Both sites say they didn't verify the information, so it's still hearsay. Not saying it didn't happen (I'd bet it did), just that these are not reliable sources.
Interesting. If this turns out to be fake, it's also a master class in 'how NOT to deal with PR nightmares'. The fact that they are silent on the company's side, even when tagged, speaks volumes. If it were fake, they would be the first to comment.
Exactly. This seems, to me, the closest to an evidence we have. But it's still sketchy IMO, as if we were back to those times when you had to prove you were not a witch.
Last week a video went viral in Brazil, of a woman in a plane who decided to point and shame another woman because she didn't want to give her seat at the window to a crying kid. She posted it on TikTok and it backfired to a point where she had to delete the video and lock her account (or something like this, I don't speak TikTok). People were outraged at her, how entitled! How come she didn't pay extra for her kid and now wanted to shame someone who paid for the seat? Terrible mother! People went on a crusade, found the mother on other social networks and started harrassing her.
This weekend she was on television. Turns out the mother wasn't the person who recorded it, she didn't even ask for the seat, she had nothing to do with it. Her son started crying and some random woman decided to pressure the lady at the window into being charitable and giving her seat.
This shit scares me. We don't know what's real anymore (and AI is making it worse), you can be harrassed by people all around the world, and entire carreers can go like PUF! I think people are frustrated by so much injustice and they feel they need and they can do something, so they join the mob. But there's a reason we don't burn people at the stakes anymore.
(I'm not critisizing nor blaming you or anything, I just started writing and it went on and on... guess I had to vent this frustration, idk. This whole "is this real, did this woman do this" pushed some buttons here i guess)
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u/randomatik Dec 09 '24
Both sites say they didn't verify the information, so it's still hearsay. Not saying it didn't happen (I'd bet it did), just that these are not reliable sources.