There’s a very good chance that the internet’s favorite show might go the way of “The Harlem Shake” or planking.
Without too much effort, you can find Arrested Development GIFs and pictures organized into almost every conceivable order and theme you can think of.
The first DVDs of Arrested Development shipped to homes in the fall of 2004. By the end of 2006, DVDs of the original three season run had been distributed to fans all over the world. After the show's cancellation, those DVDs were especially important — they were the only tools fans had to fuel a fanatic screencap culture driven by a sense that with enough enthusiasm and devotion, they could will their little critically-acclaimed TV show back to life.
Google Trends data for "Arrested Development" shows a peak in online interest when the show was cancelled in 2006, as fans flocked to blogs and messageboards to commiserate.
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That two-year period between 2004 and 2006 is an interesting one in terms of online culture. Myspace was still a few years off from becoming a dominant social network, hitting peak user numbers in 2008, and Facebook wasn't yet a force for sharing. Facebook wasn't even available to people who didn't have a college email until the end of 2006.
Instead, an unregulated meme culture was growing at an exponential rate. Messageboard users were sharing early versions of what we now classify as "viral content." That usually meant usually weird songs, clunky flash cartoons, terrible GIFs and more than anything, silly images.