Yes, and gangnam style is the most viewed youtube clip ever.
Daily mail is not bad because of politics but because it's exploitative, sensationalist, devoid of empathy and does absolutely _anything_ to get a click/view/reader. It stands for nothing, there are no standards, nothing is too low and no story too sensitive to bulldoze.
My Dad always used to point out that it was the only paper that campaigned for Stephen Lawrence to bring to light institutional racism in the Met Police.
Not a minor issue by any means, absurdly here's a link to the Guardian write up on it.
It did that because a relative of Lawrence knew Dacre (the editor) having been employed as a tradesman by him.
Given the near-racist tone of some of their other coverage of black crime in London, I put this one in the "oh I don't mean you, I know you, you're fine, it's all the other ones I have a problem with" corner.
gangnam style is a deeply insightful (though i don't know myself if it is accurate) critique of korean culture. it's not necessarily popular because it's insightful, but definitely a bad analogy in your case
Daily mail is not bad because of politics but because it's exploitative, sensationalist, devoid of empathy and does absolutely _anything_ to get a click/view/reader. It stands for nothing, there are no standards, nothing is too low and no story too sensitive to bulldoze.