What Goes Viral

[Submachine]

I'm late with this, but apparently the new "Song of the Summer" is Despacito, which has gone viral recently.

Personally I'm not a fan, but it's admittedly getting popular across multiple countries.

[Herden5]

I'm late with this, but apparently the new "Song of the Summer" is Despacito, which has gone viral recently.

Personally I'm not a fan, but it's admittedly getting popular across multiple countries.

YouTube connoisseurs say that it will become the most popular video. When did a Spanish song hit billion anyways.

[dawn to dusk]

Despacito has been super popular in Spanish speaking countries (and Italy for some reason)
It racked up about a billion views in that time
Then Justin Bieber remixed it and released it as the song hype was fading.
This brought it to the non-Spanish speaking countries and it's now hit #1 in over 40 countries
So even though it "came out of nowhere" in the US/Canada, it's already been a hit in other countries for a while. Macarena did a similar thing when it came out

[Submachine]

That's actually really informative. Thanks for the share.

[Manuel]

a summary of the most important thing in life: memes

[Submachine]

I'm late as always, but something went viral a week ago.

The main singer of Linkin Park, Chester Bennington, passed away on July 20, and I couldn't read three posts on Facebook without bumping into a mourning post or a Linkin Park song.



I do like me some Linkin Park though, so this was bad news. :/ His voice was really powerful, and it's what made the good ol' Linkin Park songs what they are.~

[ARTHANASIOS]

I wish EtG videos were viral. Hey, I can dream people!

[Monox D. I-Fly]

I wish EtG videos were viral. Hey, I can dream people!

It may be able if we make some thematic videos about it. Wanna try Digimon theme?

[Submachine]

There hasn't been a lot of viral things lately, but here is a few that were quite popular:
- Crash Bandicoot 'WOAH' memes,
- Spongebob anime opening,
- that 'man looking at other woman meme'.

[Submachine]

Apparently it's "Talk Like A Pirate Day" today. o_o Does anyone know something about this?

[TribalTrouble]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/09/18/made-up-holidays-talk-like-pirate-day/533398001/

This goes into it.

[Submachine]

The video of the month is "This is America" from Childish Gambino (also known as Donald Glover). The video got more than 15 million views in 2 days.

Spoiler for VIDEO:

I'm not gonna spoil much of the video if you haven't seen it, but if you are not disturbed by "cinematic violence" (this is the term i've seen critics use), it is worth giving a watch. The coreography is mesmerising and the set is sometimes so chaotic that you need to watch the video multiple times to notice everything.