KISS CAM Incident at Coldplay Concert illuminates the unpleasant history of technology

The internet has got going with a couple in the past few days because of an incident on Wednesday cuddle On the jumbootone at a Coldplay concert in the Gillette Stadium in Foxborough near Boston. Instead of leaning into their hug when they realized that they were in front of the camera, men and women drew off abruptly. She turned the camera back. He ducked. The couple's embarrassment was reinforced by the comment by Coldplay front man Chris Martin von der Stage: “Either they have an affair or they are very shy.”

The KISS CAM clip became viral on social media and received millions of hits on X, TikTok and Instagram. Sleuths soon identified the couple: he is Andy Byron, the married CEO of the New York, resident software development company Astronomer; She is Kristin Cabot, the company's human resource manager.

astronomer announced On Friday, Byron had brought it on vacation and replaced it by the Chief Product Officer Peter Dejoy. “The astronomer is committed to the values and culture that have led us since our foundation. Our managers are expected to determine both behaviors and accountability,” said the company in one opinion The Board of Directors added to X that the matter has initiated a formal examination of the matter.

According to a statement by the astronomer, Byron resigned on Saturday.

In the meantime, the Internet was with answers, including fake statements from Byron And Coldplayas well as countless memes like a comparison of the couple Muppets Fozzie Bear and Miss Piggy.

There were also IRL answers. The Philadelphia Phillies made fun of the faux pas by A video During the game on Friday evening in his jumbootron of his Fuzzy Green Mascot Phillie Phanatic in a hug with an unpleasant green companion. People can even buy memorial ceremony like A sweatshirt With the slogan – in the hats – “I brought my side piece to the Coldplay concert and it ruined my life.”

KUSS CAMS: A mostly unpleasant story

The origins of Kiss Cams are unclear. They probably came in the 1980s with the emergence of large video cats in stadiums in California to close the gaps in professional baseball games. They often experience joy as the former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn a Romantic moment Before the cheering crowd in a game in Atlanta Braves in 2015.

But it is also true that the hiking camera was also the cause of the scandal.

A main source for KISS cam controversy was the tendency of cams to concentrate on straight couples and to humiliate or attack same-sex hugs.

In 2010, the Kiss Cam showed a kiss between two men who wore Arizona Cardinals jerseys in the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, the former House of St. Louis Rams, in one, in one Obvious homophobic boom Against the rival team.

And in 2015 the New York Mets changed her KISS -cam policy After he was criticized Two men appear together on the camera.

However, KISS CAM film material is often not as scandalous than uncomfortable.

Take your time in 2012 when former President Barack Obama with his wife Michelle did not react to the camera while participating in a men's national team against the United States.

“When the crowd asked the couple to kiss, the president held his arm around the first lady and smiled, but did not kiss and asked a wave of Boos from the crowd,” reported Cnn. “But the fans did not go completely disappointed. Not long after the couple had shy away from a PDA, reporters were brought back to the arena to watch how Obama and his wife dived again on the KISS CAM, this time with the president who went to search.”

Some celebrity couples prefer to avoid avoiding kissing chambers as a whole. Prince William shared this view with the BBC In 2012, while taking part in the Olympic Games in London with his wife Kate Kate Middleton. “I was absolutely afraid that they would come and show me and my wife,” he said. “That would have been very embarrassing.”

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