History Main / InstantWebHit

->'''Sam''': Look, see the count? Only 27 people have clicked on it.\\
'''Carly''': Thank God.\\

'''Sam''': Yep.\\

* In ''Film/SorryToBotherYou'', a clip of the main character getting hit in the head with a Coca-Cola can becomes a big in-universe meme almost immediately. He's able to parley this online fame into an appearance on the local SadisticGameShow, so he can get a bigger audience to reveal the conspiracy he has uncovered.

* ''Webcomic/SandraOnTheRocks'': Sandra's (as Gary later puts it) ''geek chic'' [[http://www.sandraontherocks.com/strips-sotr/it_is_going_bubonic rant in favour]] of a female game character that's fun to play goes viral, or rather "[[UpToEleven bubonic]]", ''during'' the livestream, and afterwards Sandra's website skyrockets from 1 to [[http://www.sandraontherocks.com/strips-sotr/lost_without_you more than 1.5 million hits]] overnight.

* ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseWorks'': In the short ''computer.don'', Daisy sets up a Web site with an EmbarrassingOldPhoto of DonaldDuck, which gets a million hits in five seconds.

* ''Film/ZackAndMiriMakeAPorno'': the "[[ComedicUnderwearExposure Granny Panties]]" video of Miri got 300.000 hits in the first few hours.

* 'Series/LizzieMcGuire'': Matt's webcast from his basement gets a ridiculous number of hits when his father accidentally turns it into a slapstick routine.

* In the subplot of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', Kahn wants to become an internet sensation. He tries to reenact the moment when Bill's cowboy hat was blown by the wind and landed perfectly on his head. Even with the failed reenactment video, Kahn, Bobby, Bill, Boomhauer, and Peggy became happy after they received ''4 views'' after a few seconds of uploading.

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* ''Anime/KujibikiUnbalance'' OVA: Doing this is the focus of one of the competitions. The opposing team of {{Otaku}} post pictures of anime girls and get large numbers of hits, while the main characters make feeble attempts at websites about trains and such and get few hits - until they decide to [[{{Fanservice}} post video of the girl characters in skimpy outfits]] and win.

* In ''Anime/YuriOnIce'', the plot is kicked off when the Nishigori triplets record and upload Yuri Katsuki's flawless imitation of figure skating champion Victor Nikiforov's program to the internet. Soon the video goes viral, which catches Victor's attention and inspires him to become Yuri's coach for the next Grand Prix.
* In ''VideoGame/KirattoPriChan'', this trope plays a major role in the plot of the show. If any video on the titular streaming service becomes this, a sparkling message that says "READY FOR LIVE" will appear on the [=PriChan=] Cast of whoever owns the channel, enabling the person who produced that day's top video to perform.

* 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 career.

* In ''FanFic/ForThoseWeCherish'', Sergeant Aethon of the Lamenters performs heroic action and rescues a Faunus woman and her siblings when they were lagging behind in an evacuation. Unbeknownst to them, a reporter was among the group and took a picture that went viral online. His Captain does not let him forget it and assigns him to do PR with Team RWBY because of it.

* In ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'', on their mission to try and find a way to get money for Vanellope's replacement steering wheel, the duo stumble upon Yesss, who promises to make Ralph a mega-popular Internet star. Due to many people remembering Wreck-It Ralph from their childhoods, the videos instantly become hits.
* 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 StupidStatementDanceMix that turns into a hit song.

* ''Film/{{Marmaduke}}'': At the climax of the [[TheMovie movie]], the eponymous dog gets rescued by his owner Phil. Nearby kids filmed the rescue and put it on Website/YouTube.
* ''Film/{{Rings}}'': This happens to [[spoiler:Julia's copy of Samara's video]].

* In ''Literature/CyberJolyDrim'' Jola makes up a silly song out of boredom and heartsickness. Within two days it's everywhere and treated dead serious.
* Creator/MichaelCrichton's ''Literature/{{Next}}'': one character creates a fictional Web page to fool her daughter. Within minutes, this page is the top Google hit.

