Daughter Uses Sign Language to Tell Her Deaf-Blind Mother 40 Million People Watched Her Video
A daughter uses sign language to tell her deaf and blind mother that 40 million people have watched a video featuring her, and the mother's stunned, disbelieving reaction moved many who saw it. The clip is one of 24 wholesome internet moments highlighted in a BuzzFeed listicle.
A moving video included in BuzzFeed's roundup of 24 wholesome internet moments shows a daughter using sign language to tell her deaf and blind mother that 40 million people have watched a video featuring her. As the daughter signs the number, the mother's expression shifts from calm to wide-eyed disbelief as she tries to process the scale of that audience. The daughter's patient effort to connect her mother's sensory-limited world with the vast, invisible reach of the internet gives the clip its particular emotional weight, and the mother's stunned, joyful struggle to comprehend the figure is what resonated with so many viewers. BuzzFeed gathered the video alongside 23 other uplifting stories — ranging from a dad's graduation photoshoot to Chihuahuas surfing together in San Diego — as a reminder that the internet still has genuine warmth to offer amid its daily noise.
