'How Animals Eat Their Food' unveiled as Britain's top YouTube video clip of 2013

 
A man pretends to eat like a flamingo in the top YouTube clip viewed 28m times
11 December 2013

A messy comedy skit showing actors demonstrating how different animal species - including, alligators, flamingos and kangaroos - would eat at a dining table has been named Britain’s biggest YouTube sensation of the year.

The video, called How Animals Eat Their Food and created by MisterEpicMann, has been viewed, shared and tweeted by UK based Internet users more times than any other, according to a top ten compiled by YouTube.

Second place goes to My Wedding Speech in which nervous groom Tom Fletcher of boyband McFly sings his thankyous to his wedding guests.

Other hugely popular clips included Tom Daley’s “Somthing I want to say” message in which he revealed he was dating another man, and Britain’s Got Talent star Francine Lewis impressing judges with her impressions of celebrities such as Katie Price and Cheryl Cole.

The top YouTube music video of 2013 was “La La La” by Watford’s Shahid Khan - better known as Naughty Boy. Korean sensation, PSY, who topped the chart last year with Gangnam Style, was second wit his anthem ‘Gentleman’.

Two notorious videos from American singer Miley Cyrus - to her songs Wrecking Ball and We Can’t Stop - were in fourth and fifth place.

Kevin Allocca, head of culture and trends at YouTube said: “As 2013 comes to a close, these are some of the videos, channels, and moments that shaped our year. While each annual list is unpredictable, trending videos just get bigger each year. And with 80 per cent of all views on YouTube coming from outside the U.S., the global community is driving pop culture unlike ever before.“

The top 10 YouTube videos of 2013

1. How Animals Eat Their Food - MisterEpicMann

2. My Wedding Speech - Tom Fletcher from McFly

3. Attraction perform their stunning shadow act - week 1 auditions, Britain's Got Talent 2013

4. Will & Jaden Smith, DJ Jazzy Jeff and Alfonso Ribeiro Rap! - The Graham Norton Show, BBC One

5. asdfmovie6

6. Harlem Shake (original army edition)

7. Tom Daley: Something I want to say

8. Francine Lewis with her many impressions - week 2 auditions, Britain's Got Talent 2013

9. PEOPLE ARE AWESOME 2013 (Hadouken! - Levitate)

10. Learn the Alphabet with Peppa Pig!

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