Agree, it sounds like he just followed a moral impulse and suddenly there's eyes all over him, which unless you're the kind of person who craves that (and he doesn't strike me as that type but that could be my misperception), can't be fun to deal with. Hopefully the positive attention outweighs the negative and he's getting some reprieve from it all as needed/wanted.

Yeah me too. It worries me as someone who was a bigger kid like him that this attention will make possible bullying so much worse. Don't know what its like these days in schools, but I expect not much better than in the past.

As a kid I was put into a local newspaper and in a small town the bullies got so annoyed about this positive attention that I was bullied for it for years after it happened and ridiculed about everything I said or stood for in the article, including the clothes I wore. I hope this kid has adults and friends in his life to mitigate stuff like this, the attention here is on an entirely different level.