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{{quote|'''Sam''': Look, see the count? Only 27 people have clicked on it.
'''Carly''': Thank God. [pause] Sam?
'''Sam''': Yep.
'''Carly''': THAT'S 27 THOUSAND!|''[[
We know that [[It's a Small Net After All]] but even though [[Everything Is Online]] already, when Bob uploads a video or a Web page, especially if this happened by accident or the contents are particularly embarrassing, expect it to get more hits on its first day than a successful non-profit site can hope to get in weeks.
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== Film ==
* At the climax of the ''[[Marmaduke]]'' [[The Movie|movie]], the title dog character gets rescued by his owner Phil. Nearby kids had filmed the rescue and put it on YouTube.
* The "[[I See London|Granny Panties]]" video of Miri in ''[[Zack and Miri Make a Porno]]'' got 300.000 hits in the first few hours.
* In ''[[The Social Network]]'', Mark Zuckerberg's site "Facemash", created while drunk, gets enough hits within a matter of hours to shut down the Harvard University servers. [[Truth in Television]], as this actually happened, and is likely the most accurately-depicted event in the movie.
* In ''[[Bajrangi Bhaijaan]]'', Pakistani reporter Chand Nawab, frustrated because the network where he works doesn't want to transmit his story about an Indian man (the titular Bajrangi) that illegally entered Pakistan to bring a stranded Pakistani mute girl back to her parents on accounts of not being "interesting" enough, independently uploads it to YouTube with the addenda that the man was arrested just after successfully finishing his mission. It becomes instantly viral in both India and Pakistan, so much that the popular support it generates forced the Pakistani authorities to release and deport Bajrangi instead of sending him to trial.
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== Real Life ==
* A well-known example: [[Justin Bieber]] became a teen idol after a manager found one of his videos on YouTube, and it involved getting millions of views as well:
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* It's usually commented that any video uploaded by [[Raocow]], or having [[Raocow]] as one of its tags gets 3,000 to 4,000 views by the end of the day. This includes demos, silly cuts, audiosurf songs, or whatever.
* Happened to ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'', believe it or not. Apparently, Rooster Teeth had more than 2 million downloads within a day of posting the first episode. They got popular enough that it took Bungie only a week to notice them. Fortunately, Bungie ''loved'' the series (it was essentially free publicity for ''[[Halo]]'' after all), and did not shut them down.
* Although some criticism [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|and controversy]] surrounded it, the video ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc Kony 2012]'' by Invisible Children certainly succeeded at raising awareness of the Ugandan war criminal Joseph Kony (notorious for his use of [[Child Soldiers]]). The 30-minute documentary racked up over 100 million views in just ''six days.'' According to [https://web.archive.org/web/20130921164113/http://corp.visiblemeasures.com/news-and-events/blog/bid/79626/Update-Kony-Social-Video-Campaign-Tops-100-Million-Views those who measure such things], it's the fastest-spreading viral video in the history of the
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