Meet The Teen Who Made That Viral Marriage Equality Cartoon

Get your cry-face ready, because this one will wreck you.

An animated clip advocating for marriage equality has gathered almost 100,000 views since going live two weeks ago.

More remarkable is that it was created by a 15-year-old Sydney student.

This brings the total number of 15-year-olds helping to drive massive social upheaval in Australia to one. But, maybe that's about to change.

Josh Lorschy of Barker College in New South Wales whipped up the video over four painstaking days using the Adobe suite, in anticipation of the cross-party same-sex marriage bill being introduced to Parliament on August 11.

The process involved writing the script, creating the graphics in Photoshop, animating them in After Effects and recording the voice over. All on his own.

Watch it and weep.

Since being shared on ‘I’m Australian and I Support Marriage Equality’, the video has been viewed 87,000 times, with a further five thousand views being tallied on YouTube.

“I just feel like it’s an issue that Australia needs to take hold of,” Josh told Student Edge during his school lunch break.

“My mum is gay and I have a couple of close gay friends, so it’s like a personal issue that has faces in my life.”

Photo: Josh Lorschy. Supplied.

The response from those he made the video for has been overwhelmingly positive.

“Mum said she was pretty proud,” said Josh.

Even strangers have reached out to Josh to thank him for making the short film.

“I’ve had some messages from different people supporting the movement saying its great someone my age made a video like that.”

His spirit for social justice started three years ago, when Josh and his family began working for Room to Read, a non-profit organisation that aims to improve global literacy and gender equality across Asia and Africa.

“My family and I raised $40,000 [for Room to Read], which built two libraries in Cambodia," Josh said.

“As part of that work, they nominated me to go to the United Nations’ Youth Assembly in New York in 2013.”

Two years later, he’s using his video editing skills to urge Australia to follow in the footsteps of New Zealand, Ireland, and most recently, the United States in legalising gay marriage.

“For now, my video and photography is just a hobby,” says Josh, who hopes to study international law in the future, and enact change on a larger scale.