What Makes A Video Viral?

What Makes A Video Viral?

I have been creating YouTube videos for a while and have yet to stumble on the perfect subject and content to go "viral." For some reason, one of my videos exploded, received over 80,000 views, and increased my subscribers to 250. What happened? Why did my turtle video suddenly become so popular? I have no Idea 🤔.

Like many others, I watched all of the self-help YouTube videos on how to get watchers, make viral videos, become monetized, etc. I am not saying they are useless, but they are created to help one person get views and subscribers. This makes sense. That is what they are making videos for, after all.

When I look at my one video with an extraordinary number of views, I can deduce it will take at least 500,000 views to capture 500 subscribers and greater than 1 million views to get close to 1,000 hours of watch time. So...I still have a ways to go 😁.

Do the "watch this video and go viral" schemes work? Maybe, for some, if you already have a vast social network. Do they work for someone with no social presence or following? I do not think so.

Making YouTube videos is so much fun; my grandson loves them, so I continue. I hope that you are not putting too much pressure on yourself. Find joy in what you do every day.

I will link my turtle video here as a shameless plug, but I would also like some comments on why you think this one video got so many views.

Stay happy!