Trending This Week: A Celebrity Supergroup for Ebola

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With temps turning arctic (at least at YouTube Trends HQ) and the holidays careening ‘round the corner, might we suggest curling up by the hearth with a steaming mug of viral videos? This week on the Spotlight channel, we heard the moving voices and vlogs of the transgender community and unearthed the incredibly bizarre, fascinating ASMR phenomenon. And here’s...

Trending This Week: Taylor Swift, Plus the Saddest, Sweetest Video We’ve Ever Seen

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This week on the Spotlight channel, we bought whatever these fake commercials are selling and feted Movember’s finest moustaches. And here’s what else bedecked our upper lip:Taylor Swift - Blank SpaceWhile a Swift hit is hardly @breakingnews here at YouTube, we’d be remiss not to mention the week’s single biggest kahuna. Bolstered by a surprise release and a tantalizing...

Trending This Week: Christmas Penguins and Kimmel’s Kids

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This week on the Spotlight channel, we bugged out over kids who got moves, paid tribute to a guy who only gets cooler and more relevant as time goes on (Bill Murray), and rounded up some captivating, try-this-at-home magic tricks. And here’s what waddled in and stole our hearts this week:Jimmy Kimmel - YouTube Challenge - I Told My...

Trending This Week: Catcalls, Ten Second Songs, and PewDiePie

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Halloween is one of YouTube’s favorite holidays, and this year on the Spotlight channel, we celebrated with some of our hallow’ed traditions: cool DIY costumes and scaring the heck out of people. This week was also doubly special as we celebrated the birthdays of two of YouTube’s greatest raisons d’etre: the Internet and Katy Perry. Street Harassment Video -...

Trending This Week: Nun Covers 'Like a Virgin'

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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s meme? This week’s vid crop was so bountiful as to make us forget that over here at YouTube Trends HQ, winter is coming. On the Spotlight channel, we tackled some of our favorite subjects: tattoos, feelings, and famous pets.And here’s what else brought sunshine to our pallid, computer-nerd complexions: Sister Cristina -...

Trending This Week: Audacious Adi

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Welcome back to YouTube Trends HQ, your unofficial sherpas through the mountains of online video. This week on the Spotlight channel, we went back to shop class, devoted a day to nature’s underdogs, and celebrated people revealing their true selves.And when we weren’t putting the final touches on our Apparently Kid costumes, we were unearthing the following valedictorians of the viral video...

Trending This Week: God Only Knows

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This week on the Spotlight channel, we fully bugged out over hyperlapses and drone cinema and non-committedly declared 10 cover songs that are (maybe kinda sorta) better than the original.And here’s what else filled our viral horn of plenty: CompassionChoices - The Brittany Maynard Fund29-year-old Brittany Maynard is planning to die next month. This incredibly affecting piece, which documents...