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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Beethoven and Led Zeppelin face off on dueling cellos
Beethoven and Led Zeppelin face off on dueling cellos




Rad little snowboarder falls asleep while standing
Rad little snowboarder falls asleep while standing


That video of a bear chasing a snowboarder is totally fake
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John Oliver explains why credit reporting companies suck (and makes three of his own)
John Oliver explains why credit reporting companies suck (and makes three of his own)


The Lonely Island gets jiggy with a Will Smith medley at MTV Movie Awards
The Lonely Island gets jiggy with a Will Smith medley at MTV Movie Awards






Watch these people break the world record for largest human mattress dominoes
Watch these people break the world record for largest human mattress dominoes






Drone crashes through random dude's window and into his head
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