Meaning of go viral | Babel Free

Definitions

To be rapidly and frequently shared, especially through social media, but (with retroactive application to pre-internet occurrences) also via gossip or as a collective response to broadcasting or widespread print circulation.

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Examples

“Hundreds of long-forgotten texts that went viral in the 19th century are being discovered by a new collaboration of humanities scholars and computer scientists.”

“After watching hours of these videos, I realized there’s no use⟳ trying to make⟳ sense⟳ of any one of them, but taken as a body of work⟳, they tell⟳ a story: the struggles of a person trying to go viral again.”

“Li Lina, a resident in the Hanyang district, beat⟳ a gong and shrieked from her high-rise balcony this weekend to beg⟳ for help⟳ for herself and her stricken mother holed up at home. A neighbor filmed her cries and uploaded it to the Internet, where it went viral.”

“A group of girls from Norway asked me why their videos weren’t going viral like⟳ the ones from their American peers.”

““Once you know⟳ how to make⟳ a video go viral, it’s just about how to get⟳ as many out as possible,” he told Bloomberg in December. “You can practically make⟳ unlimited money.””

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