IN a bid to lose weight, a seven-year-old in China promised his father that he would do one rope skip for every ‘like’ their video received on social media, China Press reported. The video went viral, drawing 1.8 million likes in less than a day. “However many likes this video gets, you’ll skip that many times. However, it soon got out of hand when the video got nearly two million likes the next day. He said the school assigned pupils winter break homework to skip rope 100 times a day.

Source: The Star February 12, 2026 16:45 UTC