Top 5 Viral Videos of 2015

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Tianjin Explosion

Bottom Right: crane dwarfed by what witnesses say was a 100m high
fireball

The Tianjin Explosion takes the cake for what may be 2015's most heart
wrenching case of gross negligence. On the 12th of August, residents of Tianjin
City woke up to a raging fire from a hazardous chemical warehouse owned by
Ruihai International Logistics Co. The warehouse illegally stored hazardous
chemicals, including 700 tonnes of highly toxic sodium cyanide within
unpermitted proximity to residential properties. The fire followed up with two
explosions that seared most within its 2 kilometre radius, levelling buildings,
scorching facades and shattering windows.
China Earthquake Networks Centre reports the initial explosion having an
equivalent power of 3 tonnes of TNT, and the second equal to 21 tonnes.

In this video, the fire rages on, and all at once erupts into a blinding and earshattering fiery plume. The Tianjin sky is immediately enveloped in a forbidding
red, smaller explosions thundering beyond. The people in the video, initially
awed by the spectacle, audibly turn to fearful. Woah turned to No, with each
one growing longer and increasingly despondent. The second explosion, more
akin to an atomic bomb than a warehouse explosion, left them stunned by its
sheer magnitude, and they begin to escape the building as the air began to
thicken with a heavy smog.

The final death toll is set at 173 deaths, with 8 missing, and 797 injured.

Unbelievable

Unbelievable.

Spinning off a plethora of inspired apparel, fan renditions and remixes, this
pseudo-romantic 70s parodic cheese is un-un-un-un-un-believable.
Featured on Time and The Huffington Post and garnering over 2 million
views on Youtube, Unbelievables Chen Tianwen has swept women from all
walks of life off their feet, stunning them like vegetable.
The hunky allure of Singaporean sitcom star Chen Tianwen, armed with
flowers and a head of broccoli, is oddly hypnotizing- funky clothes, funky
hair, funky beat, the epitome of suave.
Unbelievable, reminiscent of the oldie songs we see in the intro and outro
of Taiwanese soap dramas from the era of open-necked shirts, mullets,
and bell bottom jeans, starts with a cheesy pan to Chen Tianwen sitting
atop a breakwater in East Coast Park. Donning a mullet, gold frame

sunglasses, and a floral button up that would make modern hipsters

shudder, he mulls, staring off into the horizon (Malaysia). The video, filled
with cheesy lines, Chen Tianwens slow hip gyration and cha-cha-esque
dance gave life to instant classics such as "Please be the metal cable to
my cable car" and "You blossom like a flower, Im so stunned like
vegetable".
So why stunned like vegetable among other things? Wang Guoshen,
creator and lyricist of Unbelievable, simply thought it was funny that you can
be stunned into a veggie state.
Wow.

Don't miss out Sandcastle in My Heart, the sorrowful sequel to

Unbelievable, as a forlorn Chen Tianwen laments over being bullied by
everything from a seagull to a sardine".

Charlie Charlie African Edition

Da demon?

The Charlie Charlie game is an internet fad that spawned from a Spanish game
called Juego de la lapicera (Game of the pens), where people pivot a pencil on
top of another in a cross shape (of course), above a grid marked with yes and no,
and ask a question to the supernatural entity, Charlie. The origin of Charlie is
debated is either a Mexican child that committed suicide, a Charlie that was
killed in a hit and run, or a pagan deity who convenes with the Christian devil.
In this video, a father walks in on his clueless child in his pyjamas in the midst of
calling out to Charlie. Who is moving the pencil? Da demon Couple a pious
dad and a clueless child basically sending an RSVP to the devil incarnate himself,
and you get a hard whack smack dab on the head of a clueless boy that wouldve
sent any revelling demon running off to the safer haven that is Hell. Are you
high? The father grabs his still clueless son by the collar and gives him
presumably the most erratic and angry lecture of 2015, instructing the boy to
call out to Jesus Jesus not Charlie Charlie.
Hopefully our young friend learns to stop summoning damned souls idling in
purgatory before bed time.

Hotline Bling

Hotline Bling- number two on the US Billboard Hot 100, Drake's first top-10
hit in two years, with 22 million views on Youtube, and awkward dancing
that inspired a meme? Pop a champagne, papi.

A lady walking through an office lined with hotline-bling operators, then to

Drake in empty, colourful rooms, doing the cha-cha, the salsa, and other
moves with dad-like dexterity, sandwiched between cuts of curvy women,
then back to the office. End.
Laden with woes, some went as far to say that the music video, especially
"Ever since I left the city, you, you, you, you and me we just don't get
along", was about his fallout with former flame Nebby when he left Toronto
in 2009 for fame.
In an interview about Hotline Blings beats similarity to D.R.A.Ms Cha
Cha, Drake told Fader, You know, like in Jamaica, youll have a riddim and
its like, everyone has to do a song on that, Imagine that in rap, or
imagine that in R&B. Imagine if we got one beat and every single person
me, this guy, this guy, all these guyshad to do a song on that one beat.
So sometimes Ill pick a beat thats a bit, like, sunnier, I guess is the word
you used, than usual, and I just try my hand at it. And thats kind of what
Hotline Bling was. And I loved it. Its cool. Ive been excited by that sort
of creative process.
And where on Earth did D.R.A.M sample the beat to make a hit that would
go on to inspire a bigger one? Super Mario World, of course. Now thats an
origin story.

Movin Up by Honey Boo Boo (Alana Thompson)

Honey Boo Boo bop, do the Honey Boo Boo bop!

Honey Boo Boo bop, do the Honey Boo Boo bop!
Child beauty pageant contestant turned reality TV star Alana Thompson
has returned with her debut single, Movin Up! Turn off your grown-up
brain and groove to the catchy beat and watch Honey Boo Boo, Mama
June, Adam Barta and other family have a blast together, rhyming it up
with Started out as a pageant queen, Then on TV doing my thing, Now
I'm moving up in the world, New house, fun times with my girls.
The video has garnered over 2 million views, a graceful comeback from
their fall when TLC pulled their show, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo off the
air when controversy over Mama Junes relationship with a convicted sex
offender began to circulate. Yikes.