This Week’s Trends: Fan Anthems, New Dances
January 21st, 2011 | Published in Youtube
Each weekday, we at YouTube Trends take a look at the most interesting videos and cultural phenomena on YouTube as they develop. We want take a moment to highlight some of the cool stuff we've come across recently:
Check back every day for the latest about what's trending on YouTube at: www.YouTube.com/Trends
Kevin Allocca, YouTube Trends Manager, recently watched "60 Second Fight Club"
- We discovered a new dance craze popping up in Taiwan called "Bobee."
- We tracked how the fan-anthem "Black and Yellow" as well as how parodies of that song have grown in popularity with the NFL playoffs kicking in.
- We enjoyed hip-hop from around the world.
- We collected reactions from comic book fans to the announcement of new Batman villains.
- We saw on-the-scene footage from the mudslides in Brazil as well as the unrest in the streets of Tunisia.
- We looked back at how the YouTube community responded in the week following the shooting in Tucson.
- And we examined how amateur weather reports were popping up in the southeast after a big winter storm. Among them was this tongue-in-cheek report that became one of the week's most-shared videos:
Check back every day for the latest about what's trending on YouTube at: www.YouTube.com/Trends
Kevin Allocca, YouTube Trends Manager, recently watched "60 Second Fight Club"