Cash-Strapped Couple Need Strangers to Sponsor Their Dream Wedding
The internet has revolutionized crowdfunding by creating an unprecedented interconnectedness that allows people from all over the world to hear each other’s stories and help those whose stories touched them in particular. Today, you can send aid to hurricane victims in Florida, help a single mother start her small business in Ohio, and even help […]
Woman Becomes YouTube Star by Eating into a Microphone
Spirit Payton is one of YouTube’s unlikeliest stars. In just under two years, she has grown her channel, ASMRTheChew, to over 160,000 subscribers and had several of her videos go viral, with millions of views, all by making chewing noises into a microphone. From popping giant pimples to squashing bread with their faces, we’ve seem […]
Meet China’s One and Only “Spider Woman”
Luo Dengping has become famous as the only woman in a group of “spider men” who climb vertical cliffs of up to 100 meters high, without ropes or safety equipment of any kind, for the entertainment of tourists in China’s Guizhou Province. Men of the Miao people, in Southwest China, have been free-climbing steep cliffs for […]