Social media is a fund of funny, informative, shocking, amazing, educative and distracting content. It entertains and informs us; it helps us waste a ton of time! So what did we waste our time on in the last year? Here are the silly, the amazing, the delightful, the most highly discussed videos of the year – some of the videos that went viral in 2018.
He is like a follicle-challenged Govinda with a pot belly to spare – everyone fell in love with the dancing uncle from India. Sanjeev Srivastava or Dabbu Uncle became viral; prompting several more videos; making him an overnight sensation.
Drake made a song called In my Feelings and for some reason, it turned into a challenge. People felt challenged to hop out of and dance alongside moving vehicles and fall, bang into things, get mown down by traffic and more in the process. This video compiles all the fails… soooo much more fun that watching all the folks who did it properly.
The Malayalam song became a hit. However it was Priya Varrier’s saucy wink about halfway through the song that went viral. It spawned memes, became a social media sensation overnight.
QPark has been a YouTube sensation for a while now; he became a hit in India because decided to dance in public to some Bollywood songs. All his videos routinely have hundreds of thousands of views; some such as this one, have millions of views.
Remember Selfie maine le li aaj? Well here is yet another execrable video from her. Cringe Pop is alive and well.
…For all the wrong reasons, of course. Donald Trump kept the Queen waiting, was discourteous to the 91 year old woman, and generally had to be schooled on how to walk.
UP police became viral on social media, when several news channels reported on them; when so many tweeted and shared this video and other versions of it.
This video first appeared on Instagram and then was shared all over Twitter, YouTube and other social media. That is a seriously cute kid and the adoring dad just made everyone go Awwww.
It was a YouTube battle of epic proportions: the No. I spot of PewDiePie, the biggest YouTuber ever was threatened by T Series. PewDiePie marshaled his not inconsiderable resources to continue to be No 1; in the process he made this wildly viral diss track (85 million views and counting).
90s kids will remember Shankar Mahadevan’s epic track Breathless. This reimagining of the track on veena went viral being viewed, tweeted and retweeted.
This dance used no music; instead it used a hard-hitting radio monologue. This performance by Feel Crew for the Dance Plus 4 competition won hearts; more importantly it made people think.
There is no accounting for what will fascinate people. Something as completely uneventful as a lemon rolling down a street received a staggering 9 million views, over one lakh retweets and about 3.5 lakh likes. The viral video review of 2018 indicates that there is clearly no accounting for taste!
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