Tourists watch the sunrise at the Angkor Wat temple in Siem Reap province, Cambodia. Short videos of visitors running down narrow stone pathways and vaulting over passageways – often overlayed with sounds from the popular Temple Run video game – have been making the rounds on TikTok, Facebook, YouTube and other platforms. — AP
One of the hottest viral trends, where people sprint, leap and crash around Cambodia’s historic Angkor Wat and other temple ruins in the South-East Asian nation in a live recreation of a popular video game, has conservationists aghast, with several saying the race for views denigrates the almost 900-year-old sculptures and risks irreparable damage.
Short videos of visitors running down narrow stone pathways and vaulting over passageways – often overlayed with sounds from the popular Temple Run video game – have been making the rounds on TikTok, Facebook, YouTube and other platforms. Some videos have received more than two million views and inspire copy cat versions daily.
