Viral
~ an image, video etc. that is circulated rapidly and widely on the internetTrending
~ a topic, style etc. that is currently popularViral Videos
"The Sneezing Baby Panda" - A 16 second video which shows a baby panda sneezing, scaring it's mother. This video currently has 208,355,806 views on youtube.
Watch "The Sneezing Baby Panda" here
"Numa Numa" - A 1 minute and 38 second video of a man dancing and lip-syncing to a song called "Numa Numa" in front of a computer webcam. The video currently has 54,544,006 views on youtube.
Watch "Numa Numa" here
Both these videos became so well known that they were featured in both the news and television shows.
~ The Sneezing Baby Panda and Numa Numa in the television show South Park
Trending
"Felix Kjellberg" - Better known by his online alias PewDiePie, a Swedish video game commentator on youtube. PewDiePie's youtube channel is one of the fastest growing youtube channels, having grown from 3.5 million subscribers to 19 million in 2013. He currently has 30,644,657 subscribers on youtube. The hashtag '#PewDiePie' is a popular trend on twitter.
PewDiePie's youtube channel
"Cat Bearding" - A popular trend or "meme" (an idea passed from person to person within a culture) is cat bearding. Cat bearding consists of a person taking a picture of themselves while a cat is in front of them looking upward. If shot at the right angle, it creates an illusion that the person has a cat's mouth as a beard. The trend on social medias under the hashtag "#catbearding" or "#catbeard" has become very well known.
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