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A trillion YouTube views in 2011

This year on YouTube, we collectively watched a trillion videos. Which was the most popular?

This final note today — which I believe qualifies as this week’s sign the apocalypse is upon us.

My colleague John Moe noted this morning that we — collectively — watched a trillion YouTube videos this year. One trillion. That’s 140 videos for every person on the planet — if all of us actually watched videos.

But here’s the thing.  Of those thousand billion videos, this one — this one — was the most watched:

Rebecca Black. “Friday.”

I’m a little embarrased for us, actually.

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