Thanks to the power of the Internet, many people have become superstars overnight. Their 1 is felt online in catchphrases (名言), photos and videos that 2 around the Internet. They have gotten famous 3 the unique luck of becoming an Internet celebrity.
This global phenomenon has certainly caught on in the US, and American high school students are no 4. Alex is one of their5.
Alex? A few months ago, he was a high school student living a 6life. He lived in Texas in the US. He woke up at 7 am for school. He had 144 followers on Twitter. But now everybody on social media knows him. How?
You must have had this experience. You were waiting in line for the 7 in a store when you realized that your cashier was smoking 8. Well, that's exactly what happened to someone who saw Alex. He was working in a chain store one weekend and a teen girl took his photo and posted it on the Internet. She 9 a caption (文字说明) naming the store, writing, "This is Alex from Target," and teen girls soon began 10 the picture on every social media platform.
Alex, who worked in the Target store all clay, had no idea that he had become a sensation. He only felt 11 when he noticed his checkout line had gotten 12 long. Then his Target manager showed him the online photo.
Alex's life began to 13. He got thousands of followers on Twitter, a social network, within the first 24 hours and his new fans even tried to 14 which Target store he worked at. "I was getting tons of texts," Alex said. "They all said 'This is crazy, you're famous.
15 , Alex also paid the 16 for fame when he received criticism and verbal 17. Many have taken to social media to call Alex names. Twitter is full of 18 criticizing his looks.
Alex has tried to19the criticism. He says he wants to take what he learned from his days of being bullied and help to 20teenagers who are experiencing meanness online.
