futurejournalismproject: How the Internet Works, Part 867, Reddit Edition An infectious twelve-ish-y
futurejournalismproject: How the Internet Works, Part 867, Reddit Edition An infectious twelve-ish-year-old boy going by the name Sir Fedora posted a video on YouTube the other day celebrating the fact that the very first video he ever posted had received a like. Not one among many or one like from someone particularly special. Just, simply, a single like. As in that first integer between zero and two. And that one like made that 12-ish-year-old happy. So he celebrated with a new video. Meantime, a Redditor stumbled across Sir Fedora’s video and posted this: Incredibly enthusiastic, weird kid makes a video celebrating getting 1 YouTube like. Would be funny to get him a few subs and see his reaction. The Internet, as the Internet is sometimes wont to do, took over. Or, at least, Reddit did. Introducing: Operation Through The Roof. Sir Fedora’s video celebrating his one like is now pushing a million views. He has over 70 thousand YouTube subscribers. Over on his recently started Twitter account he has over 46 thousand followers. All because he was enthused by one like, and someone else liked that. We all start somewhere. Meantime, a Giant Panda tumbles about in the snow. Image: Operation Through The Roof, via dragonboltz. -- source link