Real-life ghost rider?
If you are a Marvel fan, you sure had a crush on Ghost Rider back in the day. But what if you were scrolling on your phone and you saw the character in real life? Shocked? Well, in a viral video, the camera caught a real-life ghost rider. Here’s the tea.
Recently, a video went viral on social media. It showed a man attempting a failed stunt to break a lighter with his teeth. But instead, he ended up with his face caught on fire! Yes, the man’s face was literally ‘on fire’ for a few seconds leaving the internet stunned and terrified. His ‘flaming fail’ earned him the title of the real-life ‘Ghost Rider’, and we are with the netizens on this.
Social media is a place where people keep doing crazy things just for virality and this stunt, though a failed one, did earn this man the popularity he might have aimed for. First shared on Instagram by a user with the handle name R irwan Purabaya, the video garnered over 50 million views and around 1.8 million Likes. The clip soon went viral on other social media platforms immediately after being shared. It started recording the reactions of netizens from all across the world.
While the man performing the bizarre stunt in the clip remained surprisingly unharmed, netizens still found the act too deadly. People went on commenting on the clips expressing their concerns, fears, and even sarcasm. Most users commented, “Bro almost turned into Ghost Rider for a while.” Some went with the ‘cameraman never dies’ jokes in the comments. One user called the stunt “a lesson to not play with lighters.”
While the details about why the man decided to do the stunt remain unknown, the incident sheds light on how netizens are obsessed with getting ‘viral’ on the Internet and are doing borderline stupid things for the same. What do you think – is it terrifying that he tried ‘playing’ with a lethal object or is it impressive that he survived the act unharmed?
