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YouTube reveals its top trending gaming videos in 2015, and on a list with some true giants of the industry, the most popular video is quite the surprise.
YouTube has released its top trending videos for Ireland in 2015, with the freakish group of videos ranging from big brand advertising campaigns to a really annoying sweet-eating video. Clash of Clans: Revenge (Official Super Bowl TV Commercial)3. That’s pretty good going for a single ad. And the craze has endured: The video has more than 115 million views. The video cuts between live-action footage of actor Liam Neeson and the trademark animated style seen in other ads for the game, and has clocked up 83.5m views since February. A 6ft man climbs into a 6ft water balloon and the inevitable burst is filmed in painfully but hilariously slow-motion.
This was the year people did the Whip and Nae Nae, that Justin Bieber sang Carpool Karaoke with James Corden, and that a police officer learned how to “Shake It Off”. 40 million of you couldn’t.
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Collectively these videos have hundreds of millions of views from creators, with more than 10 million cumulative subscribers. YouTube’s list of their highest trending gaming videos reflects the big year the video game industry had, featuring the aforementioned titles alongside some staples like the Pokemon and Grand Theft Auto franchises.
