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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Viral Videos

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Three screenshots of the viral TikTok. The internet is divided over a Gen Z woman's complaint about working 9 to 5

News

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More Viral Videos

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By Matt Binder
Ai-Generated Republican attack ad
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By Elizabeth de Luna
Three screenshots of celebs doing the challenge, all mid-water dump. From left to right: Bill Gates, Kim Kardashian being splashed by Ellen DeGeneres, and Ryan Seacrest.
Space Force unveils its official song and it's cringe! Very cringe!
By Tim Marcin
the space force logo over earth in illustration
CNBC segment goes off the rails with barking dogs, man in underwear
By Matt Binder
CNBC segment
Watch golfer Grayson Murray lose it, throw one club then break another
By Tim Marcin
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'Severance' mashup with 'The Office' intro is so good it's scary
By Tim Marcin
title screen reading "the severance"
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A tiny shell with a googly eye and toy shoes standing on a keyboard; still from "Marcel the Shell with Shoes On."
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By Tim Marcin
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A screenshot of Jackie Weaver on the infamous viral Zoom call as she attempted to deal with disruptive council members.
Conner O'Malley is the internet's unlikely oracle. And its most deranged comedian.
By Tim Marcin
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'Wheel of Fortune' contestants repeatedly stumble with a wildly simple answer
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Pat Sajak roasts 'Wheel of Fortune' contestant's story about his toe getting chopped off
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side by side of pat sajak and contestant
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An older woman and a girl being given rifles by a soldier
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super bowl halftime show performers
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A man (Guy Fieri) holding a can of hard seltzer.
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Image of Bill Murray performing in Washington Square Park
Local reporter gets hit by car on live TV and brushes it off
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split screen, tv anchor and reporter
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Carter Trozzolo, looking tired, while being interviewed for the news.
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screenshot of underpass on Google Maps
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man fake vomiting on tv
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By Christianna Silva
An illustration of likes being broken
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By Tim Marcin
An image of Elmo from 'Sesame Street' with a tweet from culture writer and author Hanif Abdurraqib.
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By Tim Marcin
timothée chalamet and zendaya
How Cyrus Dobre became the youngest person ever to fly a jet pack – My Biggest Viral Hit
By Ray White
How Cyrus Dobre became the youngest person ever to fly a jet pack – My Biggest Viral Hit
Fox News' Laura Ingraham confused by Netflix show 'You,' goes full 'Who's on first'
By Tim Marcin
confused looking laura ingraham talking to guest
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