Daily Mail article
Queerty article
Article in the 'guardian' makes references to Frank Ocean and Maria Bello.
Frank Ocean used his song lyrics to convey his sexuality, whereas Maria Bello posted a picture on her Instagram profile.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-25183041
The link below explores the fact that Tom Daley's sexuality should not matter: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/diving/25193760
The telegraph however explores the significance: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/diving/10488416/Tom-Daley-is-the-most-significant-British-sportsman-to-come-out.html
Grandparents suprise - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2516759/Tom-Daley-comes-divers-grandparents-admit-surprise-new-boyfriend.html
The Telegraph broadsheet newspaper has a neutral view http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/diving/10487809/Tom-Daley-reveals-he-is-in-a-relationship-with-a-man-in-frank-YouTube-video-from-Olympic-diver.html
His youtube video received 6,801,015 views.
It then received 145,933 likes and 5,765 dislikes. Tom Daley previously received abuse from a 'twitter troll' when his dad passed away with cancer.
In the above images are a few screenshots from his twitter page, which shows how Tom Daley spread the video himself.
He posted the YouTube into a tweet and Facebook status which allowed his followers to see the video, if not already had done (despite being categorised the most popular video on YouTube). The tweet received
Which shows how the advancements in technology and social media enabled the spread of the video to accelerate. However he also received extremely negative comments to this, which was also expressed on Twitter, shown through the link http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/02/homophobic-tweets-tom-daley_n_4372196.html
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