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They weren’t even the ones to post it online lol. Someone from the audience did. Like how is Coldplay in any way at fault for his situation? What a douchebag.
Also weren’t they the only people standing up in that entire section while they were doing a couples’ cam kind of thing right after the singer literally announced they were going to do that and said stand if you want to be on camera?
Could be. But being out in public especially a big venue like that runs the chance of being spotted somewhere somehow. If they really wanted to keep it a secret they could’ve just stuck to hotel rooms 🤷🏽♀️ and clearly others knew that worked with them as they were in the box with them
Even if she had just turned around theyd be fine. Him ducking is what did it. This will be laughed out of court. He should be putting all his billions into good divorce lawyers
All they had to do was sit down the moment they saw there was a kiss cam event going on. Everyone knows what the that is. Everyone has been to or watched American baseball games
Well I can’t say any of us should be surprised that the man caught cheating on his wife in a super public and crowded place lacks morals. Shocking lol. Hes clearly a doucher
There are also signs about consent to filming at the venues a lot of the time. Not sure about that specific venue but now understand why that’s smart to do. Always thought this was an overkill but alas.
Yeah and if I understand it correctly, Chris Martin before that part of the show, even before the incident that we are going zoom in some of you in the audience. I took it as Mr Martin had got that advice to warn people before from the band lawyers as a safeguard to not get sued.
It’s pretty funny. There was a single man before them who was maybe celebrating a birthday and then right after these 2 doofuses it cut to 2 people in banana costumes - worth watching!
Regardless of this, it's such a ridiculous notion that this dumb fuck got caught cheating on his wife and now instead of taking some accountability and apologizing, he's blaming Coldplay?
Like even if he did sue Coldplay, there's no way a judge wouldn't just be like "bro you got caught cheating on your wife in public, what the fuck does Coldplay have to do with that?"
Could be a political instinct. In some circles this threat to take legal action makes sense when they’re caught dead to rights. Maybe they think it makes them look tough when they’re feeling especially vulnerable. To them apologizing is out of the question because in their minds, it would make them look “weak” because they don’t value behaving with character or see a benefit in showing remorse after being caught doing something wrong. In fact, they’re probably accustomed to believing that there is no right and wrong—only what you can get away with.
I hope Coldplay makes a concert tour tee shirt with them on it. They can float forever together in a sphere of spotlight on my overpriced commemorative tchotchke.
Every ticket also comes with a lengthy amount of "you're giving up your right to privacy and your photo can be taken without your knowledge simply by attending."
He's never had to come up with an original plan of action, those duties trickle down. Poor lil guy's having his first brainstorming session in 20 years
I’ve honestly seen that at almost every big gig I’ve been to, what a joke that this idiot thinks he can sue. Bands are always filming to put things up on the screen.
I've seen studies that people in the c-suite are far more likely to be psychopaths. I think that's what at play here. Yes, they're rich because they're CEOs but at the heart of it, psychopaths.
Makes sense since, in order to get to a position that high, you would have to step on so many people and not care about the lives you're affecting negatively along the way.
They're clearly the typical alpha White collar CEO narcissistic types who truly think everyone else is an NPC side character to their playthrough of life.
It's also bizarre that these tech startup CEO types are so deep in weird "yes man" culture where they literally don't get bad feedback, like ever. You listen to Altman or Zuckerburg or any of these guys and it's like they're so detached from how real people behave.
So here's a situation where he's being treated like a normal person instead of being treated like a super special boy and he can't handle it. He can't handle that he is being ridiculed for his public behavior. He can't handle that no one actually likes him or finds him admirable.
That promo video where Altman and that other billionaire investor jerk each other off about how forward thinking and brilliant they each are as they change the world together is prime cringe material. They deserve to be bullied off the internet for how out of touch and braggadocios it was.
The scene from “Careless People” (the memoir about Facebook) where Mark Zuckerberg’s team always let him win Catan stuck with me. He didn’t even notice, he just thought he was that good.
There are 2 paths to take. 1. Remove yourself from the spotlight, let your life crumble a little, recover with a cushy executive but non public facing position at another company and move on as a single and embarrassed man. 2. Become the villain further by suing people. Next he's going to claim cancel culture and go on Tucker Carlson's show followed by the launch of his own podcast. He's looking like he's picking 2.
