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Baby Shark - Pinkfong Kids’ Songs & Stories · 17.5B views · 2016-06-17 · 2:17

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Overview

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

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

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2018–2026

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breve · 2026-05 · Reference

When you host videos with near 17 billion views you're going to want to stream those videos in as few bits as possible: [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.

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bombcar · 2023-01 · Reference

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 - [VIDEO] - 12 billion )

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bombcar · 2022-10 · Joke / meme

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, [VIDEO] has been watched 11 billion times. However, I suspect 10 billion of those may be my kids ...

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