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Virality  Are you worthy?
What is Virality?
What Makes Something go viral?
#Alexfromtarget
The power of the fangirl   • Teenagers who love Bieber-like hairstyles picked up the photo  • Videos, photos and tweets ensued  • Even a fan-fiction dropped  • A company called Breakr took credit for making the Tweet go viral  • The association is still unconfirmed
Ice Bucket challenge
The Power of emotion   • Started to bring awareness about ALS from an outside source  • Organic shares and participation by the world  • Raised more than $100 million  • The draw of good-natured participation rallied the virality
So...  What makes something go viral?
No one really knows...
but...there are theories
Getting users (people) to reACT & ACT   • Emotion  • Humor   • General cuteness  • Add value  • Call to action
it's just PLAIN strANGE  Sometimes....
It's about what unites humans  and makes them share content!
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