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Who cares if he did it to make himself more famous? He helped 1000 blind people see. Celebrities who get famous from sex tapes get less flack.

Imagine if we encouraged this sort of behavior and Instagram was full of people helping others instead of people showing their ass.

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> Imagine if we encouraged this sort of behavior and Instagram was full of people helping others instead of people showing their ass.

Instagram is full of people filming themselves helping poor people. Mostly in public, mostly not asking for permission to film and I hate it. It's charity porn, it's demeaning, degrading, patronising and most of all attention-grabbing.

They're using other people for their own benefit (views, likes, subscribes).

I would argue the video in question is none of those things (not demeaning, not in public, not without permission, etc).

Related existing thread on “poverty porn” topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34626033

There have been apps in past that focused on getting people to actually take action doing good. If for some reason someone is interested in working on platform like that or knows of a one, feel free to comment.

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