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Sunday night's Oscars ceremony was a little bit batty, but it made for great internet.
Jennifer Lawrence managed to fall down on her way to accepting her Best Actress Oscar, flip off the press corps and still win the night. Channing Tatum, despite not really being nominated for anything, did a dance with Charlize Theron and presented an award. An injured Kristen Stewart pimp-walked onto the stage at the Dolby Theater. Host Seth MacFarlane managed to offend pretty much everybody in one form or another.
And those weren't even the biggest moments of Oscar night. Well, OK, maybe Lawrence falling up the steps was. But beyond that the most buzzed about, GIF-ed, blogged, and Tweeted moments were things like Sandra Bullock's face while struggling with her envelope for Best Film Editing, William Shatner descending from the heavens as Captain Kirk to help save MacFarlane from himself (it kind of worked), and Joseph Gordon-Levitt photo-bombing the red carpet.
This is how we watch awards shows now. We care about who wins, but ultimately we're watching because we're waiting for internet gold – a celeb spill that becomes an instant GIF, a movie star's body part that becomes its own Twitter account, a host that just says a lot of things that immediately polarize Twitter. Welcome to Oscars 2.0. (Or, probably Oscars 3.0 or something. We'll figure it out.) It's a place where the big news of the night is far less important than the awkward things that happen in between and are easy targets for the snack-sized commentary of the web.
To get a taste of what went down online during the Oscars last night, here are some of our favorite viral moments.
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