Posted on 10/12/2024 7:31:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
While millions of people in Florida fled Hurricane Milton, Mike Smalls Jr ventured into the violent winds in Tampa, Florida, holding a blow-up mattress, an umbrella and a pack of ramen noodles.
He went outside Wednesday evening as the storm pounded the US state and livestreamed on the platform Kick. He told his online audience if he reached 10,000 views, he would launch himself and his mattress into the water.
Once he hit the threshold, he took the plunge. Then he got worried: “The wind started picking up and I don’t know how to swim…so I had to grab on to the tree.”
The area was under an evacuation order - meaning residents had been advised by local officials to leave their homes, for their own safety.
Mike’s hour-long stream from Tampa Bay has more than 60,000 views on the streaming platform Kick, and has been seen by millions after being clipped up and posted on other social-media platforms, including X.
Live streaming - filming yourself in real time - has become increasingly lucrative for content creators looking to make quick money.
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Social media has made us more stupid.
I agree - I could give you a prime example but I can’t mention it beyond the vague
“Influencers” are doing a lot of damage on YouTube.
I think the data says it’s made us less happy.
It’s made me a whole lot less happy because of the bizarre behavior change in somebody else around me. They’re unhappy and miserable all of the time because the “influencers” keep them that way for cash 💲💲💲💲💲💲.
Where's Peter Jennings when ya need him?
“I could give you a prime example”
Bigfoot?
I know a guy who gave a ton of money 💰💰💰 to a “Bigfoot researcher”
I am not even joking
Every *influencer* on the planet could die and it would be no loss to mankind.
I hate that term. Along with a couple others that have become popular recently.
Influencers... worthless members of society praying on other worthless members of society that provide funding for their worthlessness.
When we had a slew of tornado’s in Omaha, one lady I knew had a million dollar house that was hit and within an hour of it, she had looters and social media people on her roof streaming. The neighborhood quickly hired an armed security company to patrol.
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