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NARRATOR: Gangnam style.
Trampoline fails.
Rebecca Black.
Inventing, producing, and spreading
every single viral video that has ever
been popular on the web.
It's what we do here.
Since 2005, YouTube has been behind the scenes
of all your favorite video trends, meticulously crafting
every single moment of every viral video ever.
And this year, we're doing it even bigger.
We're about to unveil the exciting viral video
memes we have planned for 2014.
And for the first time ever, we're
going outside YouTube's writing staff
to let the public come up with their own meme ideas.
Stick around to find out how.
So let's get to it.
Here are YouTube's video trends for 2014,
the viral videos you and your friends
won't be able to stop talking about.
First up, clocking.
DYLAN SINGH: We're really excited about this one.
Basically clocking is when people go somewhere and film
themselves holding up their arms like they're hands on a clock
and slowly move them around to correspond with the time.
So people around you are like, what?
See, the longer you stand there in place,
the funnier and cooler it is.
PER DE GRAAF: It's going to be even bigger than planking.
NARRATOR: Big changes, bold moves.
This year there's something for everyone to love.
Set up a ribbon line for a stranger
and cheer for them when they break through it
with finish lining.
Butter Fails, our newest fail, will showcase YouTube users
hilariously ruining their bread when
attempting to spread cold butter on it.
And of course Baby Shaming, where you publicly
mock your baby for its lack of motor
skills and general abilities.
MALE SPEAKER: This dumb baby can't read.
I have to take care of it all the time.
NARRATOR: And how about a wacky foreign music
video with an iconic dance attached to it?
Oh yeah, we've got that.
It's called the Glub Glub Water Dance.
Move over, Gangnam Style.
It's time to get wet.
KUNG PAO O'MALLEY: This dance is so weird and fun to do,
and the song is in another language,
so it's going to be a hit.
The writers and musicians at YouTube-- so talented.
NARRATOR: But that's not all.
Get ready for Elaborate Divorces, where people
use intricate flash mobs to divorce their spouses;
Bun Nutting, where you feed peanuts to strangers' hair buns;
and of course, Kissing Dad.
SAMANTHA: Hi, I'm Samantha, and I'm going to kiss my dad.
Got you, Dad!
MALE SPEAKER: YouTube, watch me kiss my dad.
MALE SPEAKER: I kissed my dad!
[SHOUTING]
NARRATOR: You won't be able to go anywhere this year
without hearing young people talk about kissing their dads.
And later this year, YouTube will roll out
Gettysburg Addressing, Cake Bumping, Nap Cams, Geology,
Wolf Mask T-Ball, the Harlem Shake again,
and $1,000 Gifting.
But we don't want to let our meme inventors have
all the fun.
For the first time in YouTube history,
we're getting viral video ideas from you, the users.
If you have an idea for a weird thing people would enjoy
copying, tweet it at us with the hashtag #NewTrends.
If we like your idea, it could become an official YouTube
meme.
Or click here, here, and here to learn
more about our favorite upcoming trends,
including how to do them yourself.
Have fun, and thanks for watching YouTube.