Why videos go viral | Kevin Allocca

[alexturnersmicstand]

anyone else being forced to watch this for English class 💀💀

[ashishchoudhary]

1. TSTEMAKERS
2. PARTICIPATION
3. UNEXPECTEDNESS

[KateHolloman]

Can you please tell me the WHY of my video going viral? I mean, it's a video I took of my husband pretending to sneeze and our 8mo son laughing at it. It has over 50M views! I would really love to know how that happened anyway. :)

[YourFather]

Comments: I'm here from English


Me: Here from AP Human Geography 0_0

[gomakefilms]

getting paid to watch youtube videos...wow. I clearly chose the wrong path in life. damn

[tattieverb]

The whole “you could be famous by next Saturday” and “what you like not having to be green lit” aged VERY well.

[RohitKumarForever]

people think facebook is huge and viral but I think Youtube is a bigger phenomenon!

[CaliKim]

Added to Favorites...good points here.

[Hungrybear]

This vide is on my favorites list. When ever I want to show somebody the power of YouTube I show them this. 

[anthonyviglietta]

7 minutes of my life I'll never get back.

[RogueCrockett]

This was a prime example of how humor has grown from something that was adult and complicated to simple and random XD

[AndySaenz]

Complete unexpectedness is the KEY to making a viral video! That's what they all have in common, you didn't see it coming and it totally shocks you. There's a shock factor in it as well.

[theofani]

5:46
and that guy is now the most famous vlogger on Youtube :D

[PlasmaBurns]

So...basically you need to have a "Taste Maker" promote you. neato. Elitists win again.

[poopynonsense]

"Cat's were watching other cats watch this [nyan cat] video."
-My cat is watching THIS video.

[mattbellefeuille]

1. They're unexpected. I.E. They surprise people and make them laugh with an "unscriptable" idea.
2. They're promoted by "taste-makers" like talk show hosts.
3. They become a cultural phenomenon in which we can participate. I.E. "Harlem Shake" videos or making memes or parodies.

[jackmetheringham]

So basically.. talent, perfection, adwords and other marketing is all pretty much blind faith for the hope that some celebrity shares it.. in other words another version of the lottery, elitism and completely out of anyones control soooo luck basically covers it

[Strangeddity]

So much for letting your channel grow organically. Those days are long gone. So there you have it folks. Just keep making videos in the hopes that Jimmy Kimmel tweets about one of them. Even if you do have a video go viral, it will just be that one video. No matter how video you make thereafter, none of them will go viral.

[ArturoStojanoff]

2012 really was the year of the viral videos, wasn't it?
The current algorythm is all about longer videos and retention time.

[bromelonYT]

Ironic how this video never went viral. I guess that is just too meta.