History Main / InstantWebHit

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Turbo}}'', a video of the titular character with a boy commenting "WOAH! That snail is fast!" as he's racing is what makes him popular, to the point where the video gets a StupidStatementDanceRemix that turns into a hit song.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Turbo}}'', a video of the titular character with a boy commenting "WOAH! That snail is fast!" as he's racing is what makes him popular, to the point where the video gets a StupidStatementRemix that turns into a hit song.

* In ''VideoGame/KirattoPriChan'', Miracle Kiratts' first web vlog becomes so popular that they are able to do a live performance after it.

* ''GRiD 2'': After the first race, a video of your on-track performance gets uploaded on Website/YouTube and it gets millions of views and likes, to the point that a rich American tycoon, Patrick Callahan, is interested on you and wants you to help him out on the creation of a world racing tournament.

* In ''Comicbook/VoteLoki'' the news coverage of Loki's DoWrongRight speech directed at lying politicians goes viral, and becomes the foundation on which the jerk builds his own political carrier.

* ''Film/{{Marmaduke}}'': At the climax of the [[TheMovie movie]], the epynomous dog gets rescued by his owner Phil. Nearby kids had filmed the rescue and put it on Website/YouTube.

** In episode "Tip of the Day", Dr. Doofenshmirtz accidently showed his embarrassing video to the internet and wanted to erase their minds. It was so famous that he encountered judgemental paparazzi just when he went outside his lab ([[ExaggeratedTrope and that was only to his kitchen!]])

* In ''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa'', a girls' stretched out "duck lips" gets millions of views in a very short amount of time, coverage on the news, and even a crowd waiting around her school to get to see her.

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* In ''Anime/YuriOnIce'', the plot is well and truly kicked off when the Nishigori triplets record and upload Yuri Katsuki's flawless imitation of figure skating champion Victor Nikiforov's routine to the internet. Soon the video goes viral, catching Victor's attention and inspiring him to travel to Japan and become Yuri's coach for the next Grand Prix.

* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'': Gaige goes from two subscribers in her third ECHO Log to over twenty thousand in her fourth after her science fair project -- a fully functional combat robot -- [[LudicrousGibs blows one of her classmates to pieces]] [[AccidentalMurder due to a miscalibration]].

* ''Film/{{Indigenous}}'': Scott uses his app to record a message explaining their plight, and is interrupted by the creatures attacking, which he also captures on video. The resulting clip gets automatically sent to all of his contacts and becomes a viral sensation, [[BrokenMasquerade breaking the masquerade]].

* The Nike "Write the Future" commercial: a soccer player's fancy footwork gains international notoriety when it gets caught on live television and gets replicated via WebVideo/YouTubePoop.

* ''{{Negima}}'': In the second anime, Nodoka becomes the Japanese Internet's #1 idol after someone posts some pictures of her online. Chisame is not happy about this.

* Texas mom Candace Payne posted a Website/{{Facebook}} video of herself trying on a [[Franchise/StarWars Chewbacca]] mask and breaking into ContagiousLaughter. In less than ''four days'' it picked up a record-smashing ''[[http://www.reelseo.com/chewbacca-mask-video-facebook-live/ 140 million views]]''.

* ''Webcomic/GirlsWithSlingshots'': As [[AnythingThatMoves Jamie]] finds out, her drunken "I just want somebody to ravage my body" outburst becomes a Website/YouTube hit ''and'' a meme [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1366/ overnight]].

* ''WebVideo/CommodoreHustle'': In the episode [[http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/418/commodoreHUSTLE-06-Viral "Viral"]], the crew attempt to engineer one of these by imitating styles of viral video. In the resulting episode, [[http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/428/commodoreHUSTLE-07-Fallout "Fallout"]], they discover they succeeded. Notable in it being a case of RealLifeWritesThePlot; they did make the viral videos shown briefly in the former episode, and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M8xJgQvbvc one of them]] really did explode in popularity.

* ''Manga/DeathNote'': the cult following for Kira starts on the Internet - in fact, it's the Internet followers who give him his name.

-->''After posting dozens of homemade videos on Website/YouTube in 2007, where the multi-talented Bieber put his impeccable spin on songs from artists like Music/{{Usher}}, music/NeYo and Music/StevieWonder, Justin racked up over 10,000,000 views purely from word of mouth.''

* Happened to ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', 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 ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' after all), and did not shut them down.

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* ''{{ComicStrip/Dilbert}}'': The PHB [[http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2014-03-16/ tries to invoke this trope]] by ordering Dilbert to create a video that will go viral. Dilbert's increasing annoyance at trying to explain that this can't be done on command is recorded by Asok and goes viral.

** Second on the list linked above is [[BritainsGotTalent Susan Boyle]], who made it to 100 million views in nine days. The other runners-up took a while longer to break 100m; by comparison, for instance, Music/LadyGaga's "Bad Romance" took 18 days and Music/RebeccaBlack's "Music/{{Friday}}" took 45. Not too shabby, but not quite "instant" by that point either.