Ren Nakamura asked Dos Toros, a taco chain, on how many likes he needed to get free burritos for a year. The taco chain said 10,000 likes was all he needed. Nakamura achieved what they asked for and more, with the help of @newyorknico, who asked his followers to help the 17 year old out. Dos Toros gave Nakamura a black card that lets him order the most expensive item in the menu once a week for 52 weeks, as Oddee detailed:
The next afternoon he posted a picture of himself standing outside of Dos Toros saying: “@dostoros promised me free burritos for a year if this post gets 10,000 likes. U KNO THE F***ING DRILL (2 handshaking emoji’s) Like and share! (2 burritos emoji)
Half an hour later @newyorknico shared it via Instagram Stories, with his 305,000 followers. He said ‘help him out. I don’t know why but I wanna see this kid win real bad. Maybe I identify because I was once a high schooler who loved burritos. Please like his post so he can get free burritos for a year. I figured Dos Toros was betting against him hitting 10k likes, so I felt obligated to help him out. I also love the idea of a community coming together to help a kid beat the odds and win a free year of burritos. If that’s not what social media is for, I don’t know what is,” Nicolas Heller, who runs the @newyorknico Instagram account, said.
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