Kahri Salyars was proud of losing 40 pounds, until her TikTok video drew a month of cruel comments. Then a flood of kindness buried the hate. The people behind it were Tyler Brickley’s secret, half-million-strong Kindness Mob.
Musician Cash Jacobs, who has stage 3 breast cancer, posted a video asking Miley Cyrus to shave her head before chemo. She didn’t meet her idol at the first Hollywood Bowl show. Then Cyrus flew her back for the second one and picked up the clippers herself.
Graham Stockwell was born nearly four months early, weighing one pound and nine ounces. Days after he finally came home, Florence firefighters helped save his life. On his fourth birthday, his family brought him to see the fire trucks and found the same crew waiting.
A 77-year-old man who had come to renew his passport was lost near JEM in Singapore with no phone, while his family searched all afternoon. ITE student Naira Maisara Binte Abdullah was about to cycle home. Instead, she walked him 30 minutes to his door.
Irishman Patrick Mohr’s gold wedding ring slipped off his finger into a fast mountain stream in Italy. Three Italian strangers roped themselves to boulders and dived for it until they found it nine days later, then flew to Ireland dressed as hobbits to give it back.
The night before Roze Mulen returned to her nursing job after two months away for her mental health, a cashier named Tim at the Trader Joe’s in Bloomington, Minnesota, asked how she was doing and actually listened. Then he walked away and came back with flowers and chocolates.
A radio call about a medical emergency sent the principal and the bookkeeper of Millbrook Magnet High School in Raleigh running to a bathroom. Minutes later, the school’s security officer had a healthy baby girl, and the school had its tiniest Wildcat.
Dale, 86, of Mineral Wells, Texas, has spent nearly forty years welding a 62-foot steel boat in his front yard, dreaming of sailing her to Alaska. Three English visitors shared his story, and strangers around the world are now helping him get her on the water.
Principal Bobby Davis sprinted to the cafeteria of Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School to stop what he thought was a fight. It was a birthday prank, and the video drew millions of views. The senior who planned it says Davis changed his life.
Four-year-old Remi Floro of Port Clinton, Ohio, had to sell his tickets to Twenty One Pilots’ Ohio Stadium show when his leukemia relapsed and his bone marrow transplant was scheduled. Josh Dun and Tyler Joseph visited his hospital room instead, and Dun wore Remi’s name on stage.