In an effort to reach out to all of you internet-savvy travelers who suffer Attention Deficit Disorder, Delta Airlines has created a special safety video, featuring Internet memes! This is Delta’s diabolically clever way of making sure the safety video will hold the strapped-in, captive audience in thrall. Perhaps Delta hopes vital safety information will seep in via osmosis while passengers delight in meme spotting.
Delta is known for clever video ads, but they may have overshot their target Millennial audience with a few of these golden oldies, which date back to the dawn of the internet…and perhaps the dawn of man. There was an Apple in the Garden of Eden – right? Feel free to groan.
There are 22 internet memes in all. Challenge yourself to name them as they appear. Alternately, here is a list for those who wish to peek.
0:03 Keyboard Cat
0:18 Double Rainbow Guy
0:26 Annoying Orange
0:30 Roomba Cat
0:45 Rahat’s Prank
1:05 Evolution of Dance
1:25 Slow Mo Guy
1:43 Harlem Shake
1:51 Deltalina
1:52 Screaming Goat
2:02 Internet Browser
2:23 Peanut Butter Jelly Time
2:31 Dramatic Chipmunk
2:48 Charlie Bit My Finger
3:23 Clicking Finger
3:51 Overly Attached Girlfriend
4:02 Ice Bucket Challenge
4:09 Dancing Baby (Dancing Baby Animation provided courtesy of Autodesk, Inc. © 1999)
4:15 Hamsters Eating Burritos
4:25 Nyan Cat
4:32 Doge
4:48 Mentos & Coke