Sorry You Went Viral

On the show:

What It's Like To Go Viral: the woman tricked by crypto bro Nick O'Neil aka ChooseRich on X/Twitter after starring in his skits - and the hate she got for hitting back at his followers

What's Gone Viral:
- A mum's Toy Story surprise to her son leaving for college

- The viral Scottish Oompa Loompa shows how she's transformed her life , and calls for more protection for people from having images of them posted without their consent

- The US tourists who go sight-seeing in Asda in York

- Blinking Guy goes viral for using his meme to raise funds for MS

Timeline Cleanser:
The boy who was stunned with his radio shoutout enjoys his first gig, watching his favourite band, Imagine Dragons 


Links to the content:

Toy Story surprise send-off: https://www.tiktok.com/@benio0829/video/7540171184713862413 
Interview with NBC Chicago: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1318523776623045 

Scottish Oompa Loompa: https://www.instagram.com/p/DOhKnpgAm-_/ 
Interview on  ⁨@DoxxYourselfPod⁩   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOypfN2pufE

US tourists in Asda: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdG465a8/
And in McDonalds: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOt6PCNCj-r/ 

Blinking Guy viral tweet: https://x.com/drewscanlon/status/1971599982970249531?s=46
MS fundraising page: https://events.nationalmssociety.org/participants/Drew-Scanlon 
Interview with SF Gate: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1886137051966864

Crypto Bro girlfriend viral tweet: https://x.com/chooserich/status/1978538868820394335
One of their skits: https://x.com/chooserich/status/1980659032445890563
Karsyn Bailee's tweet: https://x.com/karsyn_bailee/status/1979633836054249757?s=46
Karsyn's video: https://x.com/karsyn_bailee/status/1979766071730295106?s=46 

Imagine Dragons gig:
https://x.com/dazizz/status/1950505072107921487?s=46

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On the show:

**What's Gone Viral**

Aussie DJ Liam Stapleton drives Gunners mad with ‘Arsenal tears’ video - but why some Liverpool fans are unhappy with him too

What happened when a man tried to sue users of an Are We Dating The Same Guy? Facebook group in Chicago, their parents and even Facebook

Celebrating Mo, the youngest black cab driver aged only 21

**What It’s Like To Go Viral**

How quirky content creator Zoe Bread captured the nation over her dogged (and successful) campaign over a misleading sign on a street in Manchester for where to buy your car parking ticket

**The Timeline Cleanser**

Saff’s superb TikTok making it cool to go on a cruise ship again

**Links to all the content**

Arsenal tears: https://www.tiktok.com/@mrliamstapleton/video/7498090140879834375?lang=en 

Are We Dating the Same Guy? Court documents:
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68194904/1/d-ambrosio-v-meta-platforms-inc/

Youngest ever black cab driver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6U_nlz2pjM
https://x.com/tfltph/status/1915069617627660492?s=46

Zoe Bread v Manchester City Council playlist: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdSBXYSt/ 

Saff’s holiday on Celestyal Cruises ship:
https://www.tiktok.com/@havealaffwithsaff/video/7497876856415292694

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Sorry we've been away for so long! But we're back! On this week's show:

In What's Gone Viral:
How a game of charades on a train platform showed there is love in London

John Lindo and Victoria Henk, the West Coast Swing dancing duo that blew TikTok away in a random partner, random song competition

Jacob Fukn Jones, the popular cigarette content creator with his lo-fi, retro YouTube videos

From a Twitter DM to I Do for Breona Manigat and her now husband, Neh

Will and Harum, the clever Cambridge couple wowing people over their knowledge of each other's PhDs

In What It's Like To Go Viral:

We chat to Darren Izzard about the outpouring of affection for his 9 year old son, Benjamin, after he filmed him reacting to Absolute Radio DJ Sarah Champion reading a birthday shout-out for him

And in our Timeline Cleanser:

Aussie musician Tim Nelson from the band Cub Sport goes viral for his performance of Addison Rae's Diet Pepsi to his 102 year old Nana and her friends in their care home 

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Links to all the content:
Charades: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdJYo1Xv/

The King and Queen of Swing: https://www.tiktok.com/@affinityswing/video/7382302976733465888

