On the first morning in a new town, two foreigners picked up rubbish outside a police station with no idea anyone was watching. The video got 48,600 likes. The litter stayed largely where it was.

What goes viral and what actually changes are not always the same thing.

Shelley McPhee reads her essay Dua Bule aloud.

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