Virality

Cockburn hates to admit it, but whenever he gets on a plane he starts praying. He's not afraid of flying — so much as his fellow passengers.  The news cycle over the summer months has done little to rid Cockburn of his prejudices. Just yesterday it was reported that a business class passenger on a transatlantic flight was harassing other passengers because he didn’t receive his preferred meal. The man didn’t stop there. After exiting the plane when he had forced it to land in Chicago, instead of its intended destination Amsterdam, he then harangued the airport staff.  The videos from the flight show the passenger going on a rant that involved cursing out his fellow travelers and calling flight attendants “douches.

The internet caught the collective sads on Thursday when a mother posted a video of her son hysterically crying because of school bullies. Nine-year-old Quaden Bayles’s peers have apparently decided to make his life a living hell because the boy suffers from dwarfism. The video itself is devastating — Quaden wails, talks about stabbing himself in the heart and wishes that someone would just kill him so that he no longer has to deal with the pain of bullying. You would have to be utterly heartless not to feel for this little boy. https://twitter.com/S11E11B11A/status/1230428038304849920 But our sympathy for Quaden’s plight shouldn’t stop us from questioning why this video was posted in the first place.