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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Enormous bottle of rosé meets tragic fate at the club
Enormous bottle of rosé meets tragic fate at the club

Watch the moment 2 highway patrol officers discover California's devastating mudslides
Watch the moment 2 highway patrol officers discover California's devastating mudslides



Good dog playing with ice is the best kind of winter inspo
Good dog playing with ice is the best kind of winter inspo










It's so damn cold someone went ice skating at the beach
It's so damn cold someone went ice skating at the beach


Release of rescued squirrel goes very, very wrong
Release of rescued squirrel goes very, very wrong

This hilarious video is the only good SNL 'audition tape'
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