According to ClickZ, visiting the Elf Yourself site 'has become an annual tradition that people look forward to'. Elf Yourself allows visitors to upload images of themselves or their friends, see them as dancing elves, and includes options to save or share the video. This backlash further increased due to Cooks Source's response which showed a misunderstanding of copyright and an increasing agitation to the original writer of the article.
Beanie Babies – Cited as being the world's first Internet sensation in 1995.See also: List of viral music videos § Ads and campaigns
