A shirtless, ponytailed white man taunting a group of Black men strolling along a Cleveland public walkway must have manifested his own reality when he kept repeating, “You’re gonna go viral.”

A clip of him getting knocked out with a single punch has tens of thousands of views.

The video posted to Instagram on Nov. 12 shows the man harassing a group enjoying the Cleveland Lakefront Bikeway on a recent rainy day. When a bystander turned on his phone and began recording the alleged racial harassment, the man’s ramblings about “going viral” kicked into gear.

“You’re gonna go viral for doing nothing, for being a b-tch,” he told a Black man he had been harassing, attempting to bait him into a fight. “You’re going viral for walking next to me and not doing a godd-mn thing.”

His wish was soon

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