* The ''Series/ICarly'' pilot: the funny video that started it all has an amazing 27,000 hits on the first evening it has been online.
* ''Series/InPlainSight'': a teenager in witness protection performs in the school choir and one of the parents makes a video of it and posts it on the Internet. The video goes viral because the girl was an up and coming rockstar before witnessing a murder and she still has many loyal fans wondering what happened to her. Mary has to relocate the girl before the gangsters who want her dead come looking.
* ''Series/{{Leverage}}'': used to convince the mark that he can make it big by hiring one of the team. Of course, this is a con - they set up a script to automatically view the video from many different IP addresses.
* On ''Series/LizzieMcGuire'', Matt's webcast from his basement gets a ridiculous number of hits when his father accidentally turns it into a slapstick routine.
* This is {{Deconstructed}} in ''Renegadepress.com'''s "A Tangled Web". The victim in question, Francine, has to leave her school because of the constant torment from her video.
* This happens in chapter 6 of ''Series/HouseOfCardsUS'': Frank Underwood makes a gaffe while in a debate on CNN with Martin Spinella about the teachers' strike. Within less than 24 hours of the gaffe, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE7GKvXTazE someone has turned it into a]] StupidStatementDanceMix with ''308,476'' views and spawned dozens of other parodies.

* The ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' DLC ''Citadel'' has a scene where [[ClassyCatBurglar Kasumi]] records a drunk Tali imitating a starship with her arms outstretched, humming comically, and [[InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube posts it online]]; she claims it's already got thousands of hits and a fansite.

* In ''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa'', a girl's stretched-out "duck lips" get 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.
* In early installments of ''WesternAnimation/VampirinaBallerina'', Edgar's paranormal-hunting web show is a bomb that only has six viewers and one of them is his grandma. But when he decides to break format and post a video of Vee and Poppy dancing a ghoulish hit, he ends up getting over a million views.

* The ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' DLC ''Citadel'' has a scene where [[ClassyCatBurglar Kasumi]] records a drunk [[{{Adorkable}} Tali]] imitating a starship with her arms outstretched, humming comically, and [[InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube posts it online]]; she claims it's already got thousands of hits and a fansite.

* Although some criticism [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment and controversy]] surrounded it, the video ''[[https://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 ChildSoldiers). The 30-minute documentary racked up over 100 million views in just ''six days.'' According to [[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 internet--all the more impressive when you consider that it's a long, serious piece that doesn't involve [[WebOriginal/LOLCats kittens]].

* The ''Series/ICarly'' pilot: the funny video [[FirstEpisodeSpoiler that started it all]] has an amazing 27,000 hits on the first evening it has been online.

* ''Series/AustinAndAlly'': this is how Austin ascends to fame. [[FirstEpisodeSpoiler And how the whole plot of the show begins.]]

