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%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * ''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/{{Warrior}}'': A video of Tommy beating Mad Dog at the gym gets uploaded on Website/YouTube by the gym receptionist. It becomes so popular the soldiers overseas are checking it out. %% This entry was added automatically by FELH2. In case the wording doesn't make sense, rewrite it as you like, remove this comment and tell this troper.
* ''Film/WereTheMillers'': [[spoiler:The video that Casey takes of Kenny's swollen testicle becomes a popular internet video by the end of the film.]] Also, the film begins with David watching a bunch of silly Website/YouTube videos.

** When Leonard and [[InsufferableGenius Sheldon]] have a fight during a physics lecture, the [[WithFriendsLikeThese video Howard shot]] becomes a Website/YouTube featured video the same evening.
** Sheldon gets drunk and makes a fool of himself at an awards presentation; this becomes a huge hit on Website/YouTube by the next morning under the title [[PunBasedTitle "Physicist has a meltdown"]].
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E4ThePowerOfThree "The Power of Three"]] has a variation: 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.

** Played straight - and a little karmically - in a later episode, when an embarrassing video of Sue dancing to "Let's Get Physical" is posted on Website/YouTube. It soon goes viral and within a matter of days becomes so popular Olivia Newton-John offers her a role in a remake of the music video.
** Played straight in Website/YouTube videos "The Kissed That Missed" humiliation at Nationals (which goes viral worldwide) and "Mercedes Inferno" performance of Disco Inferno (several hundred hits is still pretty significant in a timeframe of less than a day).

* ''VideoGame/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.

* ''Webcomic/{{Dissonance}}'': Gen uploads some footage of [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Pandora]] to Website/YouTube, and gets over 4.7 ''million'' hits overnight.

* ''Webcomic/GirlsWithSlingshots'': As [[TechnicalVirgin 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.]]

* ''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.

* ''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]], and Steven says only 12 people have seen the video. However, that is about [[ThrivingGhostTown half the town's population]], much to Mayor Dewey's dismay.

* Music/JustinBieber became a teen idol after a manager found one of his videos on Website/YouTube, and it involved getting millions of views as well:
-->''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.''

* 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]]''.

* It's usually commented that any video uploaded by LetsPlay/{{raocow}}, or having LetsPlay/{{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.

* ''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.]]

* 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.

** Sheldon gets drunk and makes a fool of himself at an awards presentation; this becomes a huge hit on Website/YouTube by the next morning under the title [[IncrediblyLamePun "Physicist has a meltdown"]].

* ''Series/HouseOfCardsUS'': in chapter 6, 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.

* ''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.

See also StupidStatementDanceMix and MemeticMutation.

* 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 WebAnimation/YouTubePoop.

* ''Franchise/{{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.

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->'''Sam''': Look, see the view count? Only 27 people have clicked on it.\\
'''Carly''': Oh… Okay, good.\\

'''Carly''': Sam?\\
'''Sam''': Yeah?\\
'''Carly''': THAT'S 27 THOUSAND!

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* In ''Film/{{Infamous}}'', Arielle is obsessed with social media but has very few followers. One night, she goes to a party where she gets into a fight and beats up a girl while everyone at the party films the fight and posts it on social media. Arielle immediately gains 147 new followers. This later gives her the idea of livestreaming footage of her and Dean robbing the gas station, which gains her 3000 followers. She keeps doing this through their crime spree; gaining more than 3 million followers.

* ''[[LightNovel/ILeftTheARankParty I left the A-rank party and headed for the depths of the labyrinth with my former students]]'' has a system by which adventurers can record their actions and even broadcast live. Main character Yoke decides to record his new party taking on their first boss monster for tactical review later and decides to broadcast live to start generating interest in their party. The clip promptly goes viral when he one-shots the boss by ''accident''.

* Happened to ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', believe it or not. Apparently, Creator/RoosterTeeth had more than 2 million downloads within a day of posting the first episode. They got popular enough that it took Creator/{{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.

* ''Film/ZackAndMiriMakeAPorno'': the "[[ComedicUnderwearExposure Granny Panties]]" video of Miri got 300,000 hits in the first few hours.

* ''Renegadepress.com'''s "A Tangled Web" [[{{Deconstructed}} deconstructs this]]. The victim in question, Francine, has to leave her school because of the constant torment from her video.