Viral video

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

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Notion

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

Viral videos are videos that become popular most often through a viral process of Internet sharing, primarily through video sharing websites such as YouTube as well as social media and email.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Viral video”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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