“They rejected my application to Hogwarts but I still found a way to be a wizard.”
Zach King
Introduction
TikTok is a powerful social media platform and if you post the right video, then you have the potential to gain millions of views. Every so often a post goes viral and off the scale. The highest number of views recorded are by the magician Zach King. A youthful talent who decided to create a Harry Potter-style illusion that was so believable. Zach filmed himself, appearing to fly on a broomstick with literally no strings attached. Wearing a robe, a red-and-gold Gryffindor tie, and glasses, he is shown flying around a cul-de-sac on a broomstick.
Hocus Pocus
The video when posted on TikTok received 7.7 million likes and viewed over 2.1 billion times in four days. The video shows Zach appearing to levitate off the ground, without any visible harness. Yet look closer and you will see a mirror attached to his leg, which gives the illusion of having another leg hanging in the back. The mirror is covering a skateboard but strangely the mirror doesn’t appear at the beginning of the video. Maybe this trick was created using more mirrors, a green screen and post-production editing but the video still remains a mystery. Just one of Zach’s tricks but definitely the most popular.
