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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Mom sings sweet Whitney Houston duet with her young daughter
Mom sings sweet Whitney Houston duet with her young daughter

Eager beginner driver has a very bad time riding go-karts
Eager beginner driver has a very bad time riding go-karts


Dad does his best to replicate daughter's impressive gymnastics moves
Dad does his best to replicate daughter's impressive gymnastics moves

Bunny discovers the exhilarating joy of eating popcorn
Bunny discovers the exhilarating joy of eating popcorn




Extreme crosswind forces plane to abort landing at the last second
Extreme crosswind forces plane to abort landing at the last second



Little boy proposes to his classmate with his mom's diamond ring
Original image replaced with Mashable logo


Russian bear attempts to play on tiny playground swing
Russian bear attempts to play on tiny playground swing






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