The term is quite over used in my opinion, it is very often used in hyperbole. Whether it is in terms of popularity and driving traffic to a website or a threat said to break the Internet, it doesn’t seem to live up to the meaning of the term.

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      9 months ago

      It was a fairly reasonable guess back when they designed it, especially since you need an account to like a video.

      That would mean close to 1/3 (~33%) of the world’s population "like"d the video.

      Nowadays it’s only about 1/4 of the world’s population (25% for those who don’t get fractions).

      It’d take massive amounts of bots to like a video that many times, and what would be the point?

      Of course, they probably never imagined they’d scale quite this much.