'Tis the season for end-of-year roundups. Tuesday's list comes courtesy of YouTube, which collects the top 10 trending videos for an annual "rewind" each December.
Top honors for the 2014 list of videos (which must have been uploaded this year and took into account the videos' total views, likes and comments) went to a "giant mutant spider" prank, in which Polish YouTube trickster SA Wardega outfitted his dog in a spider costume.
The pup, looking like a giant tarantula, terrified bystanders with help from props SA set up. Two women stumble upon the "spider" eating a victim in an elevator. A guy who runs into fake body parts strung up by a giant web simply takes photos of the supposed gore -- until the mutant tarantula starts chasing him. Horrifying in person, of course, but hilarious for those of us safely ensconced behind our computer screens.
Rounding out the top 10 is a video decidedly different in tone: "10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman," a PSA for anti-harassment group Hollaback that features a woman dealing with incessant catcalls. The video spawned scores of parodies, but it also came under fire for not including white men.
Check out the full list of YouTube's top 10 trending videos for 2014, which garnered a total of more than 667 million views:
1. Mutant Giant Spider Dog (SA Wardega) by SA Wardega
2. Nike Football: Winner Stays. ft. Ronaldo, Neymar Jr., Rooney, Ibrahimović, Iniesta & more by Nike Football
3. FIRST KISS by Tatia PIlieva
4. The Voice IT | Serie 2 | Blind 2 | Suor Cristina Scuccia - #TEAMJ-AX by TheVoiceOf Italy
5. iPhone 6 Plus Bend Test by Unbox Therapy
6. Bars & Melody - Simon Cowell's Golden Buzzer act | Britain's Got Talent 2014 by Britain's Got Talent
7. Budweiser Super Bowl XLVIII Commercial -- "Puppy Love" by Budweiser
8. Devil Baby Attack by DevilsDueNYC
9. Goku vs Superman. Epic Rap Battles of History Season 3. by ERB
10. 10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman by Street HarassmentVideo