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.”

an AI slop illustration
screenshots of wabi sabi tiktoks
Starbucks Bear Cup frenzy online
still from 'holidays are coming' ai video ad with santa claus holding coca-cola bottle
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Miles Teller as Andrew Cuomo, Ramy Youssef as Zohran Mamdani, and Shane Gillis as Curtis Sliwa side by side

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Screenshots of Grok Imagine images and video. (AI-generated content)

Trixie Mattel drops summer anthem 'Gay HBO Max Song'
Screenshot of YouTube video featuring Trixie Mattel and the words "Gay HBO Max Song"

AI job interviewers are going viral on TikTok
an illustration o a little robot head and conversation bubbles by a phone

Viral AI video 'You Are What You Eat' is pure mukbang nightmare fuel
ai-generated image of a man made of eggs eating eggs

Lego builds life-size F1 cars for Miami GP — made of 400,000 Lego bricks
Ferrari and Mercedes F1 teams at the Lego drivers parade prior to the Miami Grand Prix

Watch OK Go team with Universal Robots for 'Love' music video
OK Go in "Love" Music video

YouTube is changing what a 'view' means for YouTube Shorts
YouTube Shorts logo


7 wild Sora videos blowing up social media after its launch
openai logo in front of screen showing sora webpage

A dog climbed an Egyptian pyramid — and things just got weirder from there
The Pyramid of Khafre near Cairo


'Who Deng?' Meet Haggis, the newest hippo sensation from Edinburgh Zoo
viral pygmy hippo moo deng walking in sand.


Saoirse Ronan responds to her viral 'Graham Norton Show' moment
saoirse ronan onstage at a panel


Watch Saoirse Ronan stun male actors into silence on 'The Graham Norton Show'
Saoirse ronan on stage, speaking into a microphone

Open-source TikTok alternative Loops coming to the fediverse
Loops, federated TikTok alternative

See ChatGPT run on a TI-84 graphing calculator
a chatgpt logo on a ti-84 calculator


Elon Musk's X / Twitter has a new TV app dedicated to watching videos
X app logo

'Democracy manifest' diner from viral 'succulent Chinese meal' video has died
Jack Karlson being escorted to a car by police in the viral "democracy manifest" video.


TikTok video sparks conversation about inflation
A grocery basket filled with produce.
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