2020s in Internet culture

thumb|upright=1.2|alt=Video screenshot with the title "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up". It shows the singer dancing, wearing a trenchcoat over a turtleneck.|A screenshot of the music video to the song on [[YouTube, taken in 2009]]

thumb|Kizuna AI was the first VTuber to achieve breakout popularity.A or is an online entertainer who uses a virtual avatar generated using computer graphics. Real-time motion capture software or technology are often—but not always—used to capture movement. The digital trend originated in Japan in the mid-2010s, and has become an international online phenomenon in the 2020s. A majority of VTubers are English- and Japanese-speaking YouTubers or live streamers who use avatar designs. By 2020, there were more than 10,000 active VTubers. Although the term is an allusion to the video platform YouTu

Web3 is an idea for a new iteration of the World Wide Web which incorporates concepts such as decentralization, blockchain technologies, tokenomics, and privacy-enhancing technologies. The term is sometimes confused with the Semantic Web, as both have sometimes been referred to as "Web 3.0". Some technologists and journalists have contrasted it with Web 2.0, in which they say user-generated content is controlled by a small group of companies referred to as Big Tech. The term "web 3.0" as applied to blockchain technology was coined in 2014 by Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood, and the idea gained

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youth subculture originating in the late-2010s

subgenre of horror fiction

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pornography generated using deepfake technology

online presentations produced by Nintendo

online web forum

essay, lecture or criticism from a particular point of view in a video/film/tv format

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Spotify viral marketing campaign

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overview about the use of social media by Donald Trump, 45th and 47th president of the United States

Alt-tech is a collection of social networking, online video, blogging and other platforms and services that provide alternatives to "Big Tech" platforms and services. The "alt-" prefix alludes to the alt-right movement.

Generation Z subculture

online community of Twitter users

thumb|AI-generated content in American politics|AI-generated depiction of medbeds shared to [[Donald Trump's Truth Social account]]Medbeds (short for "medical beds" or "meditation beds") are a nonexistent medical technology that became prominent in conspiracy theory narratives in the early 2020s. Medbeds can supposedly cure any condition but have been kept secret from the general public and reserved for the elite.