8 Reasons Why Horses Won the Internet This Year

From Colbert to baby Clydesdales, horses have gone viral over the past 12 months. Let’s take a look back at the madness.

Stephen Colbert

Colbert’s hilarious take on the 2012 “Sport of the Summer,” dressage, had us all in stitches.

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Moonwalking ponies

We still aren’t even sure what this commercial, which garnered 7 million YouTube views, is for–but we love it.

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Ponies in cardigans

Talk about a successful ad campaign–these photos taken by Tourist Board of Scotland got passed ALL over the Internet.

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Budweiser commercial

This heartwarming Super Bowl commercial got nearly 12 million YouTube views.

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Horse masks

Truly, it has been the Year of the Horse Mask–people just kept showing up in them, even in the most unlikely places.

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Gangnam Style

The original “invisible horse riding dance” has been seen on YouTube 1,635,660,834 times and spawned tens of thousands of spinoff memes.

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Horses and bayonets

After a heated exchange about the U.S. Navy’s downsizing plans during a presidential debate in October, Twitter became inundated with photoshopped images and the hashtag #horsesandbayonets, which swiftly took over the top trending topics in the United States and worldwide.

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Prancercise

The latest horse-themed internet sensation emerged just last week, by way of a fitness video that has already had over 5 million YouTube views.

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Go Riding.

 

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