{"id":29,"date":"2018-01-19T00:34:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T05:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magicsocialfans.com\/?p=29"},"modified":"2018-04-17T21:50:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T02:50:50","slug":"anatomy-of-a-viral-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magicsocialfans.com\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"Anatomy of a Viral Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_62\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.magicsocialfans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/8022782454_d51094eaa1_c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-62\" alt=\"Psy Dancing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magicsocialfans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/8022782454_d51094eaa1_c-300x145.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.magicsocialfans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/8022782454_d51094eaa1_c-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.magicsocialfans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/8022782454_d51094eaa1_c.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-62\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Psy performing Gangnam Style &#8211; CC License Korea.net<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Every time a new huge viral video comes around, people inevitably ask &#8220;I wonder why that went viral&#8221;. \u00a0While this question is very difficult to answer, I thought I would give\u00a0<em>my<\/em> theory on qualities of a viral video.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing about a viral video is that it must be\u00a0<em>one of a kind<\/em>. \u00a0When someone sees a viral video, they have never seen anything like it. \u00a0There is something that makes it totally unique. \u00a0This leads to what actually makes the video go viral:\u00a0<em>The first reaction someone has after watching the viral video is to share it. \u00a0<\/em>Sure, you can advertise the heck out of a video by paying tens of thousands of dollars on your favorite ad network, but that won&#8217;t make a video go viral. \u00a0If you make a video that makes people\u00a0say &#8220;Bill\/Susy\/Bob has to see this!&#8221;, you may have a viral video.<\/p>\n<p>The final part of the factor in the equation is\u00a0<em>chance<\/em>. \u00a0That&#8217;s right, even if you have a totally unique video that makes people want to share it, it could simply just not go viral. \u00a0What made Gangnam Style get a billion views while other funny viral songs only get 10 Million? \u00a0Well, there is really no way to tell; it just does. \u00a0As a matter of fact, most people who make a video never expect\u00a0<em>that<\/em> one to go viral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time a new huge viral video comes around, people inevitably ask &#8220;I wonder why that went viral&#8221;. \u00a0While this question is very difficult to answer, I thought I would<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[28,22,21,20,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magicsocialfans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magicsocialfans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magicsocialfans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magicsocialfans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magicsocialfans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.magicsocialfans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"https:\/\/www.magicsocialfans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magicsocialfans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magicsocialfans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magicsocialfans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magicsocialfans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}