In May 2008, a father took a video of his 7-year-old son David after having a tooth removed at the dentist. He released this viral video in January 2009. The video has had 118,820,018 views in a little over 4 years. And 136,592,704 million views in nine years.
As his father noted, This was taken in the parking lot of the dentist office. He was so out of it. The staff was even laughing. This lasted for a few hours and he was fine. He even laughed at the video that night. He is very smart and always has something interesting to say about many different issues. His philosophical reaction to the medication didn’t really surprise us.
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Reason 2 Smile‘s mission is to financially assist impoverished orphans and at-risk children living in developing countries. We believe that every life is valuable and that every child deserves a reason to smile. We want to give these children a reason by providing them with a safe living environment, the proper nutrition, and a good-quality education. Find out more at http://www.reason2smile.org.
Here is the official music video for Rebecca Black’s Friday. It has had 51,646,708 views in almost three years.
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St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital helps children with serious medical problems. No family ever pays St. Jude for anything. Plus their research discoveries are shared freely with other medical groups and doctors. Donate by calling 800-4ST-JUDE or via http://www.stjude.org.
Chocolate Rain by Tay Zonday – a little goes a long, long way for this viral video song which has had over 90 million views in six years.
If you’d like to sing along, here are the lyrics:
Chocolate Rain
Some stay dry and others feel the pain
Chocolate Rain
A baby born will die before the sin
Chocolate Rain
The school books say it can’t be here again
Chocolate Rain
The prisons make you wonder where it went
Chocolate Rain
Build a tent and say the world is dry
Chocolate Rain
Zoom the camera out and see the lie
Chocolate Rain
Forecast to be falling yesterday
Chocolate Rain
Only in the past is what they say
Chocolate Rain
Raised your neighborhood insurance rates
Chocolate Rain
Makes us happy livin’ in a gate
Chocolate Rain
Made me cross the street the other day
Chocolate Rain
Made you turn your head the other way
(Chorus)
Chocolate Rain
History quickly crashing through your veins
Chocolate Rain
Using you to fall back down again
[Repeat]
Chocolate Rain
Seldom mentioned on the radio
Chocolate Rain
Its the fear your leaders call control
Chocolate Rain
Worse than swearing worse than calling names
Chocolate Rain
Say it publicly and you’re insane
Chocolate Rain
No one wants to hear about it now
Chocolate Rain
Wish real hard it goes away somehow
Chocolate Rain
Makes the best of friends begin to fight
Chocolate Rain
But did they know each other in the light?
Chocolate Rain
Every February washed away
Chocolate Rain
Stays behind as colors celebrate
Chocolate Rain
The same crime has a higher price to pay
chocolate Rain
The judge and jury swear it’s not the face
(Chorus)
Chocolate Rain
Dirty secrets of economy
Chocolate Rain
Turns that body into GDP
Chocolate Rain
The bell curve blames the baby’s DNA
Chocolate Rain
But test scores are how much the parents make
Chocolate Rain
‘Flippin cars in France the other night
Chocolate Rain
Cleans the sewers out beneath Mumbai
Chocolate Rain
‘Cross the world and back its all the same
Chocolate Rain
Angels cry and shake their heads in shame
Chocolate Rain
Lifts the ark of paradise in sin
Chocolate Rain
Which part do you think you’re ‘livin in?
Chocolate Rain
More than ‘marchin more than passing law
Chocolate Rain
Remake how we got to where we are.
(Chorus)
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The National Domestic Violence Hotline provides abused victims a number to call any time during the day or night. To volunteer or donate, contact http://www.thehotline.org or call 800-799-SAFE.
Uploaded about six years ago, this viral video of a younger brother biting the finger of his older brother has had over 522 million views on YouTube.
As the father noted: Even had I thought of trying to get my boys to do this I probably couldn’t have. Neither were coerced into any of this and neither were hurt (for very long anyway). This was just one of those moments when I had the video camera out because the boys were being fun and they provided something really very funny.
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The National Domestic Violence Hotline provides abused victims a number to call any time during the day or night. To volunteer or donate, contact http://www.thehotline.org or call 800-799-SAFE.
After Antoine Dodson from Huntsville, Alabama, saved his sister from an intruder in her bed, he sang an important message both to his community and to the attacker himself.
The above viral video has had 113,897,404 views in almost three years.
And, below, is the original news show featuring Antoine Dodson (which has had almost 53 million views in less than three years):
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The National Domestic Violence Hotline provides abused victims a number to call any time during the day or night. To volunteer or donate, contact http://www.thehotline.org or call 800-799-SAFE.
Have you missed any of the viral YouTube sensations featured in the infographic above? If so, now’s your chance to see them again — and laugh, and cry, and sing along, and dance along.
This infographic features great YouTube sensations that made it big: Everyone from a keyboard-playing cat to Robert Wilkinson, who became famous doing a drunken karaoke session in the back of a police cruiser. Celebrate Psy’s Gangnam Style video, the first video to hit one billion views on YouTube, by revisiting the video hits of yesteryear!
Please share this graphic with your friends, family, coworkers, and other web fans that will appreciate this post. From the very funny to the bizarre, these are some of the best viral videos the web has offered so far.
There are millions of Internet fans who have never seen some of these viral videos. Are you one of them? Don’t miss out.
Over the next few days, we’ll post all of these videos on this Infographic a Day website. Please be patient. It will take a little time. We’ll include the links below as we post them.
Come back to check them out as we post them. Thanks.
And, again, please share these viral video sensations.
A viral YouTube video can increase sales and take a brand from unknown to a superstar. So what brand-based videos went viral in 2010? Check out this infographic from the Viral Ad Network.
Some of the most viral brand videos of 2010: Will It Blend? iPad / The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Preview / Old Spice Questions / FIFA World Cup / Adidas Originals / Nike Write the Future
Facebook generates 10 times the number of shares as Twitter.
Most viral videos have a shelf life of one to two weeks and then taper off quickly.
The most viral brands: Nike, FIFA, Old Spice, Twilight, Blendtec, Apple, Google, Call of Duty, Adidas, and Adobe.
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CARE Partners for Change is a monthly giving program to feed children and provide safe water for families around the world. Their motto: Defending dignity. Fighting poverty. To donate monthly, go to http://www.care.org/partners.
Book Marketing Infographic: blog commenting, viral videos, Q&A columns, free ebooks, blog tours, speaking, national TV, reading groups, working with bookstores, and building author platforms.
