4 in the Afternoon: Someone Hearing Lyrics

Twice each day we scan our YouTube metrics as well as websites on the cutting edge of internet culture to discover the most buzzed about videos.

Hearing Myself for the First Time	The Bull	Lyrics that Aren't Lyrics	Someone Like You

1. From the description: "I was born deaf and 8 weeks ago I received a hearing implant. This is the video of them turning it on and me hearing myself for the first time :)" As seen on VideoSift.
2. Derrick Rose's Adidas bull-fighting spot is one of our Most Shared videos.
3. A medley of 26 years worth of non-lyric lyrics. As seen on Daily Wh.at.
4. Adele's latest video is quickly rising among our most-viewed clips. "Rolling in the Deep" has now been seen nearly 150 million times.

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Across the Country: College Sports Craziness

In our roundup this week of regionally popular college sports videos this week, there's a clear top two, thought they're from two different sports.

KENTUCKY: Kentucky basketball fans make a mad dash for Final Four lottery tickets	OKLAHOMA: Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy gets down in the locker room

See more of what's popular in different locations nationally and around the world with our Trends Dashboard.

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4 in the Morning: Garlic Typhoon

Twice each day we scan our YouTube metrics as well as websites on the cutting edge of internet culture to discover the most buzzed about videos.

Typhoon Timelapse	Telling Mom I'm gay	Free Flexor	10 Second Garlic

1. Timelapse footage of Typhoon Pedring crossing over Hong Kong.
2. A follow up to one of last week's most popular trending videos. Read more here.
3. This unusual fitness product became a top rising search. As seen on Consumerist.
4. One of our top Trending videos is this cooking advice on how to peel a head of garlic in just 10 seconds.

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4 in the Afternoon: Floppy Ford

Twice each day we scan our YouTube metrics as well as websites on the cutting edge of internet culture to discover the most buzzed about videos.

Floppy Disk Imperial March	Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close	Time-Lapse Ford	NY Police vs Protestors

1. A Polish gentleman takes two floppy drives and turns them into musical instruments. As seen on Make.
2. The trending movie trailer of the day is for the adaptation of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close starring Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks. As seen on Business Insider.
3. Our most-viewed travel video of the week is this clip of a Ford Explorer being constructed out of Legos at Legoland.
4. Dramatic footage claiming to depict a police officer "punching an Occupy Wall Street protestor in the face" in New York City. No date or time was specified. As seen on Reddit.

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Rosh Hashanah Music Videos

Some of the Most Shared videos on YouTube today are music videos celebrating the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hoshanah. In the U.S., this parody of Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO has been particularly popular. We first spotted it when it was trending in Israel earlier this month and it now has over 800,000 views.



AishVideo, which produced this clip, also created the Google Exodus video for Passover that was seen over 2 million times.'

Meanwhile, this music video is actually the second most-viewed of the month in Israel, with 1.2+ million views.



Yeshiva University's Maccabeats, who first made a name for themselves during Hanukkah with their very popular song parody "Candlelight," also created a new a capella mix for the Jewish New Year that was posted a few days ago and is based on One Republic's "Good Life."



MORE: Check out our look at Jewish Holiday A Capella.

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4 in the Morning: Proposal Pilots

Twice each day we scan our YouTube metrics as well as websites on the cutting edge of internet culture to discover the most buzzed about videos.

Downtown Disney Flashmob Proposal	Pilots Protest	Fastest Couch	One Test More

1. This footage of an elaborate flashmob proposal staged at the Walt Disney resort is one of two such proposals hitting our Most Shared list. Here's the other from UCLA.
2. Footage from the United and Continental airline pilots demonstration in downtown New York Wednesday.
3. It seems 163km/h is the new land-speed world record for a sofa. As seen on Neatorama.
4. An engineering exam in Toronto is interrupted by a musical flash mob. As seen on SayOMG.

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4 in the Afternoon: Shark Fire

Twice each day we scan our YouTube metrics as well as websites on the cutting edge of internet culture to discover the most buzzed about videos.

Surfers Save Shark	Shell Singapore Fire	Kindle Fire	Soldiers Playing D&D

1. A group of surfers save a small, stranded Great White. As seen on Daily Wh.at.
2. Footage of a fire at Shell's largest refinery, which is situated in Pulau Bukom.
3. Amazon released its new tablet computer today sparking the new device to be a top rising search on YouTube.
4. This 2009 video is suddenly saw a spike in views as it was featured on Reddit.

