Lakeview Goes Viral

Two Lakeview Centennial High School students are becoming popular on a national level. On Friday, February 3rd, junior Sam Major, wore LED light up Yeezy shoes to school, which his two junior friends, Rafin Parvez and Ken Dixon, could not stop laughing at. A video surfaced on sophomore Alexis (Lexi) Compton’s twitter, getting thousands of retweets. The video soon went viral all over the web.  

Compton stood by, filming as the boys laughed hysterically at the knockoff shoes. Parvez and Dixon were shaking and on the ground in tears at the fact that Major had chosen to buy those shoes.

“My friend, who I call Kyle, pointed out the shoes and I couldn’t believe my eyes,” Parvez said. “Sam was wearing some light up Yeezys and we had to get on his case.”

Major wasn’t experiencing bullying though, he too was in on the joke over the colorful blinking Yeezys. Anatomy and Physiology teacher Dawn Cervone even came over to record and join in on the fun.

“We were laughing at the fact that my shoes light up and then some teacher came over and started to record my shoes lighting up,” Major said.

The video had gone viral by the end of that day. Andrade’s original tweet currently has over 5,000 retweets on Twitter.

“I woke up from a nap and I checked my phone,” Parvez said. “My messages were blowing up talking about a video on twitter so I looked and found that the video on Twitter that Lexi posted of us was getting a lot of attention.”

When funny videos on Twitter begin to receive a lot of attention, popular accounts usually repost them so they can receive attention too. One Facebook account ‘Savage ZONE’ reposted the video and it currently has over 9 million views.

“I feel good about [the video getting a lot of attention],” Major said. “I just hate that they don’t give us the credit that we deserve.”

There were hundreds of comments made on the facebook post, calling the video rude and saying that the boys were bullying him.

“Most people were dying because we were laughing and flaming Sam, but others thought that we were bullying him but we weren’t at all,” Parvez said.

With as much attention as the video is receiving, many are saying that it’s material to be put on Ellen, but the teens are staying humble.

“It would be cool, but I don’t really care,” Major said.

The friends will continue their lunchtime regime with making jokes and flaming each other as they always did and always have.

“It’s a humbling feeling to see people laughing and enjoying themselves at a video of my friends and I just being ourselves,” Parvez said.