May 11 2024 28 mins
On this week's show:
On What It's Like To Go Viral: an influencer who received a torrent of criticism online for posting about sneaking into the Boston Half Marathon - and why users didn't stop attacking her after she apologised.
On What's Gone Viral:
- Hundreds of people turned up to see Cheesball Man - a masked superhero eat a whole jar of cheeseballs in a New York park
- Alyssa Huser, a mum doing an amazing job on TikTok on educating people about her baby's rare condition, Congenital Melanocytic Naevus, which has left her son with a large birthmark on his back with a lot of hair on it
- Vintage clothes bargain hunter Becky's Bazaar is questioned for her TikTok about rifling through lost luggage
- The sales bro Bryan Shankman whose tongue-in-cheek LinkedIn post equating his proposal to closing a deal
And in our Timeline Cleanser:
Meet Strong.Like.Sarah - Sarah Frei, who lost her legs in a car accident,a nd is making popular dark humour TikToks about her disability
Links to the viral posts:
Influencer's apology for sneaking into Boston Half: https://x.com/alexa_curtis/status/1785109707721478199?s=46
Cheesball Man: https://x.com/smittynyk/status/1784364026656407568?s=46
Baby with rare birthmark: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGexsF18q/
Lost luggage: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGexsHxbr/
Sales bro's LinkedIn post: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7191124158020255745/
Disabled dark humour: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGexp7GQc/
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