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Gallium (media.piefed.social)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[-] Legisign@europe.pub 1 points 6 days ago

The most curious thing in the whole mess is the revelation that Americans actually think companies should react to this kind of thing. Like the employer would “naturally” and “obviously” have a right to invade employees’ personal life and privacy.

[-] Lumidaub@feddit.org 101 points 1 week ago

Do I need to know who that is? I tried looking up the name but all I can find is gossipy yelling about the two of them and Coldplay so apparently this seems to be some big deal but in general I don't think it should be the public's concern if someone has an affair (exceptions apply).

[-] MammyWhammy@lemmy.ml 155 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Their reactions to being on the big screen, which instigated Chris Martin's live commentary, is what's causing this video to go viral.

The point being if they hadn't had this reaction to getting caught, Chris Martin wouldn't have commented, and the video probably never would've taken off or even been posted outside of someone's private story.

If someone is having an affair, and having an affair in a public place, and the affair is between the CEO and the lead person at the company who knows better than to instigate this type of relationship (the head of HR), then this is a hilarious way to get caught.

[-] Lumidaub@feddit.org 29 points 1 week ago

So a simple lolcow exacerbated by belonging to a group of people that (deservedly) has image problems. Alright then.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It is more so that the singer's response to their reaction was to say she was shy or having an affair and it turned out to be the latter. That would be funny no matter who they were .

Him being a ceo was the cherry on top.

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I dunno', the chain of exacerbations is pretty hilarious. Even better it's happening to a class of people that deserve zero respect.

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[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago

What's weird is that when these videos first started popping up is that every one of them talked about "Astronomer CEO". I couldn't understand how they knew he was a CEO or why he was an astronomer. It turns out that Astronomer is a "DataOps platform built on Apache Airflow". That's even an area I know a fair amount about, and I'd never even heard of them. It's strange that it wasn't just "cheating couple caught on kiss cam", but instead immediately it was "Astronomer CEO".

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[-] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 82 points 1 week ago

Why do we care about this?

Is anyone involved in this, someone i should know?

[-] Bamboodpanda@lemmy.world 102 points 1 week ago

The news of it happening doesn't land like the video of it happening does.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMMm-ePtVfU/

It's fucking brutal.

[-] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 56 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh man, so much worse. What an idiot, if they had just smiled and waved it never would’ve gone viral.

Edit: and also if they had never decided to have an affair they wouldn’t be in the situation in the first place.

[-] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

if they had never decided to have an affair

Yeah, but that's too difficult. Just ask my wife.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Anyone got a mirror that doesn't require a fucking Instagram account?

Edit: YouTube short but at least it doesn't try to beg for a login: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/xL8gdhw4q5I

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

For me the video plays if I just close the login prompt.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Ah so it does, didn't even notice that X all detached from the login prompt like that.

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You can force youtube shorts to be displayed as a normal video by replacing everything up to the last slash with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v

So in this case it's:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL8gdhw4q5I

Edit: For some reason Lemmy won't let me put an equals sign at the end of the code block. Weird. But you'll figure it out.

[-] Cliff@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

Top comment on that video:

Coldplay hasn’t made a single in years but today they made two.

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[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago

"Coldplay hasn’t made a single in years but today they made two." LOL

[-] KnightontheSun@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago

Technically they made four.

[-] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 days ago

i love this comment. underrated.

[-] Fredthefishlord 41 points 1 week ago

Because it's funny as shit.

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago

Because the picture is a future meme template

[-] jagermo@feddit.org 40 points 1 week ago

Can someone explain why this is a big deal? Yeah, they cheat but did they do something before that makes it especially heinous?

[-] Chaotic_Altruist@lemmy.zip 44 points 1 week ago

CEO cheats with his human resources chief and blames the general public for it. That HR chief has likely fired people for similar relationships within the company. Says the public is at fault for violating his privacy at a public event. Everyone is pissed for some reason or another.

Could have just cheated with anyone else and it would have been a personal matter, but the situation and his reaction have been pretty bad.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

It's not a big deal, but it is funny how it happened. Never heard of any of these people or the company before, so I have nothing invested in this.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 38 points 1 week ago

Oh fuck, not not the camera.... fuck fuck fuck

[-] johnny_deadeyes@slrpnk.net 37 points 1 week ago

I wish they would maybe capitalize the proper nouns in this post. On first readings, not knowing Astronomer is the name of a corporation, I thought they were just referring to a CEO that also happened to be an avid stargazer -"What a strange detail to include...".

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[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 35 points 1 week ago

There is only 1 CEO I have seen hit the ground faster than that, I don't think I am beeing too harsh.

[-] TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

We need more ~~CEOs~~ data.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago

Sucks that the company is named Astronomer. It's not even space based.

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 16 points 1 week ago

Thank you for clearing this up! I, like I assume many were, was assuming this dude was a scientist.

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[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 week ago

I wonder if they would have gotten away with it if they'd just played it cool.

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 10 points 1 week ago

100%! Imagine you look up on the big screen and you see two fifty year olds swaying to some generic pop music. Nobody would've cared enough to look them up.

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[-] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

And they would have likely gotten away with it, if it wasn't for that pesky kisscam.

[-] bus_factor@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago

Might have also gotten away with it if they didn't completely freak out in front of the kiss cam, so everyone started thinking they were cheating and looked into who they were.

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 week ago

This. Entirely this.

If they had just gone "woo hoo we're on the TV thing at a concert! Woohoo" .... Like everyone expected them to, then nobody would have given a shit.

They're just people having fun at a concert.

Meanwhile, they freaked the fuck out, the guys on stage pointed it out, and everyone went full Psycho trying to figure out what was going on. And now they're in the daily dose of Internet.

GG guys. Ĝis poste

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[-] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

That guy looks like he just had a rush of blood to the head

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[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 16 points 1 week ago

Hmm.

Does she have some decent guns or is it just the muscle being pushed up by the arm underneath?

[-] PraiseTheSoup@midwest.social 11 points 1 week ago

Look at the shoulders. She's jacked.

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[-] nuko147@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Well, the CEO will need a big raise soon.

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