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When does a YouTube clip count as 'gone viral'?

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With my fascinating and educational videos I am pleased if I get between 100 and 1,000 views but one particular videon has over 19,000 views!!

Is it Carving a Seahorse?
Is it a Southampton Bike Park video?
Is it me cocking up one of my cars?

No. It is a bunch of kids dancing along to a busker in the street where I was trying to sell my art. Clearly my deft camera work and production values elevating this particular clip :


 
Posted : 30/11/2023 12:04 pm
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Ha! I'm not bolstering you're views by falling for that one!


 
Posted : 30/11/2023 12:19 pm
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Still waiting for the cash to roll in from the 1 minute and 23 seconds of me power floating a concrete floor with no voice over or interesting info at all.

Inexplicably over 122k views in 12 years.

Think you are going to have to judge going viral on the basis of the BBC contacting you for comment on going viral


 
Posted : 30/11/2023 12:48 pm
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Yeah, it is weird which ones suddenly increase and when.

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Posted : 30/11/2023 1:21 pm
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My top one is me testing a bike light in the allotment.
5k views.
I think it's the rain and thunder that make it such a compelling work.

😎


 
Posted : 30/11/2023 2:38 pm
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No idea why it happened, but I can clearly see when we had a viral video on our hands...

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Posted : 30/11/2023 2:48 pm
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Yeah, it is weird which ones suddenly increase and when.

Its nothing you have done. The algorithms/youtube hamsters have chosen you, and you get pushed out to people.

This is why the life of the pro youtuber/vlogger/reviewer/box opener/game streamer/whatever hangs in the balance. Through no doing of their own, at any point, Youtube can (and does) just completely kill them off by not pushing their content for whatever reason they decide.


 
Posted : 30/11/2023 2:54 pm
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You got lucky WCA.

The Algorithms (great band name) like the words 'Are You Bored Enough' for all their big calculations..
Fact!


 
Posted : 30/11/2023 3:00 pm
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+1 view from me, good video WCA. <br /><br />

I’m disappointed in your YouTube pic, there are fewer scars/burns/missing extremities than I’d have expected. 


 
Posted : 30/11/2023 4:22 pm
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If you want weird things that have a disproportionate number of views then check out my brothers viral video. Over 75K views and only 100 subscribers!

And my viral video is approaching 100K views but has been posted on here often enough i'm not doing it again until the annual winter tyre thread is started 🙂


 
Posted : 30/11/2023 4:49 pm
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Genuine question - is 100k views ‘viral’? 100k is a huge number to someone like me who only has a bout 5 views per video (of my band). But I’d have thought ‘viral’ implied 1m+.


 
Posted : 30/11/2023 5:46 pm
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5k in the last 28 days for my top viewed video, it is almost 2 years old though and still is the most viewed vid per week 🤷‍♂️ currently 42k total views
https://flic.kr/p/2piSBoe

https://flic.kr/p/2piTjNQ


 
Posted : 30/11/2023 7:14 pm
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Surly Corner Bar? That could describe many things! I bet the views increase if you give it a controversial title.


 
Posted : 30/11/2023 8:07 pm
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@mark might be able to advise on what makes a video hit mega numbers.

Then again, maybe not 😉


 
Posted : 30/11/2023 8:33 pm
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All hail the algorithm


 
Posted : 30/11/2023 8:33 pm

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