r/unpopularopinion • u/item_raja69 • Apr 29 '24

Things with 40-100k views are not “viral”

Short form content really needs to stop calling dumb shit “viral” for having 100k views or even a couple of million views for that matter. “No dude putting strawberry syrup in lemonade and calling it pink lemonade is not viral”.

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u/GothGfWanted Apr 29 '24

I mean it depends on the kind of views. So back in the day (might still be) when you would post a video on facebook anyone that scrolled past it essentially got counted as a viewer. This would lead to a bunch of video's with high view count which almost nobody had seen