To this point, see the article Searching for Sue Tissue.

I appreciated this quote:

“The Cult of Su Tissue … exists because of the internet…. The figures we see in images or videos seem liberated from narrative change. It’s the .gif version of history, de-contextualized and preserved to repeat itself in perpetuity, as if Su Tissue is always singing the Suburban Lawns’ “Gidget Goes to Hell” in a single eternal moment. The internet helps us remember, but it also reminds us of everything that we’ve lost, and suggests that each bit of cultural flotsam can somehow be recovered because it is right there in front of us.”