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Collected Item: “Cholo skateboarding to Fleetwood Mac”

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Cholo skateboarding to Fleetwood Mac

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Video, Youtube (but originally from Tik Tok)

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

Isolation has been so difficult for some of us. I chose this video because it represents the opposite of depression, hopelessness, and despair. @Doggface208 was skateboarding and drinking juice through a hill towards his job while listening to Fleetwood Mac. This TikTok video went viral, in the first 20 hours had more than 4 million views, but it also provided some hope, calm, and happiness to the complicated reality of the pandemic. Social media users even commented about this video as "This part of 2020 doesn’t suck", "This guy didn’t know he saved 2020".

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

#cholo, #skateboarding, #Wyoming, #happy, #viral

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

youtube.com/watch?v=dbdYRc5Cc7Y

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

@doggface208 (Nathan Apodaca)

Give this story a date.

2020-09-25
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