In the movie "Adaptation," Nicholas Cage said that writing is not about redoing or rehashing, it is a journey into the unknown.
Creating viral content works on a very similar premise. There are no set rules for creating viral content because it is different every time. If there were rules, then the same tricks would work again and again. When "Crazy Frog" went viral, its success prompted things such as "Sweet Chicken," and yet the Crazy Frog imitations didn't have the same success because the same ideas simply do not work twice.
Share This or You Will Die in 10 Days
– Try something very new
You have probably seen something similar to this statement on social media, here is a good example about a grandma. It is now better known as a spam post, and it is built to encourage people to share it. It usually involves a post with something inspirational or scary, and then claims the scary thing will get you or a nice thing will happen if you share the post. These posts went ultra viral when they were first introduced via e-mail spam, but these days people ignore them because it is an overused trick. |
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