Going Viral: a look under the hood of the internet Part 3: Chicken soup for the internet soul: seeking a respite on the information highwayIn this report 08 Information overload Introduction 14 18 An oasis on the internet highway The power of positivity Think about the best thing you saw on the internet today. Maybe it was a goofy dance video, a cute animal gif, or even a touching story about report we looked at the what, dig- call it the information highway for strangers helping each other. This is the focus of the third and last part of our research series on inter- net culture with GWI. In our first so as we end up spending more and more of our time online, where there can be a lot of stressors. They don’t 22 Your one million closest friends 26 Why does this matter? ging into how memes, gifs, videos, and other parts of internet lan- guage have become so compelling. In the second report we focused on nothing. Whatever it might be, there’s a strong likelihood that it made you feel, in some way, good. This is the the who, pulling back the curtain to content and communities in