YouTube Videos That Moved the World

Bangalore: “True, This! Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword,” Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote back in 1839 for his play Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy and it stood true for years. While this metonymy adage proved to be true over years as Pen has rewritten the fate of many, the Jasmine Revolution and the following Arab uprising has shown us the power of social media, which many term is the mightiest one today. The shocking videos ruled the media around the world which shook the human conscious and support poured in from all over the world. Youtube has become the modern forum of representation, reflection, and publication of works, thoughts and social causes online. There are about 60 hours of video uploaded every minute or one hour of video uploaded to YouTube every second. Over 4 billion videos are viewed a day and over 800 million unique users visit YouTube each month. The video sharing website, localized in 39 countries and across 54 languages, had more than 1 trillion views or almost 140 views for every person on Earth in 2011. Here are the top Youtube videos that went viral listed out by the Hindustan Times.

1. Kony 2012

Promoting the 'Stop Kony' movement, this film Kony 2012 was created by a not-for-profit organization called Invisible Children. The organization works towards spreading awareness about the activities of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Central Africa and its leader Joseph Kony. The group is involved in abductions and abuse of children, and forcing them to serve child-sex slaves and child soldiers. The 30-minute video has around 79 million views on YouTube now.