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Across the Country: What Final Four Fans are Watching

This weekend marks NCAA basketball's Final Four, the semifinal and final for men's college basketball in the United States. The NCAA tournament is a basketball lover's dream, and it continues to draw out enthusiasm and passion from college sports fans nationwide.

So its no surprise that some of the most-shared and -viewed videos in the hometowns of many Final Four teams are basketball related. We break down a handful below:

TOPEKA:
Ultimate Kansas Fan		LOUISVILLE:
That Cardinal doesn't like this UK fan's truck

LEXINGTON:
Bluegrass in the Big Easy		COLUMBUS:
Pre-Final Four press conference


Interestingly, the state of Ohio is enthralled this week not just with Ohio State videos. The most-shared clip in Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Columbus is this letter to the Browns football team.

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Across the Country: College Spirit

We dug through data from cities across the U.S. today to find some of the current Most Shared and Most Viewed local clips:

MINNEAPOLIS:
Minnesota's management school organized a holiday flashmob		OKLAHOMA CITY:
OSU and OU bands unite for a stirring performance of "Amazing Grace" following the women's basketball tragedy

SAN FRANCISCO:
Another argument/angle on the UC Davis pepper-spray incident		NEW ORELANS:
The first LSU National Championship game song


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Most Shared in Wisconsin: 'Packer Rock Anthem'

The parody video of the week -- if you live in Wisconsin -- is this Green Bay Packer's version of the LMFAO hit "Party Rock Anthem." The clip has over 200,000 views and is the most shared video in the state's largest cities.



It wasn't until the playoffs that we saw last season's "Packer Anthems" hit the web, a time when we saw many "Black and Yellow" song parodies making the rounds among football fans.
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Big in Iowa: Card Stunt

The top Trending videos today in Iowa all come from a spectacle that was captured at the University of Iowa's Kinnick Stadium Saturday. Specifically, the display put on during the national anthem by spectators at the Iowa-Northwestern game, in which cards were held up to create a giant flag around the crowd. One clip from up in a skybox, quickly spread to our national Most-Shared list:



High quality videos were also posted on YouTube by the Big Ten Network and Go Hawks and other fan clips have also been spreading. Another video that's been popular in that state is this timelapse of the game, which also depicts the card stunt:
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Across the Country: College Sports Craziness

In our roundup this week of regionally popular college sports videos this week, there's a clear top two, thought they're from two different sports.

KENTUCKY:
Kentucky basketball fans make a mad dash for Final Four lottery tickets		OKLAHOMA:
Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy gets down in the locker room


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College Football Videos: 'I'm Not a BYU Guy!'

College football season is now well under way in the United States and, naturally, its college football-related videos that are starting rise in popularity across our Trends Dashboard. In particular, we dug into the heavily-viewed videos in some of the U.S.'s biggest college towns to see what fans were sharing three weeks into the football year.

Right now, this clip is one of the Most Shared in Salt Lake City today. It's said to be captured by a pair of amused parents on Friday, the day before the famed "Holy War" game between BYU and the University of Utah:



The clip is reminiscent of this funny and widely-seen video from last fall, which was very popular in the state of Alabama. It was posted exactly one year ago today:



Meanwhile, we're also starting to see some silly tailgating antics spread as well among college football fans. These videos were said to have been captured over the weekend at University of Michigan and University of Kentucky tailgates:
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More Videos of the Quake on Camera

As we've already outlined, there was an large reaction to yesterday's east coast earthquake that immediately played out on YouTube in the form of a spike in search interest and an influx of reaction and caught-on-camera videos. Today, more footage accidentally capturing the quake is spreading around the northeast United States.

We examined the most-viewed and most-shared videos in the major cities affected by the earthquake and collected a few more videos of it by people and production crews that just happen to have their cameras rolling when it struck.



Several more videos plus other reactions are available here.

So far, the most popular video to come out of the event was this clip -- which was in our post yesterday -- from a parking lot in Tyson's Corner, Virginia depicting what appears to be one of the few reported instances of major damage from the quake. It's been seen over 250,000 times so far and is among the most-shared and most-viewed videos nationally.
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Big in Ohio: Machine Gun Kelly Flash Mob

We've detailed all sorts of flash mobs here at YouTube Trends and one that was staged this weekend is drawing lots of negative attention in the surrounding area. 21-year-old rapper Machine Gun Kelly reportedly organized one at a mall in Strongville, Ohio that resulted in him being brought in by police in hand cuffs Saturday.

The video Kelly posted to his channel Sunday is currently the most-viewed video in nearby Cleveland as well as in Columbus and Cincinnati. It's been seen over 100,000 times since.



Several other videos of the incident are also among the Most Shared today in Cleveland, including this one, which seems to give a most up-close view of the arrest.
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Across the Country: Unusual Celebrations

We dug through data from cities across the U.S. today to find some of the current Most Shared and Most Viewed local clips:

NEW ORLEANS:
Planking 2.0		HONOLULU:
Hawaiian Airlines surprise hula

BOSTON:
A group of friends tribute a fallen soldier/friend		INDIANAPOLIS:
Demolition derby wedding


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