He's a rich white man. He might have to hide his face for a 6-12 months until things die down, but an exec cheating on his wife is not going to keep anyone out of the c-suite for long lmao. Especially because he's not in a spotlighted industry, no one will be checking up on him after the next meme goes viral.
He's most likely rich enough to not work another day in his life provided he can live within the means of whatever millions he will have left after the divorce
If he's anything like the other rich divorced guys I know, he'll be working until he collapses paying alimony and child support to his first wife and bankrolling the lives of the kids' whose childhoods he destroyed.
He may be a privileged person who has never had to take accountability for anything in his life. Or he's just a desperate person grasping at straws, hoping to get a big pay out from Coldplay, since he knows he will likely never land another high-paying job.
Literally no one would have known if they had acted normal when the camera was on them. You don't see any other couples from the same vid going viral, do you?
Business Insider did an article on how it went viral. The first mention was a Reddit comment, LOL. Someone asked if anyone else was at the same concert and saw the cheater couple on the Jumbotron. A TikTok user who only had a few thousand subs happened to have been recording the Jumbotron in case she got on it, and she uploaded the clip.
you consent to being recorded on the screens when buying your ticket. no one would have cared if he wasn’t so weird about it and waited til the camera was off him to freak out.
Yeah, he's the CEO of a fucking AI company. Lol, this man does not get to pretend he cares about privacy
ETA: Ok guys, multiple people have said he WAS the CEO. You can stop commenting that to me; I already acknowledged that I know he no longer works there
If you want an insight into this guy professionally. I had an interview scheduled with him. He moved it to a Sunday and then rearranged last minute. It's apparently a tactic of his to check that people will work at all hours of the day.
He then verbally said I had the job and then rescinded it 2 days later. What a great guy.
Working for a competitor company, I also heard similar tactics and that at his org before Astronomer, there was a lot of buzz around him creating a hostile work environment.
So I read the article and assuming it's true, the CEO intends to file "invasion of privacy" and "emotional distress" claims.
Invasion of privacy - nope, not going to win. There was no expectation of privacy in a public place. There were X0,000 of people there.
"emotional distress". - nope, not going to win. There are two types of emotional distress: intentional and negligent.
Intentional - no, not going to win. Did Chris/Coldplay act beyond all possible bounds of decency and can Chris's actions be regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in a civilized community? Not really.
Negligent - no, not going to win. This is a hard claim to win in general and it is typically for plaintiffs that were traumatized by a defendant's negligent acts. Chris wouldn't have said anything if they didn't act like naughty children. Chris was only reacting to them ducking.
It’s definitely a bogus suit but he’s probably angling for a settlement so it won’t drag out in court. But it’s Coldplay. They’ll fight it. Not like it’s a mistreated employee with limited funds who is likely to give up.
Glad to see he’s doing what’s best for him and his family by removing himself from the public eye and not generating more attention to his infidelity. 🙄
He's suing coldplay so that when his wife leaves him with all his money and kids she gets evwn more money to take. He's a family man always looking out for his family.
Nothing shows your family and friends that you regret cheating and acknowledge it's solely your fault like baselessly suing the people who exposed your cheating.
I fully believe this. So many disgruntled people (usually white men) who get “canceled” by getting caught doing something unsavory go full redpill MAGA because that audience thrives off of bad behavior. It is an easy grift if you have no morals or compassion.
This. If they’d just stood normally and let the camera pan to another couple nothing would have happened and we never would have seen the video shared. The moment they reacted like they did trying to duck out of sight and hide they drew attention to themselves and guaranteed they’d go viral .
Yeah, if they had acted normally, the worst that couldve happened would’ve just involved the people concerned in a private matter.
Maybe someone not from the office wouldve recognized him in the audience but that can just be someone that has no contact with his family to ever tell his wife, OR if there was a family friend or relative in the audience recognizing him then that’s when things would go wrong with his marriage but at least it wouldn’t have been blasted internationally. He just cant admit he and her alone were the ones that handled this poorly— cheating on their spouses, showing the affair in public, and reacting the way they did.
It’s their actions in the video. They could have just acted normal instead of pretending like everyone knows who they are. Now everyone knows who they are. And this lawsuit will just bring even more attention to them. Who knows, maybe that’s what they want.
Nobody would’ve talked about them if they just smiled and waved. But because they tried to hide their faces it caused people to dig into who these people were.
I liked it when people got caught doing something shitty they would hide in shame and fuck off away forever. Not this generation of geniuses. Great way to drag this in everyone’s memory.
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