https://www.insidehook.com/internet/20-best-viral-videos-20-years-youtube
Our office wrote an article about the best viral videos over the last 20 years of YouTube. My write-up was about a video called “Numa Numa”.
Imagine it’s 2006 and you’re scrolling through only a one-year-old YouTube — ahh, nostalgia. You come across a goofy man flailing his arms in a blurry thumbnail titled “Numa Numa” and after clicking your ears are filled with what was possibly the catchiest song of that year, “Dragostea Din Tei” by O-Zone. For years following, you could signal to people by throwing your arms to the left and right screaming “Ma-ia-hii, ma-ia-huu, ma-ia-hoo, ma-ia-ha-ha” and have everyone understand what was going on. Some call this the golden age of the internet, and honestly it might have been. Truly an internet phenomenon and an introduction to the concept that people could go viral for being themselves. Gary even went on to appear and voice himself in an episode of South Park (season 12, episode four, “Canada on Strike”). It’s no wonder that 20 years after the video first aired on the website Newgrounds, Gary Brolsma, aka “The Numa Numa Guy,” is still remembered as one of the first content creators and a pioneer in the YouTube world.
Numa Numa by Gary Brolsma
Matt Carucci | Content Creator, Copywriter & Creative Strategist 