Cigarettes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8QX_zdAr1o 

From DMs to I Do: https://x.com/mrshvri/status/1835900284914282809?s=46 

The clever Cambridge couple: https://www.tiktok.com/@cambridgeuniversity/video/7410816497037167905 

The power of radio: https://x.com/sarahchampion/status/1834948718736421275?s=46

Singing Diet Pepsi to a care home: https://www.tiktok.com/@cubsport/video/7413604943816412423

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On the show:

In What It's Like To Go Viral:
The Hawk Tuah Girl, Haliey Welch talks candidly about the good and bad aspects to online fame after that viral video

In What's Gone Viral:
The sight-seeing Swiftie, Liz Wisdom, who mistook an Orange Order march for a fun' loving parade on her trip to Ireland

The popular books influencer, TillyLovesBooks, who was sacked from Waterstones after telling an author she would 'tear up and bin' her books on Twitter in a row over transgender rights.

Aspiring ukelele megastar Liam C plays to Dua Lipa at Glastonbury - who becomes a popular meme with her reaction

The Physics Girl, a popular American science content creator who has been suffering from Long Covid attracts sceptics of the disease after posting a moving video of having her head shaved.
 
And the plea for a puffin jumper that showed the very best of Twitter/X.

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Links to the posts shown on the programme:

The Hawk Tuah Girl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7tydu_erZo
Plan Bri Uncut interview with Haliey Welch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP51tOTHbKg&t=473s

American tourist in Orange Order march:
https://www.tiktok.com/@lizwizdom/video/7388641682167729454

TillyLovesBooks reveals she's been fired from Waterstones
https://x.com/genderreceipts/status/1810588580747559041?s=46 

Liam C plays to Dua Lipa:
https://x.com/sighzach/status/1807528484149080111

Long Covid patient has her head shaved: https://x.com/thephysicsgirl/status/1807498226247098445 

Woman's regret over not buying a puffin jumper: https://x.com/CeliaBedelia/status/1797237560755757288

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On this week's show:

What Went Viral:
The backlash over TikTok's Strictest Mum Jeanette Tapley's viral video

Why parents are loving Millennial Parent Michael Fasulo using his young children's lingo on them!

The High Performance footballer James Daly who took a business-like approach to reviewing his performance last season

Teacher Jaq Lee/Mr White who got in trouble for this TikTok of his female pupils unbraiding his hair in class

How employees at Enzo Tech Group were mocked for their We're Recuriters video, following a viral trend 

In What It's Like To Go Viral:

What happened when TikTok creator Jake Heisenberg asked viewers to pay off his student loan debt by watching his video


And in our Timeline Cleanser:
How a 13 month old baby landed a stay at the Four Seasons hotel in Orlando for her viral video

See the viral posts:
TikTok's Strictest Mum: https://www.tiktok.com/@jeanettetapley/video/7363709803081813291

Millennial Parent talks kid slang: https://www.tiktok.com/@michael_fasulo/video/7373671583891672352

High Performance footballer James Daly https://x.com/thejamesdaly/status/1790353633344668068?s=46 

Pupils unbraiding teacher's hair: https://www.tiktok.com/@thilluminatin1/video/7365720059873938731

We're Recruiters: https://www.tiktok.com/@enzotechgroup/video/7372136304252964129 

Student loan debt TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jheisenburg/video/7371598593297337643 

Four Seasons Baby: https://www.tiktok.com/@sobrizzle/video/7369772085859732778?_r=1&_t=8n04Jz1gmtl 

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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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On this week's show:

On What It's Like To Go Viral: The Facebook post by a mum of 4, Ashley McGuire, trying to find her husband who ghosted her family - and the internet sluths and his exes who helped to track him down

In What's Gone Viral:
- The backlash from followers to food reviewer @EatingWithTod for his McDonald's collab

- The huge reaction to a pub sign that boasted of being 'dog friendly and child free'

- A TikTok ' Day in the Life' from content creator Chloe Williams that attracted nasty comments for no reason

- The lip syncing TikTok from 23 year old Aussie Leah Halton that's looking like it could be the most liked post on the app 

- Why people are loving spotting the differences between UK and US homes, pointed out by Helene Sua/@HeleneInBetween

The Timeline Cleanser is the inspiring content from  The Hull Boy, Marcus Skeet, @thehullboy who is running a mile a day to fundraise for mental health charities - despite the negative comments.

