Going Viral in New Media Form

What is viral video? A viral video is a form of animation clip or a short film that is spread rapidly through social media via online sharing. Viral videos can receive up to thousands or millions of views as they are shared among people on social media sites, reposted into blogs, sent in emails and so on. 

Here I am going to share with you a video that went viral for a period of time.

In my opinion, I felt that the reason to why this video went viral on social media is because it involves with current issues. A car's dashcam recorded the incident that involves the TransAsia Airways Flight 235, which descended and crashed down on the highway then into the river in Taiwan. 

As you can see, the video appeared and was placed as the first result after searching it by using the search engine.

As a proof that the video went viral and watched by many people, I have highlighted the number of views for that particular video which amounted to more than 10 million times.