What Does This Mean?
A video that spreads rapidly and widely through sharing rather than paid promotion, treated as its own recognizable category of media success distinct from any single platform's own metrics.
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REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"Nobody could have predicted that random clip would become a viral video."
LORE & ORIGIN
Borrowed the epidemiological "viral" metaphor for content that spreads through person-to-person sharing rather than centralized distribution.
EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES
MENTIONS OVER TIME
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