Latest Trending Videos: The Week of Dec 3

Frisbees, paint, bicycles, and dogs with hands: here are 12 of this week’s top trending videos from YouTube Trends:

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Speech by Son of Gay Parents Goes Viral Twice

Earlier this year, a college student named Zach Wahls delivered a touching speech in the Iowa legislature. The video was featured here on Trends and saw a small viral surge of just over half a million views.

But now it’s gone viral again and, this time, the surge is not so small.

Another version of the clip suddenly skyrocketed in popularity, and it’s been seen roughly 11 million times in the past 3 days. Here’s a chart of combined views for the video:

So how’d it happen? It seems much of the attention was driven from a link on Reddit, and, even moreso, from a post on Moveon.org from Wednesday. The video drawing significant share traffic.

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Bye Bye Movember

Today marks the start of December, which means that everyone who grew facial hair for charities focusing on men’s health.

We’ve been seeing hundreds of “Movember-ending” videos posted in the past 24 hours in which men of all ages have filmed themselves shaving off their ‘staches, beards, and goatees:

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Rather expectedly, we’re also seeing mustache time-lapses from the more photographically dedicated:

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4 in the Afternoon: JetFrisbee

Twice each day we scan our YouTube metrics as well as websites on the cutting edge of internet culture to discover the most buzzed about videos.

	Jetman with Jets

1. Frisbee master Brodie Smith tells a boat to go long. As seen on CBS News.
2. Yves “Jetman” Rossy flies with two jets above the Swiss Alps. As seen on Devour.
3. A unique short film on our Most Viewed list from Corridor Digital.
4. This 8th Grader’s funny PSA was posted last year, but is just finding a new audience. As seen on HuffPost.

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Thrilling Videos of Unusual Coasters

There are plenty of popular roller coaster videos on YouTube; some are of the riders and some are of the rides themselves. Recently, a very specific kind of roller coaster, the single-rail alpine coaster, has become particularly widely-spread.

A little over a week ago, David Ellis posted a video of him riding one in Austria in which he decided not to touch the breaks. It’s been seen roughly 3 million times since.

Meanwhile, this 3 year old video — also from Mieders, Austria — suddenly spiked in popularity as well:

Not all popular videos are of the single-rail variety, of course. Earlier this year, thrillseekers may recall this POV video going viral; it was a first look at Japan’s Takabisha, the world’s new steepest roller coaster:

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