Watch the viral posts featured in the show:

McDonalds sponsorship backlash: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5iWRfFoCWE/?igsh=MWs0NG53a2ppYzZxcA==

Pub sign row: https://twitter.com/hifromkyle/status/1779548610528415809?s=46

Day in the life TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@looooooooch/video/7332342275151760642

Is this set to be the most liked TikTok ever: https://www.tiktok.com/@looooooooch/video/7332342275151760642

UK v US homes: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeHYKnP6/

The interview on Jam’n 94.5FM in Boston with the mum of 4 appealing to find an AWOL dad: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1815684968934796

The Hull Boy's post that was seen 4 million times: https://twitter.com/Thehullboy1/status/1776537347804332359

And his GoFundMe page:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/marcuss-fund-for-mind-namh?

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On this week's show:

The picture of a roast dinner as a desk lunch that turned nasty

The heartwarming story of a young coach driver who's befriended a lonely man

Innocent couples caught up in claims of a fiancee cheating on a Vegas stag do 

The surprising way to blow out a cake by this paralysed woman

The man whose BBC News interview was famously interrupted by his kids gives an update on his family

The shop worker harassed for an Only Fans video

The young girl taping Lana Del Rey songs off Spotify

Watch the viral posts featured in the show:
Roast dinner https://x.com/anyachappellxx/status/1764987372393877678?s=46

Driver Jack: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGePqeB7b/

Cheating stag do: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGePms45G/

Paralysed woman: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGefTHxxj/

BBC News dad: https://twitter.com/robert_e_kelly/status/1766701488808853736?s=46 

OnlyFans harassment: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGe5aJgvB/

Tape recorder: https://www.tiktok.com/@thepsychokittyy/video/7345628582468750635

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On this week's Sorry You Went Viral:

The woman whose cocktail compensation of 10¢ was seen 9 million times

The Twitter row over a photo between OnlyFans star Astrid Wett and Chelsea fans over a man posing with her with his flies open

William Conrad, the "stay at home boyfriend" who's making seductive cooking videos

Why some of TikToks from Cat Janice, who died from cancer, have been muted

Madison Blackbird, the Taylor Swift mega fan whose TikTok went viral over her reaction to hearing Exile at her concert in Sydney, Australia

And why Disney fans have been going crazy for The Little Mermaid doorbell.

See the viral posts here:
Rita cocktail compensation: https://twitter.com/parquetcourt/status/1757884500632027216 

Astrid Wett Chelsea ticket row: 
https://x.com/astridwett/status/1761760105647808849?s=46 

@WilliamConrad_ cooking: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeUcNhje/

Cat Janice's muted TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cat.janice/video/7241266830248037674?refer=embed

Taylor Swift fan reaction: https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1763249359410352606/video/1 

Little Mermaid doorbell:
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeUv7RXJ/

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From the woman who convinced millions that she was the skater from the Super Bowl Halftime Show who fell off her pole, to the woman who flashed her boobs as she tried to climb through the window of her house, it's been another week of social media storms and viral hilarity - but also a reminder not to believe everything you see online!

We take a look at the human stories behind some of the most popular posts:

Louisa Melcher, who claimed to be the Super Bowl Halftime Show skater who fell: https://www.tiktok.com/@theunknownteacher/video/7334527017607597342

New dad Anshel Sag is criticised for wearing his Apple Vision Pro while his newborn daughter sleeps: https://twitter.com/anshelsag/status/1753946884937535746?s=46 

Twitter user Traav lovestruck by The Chase contestant Rebecca Ferretti: https://x.com/trraavv/status/1753467932317794716?s=46

Lisa Rowland tries to climb through the window of her house: https://x.com/2bjdj/status/1752794581660237984?s=46

Daniel sings to Jennifer, his pet goat: https://www.tiktok.com/@danieljubnelson/video/7331863755514465542 

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