# 'I Created It Myself': The Boy Behind the Viral 'Aura Farming' Boat Racing Dance  ## About - Author: BBC News - World - Title: 'I Created It Myself': The Boy Behind the Viral 'Aura Farming' Boat Racing Dance - Published: 2025-07-11 - Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czxe7ey59r0o - Share: https://notes.peterfmcnair.com/i-created-it-myself-the-boy-behind-the-viral-aura-farming-boat-racing-dance-by-bbc-news-world ## Excerpts Over the last few weeks, social media feeds all over the world have been flooded with [videos](https://www.tiktok.com/@lensa.rams/video/7458433897114635525) of a sunglass-wearing young boy in Indonesia, balancing on the tip of a long racing boat and doing what is possibly the world's coolest dance. It's being seen as the ultimate representation of "aura farming" - an internet phrase for the act of looking cool and building one's "aura" (another word for charisma, or rizz). ... And behind it all is eleven-year-old Rayyan Arkan Dikha, who told the BBC that the viral moves came to him on the spur of the moment. ... While his dream is to become a police officer, he has one tip for anyone who wants to follow in his footsteps: "Stay healthy, friends, so you can become like me." ---