Viral

Viral is relative. A million views is ordinary for one channel and career-changing for another, so the honest reading is the multiple against your own median, and no absolute number qualifies.

What follows is the part creators are unprepared for. The audience arrives for one video, most of them with no particular interest in the rest of the channel, and the next upload lands back near the old baseline, which feels like failure when it is the average reasserting itself. Treat the spike as a door into the library: a pinned comment pointing somewhere useful, a strong end screen, and a follow-up on the same subject while the interest holds.