• "We Are the World 25 for Haiti (YouTube Edition)" is a massively collaborativecrowdsourced charity video, involving 57 geographically distributed unsigned orindependent contributors, that was produced by Canadian singer-songwriter andYouTube personality Lisa Lavie to raise money for victims of 12 January 2010 Haiti earthquake.^[298] The video received repeated coverage on CNN,^[298] and the video's participants were collectively named ABC News "Persons of the Week" on U.S. national television by television journalist Diane Sawyer in March 2010.^[299]
• What What (In the Butt) – A viral music video set to a song about anal sex by gay recording artist Samwell. The video was posted on Valentine's Day 2007, and two weeks later had already been viewed 500,000 times.^[300] It was subsequently parodied on theSouth Park episode, "Canada on Strike", which poked fun at several other Internet memes and personalities.
• Wii Fit Girl – A video entitled "Why every guy should buy their girlfriend a Wii Fit" showing 25-year-old Lauren Bernat hula hooping with the fitness video game in only her T-shirt and panties. The video was viewed more than 10 million times on YouTube by September 2010, and was suspected as being a viral marketing plot because both Bernat, and her boyfriend Giovanny Gutierrez, who filmed the footage, work in advertising. Nintendo has since denied the claim that it was a marketing plot.^[301][302]
• Winnebago Man – A series of profane video outtakes first circulated underground on VHS tape before YouTube videos turned them into an online sensation. The reclusive Rebney is the subject of a feature film, Winnebago Man.^[303][304]
• Xtranormal – A website allowing users to create videos by scripting the dialog and choosing from a menu of camera angles and predesigned CGI characters and scenes. Though originally designed to be used to ease storyboard development for filmmakers, the site quickly became popular after videos made with the tool, including "iPhone 4 vs HTC Evo", became viral.^[305][306]
• YouTube Poop – Video mashups in which users deconstruct and piece together video for psychedelic or absurdist effect.^[307]
• Zangief Kid (a.k.a. "Little Zangief") – A video clip first seen on YouTube depicting a fight in school between two students, which begins with the smaller pupil punching the taller sixteen-year-old boy Casey Heynes, who in turn retaliates by lifting the boy upside down and slamming him on the ground. Casey has been nicknamed "The Zangief Kid" by many Internet users as the grappling move used closely resembles the Spinning Piledriver, the signature special move of the character Zangief from the Street Fightervideo game series.^[308]