YOUTUBE

Majority of the internet is powered by teenagers. You see it everywhere; in your little circle of friends; most of their conversation are based on the new viral video they might have found online from the past weekend. Videos start to trend because someone told us about that it through a tweet or in the popular section list on YouTube. They are also known because of the reactions other people had towards them via social media. I for one, used YouTube throughout my elementary years and I still do today; watching little videos that are funny (or stupid funny) or even to learn something (from YouTube users such as VSauce.) It's how you interpret the video is whether or not you should like it.  In this case, this is an adorable, little video of mother and daughter dancing to Beyoncé and it was featured on the Ellen show. My huge bet is that, Ellen Degeneres found this video through social media (twitter), her fans found the video on YouTube and started mentioning her in a tweet, just for her to watch the video. One video that is known right now is a music video called "what does the fox say" by a account called tvnorge. This video has over 100 million hits in over a month. Music Videos by celebrities would obviously have tons of hits, for they are known by the whole world. As for these videos, no one really knows them. They just post one video, and views start piling in; these are called "one hit wonders". Most of these "one hit wonders" are odd, and that's why they get so much attention; the strangeness that the viewer is seeing in the video, they had never seen before in real life. All viral videos have their time to "shine", they have their sense of feeling all popular and then eventually it'll die down. The most common way the videos will die is that it will be too over played (e.g the ooh kill em' vine and Gangnam Style.) Just like the saying goes "It was fun, while it lasted."