February 2010 marked the birth of one of the greatest men on earth. He was none other than 67 year old Oakland native Thomas Bruso aka Epic Bear Man aka Vietnam Tom. Some time in February a video went viral showing Bruso getting into an altercation with a younger black male in his fifties. The video shows the black male accusing Thomas Bruso of being racist, and eventually a fight breaks out... well more like a beat down. Thomas Bruso ends up beating the living hell out of the young black male. At first both the identities of both Thomas Bruso and his opponent were not known, so people were speculating that a 70 year old beat up a young 18-20 year old (since he did look quite young in the video). This speculation of the age gap created the thug vs old man theme and propelled Thomas Bruso to stardom. To add even more epicness to Thomas Bruso's alias of "Epic Beard Man" the video also captured him wearing a "I am a motherfucker" t-shirt. The interest in Epic Beard Man has since died down after a humongous spike 1-2 months folling the event. Even though search interest has died down for Epic Beard Man, new media is continually popping up. Epic Beard Man was not the only meme that came out of the video. Ambalamps or Amberlamps was also a prominent meme that followed suite. The main reason Amber Lamps became popular was because of her calmness throughout the video. Social media eventually took screen caps of her and nicknamed her "amber lamps" influenced by a mispronunciation of "ambulance".