Google honors 'Mr. Trololo' Eduard Khil with his own lovely doodle video

Is this the best Google Doodle ever?

If you like trolling people, you'll probably think so. Russian singer Eduard Khil has been immortalized today, on what would have been his 83rd birthday, in a brand new Google Doodle.

The Soviet-era singer enjoyed a successful career in his native Russia for most of his life, but in 2009, he became something much greater: an important part of of internet culture history.

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For relatively unknown reasons, a 1976 video of Khil surfaced on YouTube in 2009 and quickly became a global phenomenon because of his unique singing style where he repeated the phrase "trololol," a term used in internet parlance to describe laughter caused by trolling or pranking someone. Read more...

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