Karl Bushby's 28-year walk ends with a dry welcome from his mother

BoltMotivation squeezes the Goliath Expedition, from a frozen Bering Strait to a Caspian Sea swim, into a Short that closes on a doorstep in Hull.

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He Tried To Walk Around The Earth…😳🌍

"You've changed a bit." That is all Karl Bushby's mother says when her son finally walks back into Hull, decades after he promised her he would not come home until he had gone around the planet without cars, boats or planes.

The reunion is the last scene of "He Tried To Walk Around The Earth…😳🌍", a Short from BoltMotivation, a clips channel that retells stories using other people's footage. Here that means news reports credited to ITV News, the BBC, Sky News and others, stitched together with narration and a turning globe. It drew close to 7 million views since yesterday.

In under a minute it runs through the Goliath Expedition, which Bushby, a former British Army paratrooper, began in 1998 at the southern tip of South America. The plan was twelve years. The Short follows him floating down a river disguised as debris, crossing the frozen Bering Strait into Russia and being arrested on arrival, then finding Russia closed and no Iranian visa on offer, so he swam the Caspian Sea instead. After that, the globe graphics give way to cameras, a crowd and his mother.

The comment section has filled far faster than usual for the channel. Many viewers joke about parents who claim they walked miles to school, a few remember clips months ago saying Bushby was nearly home, and others weigh the achievement against so many years away from family.

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The numbers

A Short that reached millions within a day, with a comment section many times busier than this channel's usual first day.

subscribers

3,110,000

▲ 40,000 in the last 7 days

total views

5,257,800,953

views per day

27,463,171

typical day: 7,580,020

the video

views

7,687,725

likes

213,368

comments

2,570

days online

2

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