Viral Video

October 8, 2009 – 10:42 pm

What makes a video viral?  What is in that formula that makes 1 million, 2 million, 100 million people watch?

If we take a look at the top 10 most viewed videos on youtube, it astounds me at the crap people are wasting their time, bandwith, and energy on.

Here is the list of top 10 videos..

1.  Evolution of Dance (127,667,302 views)
BFD I say.  Creative, yes, worth 127 MILLION views?  Really?  The most interesting thing on youtube ever?  EVER?

2.  Avril Lavigne – Girlfriend (126,911,120 views)
WHAT?!  This video isn’t even embeddable, meaning that almost 127 MILLION people viewed this video on youtube.com.  Not from a blog, not from a site, Almost 127 Million viewers came to this exact url and watched this video.

3.  Charlie bit my finger – again! (125,518,755 views)
Fucking Kids.

4.  Miley Cyrus – 7 things – Official Music Video (HQ) (102,336,438 views)
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5.  Rihanna – Don’t Stop The Music (100,541,570)

6.  Chris Brown – With You (98,787,672 views)
Beat your Celebrity GF = Get Lots of Views

7.  Lo que tu Quieras Oir (98,113,217 views)
The first minute, along with the last 3 are black screens.  That means 40% of this 10 minute video is nothing, NOTHING! BLAH!

8.  Jeff Dunham – Achmed the Dead (96,343,217 views)
Sorry, I didn’t know ventriloquists were cool?  Especially the unfunny kind.

9.  Hahaha (93,137,436 views)
Ok, funny baby laugh.

10.  Leona Lewis – Bleeding Love (90,741,089 views)
The resolution of this video is fucked up.  It’s not even the right resolution, yet 90 MILLION viewers have decided to watch it.  You have got to be kidding me.

Maybe I’m just jealous I’ll never be responsible for making a video this popular, or the fact that tonight, on The Office, they decided to copy the most lame youtube video of a stupid wedding entrance.

To put things in perspective, The Jonas Brothers have two videos both ABOVE Michael Jackson’s Thriller (69,090,290 views) video which comfortably sits between Potter Puppet Pals in “The Mysterious Ticking Noise” (69,662,259 views) and Jizz In My Pants (65,483,214 views).  The Fucking Jonas Brothers have TWO videos more popular than what some consider to be the greatest music video EVER made.  How does that make any fucking sense? OK Go – Here It goes Again (48,236,453 views) which is 10x cooler than ALL of the top 10.

Here is the 100 greatest hits of youtube.  For those of you that don’t know who starts and ends the following video it’s some girl named boxxybabee whose 3 videos of her talking like an illiterate moron garnered her over 8 Million views.