If world filmography is the written history of cinema, are its living, breathing, viral folk art. The term "popular videos" today is vast. It includes:

In the 1920s, Soviet filmmaker Lev Kuleshov discovered that editing two unrelated shots together (a man’s blank face + a bowl of soup = hunger) creates a meaning that didn’t exist in either shot alone. Today, every TikTok "POV" video or meme format relies on the exact same principle. When a creator cuts from their worried face to a text message, they are unknowingly employing Kuleshov’s montage theory.

“Popular videos” today usually refers to: