A viral meltdown. I'm Rebecca Leib. I'm Jason Horton and this is Ghost Town. The next 27 minutes are an experiment.

But in order for it to work, you have to go back to 2012? I love 2012. I was on a main stage

Herald team in iOS.

I was flying high and the world wasn't crumbling.

Yeah, the world didn't end.

Yeah, it didn't end.

But it did see, it's really its first true viral video.

And it was at the time the most viral of videos. it was part of kind of like a

social awareness and it was like that happens a lot more now.

Yeah and a lot of it's sometimes more in blog or think pieces and but as

far as viral videos to you have to share this now everyone's like share this

share this sure back then it really it was it was the thing yeah it was definitely I feel like there were a lot of like like

gifts and memes before this but this is

was a big like this was a big like political like heavy hitting like

heavy hitting like you'd be talking about it everywhere, everywhere.

Everyone's like, have you seen this?

And what we're talking about is Coney 2012.

Oh yeah.

Which is interesting because the Coney part is the guy,

the horrible guy that is. because the

horrible guy or bad that is it's kind of used to bring attention to and to try to find

justice and the the virality of it came with a lot of controversy, criticism.

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