Viral Videos

A viral video is a video on the internet that gains immense popularity in a relatively short period of time through organic social media sharing. A viral video’s cultural resonance spreads quickly. Today, videos that tend to go viral are hosted on video-sharing platforms like YouTube, TikTok, and even Twitter. Think: K-pop star Psy’s “Gangnam Style,” which accumulated over 1,000,000,000 views on YouTube in five months; 2009’s “David After Dentist,” which now has over 141 million views; and the viral TikTok of a man skateboarding to Fleetwood Mac while drinking cranberry juice, which racked up 35 million views in a little over a week. However, some of the first viral clips and animations of the late 1990s and early 2000s were spread on online forums and through email chains, like the 1996 animation of a dancing baby or 2003’s “Star Wars kid.”

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Joana Ceddia went viral and brought back the spirit of old YouTube

The teenager gained 500,000 YouTube subscribers in a month. How?

09/21/2018

By Morgan Sung

This guy makes a 'September' music video every year, and this year it's the best

'Each year on 9/21 I do a dumb dance,' he wrote. 'Now it's for charity.'

09/21/2018

By Morgan Sung

Ridiculous dudes hold Fenway Park banner hostage, and it's the most Boston thing ever

A Red Sox fan is holding a stadium banner hostage for playoff tickets.

09/19/2018

By Morgan Sung

This weirdly peppy anthem for end times will be stuck in your head for days

"It's gonna be a fine swell day."

09/19/2018

By Xavier Piedra

This weirdly peppy anthem for end times will be stuck in your head for days

This weirdly peppy anthem for end times will be stuck in your head for days

Retro logos for modern internet companies

Flare jeans and fanny packs are back in, why not VHS tapes?

09/19/2018

By Morgan Sung

Retro logos for modern internet companies

Retro logos for modern internet companies

Watch this car wash employee expertly escape getting caught between two vehicles

Oh no.

09/17/2018

By Amanda Luz Henning Santiago

Please enjoy this grandmother's perfect bottle flip

An American hero.

09/14/2018

By Martha Tesema

Please enjoy this grandmother's perfect bottle flip

Please enjoy this grandmother's perfect bottle flip

Missy Elliott and her 'funky white sister' rapped together and we're crying

Ti esrever dna ti pilf.

09/13/2018

By Morgan Sung

Security camera catches speeding Tesla going airborne after hitting railroad tracks

We have liftoff.

08/29/2018

By Brian Koerber

BTS inspires the best dance challenge since Drake's 'In My Feelings'

Get ready for the #IdolChallenge.

08/29/2018

By Martha Tesema

Watch these teenagers absolutely nail an incredible cover of 'Barracuda'

They even did Heart's classic, 'Hey here's Bob on guitar, everybody.'

08/27/2018

By Morgan Sung

Watch these teenagers absolutely nail an incredible cover of 'Barracuda'

Watch these teenagers absolutely nail an incredible cover of 'Barracuda'

You need to watch this guy make sharp knives out of weird objects

This pasta knife is good enough to cut, and eat!

08/27/2018

By Xavier Piedra

Bad Lip Reading hilariously mocks the White House press briefings

"Ok idiots are you ready? I just can't stand the faces of you people."

08/23/2018

By Xavier Piedra

Bad Lip Reading hilariously mocks the White House press briefings

Bad Lip Reading hilariously mocks the White House press briefings

Security guard loses his job after going viral for farting at work

He blew up after recording himself farting at work for six months.

08/23/2018

By Morgan Sung

New panda mom doesn't know she has twins thanks to these sneaky zookeepers

Pandas tend to abandon one cub to care for the other.

08/18/2018

By Morgan Sung

Dude has the worst day ever, documents it all on Snapchat

*Daniel Powter voice*: "'Cause you had a bad day."

08/17/2018

By Xavier Piedra

Dude has the worst day ever, documents it all on Snapchat

Dude has the worst day ever, documents it all on Snapchat

Overly Attached Girlfriend: A retrospective

'Overly Attached Girlfriend' is the perfect emblem of the 2012 internet landscape.

08/09/2018

By Chloe Bryan

Little girl on her first day of kindergarten is all of us realizing summer's pretty much over

So relatable.

08/08/2018

By Xavier Piedra

Firefighters capture footage of a 50-foot-tall tornado made of fire

Not the apocalypse, just a fire tornado.

08/08/2018

By Morgan Sung

Firefighters capture footage of a 50-foot-tall tornado made of fire

Firefighters capture footage of a 50-foot-tall tornado made of fire

How one company reshaped — and kind of ruined — the viral video landscape

Meet the internet mob boss controlling viral videos

08/06/2018

By Brian Koerber

This knife-wielding dog is a hilarious nightmare come true

Nope, still a good boy.

08/06/2018

By Xavier Piedra

This knife-wielding dog is a hilarious nightmare come true

This knife-wielding dog is a hilarious nightmare come true

This person thought a dog was at their door but found a very pissed off bear instead

Don't mess with mama bear.

08/03/2018

By Xavier Piedra

This person thought a dog was at their door but found a very pissed off bear instead

This person thought a dog was at their door but found a very pissed off bear instead

Teen absolutely mortified by dancing adults on jumbotron

There is nothing more humiliating than being in the proximity of someone gyrating to Flo Rida's 'Low.'

08/02/2018

By Morgan Sung

The Rock gifted his stunt double a new truck and it's so wholesome

Santa Claus is real, and his actual name is Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson.

08/01/2018

By Morgan Sung

Florida man carries a live gator like a purse for a beer run

When asked if he was under the influence during the beer run, he replied, 'a lot of the influence!'

07/31/2018

By Morgan Sung