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OK Go Singer: Yes to Dogs in Videos, No to Facebook

(Sept. 26) -- In theory, they're music videos. In reality, they're one-shot masterpieces that say something new about what had become a very tired genre. OK Go has, quite simply, changed the game. And it all began with eight treadmills. In 2007, the Chicago-born band took the Internet by storm with its wacky and...

Katy Perry Likes Keenan Cahill, and So Should You

(Sept. 19) -- Keenan Cahill is the most-talked-about freshman at York Community High School. People he doesn't know stop him in the halls to say hi. Girls ask to take his picture. Perez Hilton name-drops him on his blog. Keenan, a 15-year-old from outside Chicago who looks closer to 9, has had a small cult following for...

One Meme to Rule Them All: Meme Team Picks Fave

(Sept. 5) -- The process by which a video goes from simply viral to full-blown meme is somewhere between accidental and inevitable. There's no formula. But increasingly there is a key ingredient: the Gregory Brothers. The musical group (which is actually three brothers and one of their wives) has exploded over the last...

'Dry Erase Girl' Not Ready to Quit Her Day Job

(Aug. 22) -- In the past the overnight success stories that Hollywood loves so much were of course not actually overnight. The road from "discovered" to "beloved" took months, what with the time required to actually produce a movie or television show. But the Internet has changed that. And rarely has one been so dramatic...

'Bed Intruder Song' Guy Still Making the Most of His Meme

(Aug. 15) -- First there was an attempted rape. Then there was a news crew. Then there was Antoine Dodson. "After that," Dodson told AOL News, "it got out crazy." You never can tell where the Internet's meme-of-the-moment is going to come from, but even by the unpredictable laws of viral video, Dodson's story is...