BBC OS Conversations: How going viral changed my life

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  Hello, I'm Luke Jones.

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  Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.

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  In BBC OS conversations, we bring people together to share their experiences.

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  This time we'll be hearing from four people who shot to fame on social media and whose lives have never been the same again.

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  Every year, the Internet makes stars of a handful of lucky, or maybe unlucky individuals.

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  Our guests today share with us what it is like to go viral on social media and they tell us about the attention it can bring, not just from the public, but from business too.

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  In a way, you're licensing your face and your social media following to this brand to sell their product.

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  And so the more they want to use it and the more they want you to do, the more that you can charge.

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  I wonder if you recognize this catchy 2024 earworm.

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  I'm looking for a man in finance with trust fund six five blue eyes.

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  Finance trust fund six five blue eyes.

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  That's Megan Bonny, or Girl on Couch as she's known on TikTok, and that is the original version that she posted back in April, but since then there have been hundreds and hundreds of remixes and parodies.

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  We wanted to find out what it is like to suddenly become famous on social media, so we brought Megan together with three other people who have similarly found themselves all over the Internet in a big way.

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  Kirsty Patterson is a Scottish actress who caught the media's attention when she was pictured looking especially glum and dejected in a green wig, supposedly playing the part of an Oompa Loompa in the worst booking potentially of her life.

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  Ari Kananen is from Finland and cleans people's houses.

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  She has a huge following on TikTok from her videos of herself shifting grime, gunk and even insects, sometimes free of charge to the homeowners.

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  She loves cleaning that much.

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  And Kelly Hayer is the creator of the Apple dance for Charli XCX's track apple.

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  Kelly posted a video of her performing this dance, complete with Apple shaped gestures and the world, including Charli XX herself, now do it too.

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