This video of two dogs went viral with over 7 million views. Seen it yet?
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There are certain videos on the Internet that are oddly satisfying to watch. This video, involving two dogs, perfectly fits that category. Though the video doesn’t show anything extraordinary, the adorable pooches shown in the clip has now won people’s hearts.
The video was originally posted on the joint Insta page of pooch siblings Mia and Milo. However, it went crazy viral after being re-shared by Instagram on their official page.
“Blowin’ in the wind. On today’s #WeeklyFluff we are heading into the big outdoors with brother and sister goldendoodles Mia and Milo (@goldendoodledoos), who are getting a natural blow out,” reads the caption posted along with the video.
Take a look at the oddly satisfying video:
The video, since being posted about six hours ago, has gathered more than 7.8 million views and the numbers are only increasing. The post has also accumulated various comments from people. Many have also posted heart emoticons to showcase their reactions.
“Awesome,” wrote an Instagram user. “Mervellous,” posted another. “Beautiful,” expressed a third.
What are your thoughts on the wonderful viral video of the dogs?
How a viral dance video fuelled women’s rights debate in Egypt
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A viral video of Egyptian teacher dancing prompted her husband to divorce her and split opinion in the country.
A video of an Egyptian mother-of-three dancing that went viral online prompting her husband to divorce her and her employers to sack her has reignited fierce debates over women’s rights.
The short video of Aya Youssef, a 30-year-old primary school teacher, shot on a mobile phone shows her wearing a headscarf, trousers and a long-sleeved top as she dances alongside colleagues, smiling as she enjoys a river cruise on the Nile.
But the video, which has been shared widely on social media since it was posted earlier this month, has split opinion.
Some critics accuse her of breaching the conservative values of society while others stand firmly with her in solidarity.
In recent years, Egypt has witnessed several cases in which women have been subjected to defamation campaigns on social media, stirring angry demands for those responsible to be held to account.
It comes as rights groups warn of a broadening crackdown on freedom in the North African nation ever since President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi took office in 2014.
Youssef, in a recent interview with a private TV channel, said she had been “happy” on the trip and that her moves were “spontaneous”.
Other colleagues were dancing alongside her on the boat in the sunshine, some waving their hands in the air.
Sacked, then reinstated
But after the video was shared online, some who watched provided scathing comments on what they saw as “unbecoming” behaviour.
One Twitter user said the teacher’s actions were “shameful”, while another said he “couldn’t fathom how a married woman would dance in this lewd way”.
But, in a country where 90 percent of women aged between 18 and 39 reported having been harassed in 2019, others were supportive.
Meanwhile, Egypt’s education ministry in Dakahlia region – northeast of Cairo – referred the teacher to a disciplinary committee, where she was sacked from her job in the city of Mansoura. Amid a subsequent outcry, she was reinstated this week.
Nihad Abu al-Qumsan, head of the Egyptian Centre for Women’s Rights, defended the teacher and offered her a job.
“We will ask the court about the correct dance rules – so that all women would conform to the right rules if they dance in their brother’s or their son’s weddings, or at birthdays,” al-Qumsan said sarcastically.
The fact that Youssef’s husband also divorced her after watching the video prompted an angry reaction from popular Egyptian actress Somaya el-Khashab, saying it showed double standards.
“Why don’t men take their wives back?” Khashab asked.
“There are so many women who stand by their men when they even go to prison, for example, or don’t abandon their husbands when their conditions deteriorate.”
Youssef told Egypt’s El-Watan newspaper that she did not know who had posted the video online but promised legal action against those who “defamed and ruined her home”.
It is not the first such case of online shaming to have triggered anger in Egypt.
Two young men were arrested this week after a 17-year-old schoolgirl committed suicide last month.
She swallowed poison after she was allegedly blackmailed with digitally altered photos after she reportedly refused to have an affair with them.
In July last year, a Cairo court sentenced two women to six and 10 years in prison for “breaching public morals” after they had published TikTok videos.
They were among a dozen social media “influencers” arrested in 2020 for “attacking society’s values” in Egypt.
Egypt has long been regarded as the birthplace of belly dancing, but several belly dancers and pop singers have been targeted in recent years over online content deemed too racy or suggestive.
Egypt has seen its community of homegrown dancers shrink, largely due to the profession’s increasing notoriety as the country has become more conservative over the past half-century – and to a broadening crackdown on freedoms.
Fact check: Viral video shows Chinese rocket launch, not ‘artificial sun’
The claim: Video shows China launching an artificial sun
Social media users are falsely claiming that a viral video shows an artificial sun being launched by China.
A Facebook video shared Jan. 10 shows a crowd of people with phones gathered near a beach filming what appears to be an orange bulb ascending in the air.
“Viral video with caption saying ‘China has launched an artificial sun’ making the rounds,” reads the caption of the Facebook video.
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The clip generated over 8,500 views in less than three days. A recently deleted Instagram post featuring the same claim and video amassed over 100,000 likes. Variations of this clip have received over 1,000 likes on Instagram and over 50,000 likes on Twitter.
But the claim is false.
The viral video shows a rocket launch that occurred in December, as independent fact-checking organizations have noted.
USA TODAY reached out to the social media user who shared the post for comment.
Video shows a rocket launch
USA TODAY was unable to find the original source of the clip. But several social media posts indicate the video circulated by the Facebook user shows the Long March 7A rocket launch in Wenchang, China, that took place Dec. 23.
