Tyler Brickley started one of the internet's most disarming social experiments: a half-million-strong TikTok "army" he deploys, mob-style, to flood strangers being bullied online with kindness. Island posted cooking videos and received mockery for her multiple sclerosis-affected eye, Brickley's followers descended -- not with cruelty, but with 15,000 warm and encouraging comments.
Tyler Brickley started one of the internet's most disarming social experiments: a half-million-strong TikTok "army" he deploys, mob-style, to flood strangers being bullied online with kindness.
Island posted cooking videos and received mockery for her multiple sclerosis-affected eye, Brickley's followers descended -- not with cruelty, but with 15,000 warm and encouraging comments.
"There's something more interesting here than people being nice," writes Thomas Germain for the BBC.
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Tyler Brickley started one of the internet's most disarming social experiments: a half-million-strong TikTok "army" he deploys, mob-style, to flood strangers being bullied online with kindness. Island posted cooking videos and received mockery for her multiple sclerosis-affected eye, Brickley's followers descended -- not with cruelty, but with 15,000 warm and encouraging comments. "There's something more interesting here than people being nice," writes Thomas Germain for the BBC.
"When the mob descends, the bullying often stops, sometimes forever.
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