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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Family learns the dangers of feeding animals the hard way
Family learns the dangers of feeding animals the hard way




Bear crashes birthday party and eats all the cake
Bear crashes birthday party and eats all the cake

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Baby whale close to shore wows beachgoers, but the story is actually really sad
Baby whale close to shore wows beachgoers, but the story is actually really sad


Fighter jet scares the crap out of a bunch of people on a beach
Fighter jet scares the crap out of a bunch of people on a beach

Watch a dude crash his speedboat and almost kill a kayaker
Watch a dude crash his speedboat and almost kill a kayaker



Teen's weather report goes very, very wrong
Teen's weather report goes very, very wrong

Man refuses to let his fear of heights ruin this breathtaking view
Man refuses to let his fear of heights ruin this breathtaking view


Baby whale lands on snorkeler and the dude rightfully flips out
Baby whale lands on snorkeler and the dude rightfully flips out

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