This caused the application to receive fame among fans of Vinesauce. On February 1st, 2014, Joel from the video-streaming site Vinesauce released a video in which BonziBuddy, along with other viruses and malware, were installed on an emulated version of the Windows XP operating system. On April 16th, 2011, a page for BonziBuddy was created on the Internet culture wiki Encyclopedia Dramatica. On October 11th, 2009, an entry for BonziBuddy was created on the Malware Wiki.
On July 20th, YouTuber SuperMario157 uploaded a video titled 'Bonzi Buddy Speaks,' featuring a text-to-speech voice portraying the BonziBuddy gorilla as a sexually deviant computer program (shown below). BonziBuddy was described as spyware 1 and adware. Upon a user's choice, it would share jokes and facts, manage downloads, sing songs, and talk, among other functions, as it used Microsoft Agent.
On April 16th, 2007, PC World published a list titled 'The 20 Most Annoying Tech Products,' which ranked BonziBuddy as #6 of all time. BonziBuddy ( / bnzi bd.i / BON-zee-bud-ee, stylized as BonziBUDDY) was a freeware desktop virtual assistant created by Joe and Jay Bonzi. On August 3rd, 2003, Urban Dictionary user Joe submitted an entry for 'Bonzi Buddy,' referring to it as a 'stupid spyware program.' On September 15th, 2006, PC World listed BonziBuddy as the 8th worst website on the Internet.
