Frances Perraudin 

Viral Video Chart: Kim Jong-un, Weird Al and sperm whales

Kim Jong-un breakdances with Obama, Weird Al sings about word crimes and a couple make the mistake of trying to kayak over a sperm whale
  
  

Kim Jong-un: Fat Guy Number 3

Our first video this week shows Kim Jong-un breakdancing with Obama and running through a field hand-in-hand with Osama bin Laden and, apparently, the North Koreans aren't happy about it. Our choice for number one viral video, Kim Jong-un: Fat Guy Number 3, was uploaded to the Chinese video-sharing site Tencent, where it's been watched more than 55m times.

Meanwhile, Weird Al Yankovic has hit out at the semi-illiterate among us with a video called Word Crimes, a parody of Robin Thicke's controversial anthem Blurred Lines (no, we're not going to link to it).

A video of an unidentified groovy granddad was posted on Facebook from somewhere in Peru and shows an old man throwing down his walking sticks to get down and dirty to some 50s classics. It is now everywhere and has, predictably, been remixed with some questionable music.

Elsewhere, two kayakers near the coastal city of Puerto Madryn in Argentina get a little too close to a sperm whale, the largest toothed predator, and are lifted on to its back. We're not sure, but the resulting video is perhaps too amazing to be true.

In other news, two newborn twins have their first conversation; a teeny weeny hedgehog gets thrown a teeny weeny birthday party (complete with teeny weeny cake); and a remorseful dog apologises to his newborn baby pal for stealing its toy.

Other weird and wonderful things caught on camera include: a mother and son performing a wedding dance with a difference; a mashup of the film Frozen and the hit TV show Orange is the new black from Patreon animation, which imagines Disney's princesses in prison; finally, YouTube tech guru Marques Brownlee shows us just how amazing the iPhone's new sapphire crystal display is.

It's been a good week for procrastination.


1. Kim Jong-un: Fat Guy Number 3

Introducing North Korea's supreme leader

2. 'Weird Al''s word crimes

"You'll learn the definitions of nouns and prepositions."

3. Dancing granddad

Forever young

4. Close encounter with a sperm whale

A little pick-me-up

5. New-born twins chat for first time

Baby talk

6. Tiny birthday for tiny hedgehog

Tiny hedgehog eats tiny cake with tiny friends

7. Dog apologises to baby

Baby accepts apology

8. Mother and son perform epic wedding dance

Like mother, like son

9. Frozen is the new Black

Disney princesses in the slammer

10. iPhone 6's saphire crystal display

Unbreakable

 

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