You can’t be like, ‘Alright, I’m going to make this viral!’ You just put stuff out there, and you hope that people engage and resonate with it.
Violent extremism is going viral, but our response to it is moving at bureaucratic, sluggish speed.
I was getting gig offers from neighbouring countries, but no one knew me in India. Just when I was about to accept an offer, one of my videos went viral in India.
‘Tell to Win’ reveals the key elements that tellers of purposeful stories utilize to engage their listeners and turn them into viral advocates of the tellers’ goals.
Not only was I a victim of viral humiliation but a victim of cyber-bullying.
With social media, if you have a viral video people can like what you do and it’s homegrown and very organic.
I’ve definitely pitched some viral ideas and do have a pretty good understanding of the Web.
An ex-boyfriend of mine is living with HIV. He has an undetectable viral load so I know first-hand how this can affect people in a serodiscordant couple – which is where one partner is HIV-negative and one is HIV-positive.
I think my selfies are the main reason for my fan following on social networking sites. These photos and videos are liked and shared by the followers, and consequently, they go viral.
I’m over here with the French counterterrorism experts talking about the ‘Charlie Hebdo’ case, how we can stop foreign fighters from coming out of Iraq and Syria to Europe, but then we have this phenomenon in the United States where they can be activated by the Internet, and, really, terrorism has gone viral.
Nonviolent, visual protests have a long history of forming images that can quickly go viral and set a powerful tone for a moment.
Romance isn’t measured by how viral your proposal goes. The Internet age may try to sell you something different, but don’t ever forget that viral is closely associated with sickness – so don’t ever make being viral your goal.
In the original introduction to the word meme in the last chapter of ‘The Selfish Gene,’ I did actually use the metaphor of a ‘virus.’ So when anybody talks about something going viral on the Internet, that is exactly what a meme is, and it looks as though the word has been appropriated for a subset of that.
I came up with Hotmail’s viral marketing idea.
In 2013, I did a TEDx talk in Austin. Until then I had sort of a following online but this was completely different – it went viral.
There are all sorts of inventive ways to get your film out there: sometimes via the Internet, sometimes via viral screenings in people’s living rooms across the country.
The tremendous acquisition of basic knowledge will allow a much more rational treatment of cancer, viral infections, degenerative diseases and, most importantly, mental diseases.
The first time I used ‘Viva La Stool,’ I was just bragging about something. People grabbed it, and it went viral organically.
When I first experienced the millennial response to me, I had come out of a classified briefing, and I told the group of media individuals who were there that I didn’t think James Comey had any credibility, and I threw up my hands and walked away – that went viral.
We continually compare Roblox to traditional gaming companies. The difference between us and them is that Roblox has millions of people always creating stuff. That gives us the viral juice both with the content and the sharing between all those users.
The idea of the live-virus vaccine is to produce in a continuous way some viral antigens.
‘Cleveland’ went viral, but it didn’t necessarily pop. I didn’t have that support. I didn’t have a deal when I made ‘Cleveland’ or anything like that.
This is the new wave, the new generation of terrorism. It’s gone viral. It’s very dangerous, and it’s very hard to stop.
The viral landscape is shifting and changing.
We’re trying to be a content destination for viral images and to be an entertainment destination in general.
My top video is probably the wake up machine. And that one was the first one that started going really viral. It’s an alarm clock that slaps you in the face with a rubber arm.
I know very little about the viral, electronic world, but I use Twitter to communicate not only information that I think some of the fans want to hear about but also ideas.
I’m not a viral sensation or a megastar or anything like that.
It’s really easy to go viral, but I think it’s really hard then to have a career.
When I gave a talk at TEDx, I thought that if I did a good job, the video might go viral.
The challenge at this point is helping a brand understand they’re not just commissioning a viral video but tapping into an existing fan base and an audience that’s very loyal… It’s two brands working together: the Rhett and Link brand and their brand.
More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be consoled by the fact that most of this stuff is being posted just to our friends, it only takes one friend to share that information with his or her friends to start a viral chain.
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