You’ve probably seen the stories—people using social media to track down a biological parent, or share a random act of kindness that goes viral.
Two Los Angeles women used Twitter to track down a man who was ruthlessly body-shamed for dancing in public.
A crude meme of a man named Sean O’Brien was making the rounds on the Internet when writer Cassandra Fairbanks first caught wind of it.
It showed two side-by-side images of the heavy-set man, first proudly dancing, then visibly saddened. The meme went completely viral after being posted under the caption, “Spotted this specimen trying to dance the other week. He stopped when he saw us laughing.”
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Like thousands before her, Cassandra retweeted the photo, but she wasn’t interested in making fun of the man. Instead she wanted to lift him up.