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| Viral Video Chart: cute frogs, meteorites and the Harlem Shake | Viral Video Chart: cute frogs, meteorites and the Harlem Shake |
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| This week we're going back to nature as the Viral Video Chart explores the weird and the wonderful of the animal kingdom. First up is a video of the desert rain frog. Very cute, yet strangely unsettling – a cross between Gremlins and Monsters Inc. | This week we're going back to nature as the Viral Video Chart explores the weird and the wonderful of the animal kingdom. First up is a video of the desert rain frog. Very cute, yet strangely unsettling – a cross between Gremlins and Monsters Inc. |
| Some say that the chimp is the animal that closest resembles humans, but close your eyes while watching the compilation of goats yelling like humans, and you may think otherwise. It also illustrates the thin lines between cuteness, hilariousness and slightly unnerving (we can visualise horror flick Attack of the Screaming Goats). Our favourite clip appears around the 1.30 mark, as the Spanish-speaking fella gets into an argument with his farm animal. | Some say that the chimp is the animal that closest resembles humans, but close your eyes while watching the compilation of goats yelling like humans, and you may think otherwise. It also illustrates the thin lines between cuteness, hilariousness and slightly unnerving (we can visualise horror flick Attack of the Screaming Goats). Our favourite clip appears around the 1.30 mark, as the Spanish-speaking fella gets into an argument with his farm animal. |
| There is no way we could omit another natural phenomenon – the meteorite – that rocked Russia last week, in this week's countdown. There were numerous videos posted, filmed via dashboard cameras (apparently many Russians install them to provide evidence against corrupt police), but this one appears to have gained the most views – perhaps due to the otherworldly sight of the, at that moment, unidentified light shooting across the sky. We hear some people thought it was the end of the world, while others (including these people, we assume) thought they were being attacked. | There is no way we could omit another natural phenomenon – the meteorite – that rocked Russia last week, in this week's countdown. There were numerous videos posted, filmed via dashboard cameras (apparently many Russians install them to provide evidence against corrupt police), but this one appears to have gained the most views – perhaps due to the otherworldly sight of the, at that moment, unidentified light shooting across the sky. We hear some people thought it was the end of the world, while others (including these people, we assume) thought they were being attacked. |
| Spike Jonze's weird and wonderful film Being John Malkovich explored what it could be like viewing the world through someone else's eyes over a decade ago. Now Google is about to take you one step closer to that experience with its Glass invention. It may not be on the market yet, but here you get a chance to sample how it works and how it would feel to be a ballet dancer, fly a plane, be a trapeze artist – even manoeuvring traffic as a bike messenger in New York City. | Spike Jonze's weird and wonderful film Being John Malkovich explored what it could be like viewing the world through someone else's eyes over a decade ago. Now Google is about to take you one step closer to that experience with its Glass invention. It may not be on the market yet, but here you get a chance to sample how it works and how it would feel to be a ballet dancer, fly a plane, be a trapeze artist – even manoeuvring traffic as a bike messenger in New York City. |
| We round up this week's chart with what could be the beginning of the end of the Harlem Shake meme. Everyone from firemen to NBC news anchors jumped on the bandwagon last week, and with the track hitting number one in the US thanks to the inclusion of YouTube plays, it must have truly "jumped the shark" (or whatever the phrase is nowadays). And if that weren't enough, the residents of Harlem are not amused. As one young woman sums it up: "they make us look stupid". As most of the others say: "Stop that shit!" | We round up this week's chart with what could be the beginning of the end of the Harlem Shake meme. Everyone from firemen to NBC news anchors jumped on the bandwagon last week, and with the track hitting number one in the US thanks to the inclusion of YouTube plays, it must have truly "jumped the shark" (or whatever the phrase is nowadays). And if that weren't enough, the residents of Harlem are not amused. As one young woman sums it up: "they make us look stupid". As most of the others say: "Stop that shit!" |
| Guardian Viral Video Chart. Compiled by Unruly Media and teased into shape by Helienne Lindvall | Guardian Viral Video Chart. Compiled by Unruly Media and teased into shape by Helienne Lindvall |
| 1. Goats Yelling Like Humans - Super Cut Compilation It's no sheep joke, but perhaps a laughing matter | 1. Goats Yelling Like Humans - Super Cut Compilation It's no sheep joke, but perhaps a laughing matter |
| 2. Worlds Cutest Frog - Desert Rain Frog Don't get him wet, keep him out of bright light, and never feed him after midnight | 2. Worlds Cutest Frog - Desert Rain Frog Don't get him wet, keep him out of bright light, and never feed him after midnight |
| 3. Meteorite crash in Russia: Video of meteor explosion that stirred panic in Urals Space rock | 3. Meteorite crash in Russia: Video of meteor explosion that stirred panic in Urals Space rock |
| 4. CCTV: Meteorite blast wave blows out doors, windows in Russia The horror as it happened | 4. CCTV: Meteorite blast wave blows out doors, windows in Russia The horror as it happened |
| 5. How It Feels – through Glass If you could see the world through my eyes ... | 5. How It Feels – through Glass If you could see the world through my eyes ... |
| 6. We've Landed: Daredevil Chicherit's Full MINI Backflip How does he do that? | 6. We've Landed: Daredevil Chicherit's Full MINI Backflip How does he do that? |
| 7. UGA Men's Swim & Dive Harlem Shake Slow motion shaking under water | 7. UGA Men's Swim & Dive Harlem Shake Slow motion shaking under water |
| 8. Washing machine does the Harlem Shake If you like it then you should've thrown a brick in it | 8. Washing machine does the Harlem Shake If you like it then you should've thrown a brick in it |
| 9. The Harlem Shake News Anchor Version A whole lot of shakin' going on 10. Harlem Reacts to 'Harlem Shake' Videos Find out what the dance really is | 9. The Harlem Shake News Anchor Version A whole lot of shakin' going on 10. Harlem Reacts to 'Harlem Shake' Videos Find out what the dance really is |
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