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Roads in America cross referenced with viral video on Wikipedia

Viral videos are videos that become popular most often through a viral process of Internet sharing, primarily through video sharing websites such as YouTube as well as social media and email. For a video to be shareable or spreadable, it must focus on the social logics and cultural practices that have enabled and popularized these new platforms. Wikipedia

We take the viral video article on Wikipedia, find the entries that belong to it, and look for roads whose name is the same as one of those entries. A match means the street name equals an entry's Wikipedia title, its Wikidata label, or one of its aliases. It says nothing about why a road has its name.

Matched street names 7

Each street name below equals the entry shown, once the road type (St, Rd, Ct) is ignored.

Left out 2

These names were found and then set aside. Nothing on the story page counts them.

NameEntryWhyRoads
(the whole entry)ACHAcronym alias, which never matches
(the whole entry)TPPAcronym alias, which never matches

Every Wikipedia entry tried 280

Including the entries that matched no road at all.