The internet is now making random people millionaires ‘for fun’

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The internet bubble has finally burst – and it is filled with little bags of .com gold.
Millions of social media users around the world have agreed to randomly make someone a millionaire through crowd-sourced generosity.

The ‘millionaire maker’ experiment, the first of its kind, will see Reddit users donate one dollar each to a person selected at random.

To enter people simply needed to post a message on forum: ‘Reddit, Let’s Make A Millionaire!’.

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The rules were simple – one message per Redditor from an account that was older than the thread itself (to stop cheaters posting multiple times).

And today, the first winner of the crowd-funded stunt was chosen – a Redditor called Emphursis from South London who posted: ‘Welp, fingers crossed!’.

The group is now hoping to make the ‘millionaire maker’ experiment a regular installment on the social media site.

After hearing about his win he wrote: ‘I was half awake in bed and I thought I’d have a quick look at Reddit, saw the little red envelope and clicked it to be greeted by all this! I’m blown away, it still hasn’t really registered.

‘There’s so many PM’s and replies here that I can’t hope to reply to them all.’
But what will he spend the money on?

He said: ‘I’ll definitely be making some donations to charity, to help give children in deprived areas a brighter Christmas.

‘Beyond that, I’ve not really thought about it.’

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Asked whether the win was a set-up, he added: ‘Oh, I’ve also seen a couple of posts saying this was in some way rigged. That was not the case, I was fast asleep while all this was happening!!

The idea spawned from a Reddit thread called ‘Shower Thoughts’ after one user mused: ‘If a million of us picked a certain Redditor and all donated just $1, we would have the power to make someone a millionaire.’

Keep your eyes peeled for the next round folks.