• The huge row over a run and a mum teaching TikTok about her son's rare hairy birthmark

  • May 12 2024
  • Length: 28 mins
  • Podcast

The huge row over a run and a mum teaching TikTok about her son's rare hairy birthmark

  • Summary

  • 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/

    Seen a story we should cover? Get in touch with us!

    Email: sorryyouwentviral@gmail.com
    Twitter: Twitter.com/SorryUWentViral
    Instagram: Instagram.com/SorryYouWentViral
    TikTok: TikTok.com/@SorryYouWentViral

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