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Baby Shark Dance | #babyshark Most Viewed Video | Animal Songs | PINKFONG Songs for Children

Baby Shark - Pinkfong Kids’ Songs & StoriesCited 6× on HN, 2018–2026
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music · general · evergreen · 2018–2026 on HN

The Pinkfong Baby Shark Dance children's song video, one of the most viewed videos on YouTube.

Mentioned mainly as a statistic or joke about being the most watched video in history.

6 comments from Hacker News

@breve2026-05 · in “Dav2d”

When you host videos with near 17 billion views you're going to want to stream those videos in as few bits as possible: ▶ this video That extra 25% becomes worth it. Nothing will become obsolete. AV1 will stick around for a long time. And YouTube still does H.264 encodes to support old devices.

@bombcar2023-01 · in “The Disappearance of the Hit-Driven Business Model”

Disney+ is for kids I’d say. The absolute wealth of that back catalog is insane. However they’re hard pressed at the bottom by YouTube two hour repeat videos of Baby Shark (the absolute most watched video in history - ▶ this video - 12 billion )

@bombcar2022-10 · in “Reality is just a game now”

The "customized feed for you" is not as unique as you'd expect. It basically is the algorithm fitting you into some number of buckets and then serving you that content. And speaking of shared experiences, ▶ this video has been watched 11 billion times. However, I suspect 10 billion of those may be my kids ...

@gnull2022-09 · in “An X11 apologist tries Wayland”

Problem is horrible lags, and I mean just program working bad, not latency. I tried doing it with X11 now, and I gave up before I could even type "youtube" to address bar. Then I tried doing ssh -X remote firefox ▶ this video and it wasn't better. I saw the new firefox window, but it stayed unresponsive. And I bet part of the problem is due to Youtube (and browser generally) involving some non-trivial drawing technologies, rendering a video is not like showing a GTK interface.

@PopeDotNinja2020-08 · in “Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in December”

I was wondering when this would happen. YouTube Music sucks so bad. They mix in all of my liked videos w/ into my music. Just because I upvoted Baby Shark Dance [1] doesn't mean I want it in my effin' music rotation. Spotify is annoying because the radio stations are garbage & I can't (or haven't yet figured out how to) downvote music. [1] ▶ this video