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Chris Rene Already a YouTube Sensation

It was just last Thursday night that United States' edition of "The X Factor" aired the audition of Chris Rene, and in the few days since, interest on YouTube has been very high in the 28-year-old. Rene, 70 days sober post-rehab, performed a self-written song called, "Young Homie."

"Chris Rene" is the top rising search in the U.S. over the past seven days and, interestingly, searches hit their highest peak on Monday. The video of Rene's performance, which was posted by "The X Factor," has been seen over 2.6 million times and is averaging over a quarter of a million views per day.



Even though the episode is less than a week old, YouTube musicians have already begun posting covers of the song. Here's a selection of five in a playlist:

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4 in the Morning: Paper Plane

Twice each day we scan our YouTube metrics as well as websites on the cutting edge of internet culture to discover the most buzzed about videos.

Paper Money	Show Me Where Ya Noms At	Typhoon Pedring	Plane in Bin

1. Blind Film Critic Tommy Edison continues his series explaining the everyday obstacles he encounters. As seen on VVVs.
2. The host of popular webshow "My Drunk Kitchen" makes a rap song. As seen on Laughing Squid.
3. A billboard collapsed Tuesday during the typhoon in Manila, Philippines. More video at CitizenTube.
4. Can this gentleman control a paper plane with his mind? As seen on Reddit.

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4 in the Afternoon: Neighbor S'more

Twice each day we scan our YouTube metrics as well as websites on the cutting edge of internet culture to discover the most buzzed about videos.

Flying Through a Mountain	Minecraft Neighbor	Epic S'More	Insane Office Escape

1. Wingsuit glider Jeb Corliss flies through a mountain cave in this Most Shared video.
2. A Trending short film about what it would be like to live next-door to a Minecraft character.
3. EpicMealTime's latest creation is a giant gross s'more. As seen on VVVs.
4. A wild, globally-popular music video for the song "Stampede" by Biting Elbows. As seen on Slash Film.

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Cold War of Cute Cats (or how I stopped worrying and learned to love adorable feline videos)

This post was authored by Bailey Johnson of CBSNews.com's The Feed for a YouTube Trends series exploring viral video phenomena.

We live in a brave new world of viral videos. Cute cats, once the sole domain of the U.S. and Japan, have gone global. We see a lot of videos over at The Feed, and we’ve been struck recently by the amount of content coming out of Russia. As with so many other things in the world today, America is losing its competitive edge. We cannot allow a viral video gap!

Seriously though, adorable pets are universal, and it’s great to watch what appears to be a viral renaissance taking place in the Motherland. According to YouTube Trends data, the number of videos on YouTube with the Russian words for 'cat' in the title uploaded in September is already double the number uploaded in September of 2010.

Did you see the incredible Spider Cat? So did 1.1 million other people.



This video is unusual in that the people are actually speaking Russian. (It’s also usual because that cat climbs up a freaking wall, but I digress.) Most of the pet clips we see from the Ruskies hit the viral sweet spot: they’re short, sweet, and (other than the sound of the animal stars) silent. Ignoring the Cyrillic in the titles, you’d never know where these videos came from.



Then again, maybe part of the renaissance is happening on this side of the Atlantic. Maybe those of us in the States are finally taking notice of the Russian phenomenon. This video of a cat having printer problems is similar to another video from 2008 that racked up 2.2 million views.



Whatever the case, it’s always funny seeing cats fall down, I mean, it’s great to see that the things that bind us together (watching cats fall down) outweigh the things that tear us apart. Pretty deep thought for a couple of cute cats, huh?

Bailey Johnson is an editor at CBSNews.com's The Feed. He spends a lot of time watching other people's pets.

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4 in the Morning: Lightsaber Slinky

Twice each day we scan our YouTube metrics as well as websites on the cutting edge of internet culture to discover the most buzzed about videos.

Lightsaber Fight	Terraced City	Someone Like You	Slinky Drop

1. Numerous videos were uploaded of what appears to be a light saber battle in New York City for which 1,000 people showed up. As seen on Gothamist.
2. Timelapse video of Amy Shackleton's unique painting technique. As seen on Gizmodo.
3. Singers Charlie Puth and Emily Luther enter the Perez Hilton cover contest. As seen on BuzzFeed.
4. Slow motion video of the phenomenon when someone drops a slinky. As seen on VVVs.

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Wall Street Protests, Arrests This Weekend

80 people were reportedly arrested over the weekend during Wall Street protests in which demonstrators occasionally got into physical altercations with police offers who were on the scene.

