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==Release and commercial performance==
"Being Wrong on The Internet" was released to podcast clients on January 31, 2014.<ref>{{cite web |title=''Hello Internet'' – #1: Being Wrong on The Internet |url=https://overcast.fm/+B1qyRaXSg |website=Overcast |publisher=''Hello Internet'' |accessdate=8 May 2019}}</ref>
In the week of the announcement video's release, ''Hello Internet'' became an international success: it topped the iTunes podcast charts in Australia, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States; peaked at number four in Italy; and charted within the top twenty in France and Spain.<ref>{{cite web |title=CGP Grey & Brady Haran – ''Hello Internet'' International iTunes Chart Performance |url=http://www.itunescharts.net/artists/podcast/cgp-grey-brady-haran/podcasts/hello-internet/ |website=iTunesCharts.net |accessdate=8 May 2019 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20160809102432/http://www.itunescharts.net/artists/podcast/cgp-grey-brady-haran/podcasts/hello-internet/ |archivedate=9 August 2016}}</ref>
The episode's corresponding video was released on the [[Hello Internet (YouTube channel)|''Hello Internet'' YouTube channel]] on April 30, 2014, marking the channel's first upload.<ref name="YouTube">{{cite web |title=H.I. #1: Being Wrong on The Internet |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGa3ah03uBI |website=YouTube |publisher=''Hello Internet'' |accessdate=8 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=''Hello Internet'' – Videos |url=https://www.youtube.com/user/HelloInternetPodcast/videos?sort=da |website=YouTube |publisher=Hello Internet |accessdate=8 May 2019}}</ref> The audio is set to footage of a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_bird drinking bird] toy, purchased by Haran,<ref>{{cite web |title=''Hello Internet'' – #13: Nobody Owns the Facts (6:16) |url=https://overcast.fm/+B1qxw5gek/06:16 |website=Overcast |publisher=Hello Internet |accessdate=8 May 2019}}</ref> repeatedly tilting its beak into and out of a glass of water. The video received 70 thousand views within its first five days of release and has accumulated more than 570 thousand views as of May 2019.<ref name="YouTube"/><ref>{{cite web |title=H.I. #1: Being Wrong on The Internet – Archived via the Wayback Machine on May 5, 2014, 18:46:41 UTC|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGa3ah03uBI |website=YouTube |publisher=''Hello Internet'' |accessdate=8 May 2019 |archiveurl=}}</ref>
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