Influencers caught in plane party
I can’t tell if this is news or not, it feels so meta, but it’s a quiet news day: a crowd of Quebec influencers, including some reality TV figures, recorded themselves having a party on a plane to Cancún and some are now facing fines. Watch out, a noisy video may autoplay.
Of course, the people involved may feel that any publicity is good publicity, and getting into the paper is worth the fines.
Update: The charter company has cancelled their return flight.
Another update: TMZ has the story.
steph 12:03 on 2022-01-04 Permalink
I’m surprised they didn’t ’emergency land’ with police waiting as it happened. At this point,with this media coverage, what passenger is just going to innocently take their pre-planned return flight?
Blork 17:50 on 2022-01-04 Permalink
Among the “lifestyle” archetypes that social media has generated, few are as abhorrent as these self-styled “influencers.” Trumped only by the idiots who are actually influenced by them.
Max 17:51 on 2022-01-04 Permalink
So I can’t go walking in the park on my own after 10 pm, but I can hop on a plane to go party with maskless internet celebutards and their hangers-on in Cancun. Got it.
denpanosekai 18:35 on 2022-01-04 Permalink
fucking douchebags
Blork 10:09 on 2022-01-05 Permalink
Update: Sunwing has cancelled the return flight, essentially abandoning them in Mexico. https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2022/01/04/vol-de-retour-annule-pour-les-influenceurs-quebecois-sur-le-party
MarcG 14:25 on 2022-01-05 Permalink
If they stay there long enough and start inbreeding we may end up with a very bizarre and self-involved Quebec-Mexican subculture.
GC 18:50 on 2022-01-05 Permalink
If they are such great influencers, they should be able to find a sponsored flight back.
Max 19:16 on 2022-01-05 Permalink
Sunwing, Air Transat and Air Canada are all telling these travellers to go fuck themselves.
Which is cool.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/maskless-influencer-plane-party-a-slap-in-the-face-to-canadians-pm-1.5728606
jeather 21:26 on 2022-01-05 Permalink
I’m really curious how all the other airlines are able to identify the influencer group. Did Sunwing share their names? Can Sunwing share names?
Apparently they were not popular in the hotel — harassed another guest, yelled at staff, had sex and did drugs in the pool. And they are being refused from the planes in part because their (leaked) group chats discussed faking PCR tests with vaseline and getting faked photoshop tests; also, a number of them are actually testing positive. (I’ve been enjoying following this story.)
Raymond Lutz 22:53 on 2022-01-05 Permalink
@jeather aussi joussif to watch as the Fyre festival train wreck? 😎
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ0KNVU2fV0