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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Puppy achieves impossible, manages to take full nap with vacuum running

This corgi is a heavy sleeper.

11/23/2019

By Chloe Bryan

Puppy achieves impossible, manages to take full nap with vacuum running

Puppy achieves impossible, manages to take full nap with vacuum running

Watch a Bernie Sanders impersonator interview the real Bernie Sanders

Does Bernie's college tuition plan include improv schools?

11/21/2019

By Morgan Sung

Watch a Bernie Sanders impersonator interview the real Bernie Sanders

Watch a Bernie Sanders impersonator interview the real Bernie Sanders

The viral TikTok of a teen eating a 10-patty burger is a storytelling masterpiece

Give! Them! An! Oscar!

10/22/2019

By Morgan Sung

Guy's sleep recorder app picks up sounds worse than ghosts

Gastrointestinal distress is spookier than paranormal activity.

10/14/2019

By Morgan Sung

Here's Taylor Swift on post-surgery painkillers, absolutely losing it over a banana

Is this real life?

10/04/2019

By Caitlin Welsh

Here's Taylor Swift on post-surgery painkillers, absolutely losing it over a banana

Here's Taylor Swift on post-surgery painkillers, absolutely losing it over a banana

Airport truck spinning in circles is the perfect metaphor for 2019

Yes, of course there are memes.

10/01/2019

By Caitlin Welsh

Mom goes to the bathroom for 45 seconds and returns to find her toddler on a treadmill

Childhood moves too fast.

09/27/2019

By Ellie Houghtaling

Allow this dog to convince you that he's a baby

He's baby. Where's the lie?

09/15/2019

By Nicole Gallucci

Allow this dog to convince you that he's a baby

Allow this dog to convince you that he's a baby

Guilty-looking dog definitely did not chew this dog training book

Who could have done it?

09/13/2019

By Ellie Houghtaling

Guilty-looking dog definitely did not chew this dog training book

Guilty-looking dog definitely did not chew this dog training book

Hurricane does not stop intrepid raccoon from raiding the bird feeder

Hang in there, lil' buddy.

09/09/2019

By Andy Moser

Hurricane does not stop intrepid raccoon from raiding the bird feeder

Hurricane does not stop intrepid raccoon from raiding the bird feeder

Very tired bear holds up bathroom line by napping on the sinks

He was safely removed, but not before leaving behind some shredded paper towels and a sink full of poop.

09/05/2019

By Morgan Sung

Watch a kid reel in a 30-pound fish with her 'Frozen' mini pole

An impressive feat from a tiny human.

08/31/2019

By Chloe Bryan

Watch a kid reel in a 30-pound fish with her 'Frozen' mini pole

Watch a kid reel in a 30-pound fish with her 'Frozen' mini pole

Great Wolf Lodge employee entertains kids with flawless Beyoncé performance

He brought it.

08/28/2019

By Ellie Houghtaling

Great Wolf Lodge employee entertains kids with flawless Beyoncé performance

Great Wolf Lodge employee entertains kids with flawless Beyoncé performance

Cursed recipe video ruins all the best foods by combining them

"I'd eat this tbh" -- Chrissy Teigen, and literally nobody else.

08/26/2019

By Caitlin Welsh

Please enjoy a nice song featuring the world's sleepiest chihuahua

Is this the most wholesome video in existence?

08/16/2019

By Chloe Bryan

Please enjoy a nice song featuring the world's sleepiest chihuahua

Please enjoy a nice song featuring the world's sleepiest chihuahua

Pilot crashes plane and proceeds to vlog his rescue from the Canadian wilderness

Here's what you're *supposed* to do if your plane crashes.

08/05/2019

By Morgan Sung

Pilot crashes plane and proceeds to vlog his rescue from the Canadian wilderness

Pilot crashes plane and proceeds to vlog his rescue from the Canadian wilderness

Bear cub scares the crap out of two dudes just trying to take a nap

Goooood morning.

08/05/2019

By Brian Koerber

Bear cub scares the crap out of two dudes just trying to take a nap

Bear cub scares the crap out of two dudes just trying to take a nap

Meet Cuthbert, the goose that laid the golden TikTok

Good morning, Cuthbert!

08/03/2019

By Rachel Thompson

Meet Cuthbert, the goose that laid the golden TikTok

Meet Cuthbert, the goose that laid the golden TikTok

Forget Area 51, over a hundred kids just stormed Lollapalooza

The photographer who caught this on video thinks it was 'strategic' and definitely organized.

08/02/2019

By Morgan Sung

I can't stop watching this overdubbed video of a duck falling asleep in class

Mr. Duckworth is everything to me.

07/30/2019

By Chloe Bryan

Horrifying video of uncooked meat crawling off a table will ruin you

It's been dubbed the 'zombie chicken' but it's probably not chicken and might not even be real.

07/26/2019

By Morgan Sung

Dude drops his phone directly next to an alligator

Don't hold your phone directly above an alligator's head.

07/25/2019

By Morgan Sung

Dude drops his phone directly next to an alligator

Dude drops his phone directly next to an alligator

Adorable baby flamingo learning to stand on one leg deserves all our support

It is trying its best.

07/24/2019

By Chloe Bryan

Let these moose in a sprinkler be your heat wave inspo

Please find a random sprinkler in an Alaskan yard STAT.

07/20/2019

By Chloe Bryan

Let these moose in a sprinkler be your heat wave inspo

Let these moose in a sprinkler be your heat wave inspo

This sweet video of a kid giving up his foul ball to another kid will make you cry

Maybe I should start watching baseball?

07/18/2019

By Katie Berohn