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Evolution of Dance (YouTube Most Watched, circa 2006) (youtube.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Who remembers when this was the most watched video on YouTube?

"The clip received 70 million views in under 8 months. At that time, it was rated on YouTube as: #1 Most Viewed All Time Video on YouTube.com." - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judson_Laipply

"He uploaded the dance to YouTube on April 6th, 2006." - https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/evolution-of-dance

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I never understood why this was so popular tbh. It's cool and sorta funny I guess but not most popular video of all time cool

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People were more easily entertained back then. Remember that one of the first memes was literally just a baby dancing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Verily do we stand on the shoulders of meme giants.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

People are fickle and everything is relative... or something like that, maybe