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Viral videos are among the most common type of viral phenomena. A viral video is any clip of animation or film that is spread rapidly through online sharing. Viral videos can receive millions of views as they are shared on social media sites, reposted to blogs, sent in emails and so on. When a video goes viral it has become very popular.
Internet phenomena are social and cultural phenomena specific to the Internet, such as Internet memes, which include popular catchphrases, images, viral videos, and jokes. When such fads and sensations occur online, they tend to grow rapidly and become more widespread because the instant communication facilitates word of mouth transmission.
Like Internet memes, viewership of such videos tend to grow rapidly and become more widespread because of instant communication facilitates and word of mouth. This list documents videos known to have become viral; additional videos that have become Internet phenomena for other categories can be found at list of Internet phenomena.
Videos of the 11-year-old boy clad in jeans, a white button down, cowboy boots and an iconic red bowtie went viral in April, with one version of the clip racking up over 60 million views.
The dress was a 2015 online viral phenomenon centred on a photograph of a dress. Viewers disagreed on whether the dress was blue and black, or white and gold. The phenomenon revealed differences in human colour perception and became the subject of scientific investigations into neuroscience and vision science.
Ware’s hilarious deadpan became one of the earliest viral memes, ultimately shaping the spontaneity and unpredictability that would come to define internet culture.
Burger King’s viral "Whopper" jingle has become an internet phenomenon, spurring memes and mashup songs because sports fans can't seem to escape the earworm.
Devious lick – a trend, popular among teenagers, that involves stealing object(s) from school, such as soap, sanitizers and toilet paper [citation needed]; Gallon smashing – A challenge which surfaced on YouTube in 2013, originally invented by Zayd, Faysal, and Omar Khatib for TheChaizyChannel, gallon smashing involves obtaining bottles of liquid in a supermarket (usually cow's milk or ...