A viral video of a teenager awkwardly swinging a golf-ball retriever like a lightsaber, filmed for a school project and leaked online without his consent, becoming one of the earliest and most discussed cases of unwanted viral fame.
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"That leaked video situation is a modern Star Wars Kid case, someone never consented to this being public."
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Filmed privately in 2002 and leaked publicly in 2003 without the subject's permission, the video became a defining early case study in the harm of unwanted internet virality, discussed for years afterward in conversations about online privacy and cyberbullying.
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