A man stuck in a tennis racket went viral. Here's the story behind the video
One of the most viral videos on the internet right now shows a man stuck inside a tennis racket. His entire torso and one of his legs are trapped inside the oval, which has its strings removed, and people are just standing around him, not helping.
"Fire department gonna be talking about this for generations," joked one X user in a viral tweet.
Since Oct. 31, the 11-second clip has amassed more than 23 million views on X, all thanks to a tweet that reposted it, with many commenters wondering what happened next. Need an update to this immediately," wrote one person in a viral quote-tweet.
"The guy is fine," says Odigie Efe Alex, the video's original creator, who on Sept. 28 shared it on his Instagram account, @official_siralex12, where it received over 1.5 million views. Alex tells USA TODAY that he wasn't aware of his video's newfound popularity on Western social media.
Alex, 35, lives in Benin City, Nigeria, and he says he filmed the video at his workplace, a local restaurant, where he's hired as an emcee for parties and events. The man in the tennis racket was also an entertainer, a contortionist, hired b...