FINDING OUT ABOUT
VIRAL VIDEOS
A "viral video" is an expression
commonly used by most people when talking about something which has had a lot
of views on the internet. However, it is not that important how many times a
video has been seen as the continuous process of Internet sharing, typically
through social media and sharing websites.
It is really difficult to determine a date of
the beginning of such a successful phenomenon. Whereas there are ones who say
it started in films, other ones say that it all began due to the creation of
the video-sharing website par excellence, YouTube. So, there is not a list of
all viral videos, but there are ones who come to our minds easily than others.
Obviously, this depends on the person as I may not have seen exactly the same
videos as, for instance, one of my friends.
I will proceed to explain one viral video which,
as far as I am concerned, is the most famous of all time. It is called “Charlie
bit my finger – again!” and for those who would like to see it, here it is the
link:
This 55-second-video was uploaded on YouTube in
2007 and has almost 900 million of views. It features two English brothers
sitting together on a sofa where the youngest one, Charlie, bites his brother
Harry. At first, he laughs and finds the situation hilarious, until he puts his
finger again into his brother’s mouth and gets bitten even painfully. Then,
Harry starts saying that that really hurts and although it seems he is going to
cry, finally he doesn’t. Meanwhile, Charlie just laughs as if nothing had
happened, which makes the video funnier and more curious.
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