Viral videos purportedly show multiple buildings damaged and people fleeing after a powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck Colombia.

Viral videos have evolved far beyond internet novelty. In 2025, short-form content dominated how people consumed entertainment, commentary and even ideas about identity and success. According to ...

Murray is a Forbes news reporter covering entertainment trends. Millions of TikTok users in recent weeks have heard—repeatedly—a British woman declare “nothing beats a Jet2 holiday,” a viral sound ...

Last week, a video began circulating that purported to show a man wearing a “Hot Girls for Zohran” T-shirt harassing two Jewish women in a New York City subway station. The 18-second clip shows him ...

At the beginning of the year, few people knew who Clavicular was. By February, the 19-year-old looksmaxxing (young men who maximize their physical appearance, sometimes through extreme measures) ...

When news broke last week that US political influencer Charlie Kirk had been shot at an event at Utah Valley University, millions of people around the world were first alerted to it by social media ...

AI-generated video has gotten way too good. Scary good, actually. Because of that, our feeds are flooded with suspiciously perfect clips — like impossibly cute animals bouncing on trampolines — ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. John Brandon covers social media trends. @johnbrandonmn The question to answer right away is: What does it mean to go viral on ...

Does Punch know he's the only thing holding the world together right now? Credit: David Mareuil / Anadolu via Getty Images Punch, the baby macaque abandoned by his mother, is the breakout star of 2026 ...