so how many people have seen your
internet video thousand mere peanuts
from America's Funniest Home Videos to
YouTube welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we're counting down our picks for
the top ten viral videos snape for this
list
we're looking at videos that became
popular thanks to online sharing passes
it to the man shoots it and boom goes
the dynamite
we've decided to exclude clips from
television programming that aired
nationally or globally and was widely
seen on TV and simply recovered on the
web so sorry - the Lonely Island and
Miss Teen USA you're not up for
consideration I believe that our
education like such as in South Africa
and the Iraq everywhere like such a
number-10 Kony 2012 it would cut just a
new spending chef shameless marketing or
genius campaign this almost 30-minute
mini dock features Invisible Children
co-founder Jason Russell explaining
guerilla warlord Joseph Kony and his
recruitment of child soldiers in Uganda
to his young son intercut with footage
from Russell's time in Africa where the
bad guys do you know Star Wars fuels
uploaded to YouTube in March 2012 the
video sparked a split reaction not only
online but also from the media and from
opponents who condemned Russell for
oversimplifying the problem we did it
ourselves with our time talent and money
Russell couldn't handle his sudden fame
and had a breakdown shortly after but
even so Kony 2012 had 99 million views
within two years of its release at the
end of my life I want to say that the
world we've left behind is one that
Gavin can be proud of
number 9 Numa Numa it started as a
one-hit wonder sung in Romanian by
Moldovan Ben ozone but the catchy
synthesized tones of the track caught
the ear of New Jersey native gary
brolsma and moved him so much he felt
the need to film himself lip-synching to
it
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it was uploaded to the site Newgrounds
in 2004 where it earned over 18 million
views and to YouTube in 2006 where it
gained an additional 54 million views
and tons of media attention
we don't care if you agree this is why
webcams were invented
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number eight leave Britney Alone all you
people care about is readers and making
money off of her remember when Britney
Spears had a nervous breakdown and
basically stopped performing for a while
and then she made an if he come back at
the 2007 MTV VMAs
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well that's what prompted this reaction
from Chris Crocker in a completely
overwrought and over Island monologue
this comedian and vlogger pleads for
haters to stop ragging on the pop
princess you're lucky she even performed
for you bastard no one's quite sure if
the performance is as authentic as
Crocker claims it to be but who cares
within two hours of its upload the day
after Britt Britt's performance leave
Britney Alone had two million views
seven Chocolate Rain by Tay Zonday baby
Balbus and one day you're a lowly
Minnesota grad student the next you're a
youtube sensation same Chocolate Rain
no one wants to hear about in our
chocolate rain
which real hot it goes away somehow Tay
Zonday is a singer-songwriter who
uploaded this original creation in April
2007 supposedly about institutional
racism the song caught on with viewers
partly because of the guys unexpected
voice his tendency to move away from the
mic and its lyrics which well they make
no sense awarded the 2007 YouTube Award
for music this viral video has since
garnered almost 1 billion views online
and has been referenced in shows like 30
rock yeah Chocolate Rain
maybe I am spongebob squarepants its and
of course South Park number 6 Bed
Intruder song and he did leave something
behind
we got your t-shirt you two left finger
prints now you're so dumb you are really
dumb for real
what started as a report about a
terrifying home invasion and attempted
sexual assault in the Alabama project on
the Morning News somehow became an
international laugh-out-loud marathon of
sheer ridiculousness WAFF 48 News
interviewed Antoine Dobson about his
sister's attempted rape and that video
is funny enough believe it or not
obviously we have a rapist in Lincoln
Park he's clamming in your windows he's
snatchin your people up tryna rape em so
y'all need to hide your kids hide your
wife a hug because they rapin errbody
out here but once the Gregory Brothers
ran the news report through auto-tune
and added a beat the resulting song went
viral he's clamming up window
people up tryna rape em so y'all need to
hide your kids hide your wife hide your
kids hide your wife hide your wives the
day I entered the Billboard Hot 100
chart and became YouTube's most popular
video of 2010 proving once again that
everything is better with auto-tune
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umber 5 David after dentist how did it
go yeah poor kid at 7 years old David
Devore jr. underwent dental surgery
and since his mother couldn't be there
his father decided to capture his
reaction to the whole thing obviously
hopped up on some sort of goofballs in
the back seat of his dad's car David
goes from asking existential questions
to musing about how weird his fingers
are to screaming bloody murder they in
your seat to asking more existential
questions then finally falls asleep yeah
this is real life originally uploaded
just for friends and family we're hoping
this video and it's 127 million views
will help pay David's college tuition
number four double rainbow all the way
double rainbow oh my god it's a double
rainbow all the way a man captures an
amateur video of a double rainbow that
crosses the sky unbroken outside of his
home near Yosemite National Park in
California
Oh double rainbow all the way across the
sky doesn't sound like it it'd go viral
though does it but wait there's more for
three and a half minutes the man once
known as Hungry Bear 9562 is hilariously
freaking out over the natural phenomenon
musing over its meaning with wind chimes
clanging in the background Jimmy Kimmel
was so amused he tweeted the video out
to his followers triggering its ascent
to viral nests and eventually leading to
over 40 million views what does it all
mean what does it all mean
that's what I'm trying to figure out you
haven't figured it out yet well it's
spirits talking to me
number three Star Wars kid after seeing
Darth Maul's double bladed lightsaber in
Star Wars Episode one 15 year old
Canadian jizz Lavazza filmed himself an
imaginary saber battle with invisible
folks
and fortunately he became a
cyberbullying victim when his classmates
uploaded the footage to a p2p
file-sharing Network in early 2003
labeled jackass underscore Star Wars
underscore funny WMV though many loved
the kid just as many were flat-out mean
causing Haase to leave school and seek
psychiatric care and forcing his parents
to initiate a lawsuit against the
posters but the force is so strong with
this one it didn't disappear quickly
especially when it came to pop-culture
references worth every penny number two
evolution of dance
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this is the kind of motivational
speaking we can get behind Judson lately
is a speaker hired to get students
inspired and to keep that fickle
audience engaged
he started ending his speeches with a
dance montage set to 32 different songs
that outlines the evolution of dance
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while live audiences dunk the
performance no one could have guessed
that this blurry video would blow up to
become one of YouTube's most viewed most
favorite and most discussed videos ever
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evolution of dance boogied its way onto
our list and into our hearts
yeah we're teeny bopper before we share
our top pick here are a few honorable
mentions
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number one Gangnam style by psy
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this song rides its way to number one on
an invisible horse kpop sensation was
uploaded to YouTube in July 2012 and
since then it has become the site's most
viewed video by a mile at over 2 billion
views and brought kpop and this side of
Korean culture to new worldwide
audiences with its catchy tune gaudy
costumes nonsensical settings and of
course it's ridiculous dance
choreography that everyone can and has
danced to it's not hard to see why
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while most viral videos only print four
weeks sighs 15 minutes of fame lasted
well into 2013 and beyond whooping come
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which viral video did you watch the most
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