A scandal that is unlikely to cheat broke out at a Coldplay concert in Foxboro, Massachusetts Wednesday. The CEO of a unicorn tech company was caught by Jumbotron at the concert, and the live video showed him the enthusiastic hug of his company’s head of human resources. When Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin laughed, “They had an affair, or they were just shy, the two were embarrassed to dodge the camera.
As it turns out, the former explanation may be correct. Internet detectives put two and two together. The video of HR’s crushing defeat was all the rage on Tiktok, with more than 58 million views. So far, it feels like the entire internet has watched videos (and have something to say about it). Of course, the general consensus is that infidelity is wrong and that the defendant’s adulterer should be caught.
One user posted on X, “Really enjoy everything about cheating CEOs and chiefs at Coldplay concerts when the terrible people are exposed to their Tomfoolery in a grand manner.” Another wrote: “OK, CEOs are cheated at Coldplay concerts and posted on social media. If you do some disrespectful shit, you should be exposed.”
Although their morality of action is not debated, the joyful response to viral videos may be. As 404Media writes, the full response on social media platforms “symbolizes our current private surveillance and social media hell.” The internet’s obsession with cheating, surveillance and Doxxing comes into play again. People online are getting more excited to lift memes out of their pain by exposing these scandals and by judgement (sometimes unfair). Every time this happens, there is improper guessing and self-righteousness without considering how to overexposed and wear the twister.
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We’ve seen it before. First, be with the infamous sofa guy. Then, last year, Tiktok, a United Airlines flight, spread, with users claiming one of her passengers was cheating on his wife. The couple was completely eliminated, with thousands of Tiktoks participating in the position. As Mashable writes, the trend in Tiktok searches, especially in terms of cheating, “illuminates one of the grim consequences of today’s digital culture: the lack of empathy and nuance outside the range of the phone screen”.
Cheating has become the ultimate online crime
In fact, “married men on the plane” actually makes people question our attention to this virus moment. No one denies the harm of infidelity and the volatile consequences it may have. However, the Internet’s obsession with uncovering this behavior raises a deeper question: It’s a form of entertainment and surveillance without much consideration of the consequences that the people involved will face.
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As Katie Notopoulos of a business insider wrote: “The truth is, I don’t know these people. able Assuming that the online attention they receive will certainly make them feel painful – except for situations where situations may have been very painful in other ways. ”
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This situation illustrates something bigger: another voyeuristic obsession, a new level that emerges every day (more dangerous than others), and our collective lack of privacy. We don’t need to know everything about each other, but we’ve done more and more. This is a step in the wrong direction when it comes to empathy in the Tiktok era.
