Do you know Mr. Trololo? This 1976 Soviet TV clip of the Russian singer Eduard Khil went viral in 2010, giving international fame to the man who had enjoyed 1960s / 1970s popularity behind the Iron Curtain (and in front of psychedelic curtains, apparently). Clearly this performance was never intended to become a viral video (those didn’t exist back then), just showing that you can’t “make” viral: the crowd mentality determines what will become viral, and that’s very hard to predict. I wonder what Khil thought of his viral fame, which he experienced for the last couple years of his life before passing away just a few months ago in June 2012. No. Mo. Trololo. 🙁
For those who really want to know Mr. Trololo, watch this (be sure to go to 1:10):
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