Viral Friday: Rick Rolled
Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 10 most popular viral videos, commercials or user-generated videos, carefully selected and ranked by popularity, viral impact & spread.
This weeks Viral Friday #1 position goes to YouTube with Rick Rolled. On April Fools day YouTube Rick Rolled its users by linking all of the featured videos to the Rick Astley video, resulting in over 9 million views. The runner up spot is for Exotic World Gifts with Elephant Paints Self Portrait. Online store Exotic World Gifts imports self portraits made by elephants. By selling their art they support these “Starving Elephant Artisans”. BBC’s Flying Penguins complete this week’s top 3. To promote BBC’s iPlayer Gorgeous and Passion Pictures created this April Fools joke video in which we see Terry Jones reporting from Antarctica about a unique colony of Adelie Penguins.
Do you want to see this week’s list from 1 to 10? Go on then, and have a look! We’d like to hear your opinion about the virals. Have fun!
