Nobody is going to find it by googling their name.
And many videos of people faceplanting going viral are actually going to be used to the effect of providing cred in that person's circles.
"Look I went viral! Hahaha"
That's people for you.
If you really believe that argument, post the most cringeworthy video of yourself on the Internet. For the cred.
You're right that the way these things get found usually isn't by Googling. If something's on the front page of reddit, the most likely way is your friends or colleagues will run into it and pass it around. In smaller communities, that may continue for years.
But Google is certainly a way people will find it too, even if the name isn't in the post. Search engine 101: the way Google works is by looking at text in incoming links. If I have a few links posted on social media which say "Hey, chmod775 lost his temper in a restaurant and boy did he make a fool of himself," that's exactly what Google will point to. If this person isn't famous enough to have other high-profile pages about them, it's likely to be on page 1, or even the top link.
No. Don't put words in my mouth. That's rude.
I merely said that those videos generally have much less of a fallout on people's personal lives than they are often made out.
Think of it, the last 30 years of this man's life made a living hell all so people can laugh at his angry outburst. In no way was this good for him.
"Star Wars Kid" lived through hell in high school, it certainly didn't help him either.
Its fine for you who doesn't have to live through it to just laugh it off. But these viral videos cause real harm to real people.
And some comments are questions about programming or accurate technical answer to them, but neither that, nor what I quoted, is relevant in this context.