A 50-minute, 14-second livestream of the rocket launch uploaded to YouTube reveals the same crowd of people gathered near the beach taken from several vantage points. The scenes are similar to the one in the viral clip.
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A Dec. 23 tweet also presents an identical video of spectators with their phones facing the orange streak in the sky, which was the same day of the Long March 7A rocket launch.
“The live observation of the rocket launch was extremely shocking,” reads the caption, according to Google Translate .
The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. published an official clip of the Long March 7A launch, which shows the rocket right as it is about to blast off, with flames forming an orange bulb as seen in the viral videos.
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Reuters reported that the beach in the viral clip matches the one in the coastal town of Longlou, which is home to the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site where the Long March 7A blasted off.
Visitors often gather along that beach to witness rocket launches, according to the China Global Television Network.
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The Long March 7A rocket successfully launched a pair of satellites into orbit, according to Space News.
USA TODAY reached out to the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site for comment.
According to Smithsonian Magazine, the artificial sun is another name for China’s nuclear fission reactor, called the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST). The heavy metal device recently reached temperatures “five times hotter than the sun.” But it’s located firmly on the ground.
Our rating: False
Based on our research, we rate FALSE the claim that a video shows China launching an artificial sun. The video shows the Long March 7A rocket launch near a coastal town in China.
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Las Vegas man acquires NFT to viral Antonio Brown ‘walk off’ video
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LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — A Las Vegas man has could be over a million dollars richer all because of a video he acquired as an NFT, or Non-Fundgible Token.The bid for the viral antonio brown video is now Live and can be found at viralheir.com
The now viral video of the Wide-Receiver, Antonio Brown, now belongs to Evan Savar.
The video originally captured by a fan’s cell phone, was purchased by Savar, who’s now auctioning the NFT on viralheir.com .
Savas says he expects the bids to reach as high as 1.5 million dollars.
Savar says he’s proud that he can say he’s owned a piece of history
“We don’t know where we are in this nft technology, you know, you had your early adapters, like we talked about who are, who are, who are using it, but what this technology is going to do for the world, where it’s really in its infancy and to own a piece of this moment and that history i think is, uh, it’s, it’s pretty incredible for the right person,” said Savar.
While most sports memorabilia is tangible, the tech world is changing the game through the increased popularity in NFTs.
Mom sees disturbing viral video of child on school bus and wants answers
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DETROIT (WXYZ) — We often talk about videos going viral on social media but when it’s your own child and they are facing a possible health crisis, that video can be disturbing to watch.
That’s what happened to a substitute teacher in Detroit when someone recorded a video of her severely autistic son on the school bus screaming for help. Now she wants answers to what leads up to what. We do have to warn you the video is disturbing.
Imagine a mother’s horror to learn the video you see circulating on social media is not only of your child, but none of the authorities alerted you to the fact that this incident happened on a school bus.
“My family, we found out via social media, it was a video trending on Facebook,” mom Talysha Oldham said.
Six-year-old Adriel Oldham was returning from school on the bus. Another child on the bus recorded a video of what was happening. It appears Adriel is being held down by the bus driver as he screams.
“When he came home, the bus driver told me that he can’t ride my bus anymore, he can’t ride my bus, he has to find another mode of transportation,” Oldham said.
Oldham, who has been a substitute teacher in Detroit for 10 years and used to work as a teacher in the Detroit Public School Community District, was shocked when this video began circulating on social media. Adriel’s father is the one who told her this was their little boy with his legs in the air screaming.
“First thing I heard was my son screaming, then I could see this lady sitting on my son and striking him,” Oldham said.
His mother says he barely speaks.
“He can tell you his basic needs whether he’s hungry or if he has to use the restroom, he can’t tell you if he’s been harmed or if someone has done something to him,” Oldham explained.
This happened in November of 2021. Oldham went for a meeting at her son’s school twice in the same week to Adriel’s discuss behavior and his Individualized Education Program (IEP) to make sure he was being properly cared for with his disability.
“Have you ever seen him have a meltdown?” WXYZ’s Carolyn Clifford asked.
“I’ve seen him have a meltdown, yes, but it’s easy for us to correct because he has therapy weekly,” Oldham said.
She also says normally when her son is picked up or dropped off, there are only a few kids on the bus. But on this day, it appears there were plenty of kids on the bus.
Oldham said the bus driver told her that he had attacked her on the bus.
Upon drop off the bus driver failed to mention what happened during the trip home.
“Even if she had a difficult time with him, she could have handled that differently,” Oldham said. “She could have pulled the bus over, she could have called dispatch and let them know she had a problem.”
We reached out to the Detroit Public Schools Community district the same week this happened.
They quickly responded to us with a letter saying the bus driver and her assistant, who are not employed by DPS and work for a separate contracted bus service, could no longer transport DPSCD students.
Here is what it says:
The District is aware of the incident and video circulating through social media. Both the bus driver (employee of the bus company) and attendant (district employee) have been removed from servicing DPSCD students and schools pending an investigation regarding the incident. Chrystal Wilson, Assistant Superintendent Detroit Public Schools Community District
“That bus driver and the assistant are gone. Does that give you some comfort?” Clifford asked.
“When you work with kids, especially kids with disabilities, you should be trained,” Oldham said.
Oldham filed a police report, and she has since switched her son to another school. They’ve seen several doctors to make sure he was not injured and has no lingering issues. Right now, he is homeschooled.
“What more do you want to see happen?” Clifford asked.
“I would like to see legal action, I would like to press charges on her,” Oldham said.