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Why a TikTok star still takes day laborers to Disneyland

Jesús Morales. (Courtesy of Jesús Morales)
Courtesy of Jesús Morales
Jesús Morales. (Courtesy of Jesús Morales)

A social media creator continues to go viral for paying California day laborers to take the day off and go with him to Disneyland instead.

Here & Now‘s Indira Lakshmanan speaks with Jesús Morales, who is known as juixxe on TikTok and Instagram, about his six-year journey of random acts of kindness.

@juixxe
“Esto cayó del cielo” 🥹
♬ original sound - Jesús

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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