Viral & Famous Pets

The real stories behind internet-famous animals, memes and viral pets.

The Dancing Hamster Website That Took Over the Internet in 1998

A bet between sisters, a GeoCities page full of dancing cartoon hamsters and a sped-up Disney song. The Hampster Dance went viral…

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The counting, bouncing dog took over feeds in 2026, but the beat behind it has a fifty-year history, and Brazil's first dancing-dog…

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Millions know the stretched white cat. Few know her name was Shiro, that she lived to about 18, or that the famous…

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Fatso was filmed in 1984 and died in 1987. Twenty-two years later he became internet famous. How a bored artist's home video…

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Tardar Sauce had the internet's most famous frown, a movie, a wax figure and a $710,001 court win. Her family says she…

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The suspicious dachshund glance became one of the internet's favorite reactions. How the side-eye dog spread from Reddit to TikTok.

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