Teen’s online dare sparks Thai dream

A 13-year-old American boy’s Instagram challenge sent Muay Thai boxing viral and set a record for likes on a comment on the platform after he promised to follow the advice of the most liked comment on his post, according to Korn Chatikavanij.

Mr Korn, who is a former finance minister, wrote about the phenomenon unleashed by Instagram user “reed_harrington23″‘s short video clip.

“Okay. When I hit 200,000 followers, I do whatever the top comment said on the video and post it,” the teenager said in the video posted on Sept 29. Reed Harrington is a seventh-grade student in the US, and the clip received 1.5 million likes and more than 45,500 comments, including an offer to purchase a ticket for him to fly…