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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Impressive rolling cloud looks like the apocalypse is coming
Impressive rolling cloud looks like the apocalypse is coming

Massive alligator walks right up to a family's front door to say hello
Massive alligator walks right up to a family's front door to say hello




11,000 oranges, 24 tubes of toothpaste, and other things that will kill you
11,000 oranges, 24 tubes of toothpaste, and other things that will kill you





Terrifying video shows a bear and her two cubs following a man on a trail
Terrifying video shows a bear and her two cubs following a man on a trail




5 trending topics to get you through the a.m. slump
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Dude urinating in the street gets a nice helping of instant justice
Dude urinating in the street gets a nice helping of instant justice

Do not ever try to waterslide like this
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