what is the meaning "viralizó"

Question

Hola me ayuda por favor.

Hace una semana, durante el despegue de la nave LADEE, la agencia espacial tomó esta imagen que viralizó hace unos días en su recién inaugurada cuenta de Instagram.

¡no puedo buscar esta palabra en dictionary! ¿viralizó es el typo ?

No such word. - rac1, Sep 21, 2013

I withdraw my previous comment. Relaxingcup knows his stuff. :) - rac1, Sep 21, 2013

Answer 1

[Revise my English]
Viralizarse = hacerse viral. (go viral).
Viralizó = got went viral. (it became very popular by circulating quickly from person to person, especially through the Internet)

Viralizar is a quite new expression related to the media and new technologies. I'll not be surprised if the RAE includes this verb officially in the dictionary in a couple of years. English speakers don't need it to be made official, that's why the English language is so dynamic.

Viralizar must be conjugated the same way as other -ar verbs. Like alzar. Viralizó is a conjugated form of that verb.

I've heard and read these lately:

• Se ha hecho viral = It became viral = It went viral. El video de la candidatura española para los Juegos Olímpico se ha hecho viral. - The video of the Spanish Olympic Games candidacy went viral.

• Viralizarse = hacerse viral = to go viral. El video se viralizó y recibió más de 100.000 visitas en YouTube en tan solo 24 horas. - The video went viral and got over 100.000 hits on YouTube in only 24 hours.

• Viral (adjective). Es un video (muy) viral, se ha extendido en cuestión de un día. - It is a (very) viral video, it has spread in no more than a day.

You have to imagine how a virus is spread. You read a piece of news or something funny on the Internet and you share it via Twitter or Google+ with all your circles/friends. Your friend finds it funny and does the same thing. It spreads exponentially.

Muchas gracias, I had no idea. :) - rac1, Sep 21, 2013

That was going to be my guess. At least pretty much all the new verbs are regular, -ar ones, like googlear, shazamear etc etc. - rogspax, Sep 21, 2013

Btw, we say ¨goes viral¨ or in the past tense ¨went viral¨ - rogspax, Sep 21, 2013

I thought of viral, but I still didn't get it. jeje - rac1, Sep 21, 2013

Thank you very much RelaxingCup, your helping is very useful. - baonguyen5515, Sep 22, 2013

I've searched in RAE, and this is what I'v found: " La palabra Viralizar no está registrada en el Diccionario. Las que se muestran a continuación tienen formas con una escritura cercana." - baonguyen5515, Sep 22, 2013

Thank rogspax, I known more words, googlear is easy to get, but shazamear is a new headache. :-) - baonguyen5515, Sep 22, 2013

Answer 2

Great answer RelaxingCup,

Can you use it in an example sentence for us please?

Would ¨The video went viral¨ simply be ¨El video viralizó¨ ?

My brain wants to make it reflexive for some reason (se viralizó).

(Yes, I realize this probably reflects poorly on my brain).

Thanks.

Roger

I've just added some examples. - RelaxingCup, Sep 21, 2013

Reflexive is okay, I think that shows you're on the right path. Because "it went viral" = "it became viral". Become = volverse, convertirse, hacerse... reflexive 100% - RelaxingCup, Sep 21, 2013

I would say "se viralizó" or "viralizó". As you know, the difference lies in who we make responsible of the action of 'go viral'. - RelaxingCup, Sep 21, 2013

Answer 3

This is all I could find: viralizo

Then it isn't a tipo, but what it means? - baonguyen5515, Sep 21, 2013