First uploaded to YouTube in 2006, Technoviking didn't become amazingly popular until 2007, when it was featured on sites such as Break, Digg, and eBaumsworld. It then spawned a large thread on 4chan and was features on Cracked. A real life exhibit dedicated to the video was created in Karlsruhe, Germany, and a website full of fan-made parodies of the original followed soon after.