High school student Kevin Kodra is a makeup artist and self described "social media influencer" with thousands of followers on Instagram, but the reaction to a graduation photo he posted on the social media site on Monday was surprising, even to him.
"When I woke up the next morning ... with 18,000 likes on my photo — it was different, to say the least," he told CBC Radio's
Here and Now on Thursday.
Within two days of Kodra posting the photo, popular magazines including
Seventeen and
Teen Vogue had written features on the 18-year-old.
"This is a new concept: a yearbook photo going viral," he said.....
This 18-year-old woke up with 18,000 likes on his impeccably made-up yearbook photo | CBC News