Can I ask for help in identifying an old video posted on the internet?

Question

It would been a "meme" or viral video by today's standards, but I vaguely remember it from back when YouTube was first gaining traction.

It isn't really a "Movie" and it would never have been on "TV" (that I know of)

Can I ask for help in finding it (or the title of it) here?

Answer 1

Personally, I'd be inclined to say no for a few reasons.

1. Music videos and commercials are specifically out of scope per the help center. I would lump random YouTube/Internet videos in that same general category.
2. The community appears to be trending away from accepting identify-x questions per other Meta posts like this one.
3. Meme videos are endlessly derivative. You might want help identifying the Star Wars Kid, but you saw version X and I'm describing version Y. The general description matches each time, but you never get what you want because I can't find the exact version you want.

That being said I think there is some gray area with some Internet videos.

Personally I would say popular web series like Red vs. Blue would be on topic for identification/questions in my opinion however because there is a continuity, and the series does loosely emulate a narrative comedic TV show.

I would call other popular web based series like Strong Bad and/or Funny or Die off topic for identify questions, and information questions. The clips are generally short and stand alone. Similarly I think identify-this-episode questions are off topic for TV shows like America's Funniest Home Video, or The Price Is Right for the same reason.

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I purposefully chose older references here because the OP was talking about an older Internet video.