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Friday, June 3, 2011digital mediamedia

Guardian Viral Video Chart: Cat mom hugs baby kitten, BMX backflips and Gil Scott-Heron

There's nothing like a cute animal or baby video to get the internet abuzz, and this week is no exception. This clip of a mother cat hugging her kitten has attracted almost 19m views, and it's not difficult to see why. But how on earth could it have got 3,352 dislikes? In total contrast, this week's other standout video features an incredible stunt on a BMX bike – a triple backflip . New Zealand rider Jed Mildon apparently trained for three months to perfect the jump. If you're in the mood for more stunts, you also can watch a car break the world record for a distance jump in a four-wheeled vehicle – 332 feet, to be exact. Finally, we don't usually feature music videos, but it's worth checking out Gil Scott-Heron's classic The Revolution Will Not Be Televised . There are numerous other tunes that could have featured – The Bottle , Home is Where the Hatred Is , It's Your World and I'm New Here among them – but this one is going viral as bloggers pay tribute to the poet and performer who died last week. Guardian Viral Video Chart. Compiled by Unruly Media and edited by Dugald 1 Cat mom hugs baby kitten Cute overload. 2 Indignats | Desallotjament de la Plaça Catalunya Spanish police take a robust approach to clearing protesters from Barcelona's Plaça Catalunya. 3 Building "Windows 8" - Video #1 Demo of Microsoft's latest user interface. 4 World First BMX Triple Backflip Truly awesome. But Chuck Norris did it first. 5 Team Hot Wheels - The Yellow Driver's World Record Jump Basically the above. But in a car – and without the backflips. 6 Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Scott-Heron shows why he's been described as the "godfather of rap". 7 Introducing the +1 Button Google's rival to Facebook's "Like" button explained. 8 6 year old skateboarder Asher Bradshaw at Venice Beach Skatepark Could be the next Tony Hawk before he hits 10. 9 Will It Blend? - Sonim XP3300 Force Mobile miraculously survives the "Magimix on steroids" almost intact. 10 Baaa They shouldn't have eaten those GMO soy beans. Just weird. Source: Viral Video Chart . Compiled from data gathered at 18:00 on 2 June 2011. The Viral Video Chart is currently based on a count of the embedded videos and links on approximately 2m blogs, as well as Facebook and Twitter.

Source: The Guardian ↗

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