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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The dressing room of Japan is seen after the FIFA World Cup match between Netherlands and Japan at Dallas Stadium on June 14, 2026
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Coca-Cola created another AI holiday video, and I expect a lot more like it
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The celebrity Halloween costumes that took over the internet
celebrity Halloween costumes 2025


Watch the 1x NEO household robot attempt to do chores
the neo robot against a white background

Why meaningless lists are taking over your FYP
tiktok on a phone with comments about random lists


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Sora app

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Sora update: OpenAI expects copyright holders to opt out character by character
Sora app on phone screen

I've been using Sora 2, and it's SpongeBob, memes, and deepfakes all the way down
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a photo of the sora app

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the Samsung Odyssey G7 monitor

This viral video of the iPhone 17 Pro has 130 million views and counting. It's also fake.
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The TikTok artist behind viral 'unknowing bunny' song pits human creativity against AI illusion
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Kitten in viral NYC subway video gets a new home
screenshots of tiktoks about the viral nyc kitten

Staged police bodycam videos are the new king of outrage bait
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'Do it lady!': How Chit became TikTok’s awkward office hero
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Screenshot of YouTube video featuring Trixie Mattel and the words "Gay HBO Max Song"

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