Viral Video Recap: Must-Watch Memes of the Week

This week's viral video recap has everything you need: cute kids, cute animals and, of course, the Harlem Shake.

In this edition, a father and his young daughter perform a duet, a tiger is shown up-close carrying its cubs in the wild (thanks to a camera strapped to an elephant nearby) and Grumpy Cat appears unimpressed by the Harlem Shake. If that's not enough to wet your appetite, there's also a Jimmy Kimmel video of what may be the world's worst Valentine's Day gift.

What was your favorite video this week? Let us know in the comments.
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Viral video: Usain Bolt joins in the Harlem Shake craze

Jimmy Fallon is doing it with his whole staff. Legions of university students have done it. A squadron of the Norwegian army has done it. Anderson Cooper did it too. And now Usain Bolt has joined the party.

What are we talking about? Why the Harlem Shake of course!

The Harlem Shake craze as we noted earlier, has taken over YouTube with the upload rate of Harlem Shake videos reaching 4,000 per day. As of 15 February about 40,000 Harlem Shake videos had been uploaded, totalling 175 million views.


How does the Harlem Shake work?

Usually, a video begins with one person (often helmeted or masked) dancing to Bauer’s Harlem Shake song alone for 15 seconds, surrounded by other people not paying attention or unaware of the dancing individual. When the bass drops, the video switches to the entire crowd doing a crazy convulsive dance for the next 15 seconds.

Usain Bolt is at the bottom right of the screen – breaking into some highly enthusiastic and really weird dance moves. But he sure looks like he’s having a great time!

The success of the videos was in part attributed to the anticipation of the breakout moment and short length, making them very accessible to watch.


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Harlem Shake(original Army Edition)

I just can't believe this....These soldiers catch in on the Harlem Shake craze too.
Awesome!!

Smartest 2 Year Old Ever

This is has definitely got to  be the smartest 2 Year Old Ever.Don't believe me? Then just watch the video and reconsider.

Passenger Of Small Airplane Captures Crash Landing In Field On Cellphone Camera

Jonathan Fielding took a birthday flight with his wife, which was coincidentally her first time flying, his mother in-law, and his baby son on a small propeller plane over beautiful Utah.

Terrifyingly, they were informed by the pilot that the carburetor had iced over, and the propeller was out of commission. They would have to crash land.

Being that this is 2013, Jonathon, of course, whipped out his cellphone camera to capture the drama. Even though the pilot was experienced with powerless landings in the field, the snow caused the plane to flip on landing.

Thankfully, they all survived save for a few scratches and bruises, and now the cellphone footage has gone viralviral, amassing over a quarter million views in just a week.
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First viral video of 2013: The Harlem Shake

Gangnam Style was the viral video of 2012 but the internet never sleeps. Six weeks into the new year, a new viral video sensation is taking over.

It’s called the Harlem Shake and as with all viral videos, viewers are usually left scratching their heads trying to figure out what it was that they’ve just seen.

The 30-second video is formulaic – a lone, masked dancer gyrates amidst a few disinterested people. Halfway through the video, the music ratchets up a notch and suddenly the screen is filled with crazy revellers.

The original video was published on February 2 and has already garnered 3.7-million views.

It was devised by a group of teenaged longboarders from Australia’s Sunshine Coast, who were looking for something to do during a rainy spell.

The Harlem Shake is actually a dance, dating back to the early 2000s. But it rarely features in the videos currently doing the rounds. It takes its name from the backing music, which is by Brooklyn-based dance music producer Baauer.

There are now scores of copycat versions featuring firefighters, an endearing father-son duo, the staff of entertainment website IGN, and rapper T Pain.




The fad picked up locally in recent days after a Cape Town based advertising agency the Jupiter Drawing Room made a version and dared its competitors to “out-shake” them.


Of course, the M&G Online had to have its own take.



Who says teambuilding costs money?

Now for the inevitable backlash. Oh wait, it’s already here.Who says teambuilding costs money?

Now for the inevitable backlash. Oh wait, it’s already here.




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‘Les Miz’ Meets ‘Gangnam Style,’ and YouTube Cheers

SEOUL, South Korea — The “Gangnam Style” video has spawned seemingly endless remakes; there are even sites that allow viewers to insert photos of themselves onto the animated bodies of people performing the famous horse dance.
Now the viral video has inspired another South Korean blockbuster, a parody of the movie musical “Les Misérables” featuring members of the air force. After just five days on YouTube, the video had been viewed almost three million times. (It probably did not hurt that one of the stars of the Hollywood movie,Russell Crowe, reposted a tweet with a link to the video.)

The video, “Les Militaribles,” opens by spoofing the dramatic first scene of the movie version of Victor Hugo’s epic novel, set in a jail where men live under the tyranny of the guards.






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