Archive for January, 2009
B.S. – Funny Enough to Share?
Women might hate this until the end; men will probably laugh all the way until they realize the twist.
At a closer inspection of this video it’s not to hard to see the elements that would make people laugh. Looking back at the popular categories from The Evolving Elements of Popularity you could see elements of [...]
The Evolving Elements of Popularity
This Post Evolved Into The Viral Catalog
In order to grasp the landscape of viral videos and their “popularity elements” we can organize the various elements into categories. The list below divides up a group of videos that show a good track record and have the numbers to prove it. Have a look through the categories [...]
An Introduction to Viralism
What makes a video popular? This daunting question is as hard to pinpoint as the line between good and evil due to the amount of variables. The reason for this is that popularity is a social phenomena and remarkably difficult to rank with mathematics. Fortunately for generations to come, YouTube views and “traffic” make popularity [...]