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#goingviral — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #goingviral, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Sameoldstory.co: I’ve “gone viral” before and I don’t recommend it!. “Occasionally people will read my post, assume I made that point I just described, and argue about how just because you’re old enough to remember the moon landing doesn’t make you an expert on politics, or fashion, or television or whatever. Which I totally agree with, but they’re misreading me. It’s not even misreading, […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/23/sameoldstory-co-ive-gone-viral-before-and-i-dont-recommend-it/
  2. Sameoldstory.co: I’ve “gone viral” before and I don’t recommend it!. “Occasionally people will read my post, assume I made that point I just described, and argue about how just because you’re old enough to remember the moon landing doesn’t make you an expert on politics, or fashion, or television or whatever. Which I totally agree with, but they’re misreading me. It’s not even misreading, […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/23/sameoldstory-co-ive-gone-viral-before-and-i-dont-recommend-it/
  3. Once upon a time, social media were the perfect channels for advocacy and making good causes go viral. Today? Not so easy... especially for sensitive topics that might encounter some adverse algorithms. The Jessica Colotl case is the perfect example of how advocacy on social media might be at the end of the road.

    #jessicacolotl #goingviral #advocacy #algorithms #socialMedia

    negativepid.blog/the-jessica-c
    negativepid.blog/the-jessica-c

  4. Once upon a time, social media were the perfect channels for advocacy and making good causes go viral. Today? Not so easy... especially for sensitive topics that might encounter some adverse algorithms. The Jessica Colotl case is the perfect example of how advocacy on social media might be at the end of the road.

    #jessicacolotl #goingviral #advocacy #algorithms #socialMedia
    negativepid.blog/the-jessica-c

  5. Once upon a time, social media were the perfect channels for advocacy and making good causes go viral. Today? Not so easy... especially for sensitive topics that might encounter some adverse algorithms. The Jessica Colotl case is the perfect example of how advocacy on social media might be at the end of the road.

    #jessicacolotl #goingviral #advocacy #algorithms #socialMedia

    negativepid.blog/the-jessica-c
    negativepid.blog/the-jessica-c

  6. Once upon a time, social media were the perfect channels for advocacy and making good causes go viral. Today? Not so easy... especially for sensitive topics that might encounter some adverse algorithms. The Jessica Colotl case is the perfect example of how advocacy on social media might be at the end of the road.

    #jessicacolotl #goingviral #advocacy #algorithms #socialMedia

    negativepid.blog/the-jessica-c
    negativepid.blog/the-jessica-c

  7. Once upon a time, social media were the perfect channels for advocacy and making good causes go viral. Today? Not so easy... especially for sensitive topics that might encounter some adverse algorithms. The Jessica Colotl case is the perfect example of how advocacy on social media might be at the end of the road.

    #jessicacolotl #goingviral #advocacy #algorithms #socialMedia

    negativepid.blog/the-jessica-c
    negativepid.blog/the-jessica-c

  8. Remember when "going viral" used to mean that people liked a thing so much they shared it with their friends?

    And now it just means the algorithm picked it and forced it into everyone's feeds.

    #goingViral

  9. In 2006, when Google Videos was trying to beat out YouTube, I went viral. For whatever reason, a video of me improvising a chicken dance in my underwear became part of the zeitgeist.

    I chose to share my video on Google Videos. This ended up being a mistake. After my very silly performance had ranked a few million views or so, Google pulled it for obscenity. Until then, it was one of the top-viewed videos, beating out Paris Hilton’s first music video and the death video of Steve Irwin (I still miss him so much!). When I appealed the decision, Google reinstated my video, but at a completely different URL. It never again regained its notoriety, which is just as well, I suppose. I was getting all sorts of hate mail and creepy commentary.

    My favourite negative commentary came from a couple of university students in the US. They used my video as part of a project demonstrating the problems of alcoholism in sororities. They gave the presentation to their class, and once they got to the video of me dancing, the prof couldn’t help but laugh. He was a personal friend of mine and knew that I was neither an alcoholic nor part of a sorority. I don’t know if the students flunked or not.

    I think there’s a weird sort of irony that I was a professional dancer for a couple of decades, and this is what ended up as my most famous dance. Google Videos is long gone now, but you can still view my Internet notoriety on YouTube. youtu.be/Fnyh_Q8wtcc?si=sekCer
    #ChickenDance #GoingViral #ViralVideo #dance #dancer #silly #techno

  10. How Many Microbes Does It Take to Make You Sick? - Exposure to a virus isn’t an all-or-nothing proposition. The concept of “infectious dose”... - wired.com/story/how-many-micro #science/health #goingviral #science

  11. Man who came up with the ‘thinking about Romans’ line officially designated a legend

    #GoingViral #Instagram #LifeSkills #MadeUpNews #Romans #satire #SocialMedia

    That first bloke who had a camera shoved in his face and asked what he was thinking and came up with Romans has been awarded the international bloke's federation Legend award. His quick response and conv

    daily-twerk.com/lifestyle/man-

  12. 🥥 In case you didn't already know it, #Shitposting and #GoingViral are matters of #art, not #science.
    Support your local artists today! 🥥

  13. #TheMetalDogArticleList
    #MetalSucks
    Weather Forecaster Drops Sleep Token Lyric Easter Egg
    A weatherman has gone viral for his use of metal references in his recurring forecasts. The post Weather Forecaster Drops Sleep Token Lyric Easter Egg appeared first on MetalSucks.

    metalsucks.net/2023/05/20/weat

    #SleepToken #WeatherForecasting #EasterEgg #GoingViral #Fandom #MetalSucks

  14. CW: Shitpost

    At today's exchange Twitter heart exchange rate, if your toot gets five stars on Mastodon, you have to promote your Soundcloud. #goingviral

  15. Note to self - 11:47 BST - 53 million views. #goingviral

  16. @Luke @basil Hey don't knock it. 200,000 hits in 3 hours. #goingviral