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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The heartwarming moment a hockey player tells his dad he made the Olympics
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Mom scares the crap out of kid that snuck out of bed for playtime
Mom scares the crap out of kid that snuck out of bed for playtime

Nightmare alert: 5-foot snake found hiding in someone's toilet in Texas
Nightmare alert: 5-foot snake found hiding in someone's toilet in Texas


Intense video shows snowy pileup involving more than 75 vehicles
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Bro trolls city council with hilarious speech defending house parties
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Someone decked out their grandma's mobility scooter to accelerate like a Tesla
Someone decked out their grandma's mobility scooter to accelerate like a Tesla

This year's YouTube Rewind video is quite the ride
This year's YouTube Rewind video is quite the ride

Watch 100 people admit to the random stuff they stole
Watch 100 people admit to the random stuff they stole




Cool dog doesn't want you to know how much it loves that damn trampoline
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Dog, sick and tired of waiting in car, slams his paw on the horn
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