What’s hot like Hansel on YouTube?

  • Popular media as a muse: inspired by big media events, like the Barbie movie (aka newsjack mass culture moments)
  • The Rise of the Rizz: virality via participation in a viral trend (aka newsjacking viral youth movements)
  • Skibidi Toilet: short-form narrative content that leaves open space for the viewer to fill the blanks (basically video as poetry)
  • Permission to flex: personality types (or horoscopes) as vehicle for self-sharing without feeling self-promotional
  • Chess: ♟️ (or, put a new twist on something old)

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