Category: Internet Culture & Trends

There was a time when a short animated video shared over email could feel revolutionary. In the mid-1990s, most people connected through dial-up modems. Pages loaded slowly. Video files were…

2025: When “Viral” Stopped Meaning What It Used To There was a time when a viral video meant something simple. It meant someone uploaded a clip — sometimes shaky, sometimes…

2024’s biggest non-music viral moments were basically event-content: creator “mega-productions” (MrBeast-scale challenges), trailer drops that turned into full-week discourse cycles, and street clips / shorts that escaped their original upload…

2023 was the year of global spectacle and hyper-scale production. Viral videos weren’t random bedroom clips anymore — they were stadium-sized challenges, continent-spanning competitions, massive philanthropy stunts, and creator-driven event…

In 2022, non-music viral videos included emotional tributes, global pop culture moments, face reveals and personal stories from creators, and memetic clips from major events. These ranged from heartfelt goodbye…

In 2021, viral video culture was defined by a blend of high-stakes stunts, relatable domestic trends, and unexpected celebrity moments. On YouTube, MrBeast dominated with his “I Spent 50 Hours…

Between 2016 and 2020, the landscape of viral videos shifted from high-production YouTube segments to the spontaneous, user-generated content that came to define the TikTok era. The period began with…

Mabey not the most viral but certainly worth the trip down memory lane. 2011 Ultimate Dog Tease This hilarious video featured a German Shepherd “talking” as his owner describes delicious…

Post-it notes are cool! They’ve played a starring role in several 2009 videos, from the romantic one-upmanship of this love story to the basic yellow background for illustrator Arthur Jones.…

Dave Carroll is an award winning singer-songwriter, professional speaker, author and social media innovator from Halifax Canada. With over twenty years experience in the music business, when faced with a…