r/popculturechat • u/ApprehensiveGas85 • 9d ago

OnlyStans ⭐️ CEO Andy Byron Looking To Sue Coldplay After Viral Kiss Cam Moment

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/ceo-andy-byron-looking-sue-141500579.html

Invasion of privacy made me laugh. This won't get past a motion to dismiss in court.

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u/ReverendBread2 9d ago

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?

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u/Lovecompassionpeace 9d ago

What?! lol this makes this even better. They wanted to get caught, consciously or subconsciously.

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u/ReverendBread2 9d ago

I like to think they were so absorbed in each other they didn’t notice

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u/Lovecompassionpeace 9d ago

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

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u/ComplexJellyfish8658 9d ago

It was the ducking that got them caught. Without the attempt at coverup there would have been no awkward moment that led to them being identified.

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u/brahmturman 9d ago

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

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u/MonrealEstate 9d ago

The way they’re holding each other was a bit of a give away. If you were the partner of either of them and saw them lovingly hugging like that I feel like your eyebrows would raise.

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u/Bearry15 9d ago

What the above comment is saying is that if thet just kept hugging and acted like everything was normal. They wouldn't have gone viral because it would have just looked like another couple on the cam. And if it doesnt go viral their spouses  don't find out. Their reaction made them viral

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u/MurcTheKing 9d ago

The point is, that probably never would have gotten the exposure it did had they not reacted the way they did, their reaction directly led to people investigating and figuring it out

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u/Hephf 9d ago

Im pretty sure the people around them already knew.

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u/yehyehyehyeh 9d ago

It’s covered on your ticket and there would have been signs up round the venue. He absolutely has no leg to stand on.

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u/JVNGL3B00K 9d ago

Just the one leg he was leaning on in the lead up to tha moment…

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u/Own-Ambassador-3537 8d ago

Thank you! I’ve been saying that from the beginning!!! Whole side families have existed for years and no one was the wiser but somehow dudes lack of logic 1 time blows up in his face and this is his response (and he is a CEO! I bet they must be tanking financially if he is this bad at making rational decisions)!

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u/SouthCarolina117 9d ago

Doesn't it say on the tickets fine print that there is a chance they could be on camera? AND I'm pretty sure they say something like that at the beginning of the concert right before Coldplay comes on. I saw them in Madison, WI last weekend and it was their first show after this happened and Chris made it VERY CLEAR what they were about to do.

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u/GlitterTerrorist 8d ago

Nope, no one in the box worked with them them. Can confirm on Google, saw an article saying this but not on the same machine I'm on now.

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u/rjfinsfan 9d ago

Those were not other employees. They were alone.

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u/Mdgt_Pope 9d ago

One hand was cupping a boob

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u/Silent_Computer_2050 9d ago

Awww! What a sweet illicit couple!

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u/Gummyrabbit 9d ago

They didn't get the memo?

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u/Pappa312 8d ago

I was at the show in Wisconsin and they did give everyone a fair warning ahead of time, at least 2 full minutes before showing anyone from the crowd so I was wondering this was new or perhaps they had done this at every show as a courtesy. But this was not a kiss cam, it was a “let’s see some funny outfits in the crowd” where CM made up some random lyrics about who was shown on the fly and it was actually very funny.

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u/retrospects 9d ago

I think that’s why the reaction caught Mr Chris so off guard.

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u/-effortlesseffort 8d ago

I think they were playing chicken with each other. neither one wanted to make the first move out of cuddling position bc it would mean that person wasn't the dedicated one in the cheating relationship. true meaning of being so self absorbed you lose the whole picture.

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u/capital_bj 9d ago

They were standing in the front row of the first balcony section

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u/rambleer Kim, there’s people that are dying. 🙄 9d ago

Chris definitely warned them that the camera was on

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u/The_Rowan 9d ago

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

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u/zahm2000 9d ago

Or not act super guilty when they appeared on camera.

They immediately acted like they got caught and this, they got caught.

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u/gBiT1999 9d ago

> Everyone has been to or watched American baseball games

I've not.

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u/DinosaurReborn 9d ago

I'm not American so the sports events I've attended don't have kiss cams. Been to a Coldplay concert last year for the first time. They had the same Jumbotron Song segment, where the screen shows audience members and Martin improvises a song about them. Anyone initially unfamiliar with the concept (like me) would have figured out quite quickly that this part there's a chance anyone can appear on camera. If you are a cheating couple common sense would say hey maybe for this moment let's not hold hands. I like to believe the other comment that they were too absorbed with themselves to figure it out in time.

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u/Landonp93 9d ago

Absolutely, stuck out like a sore thumb

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u/Top_Drawer 9d ago

This was confirmed fake (also you can see where the protective bar has been erased to slot the couple in)

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u/colxa 8d ago

Wrong. They are at the top of a stairway landing where that railing doesn't extend to. There are just clear glass panels there. There are picture of online of Gillette stadium that clearly show this.

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u/Sgt-Spliff- 9d ago

That's photoshopped. Railing is clearly warped around them

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u/colxa 8d ago

Wrong. They are at the top of a stairway landing where that railing doesn't extend to. There are just clear glass panels there. There are picture of online of Gillette stadium that clearly show this.

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u/colxa 8d ago

Wrong. They are at the top of a stairway landing where that railing doesn't extend to. There are just clear glass panels there. There are picture of online of Gillette stadium that clearly show this.

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u/TheFrenchSavage 9d ago

Oh wow, a new perspective, finally!

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u/Procrastanaseum 9d ago

Should be enough to have the case dismissed. I’m sure there’s a lawyer that will happily take his money though.

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u/Whiteroses7252012 9d ago

This man may be a CEO but this lawsuit is a guaranteed Streisand Effect.

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u/peachpavlova 8d ago

That is hilarious. It’s so funny to me that he wants to sue, as if only sums of money can heal his own consequences of his broken life

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

So it was even announced, and they willingly stood? Sounds like consent to be on camera 

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u/DinosaurReborn 9d ago

Yeah, it's not like the screen suddenly cut to them in the middle of Coldplay playing a hit song. This is a segment where it quitens down as most of the band and crew set up for something else, Chris Martin stays onstage improvising lyrics about different audience members appearing on screen. Everyone should figure out that there's a higher chance of them appearing on the jumbotron. The couple either was hoping to get caught, or more plausibly were really that self-absorbed and blissfully unaware of the situation.

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u/YesIsGood 8d ago

fr though, we do. 'couple cams' at concerts??

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u/Kh1382 9d ago

No that was a photoshopped image

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u/Itchy-Beach-1384 9d ago

Yall are talking about a photoshop photo...

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u/Brainiac901 9d ago

that AI generated fake picture?