2017 in Internet culture

movement denouncing sexual assault and harassment

r/place was a recurring collaborative project and social experiment hosted on the content aggregator site Reddit. Originally launched on April Fools' Day 2017, it has since been repeated again on April Fools' Day 2022 and on July 20, 2023.

American broadcast journalist, author, television personality and female empowerment advocate

Covfefe is a word, widely presumed to be a typographical error, that Donald Trump used in a tweet during his first term as President of the United States. It quickly became an Internet meme.

right|thumb|300x300px|Example of a T-posing model in MakeHuman software.

sexually active "alpha male"

pejorative term for men perceived as non-masculine

Animated character created by Josh Slice

dance move

Ironmouse (born January 11) is a Puerto Rican VTuber, singer, and Twitch streamer. Active since 2017, she was a founding member of the U.S.-based VTuber agency VShojo and was part of the organization from November 2020 until her departure in July 2025.

CryptoPunks is a non-fungible token (NFT) collection on the Ethereum blockchain. The project was launched in June 2017 by the Larva Labs studio, a two-person team consisting of Canadian software developers Matt Hall and John Watkinson. The experimental project was inspired by the London punk scenes, the cyberpunk movement, and electronic music artists Daft Punk. The crypto art blockchain project was an inspiration for the ERC-721 standard for NFTs and the modern crypto art movement, which has since become a part of the cryptocurrency and decentralized finance ecosystems on multiple blockchains

Juicero Inc. () was an American company that designed, manufactured and sold the Juicero Press, a fruit and vegetable juicer. The Juicero Press featured Wi-Fi connectivity and used proprietary, single-serving packets of pre-chopped fruits and vegetables that were sold exclusively by the company on a subscription basis. From 2014 to 2017, the San Francisco-based firm received $120 million in startup venture capital from investors.

Big Shaq song

Internet meme

movement against R. Kelly's musical career

shooting in Cleveland, OH, USA