Remember “Baby Shark Dance?” How about “Gangnam Style?” Those videos were among the most inescapable offerings of the YouTube canon, pumped into our lives by the last vestige of the internet monoculture: the Trending page. Now, a full decade since it was first introduced, YouTube announced it is ending its effort to inject top videos […]
That Viral Prison Break Video Is a Hoax
On February 20, 2025, just before 6 p.m. Eastern time, a man named William Banks posted a video on X and Instagram that showed him breaking out of jail. It’s gone mega-viral and has been viewed more than 10 million times on X alone. “The one thing keeping me going is that the William Banks […]