50M revenue

Heineken: The Boring Phone

53
Heineken | The Boring Phone - HD Camera

8.9B impressions

The Super Mario Bros. Movie

73
The Super Mario Bros. Movie poster with Mario, Luigi, Peach and Bowser.

$1.37B on a $100M budget

Fidget Cube Kickstarter

67
A black fidget cube photographed in 2021; Creative Commons Attribution 2.0. Brand authenticity is not established.

$6.5M pledged on Kickstarter

Ever Given in the Suez Canal

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

152.2K Wikipedia views in a day

Big Dick Energy

65
The Inventor of Big Dick Energy on the Rise and Demise of a Horny Twitter Joke

129.2K derivatives

WandaVision

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WandaVision Disney+ key art

2.14B impressions

PPAP (Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen)

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PPAP（Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen Official）ペンパイナッポーアッポーペン／PIKOTARO(ピコ太郎)

Peaked at #1

GameStop short squeeze

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Keith Gill analyzing GameStop in his July 2020 video; not the September 2019 seed post.

219.8K Wikipedia views in a day

Elden Ring

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Elden Ring key art: the Erdtree over the Lands Between

30M sold

Charlie Bit My Finger

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Charlie bit my finger - again !

883.5M views

Amazon Prime Day 2015

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Amazon’s retrospective illustration of the first Prime Day, showing a shopper carrying Amazon boxes.

58M impressions

Fortnite x Travis Scott "Astronomical"

52
Fortnite and Travis Scott: Astronomical Trailer

12.3M concurrent players

Burger King Whopper Neutrality

52
An in-store video stunt that charged more for faster Whoppers to explain net neutrality.

4.3B impressions

Cyberpunk 2077 launch

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Cyberpunk 2077 launch

40M sold

Apex Legends surprise launch

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Apex Legends surprise launch

$92M revenue

Nano Banana

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Google’s examples of Nano Banana figurines, retro portraits and other image trends.

Peaked at #1

Midjourney

51
Théâtre D’opéra Spatial, generated with Midjourney and entered by Jason Allen; Commons marks it public domain.

$200M revenue

Palworld

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Palworld

2.1M concurrent players

Arcane

58
Arcane key art with Vi and Jinx.

Peaked at #1

Humane AI Pin

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I love AI, but I won't be buying the Humane AI pin for $699. The laser display doesn't look great and the camera quality is subpar. I don't want to walk around with it on my chest all the time. It…

$9M revenue

MySpace

62
Raymond Offenheiser, Wendi Deng, Rupert Murdoch, Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe at Oxfam/MySpace Rock for Darfur.

117.6M users

Duolingo High Valyrian Lessons

47
Digital drawing of the Duolingo green owl mascot sitting on a rendition of the Iron Throne from Game of Thrones. Blurred flames can be seen in the background.

700M impressions

Angry Birds

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Angry Birds app icon with the red bird

6.5M sold

Helldivers 2

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Helldivers 2

12M sold

OK Go: The One Moment video

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24M views · 103 reactions | Ladies and gentlemen, please enjoy our new video for "The One Moment." A million thanks to our partners at Morton Salt #WalkHerWalk. | OK Go

1.1B impressions

"This Is Fine" dog

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The complete six-panel On Fire comic; the first two panels became the reaction image.

5K derivatives