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

May 12 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/