Viral Video

From the Sydney Morning Herald: On an occasion such as this, with the All Blacks becoming the first team to win back-to-back World Cups, one Haka was never going to be enough. After going with their ‘Kapa O Panga’ Haka before their 34-17 win over the Wallabies at Twickenham, New Zealand celebrated in style with a traditional ‘Ka Mate’ Haka …

1.5M views in 24 hours. Rolling Stone recaps: The first Democratic presidential debate of the 2016 election will be remembered for several things: The man Jim Webb killed in Vietnam, Bernie Sanders’ selfless condemnation of the hubbub about Hillary Clinton’s e-mails and, now thanks to Bad Lip Reading, selfless commendation of her “dynamite pinto beans.” After masterfully turning the horrifying …

A young lawyer in Texas has gone wildly viral with his insane commercial: Bryan Wilson, the “Texas Law Hawk,” is totally Texas – and we love it. His commercials are somewhere between “Reno 911” and every Steven Segal movie ever made. They’re so awesomely bad, we thought they were too good to be true – but Wilson is, in fact, …

Superfruit, who are the two gay members of the Grammy-winning Pentatonix, are closing in on a million views with their Broadway take on some recent hip-hop hits.

Going viral this weekend is this clip in which a reporter melts down on-air and actually delivers “the fucking news.” A trip through the comments on Facebook and YouTube reveals that not everyone realizes that this a spoof. “Somebody just lost his job!”

The Daily Mail sets up the clip which has gotten nearly 2 million views overnight: A drunk University of Connecticut student was arrested after he repeatedly refused to leave a cafeteria until he got some mac and cheese. But not just any mac and cheese – bacon jalapeno mac and cheese. Luke Gatti, 19, from Bayville, New York, was filmed …

Social media has been having a bit of fun today at the expense of House Speaker John Boehner, who valiantly tried not to burst into tears merely from being in the presence of Pope Francis.

Some of you thought yesterday’s hilarious Tide To Go ad was too good to be true. You were right. AdWeek reports: Tide has already made one commercial featuring a gay couple—it’s been airing in Canada, as Procter & Gamble considers bringing it to the U.S.. And now, an ad for Tide to Go about gay marriage has gone viral, garnering …

Via Yahoo News: A couple miraculously escaped unscathed after a humpback whale breached and landed on their kayak. Footage taken from a Sanctuary Cruises whale-watching boat shows the beast emerging from the water in Moss Landing, California and landing on the couple – who disappear beneath the water. One of the kayakers, Tom, a wildlife film director, recounted the experience, …

Ellen DeGeneres took part in Jimmy Fallon’s lip-sync battle on Friday night, choosing Diana Ross’ Theme From Mahogany as her first number and following that up with Rihanna’s Bitch Better Have My Money.  The clip already has 7.7 million views.

This hilarious Quizno’s ad has racked up nearly 800,000 views in the last few days, but not laughing are the organizers of Burning Man. The Reno Gazette-Journal reports: The toasted sandwich company published a parody video, “Out of the Maze and into the Playa,” on YouTube earlier this week, a day after the weeklong utopian arts celebration in Northern Nevada’s …

2.4M views for the British weatherman who nailed the 58-letter name of a Welsh town. Say that three times fast.

How about a mash-up in which characters from more than a dozen movies all meet on the same dance floor? The Nerdist raves: The entire short film is a genius example of both editing and compositing, and is also a bit of criticism on how in so many Hollywood films with a nightclub scene in it, every one of them …

AL.com reports: Two guys go fishing and catch a pair of kittens. It’d be hard to believe if it weren’t on video. Jason Frost, who lives in Hueytown, and his friend Brandon Key were out on the Warrior River near Bluff Creek Saturday morning when they heard a splash and saw something swimming across the water toward them. They weren’t …

Eurogamer reports: If you log on to Chatroulette, you may be in for a big surprise. No, not that sort of surprise. Instead, how about an invitation to a live-action first-person shooter where you are in control? Escape the Room company Red House Mysteries, along with help from neighbours, local residents and cosplay artists, managed to pull off such a …

This is probably the highest production-value air safety clip you’ve ever seen. Over 2.5M views in one week. From the clip recap: “At Air New Zealand, we’re #CrazyAboutRugby. So for our latest inflight safety video, we called upon some very special Men In Black to brief our passengers.”

An Uber driver has gone viral with a clip in which he gets passengers to join him in singing along to The Weekend’s smash single, Can’t Feel My Face. Best comment at YouTube: “I want to hear the story about the shirtless guy? Where’s his shirt? Did he take his shirt off when entering the car or just never had …

Gizmodo raves: “I just cannot stop watching this hypnotizing video created by Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport and edited by Thrillist. They strapped a 360-degree camera on a checked bag and documented a dizzying POV as the luggage made its way through an insane maze of elevators, conveyor belts and endless shelves.” You can also control the 360-degree camera on the airport’s …