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The top three reasons? To laugh, learn a new skill or to stay informed about what was happening around the world in 2020.
The year香蕉视频直播檚 top video certainly reflects the abundance of time that many Canadians had as they locked down, isolated and tried to get through the pandemic.
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That video, recorded by former NASA engineer Mark Rober, has had more than 50 million views since it was posted near the end of May.
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The second video on the list of trending ones was, perhaps to no surprise to many, about gaming.
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But while Canadians were watching a lot more videos, they were also trying to not spend their whole year on their couches, and no YouTube creator demonstrates that more than MadFit, whose channel grew exponentially in 2020.
Also known as Maddie Lymburner, the Ontario-based creator got people moving, grooving and doing their squats in 2020.
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And as the pandemic continues for its ninth month, Murji said there香蕉视频直播檚 been a bit of a shift in the videos blowing up on YouTube.
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