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1 Celebrity Viral Videos Are Good For the Image
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2 Internet Famous Class: A Real Class, Not Just the Name of a New Viral Video
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3 That Viral Weezer Video, Deconstructed
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4 Internet People, We Love You!
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5 What "All Your Base Belong to Us" Means
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6 Have You Done Facebook's 25 Random Things Meme Yet?
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7 Website of the Day: Viral Video Chart
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8 Geek Crush and Must-See TV: Chris Hardwick's Web Soup
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9 What Are Your Favorite Viral Videos?
I like it next to my kitchen stove. There's something about the smell of cooking that . . . nope, it's not what you think. I, like many others, was actually referring to my purse. Yesterday, my friend Amy posted an "I like it on top of my law books" Facebook status update, which totally took me by surprise. I was seeing her in a whole new light until I saw a couple of other people posting "I like Read more
OK, so I was trying my best not to post this, but I seriously can't get enough. If you haven't heard the Double Rainbow Song yet, you need to get on it. This remix is based off the equally-addictive video from a YouTube member that documents his encounter with a full-on double rainbow outside his house earlier this year. It was so bright. So vivid! It got me thinking of other viral videos that Read more
As a huge fan of E!'s The Soup and its amazing host Joel McHale, I couldn't avoid the promos and initial episodes of Web Soup, a new show on G4 with a similar format. Except instead of showing clips from that week's TV, its clips are from that week's viral videos on the Internet. Web Soup's equally crush-worthy host is Chris Hardwick, whom I always liked when he was on G4's Attack of the Show. Read more
Not too long ago I told you about a site called Top of the Tubes that pulled the most popular videos across the web and pooled them into one spot. Well if you love viral videos as much as me, then you'll appreciate another site called Viral Video Chart, which shows you the top 20 most-watched videos floating around the Internet. It even organizes the videos into various categories, so if you Read more
Are you on Facebook? Then there is no way you haven't heard of the 25 Random Things About Me meme. It's a note that works like a chain letter, where you fill out 25 random facts about yourself. Once you're done, you're supposed to tag other friends, so they have to fill it out, and so on and so forth. While I gave up chain letters long ago (and chain emails, ugh), somehow I got sucked into doing Read more
Were you confused when you saw this All Your Milk Baby Onesie? Do your friends frequently laugh about "Engrish" translations, while you laugh with them, but are secretly confused inside? If so, watch this video, which outlines the "All Your Base are Belong to Us" meme from its foundation to its present. Know Your Meme: All Your Base from Rocketboom on Vimeo. Read more
If Weezer's Pork and Beans Internet meme-athon video was not enough for you, then Dan Meth's Internet People just about gets every single Internet phenomena into his animated music video, with a super appropriate title. I might even like this a little more than P&B, for its sheer vastness of variety. Get Flash to see this player. var so1805555 = new Read more
OK, geek confession: I've spent way too much time watching the new Weezer video for "Pork and Beans" and trying to catch all the allusions to viral videos. I'm familiar with most of them, but some I had never seen and had to look up, and some were old favorites — in fact, I think alienated few friends this weekend with bar after bar of "Peanut Butter Jell-ay, Peanut Butter Jell-ay". Thankfully, Read more
You don't have to cut off a body part to become "Internet Famous," but if you're desperately training your camera on your kid, pet, or friends in hope that they'll do something so compelling as to end up in the category that is viral, well, you can go to school for that. Internet Famous at Parsons New School for Design is a graduate-level class for students and declares itself the first class Read more
Trendhunter recently wrote that actors were starting to get hip to the idea of viral videos as a way to boost their image (in response to the Matt Damon/Sarah Silverman instant classic), and I could not agree more. Once I see a celebrity in a viral video parodying themselves, I think they have a fantastic sense of humor and don't take themselves too seriously — that latter quality being Read more
