The explosively silly, manically paced music video “Gangnam Style” from South Korea has been getting about three million views a day on . Youtube. The company’s trends manager, Kevin Allocca, said yes, Korean pop — K-Pop — is big, which we’ve talked about before.
But Allocca also brought up educational and science videos as major trends. Really.
“Educational videos have been viewed seventy percent more this summer than last summer,” he says, citing the popularity of entire channels including Minute Physics and ASAPScience, as well as science star Bill Nye. Nye, Allocca says, happens to be one of the top rising searches on Youtube. That’s partly because of a recent video in which Nye provocatively suggested to creationists that they refrain from teaching their kids to deny evolution.
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