It's been a good year.
We've laughed, we've cried, we've dumped freezing cold water over our heads -- and, most importantly, we sat idly by our laptops watching other people do interesting stuff on YouTube.
Viral videos are the fuel of the Internet, the backbone, the heart and soul. Without an adorable dog video or sassy toddler clip, how would we get through the daily monotony of the year? These are the 30 viral videos that kept us going in 2014 -- the videos that amassed millions of page views, laughs and created dozens of Internet celebrities.
There are no ads, music videos and late-night sketches on this list. These videos pulled themselves up by the bootstraps and created a place for themselves in the annals of the interwebs all on their own.