This week old ESPN short film has inspired viewers, and has already amassed over 4 million hits! Fourteen year old Kayla Montgomery was playing soccer when she noticed something wasn’t right with her legs. She started feeling a weird tingling feeling, and was later diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a serious autoimmune nerve disease. There is no cure. But that didn’t stop Kayla from becoming one of America’s top long distance runners. Her determination and drive is guaranteed to inspire you.
Seventeen year old Zach Sobiech has become somewhat of an Internet celebrity. With only months to live after fighting a rare form of cancer for too long, Zach turned to music to find his peace.
Now, after his very sad and untimely passing, this twenty minute documentary published by Soul Pancake about Zach has gone viral, amassing over one million views just over the past few days. The video is further featured on UpWorthy, People, and NowMSN.
Andrea’s father had passed just a few months before her wedding from pancreatic cancer. In honor of dad, her brother covered the touching country classic Butterfly Kissesto be played during the Andrea’s allotted father-daughter-dance.
Since dad obviously could only attend his daughter’s wedding in spirit form, Andrea danced with her brothers, grandpa, and new father-law. Not an eye was dry.
The entire country is still in a state of shock and mourning after the terror bombing attack at the Boston Marathon. But Americans will always persevere.
This was evident at the Bruins-Sabres hockey game on Wednesday. Singer Rene Rancourt started the National Anthem, but quickly, the entire stadium took over, singing as one voice. Not one dry eye.
There is nothing sadder than a piece of internet content that is not voraciously tweeted, shared, and reblogged. Here are 10 lists, articles, and thinkpieces that, tragically, were not able to win the internet in 2014. This content will be in our hearts always.
We will always remember this one as #epicwin and #inspiring, no matter how it ended up.
We will never forget.
This listicle showed a lot of promise, but ultimately “twentyteen” is not a real number, which really hurt the social reach of this one. Tragic.
Nostalgia and Ed Norton GIFs seemed like the perfect combination…this was a big shock to the online community when it didn’t go viral. A reminder that fate can be cruel.
Via Edward-norton.us
This looks good on paper, but once it was put online, it didn’t engage commenters. Sadly, this one never had a shot.
The tough year for Edward Norton-centric web content continued in October.
Zero shares, three likes. But this blog post will not be forgotten.
This one got a few pity faves on Twitter, but that’s about it. It will be remembered fondly.
We want to believe this piece of content is getting faves in content heaven now.
After a Fire and Police Commission concerning a case when a police officer was fired after shooting a suspect during a physical altercation, Police Chief Edward Flynn was asked by the press about the people who thought he was being disrespectful by being on his phone. That’s when Chief Flynn became extremely passionate, and revealed he was on the phone being updated about a five year old girl who was shot in a drive-by shooting.