* In ''Disney/RalphBreaksTheInternet'', on their mission to try and find a way to get money for Vanellope's replacement steering wheel, the duo stumble upon Yesss, who promises to make Ralph a mega-popular Internet star. Due to many people remembering Wreck-It Ralph from their childhoods, the videos instantly become hits.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Parodied and subverted in ''[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E5DeweyWins Dewey Wins]]''. Mayor Dewey [[ProducePelting got a tomato thrown at his face]] after an unsuccessful attempt at regaining Beach City's population's trust, the incident was [[InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube recorded and posted on]] [[BlandNameProduct Tube]][[Website/YouTube Tube]], Steven says only 12 people have seen the video, which is [[ThrivingGhostTown half the town's population]], much to Mayor Dewey's dismay.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Parodied and subverted in ''[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E5DeweyWins Dewey Wins]]''. Mayor Dewey [[ProducePelting got a tomato thrown at his face]] after an unsuccessful attempt at regaining Beach City's population trust, the incident was [[InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube recorded and posted on]] [[BlandNameProduct Tube]][[Website/YouTube Tube]], Steven says only 12 people have seen the video, which is [[ThrivingGhostTown half the town's population]], much to Mayor Dewey's dismay.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Parodied and subverted in the episode ''Dewey Wins''. Mayor Dewey [[ProducePelting got a tomato thrown at his face]] after an unsuccessful attempt at regaining Beach City's population trust, the incident was recorded and posted on [[BlandNameProduct Tube]][[Website/YouTube Tube]], Steven says only 12 people have seen the video, which is [[ThrivingGhostTown half the town's population]], much to Mayor Dewey's dismay.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Subverted in the episode ''Dewey Wins''. Mayor Dewey [[ProducePelting got a tomato thrown at his face]] after an unsuccessful attempt at regaining Beach City's population trust, the incident was recorded and posted on [[BlandNameProduct Tube]][[Website/YouTube Tube]], Steven says only 12 people have seen the video, which is [[ThrivingGhostTown half the town's population]], much to Mayor Dewey's dismay.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Subverted in the episode ''Dewey Wins''. Mayor Dewey [[ProducePelting got a tomato thrown at his face]] after an unsuccessful attempt at regaining Beach City's population trust, the incident was recorded and the video posted on [[BlandNameProduct Tube]][[Website/YouTube Tube]], Steven says only 12 people as seen it, which is [[ThrivingGhostTown half the town's population]], much to Mayor Dewey's dismay.

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* In ''Disney/RalphBreaksTheInternet'', on their mission to try and find a way to get money for Vanellope's replacement steering wheel, the duo stumble upon Yesss, who promises to make Ralph a mega-popular Internet star. Due to many people remembering Wreck It Ralph from their childhoods, the videos instantly become hits.

* 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 StupidStatementDanceMix that turns into a hit song.

* In ''Literature/CyberJolyDrim'' Jola makes up a silly song out of boredom and heartsickness. Within two days it's everywhere and treated dead serious.

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* A variation on ''Series/DoctorWho'': in "The Power of Three", millions of small black cubes appear all over the world. Within one day people have created over a thousand Twitter accounts devoted to the cubes, as well as posting them on Website/{{Facebook}} and Website/YouTube.

* In the subplot of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', Kahn wants to become an internet sensation. He tries to reenact the moment when Bill's cowboy hat was blown by the wind and landed perfectly on his head. Even with the failed reenactment video, Kahn, Bobby, Bill, Boomhauer, and Peggy became happy after they received ''4 views'' after a few seconds of uploading.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': In Episode 68, Bad Kaeloo, Quack Quack, Mr. Cat, Pretty and Eugly make a rock song. Someone puts it on the internet and they become incredibly famous overnight.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheCrumpets'':
** In "[=CrumStep=]", Caprice's shared video of Granny and Li'l-One's music concert gave rise to the duo's fame.
** In "A Grave Affair", Caprice (who started with no fame) posts shocking (mostly staged) pictures of her family members (such as a postmortem one of the not quite dead Granny) and earns thousands of likes. She discovers the Granny picture's popularity and [[LastDisrespects exclaims of it during the funeral]].

* 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.]]''

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* ''Webcomic/UnwindersTallComics'': [[http://tallcomics.com/?id=85 Unwinder has a friend film him while he crashes a sled]], and he intends to put the video up on Website/YouTube. An ImagineSpot ensues, where the video gets 14 million hits, and Unwinder himself becomes an international punchline who no one wants to hire.

* The ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' DLC ''Citadel'' has a scene where [[ClassyCatBurglar Kasumi]] records a drunk Tali imitating a starship with her arms outstretched, humming comically, and [[InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube posts it online]]; she claims it's already got thousands of hits and a fansite.

* Although some criticism [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment and controversy]] surrounded it, the video ''[[https://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 ChildSoldiers). The 30-minute documentary racked up over 100 million views in just ''six days.'' According to [[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 internet--all the more impressive when you consider that it's a long, serious piece that doesn't involve [[WebOriginal/LOLCats kittens]].

* 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 program 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.