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A 13-year-old Instagram user by the username of reed_harrington23 (Reed Harrington) has managed to garner millions of followers on his social media platforms by posting workout challenges on his social media pages. The 13-year-old posted a video on his Instagram which has over 104 million views in current time. The video was about him saying that he would do what the top comment says on his Instagram post. And in typical internet fashion, the top comment had the wildest dare.

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The top comment on the video was from the Instagram user, fiven9nekid, which had over 3.5 million likes. Which also holds the Guinness world record for the most likes on an Instagram post. The comment, in brief, told the kid to fly to Thailand, win a tournament, come back to America, join the UFC, and go undefeated in his division. The 13-year-old looks to keep his promise.

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reed_harrington23 opens a GoFundMe page

In a recent Instagram post, Harrington revealed that he has started a GoFundMe to fulfill his promise of doing whatever the top comment states. His GoFundMe has earned over 14 thousand dollars, almost reaching his goal of 15 thousand to fly to Thailand to train Muai Thai.

His post promoting his GoFundMe also had over a million views on Instagram, with over a thousand comments. In the post, he stated, “Make sure you guys go donate to the GoFundMe so that we can hit the goal and take our money out, so we can pay for our passports and buy our tickets and plan the trip.”

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Given how crazy the internet is, it’s very likely to see the young boy succeed in keeping his promise of training Muay Thai in Thailand. Especially after all the support he’s been getting from his followers and even fighters.

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Thai kickboxing legend, Buakaw Banchamek, along with plenty of fellow influencers, also commented on reed_harrington23’s 200k followers post. And his recent post about the “GoFundMe” promotion has just as many comments.

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Top Comments from reed_harrington23’s post about his GoFundMe project

The post had loads of comments. Here are some of them.

A user commented on the post reminding the 13-year-old influencer that he has to live in Thailand.
“It’s not a “trip” man you gotta live there”

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Another questioned why reed_harrington23 used “we” instead of “I”
“Wait y is he saying “WE””

The user here is talking about Buakaw’s comment on his 200k post
“cuz u literally got offered a flight and a place to stay by a fighter in thailand”

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Another user left a hilarious comment on his post, implying how the 13 year old will disappear with the GoFundMe money
i feel like this ni*** gon take the money and disappear”

One user questioned if 13k wasn’t enough to stay in Thailand.
“$13,000 isn’t enough to stay in Thailand?”

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While a different user told reed_harrington23 to stop procrastinating.
“Go to Thailand and stop procrastinating”

A different comment advised the kid to plan for the trip before asking his followers to donate more.
“How about you plan the trip before telling us to donate more”

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There are people in the comments questioning whether the 13-year-old would keep his word and go to Thailand to train. However, given the young boy’s rep till now, it won’t be surprising to see him pull off the trip to Thailand.

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Imtikokba Jamir is a UFC Writer at EssentiallySports. He is your typical MMA geek who is always on top of the happenings in the sport. Imti’s coverage is not restricted to his favorite fighters, including the likes of Justin Gaethje and Robert Whittaker, but also off-court MMA enthusiasts like the celebrity Mark Wahlberg and former POTUS Donald Trump. His articles often find place on our top headlines because of his timely coverage of trending storylines. This English under-graduate is also an expert at covering UFC commentator Joe Rogan on both MMA and non-MMA-related topics.

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