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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This Hermione dance is actual magic
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A baby's faceswap with John C. Reilly is the scariest thing you'll see today
A baby's faceswap with John C. Reilly is the scariest thing you'll see today


Someone made Bubble Bass's Krusty Krab order in real life, and it actually looks delicious
Someone made Bubble Bass's Krusty Krab order in real life, and it actually looks delicious



You need to watch this plane perform a wild vertical take-off
You need to watch this plane perform a wild vertical take-off




Watch this guy set gummy bears on fire with molten salt
Watch this guy set gummy bears on fire with molten salt

Please stop and share in our collective awe over this yodeling angel
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Please stop and share in our collective awe over this yodeling angel

Little girl is so hyped about 'My Little Pony' movie, she said the F-word
Little girl is so hyped about 'My Little Pony' movie, she said the F-word


BBC Dad makes a beautiful, earnest commitment to us all
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Man builds a singing Furby organ, and the results are horrifying
Man builds a singing Furby organ, and the results are horrifying

Internet nostalgia: Revisiting the meme-filled music video for Weezer's 'Pork And Beans'
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Potty-mouthed 98-year-old is very surprised to learn he's 98
Potty-mouthed 98-year-old is very surprised to learn he's 98



Errant cow commits mail fraud
Errant cow commits mail fraud

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