A group of skateboarders who were branded ‘virgins’ and targeted in a trolling Twitter video which went viral over the weekend have been given free VIP tickets to Parklife. Skater Luke Bradley was among those who were filmed, without permission, practising tricks on Lincoln Square.
Twitter user Mark Garner took the video and posted it, complaining about the skaters on the square, calling them ‘raging bloody lunatics’, ‘d**kheads’ and ‘virgins’. But it quickly saw him ‘ratioed’, an online phenomenon that finds the poster of a controversial opinion receive huge volumes of traffic, but almost universally negative.
The tweet has, at the time of writing, been clicked on 5.5 million times, and received over 2000 comments, with the video having been watched over a million times.
