In the past few days, video has gone viral of a Frontier Airlines passenger being duct-taped to his seat after misbehaving horribly on a Philadelphia to Miami flight. In addition to assaulting the crew, he yelled at the top of his lungs, saying how his rich his family is, and cussing out other passengers.
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If anything, one of the main lessons of 'fake news' and opposition to established science during the pandemic is that millions of people are extremely bad judges of what is true. It thus doesn't surprise me that people think that Emirates ad, or this Youtube video, is true.
Sad part is that even though it's fake, lots of people have seen it and in their minds it's real. they may never know its fake and pass it along for years with "remember that guy on this flight who got duct tape and said he's rich...." thats how fake news start and perpetuate.
There has been parody/satire forever.
There have been idiots forever.
We’ve made it this far. We’ll survive.
The actual passenger being duct tape is real. The parody is the interview with the comedian posing as a flight attendant