teen walks into Target looking for a tie for a job interview. photo goes viral

[joshcryer]

209. Yes.

The only reasonable point of failure would be the teen being an actor manipulating store employees with the hope that someone would post it to Facebook.

Intentionally viral stuff backfires very quickly. If it was faked it would have to be extremely well done. The FB post would have to be someone who wasn't connected in any way to advertizing companies or work for media, the employees would have to be carefully selected to meet the best requirements of social behavior, and the young man would have to be a very manipulative actor with perhaps even an earpiece. Then it requires dozens of more people in the media planning, execution, and coverup phase. It's beyond absurd.

I expect the young man will come forward eventually, either the employees will recognize him and tell him the story went viral, or he'll come upon it himself. If it doesn't happen then you can throw out FUD about the "mystery kid," of course.

Naturally all the "skeptics" here won't keep up on this story and the damage is already done in the eyes of the "skeptics."