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Rule #1 of online video: Make it shorter dammit. Which makes this .01-second video the best YouTube clip ever. It's a stunt by Charles Trippy, an attention addict (he proposed to his girlfriend on a hot air balloon and filmed it) and one of YouTube's most-watched creators. Like the million-dollar homepage or "Hot or Not," the idea of "The Shortest Video Ever on YouTube" is so stupidly simple that by the time you wish you hadn't clicked it, it's already over. Click through for your own moment of impotent regret.

Ten bucks says this clip lands a million views and inspires a loathsome series of microsecond "virals."