A search for videos tagged "wall street" in the past seven days will deliver thousands of results and some of the most-viewed and -shared clips of the weekend were footage shot on the street in New York City Saturday. We've collected a handful of those videos in this playlist below:

(Use the arrows to navigate between videos or watch them all here.)

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4 in the Afternoon: Sweat Balloon

Twice each day we scan our YouTube metrics as well as websites on the cutting edge of internet culture to discover the most buzzed about videos.

Sweat Interview	Thailand Flood	Balloon to the Face	Cardboard Warfare 2

1. This post-game interview with RCD Espanyol (Barcelona) soccer star Walter Pandiani has spread of Spain to the U.S., where receiving heavy sports-blog pickup. Other viewers advise that you skip forward once per minute keeping an eye on his shirt.
2. Flood video said to have been shot yesterday in the Lop Buri region of Thailand.
3. A new experiment in the "Smarter Every Day" series. As seen on BuzzFeed.
4. Last June's Cardboard Warfare from pwnisher drew 4.7 million views. Now, they're back with a 24 minute sequel that's one of the weekend's Most Shared videos.

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Moving Images from Space

One of the most popular trending videos of last week was this stunning footage compiled from photographs taken by the International Space Station of Earth at night. The images, which are made publicly available via NASA's website, were translated into video by yesterday2221 and that dazzling clip has now been seen over 4.7 million times in the past eight days, drawing as many as 1.7 million views from around the world last Monday.



The clip has since inspired a number of other space enthusiasts to create similar videos using NASA imagery of our planet. For example, here's a video depicting the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights).



NASA has posted these types of composite videos as well as other footage from the ISS in the past. Most notably, imagery of major storms affecting the United States:

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4 in the Morning: Mace Kicks

Twice each day we scan our YouTube metrics as well as websites on the cutting edge of internet culture to discover the most buzzed about videos.

Pumped Up Kicks	Wall Street Mace	Tiny Bear Fight	Backyard Bellagio

1. This performance by a dancer named Nonstop was one of the weekend's most popular videos.
2. One of our most-viewed videos of the weekend is this clip from the Occupy Wall Street protests in NYC, which appears to depict a group of penned female protestors being maced.
3. This video of a wrestling match between two baby bears captured at Yosemite was posted in July, but is just taking off. As seen on SayOMG.
4. HTH Pool Care posts this swimming pool recreation of the famed Las Vegas Bellagio fountain. As seen on Neatorama.

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Latest Trending Videos: Week of September 24

Emotional moments, tricycles, Ferraris, and beer : here are 10 of this week's top trending videos from YouTube Trends:

(Use the arrows to navigate between videos or watch them all here.)

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4 in the Afternoon: Biker Cereal

Twice each day we scan our YouTube metrics as well as websites on the cutting edge of internet culture to discover the most buzzed about videos.

Biker Prank	Father and Baby	Dubstep Cereal	Drawing Paper

1. Carlsberg stages a movie theater prank in Europe using a room full of tough-looking bikers. As seen on Buzzfeed.
2. A father, his son, and some piano. As seen on The Feed.
3. UK cereal manufacturer Weetabix capitalizes on the increasing popularity of dubstep. As seen on Videogum.
4. An instructional time-lapse from author/illustrator Mark Crilley. As seen on BoY.

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4 in the Morning: G Bro

Twice each day we scan our YouTube metrics as well as websites on the cutting edge of internet culture to discover the most buzzed about videos.

G	Reality Hits You Hard Bro	Stalin's Skyscraper	Watermelon Carving

1. Sesame Street tackles Glee in their latest alphabet parody. As seen on bwe.tv.
2. The latest viral clip from the Autotune the News team. As seen on VVVs.
3. Frightening video of a man climbing Red Gates Administrative Building in Moscow. As seen on Gizmodo.
4. The most unique of fruit-related skills. As seen on Daily Wh.at.

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Visualizing Your Questions to the GOP Candidates

Nearly 19,000 questions were submitted on YouTube for Thursday's Google and Fox News Republican Primary debate in Florida. More than 100,000 votes were cast to help determine the questions that will be asked of the candidates this evening.

We took those 19,000 questions, which were asked among nine varying categories, and analyzed the words people used when expressing their perspectives and concerns using a tool from Wordle.net. Here's the one for "Government Spending and Debt."

The other eight, as well as the graphic for all the questions, will be available on the Fox News debate channel.

More: See word clouds from your interview with President Obama from earlier this year.

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