Hello everyone!

Are there similar cases in Germany? So someone who became famous from one day to the next thanks to a viral video or a special moment, even though this person was previously a complete “nobody”? It would be interesting to learn more about such examples!

I'm Brazilian and we have a woman named Inês Brasil who became famous through a viral video a few years ago. She was originally a complete unknown, but her eccentric behavior and appearances have made her a fixture in Brazil's meme culture.

This video of her speaking German is very popular among Brazilian German students. She is the black woman.

Inês Brasil speaks German

Thanks for your answers!

by peudroca

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  3. The only one I can think of would be “Drachenlord”. But he mostly became famous because dickheads on the internet found pleasure in hating on him and making his life hell.

  4. I’m not sure about people becoming fixtures in meme-culture, but there are quite a few examples of people from viral videos that pretty much everyone in the younger generations knows. The first that come to mind would be “was ist denn mit Karsten los?” or “Kranplätze müssen verdichtet werden”. Old but gold would be Angry German Kid, who became known even outside of Germany.

  6. Matthias Rust or Conrad Schumann.

    Now maybe forgotten, famous back then for landing on the red square during the Cold War or jumping the wall when it was built.

    Don’t forget Jürgen and Zlatko (big brother 1).

  7. The masked porn actor asking why there is straw on the ground.

  11. So many people who ended up in Stefan Raab’s TV show TV Total 20 years ago when this show was huge. A big part of his show was presenting clips from other TV shows, e.g. local news or interviews with common people or talk shows and making fun of them. He then had buttons on his desks which played those short clips out of context. They were used like memes in todays internet before the term meme was known. Everyone knew those clips back then. See also the Maschendrahtzaun comment here. It’s probably the most famous and most succesful of those clips.

  14. People popularized by Spiegel TV: Penny(Customers) an der Reeperbahn, die Ritters, Anzeigenhauptmeister, etc.

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