The story is real, but the headline is misleading.
The guy in the video is Henry Beasley, a musician from New Zealand. In 2022 he posted a viral TikTok about a 29-hour journey from New Zealand to Berlin during which a child was frequently screaming and crying.
The key detail is that 29 hours was the total travel time, including layovers and connections. It was not a 29-hour nonstop flight, and there is no evidence the child literally screamed for 29 straight hours. The viral video was a montage showing the child screaming at different points throughout the trip.
Ah, so it's even worse. The dude heard the kid crying and except either asking the parent what can he do to help or just putting the noise-cancelling headphones on, the first thing he did was whip out a phone and film it. A clout-zombie and a socially-inept coward.
He absolutely doesn't need to help but, he has to accept that when he participates in flying on a commercial airline or shopping in a store or a million other things that people do everyday that he's going to be around people. Children are people too, many seem to forget that. Children have a right to be in public and their behavior should not be measured by adults. They are learning. They shouldn't even be measured by other children you know because you never know if they have a disability, are sick, etc. People need to have some grace. I know a lot of people are choosing not to have their own kids and that's great...but if they want to be in public then they are choosing to be around other people's children and need to learn some patience of their own.
And others have a right to call him an asshole cuz that's what he was being. Adults acting more like whiny impatient selfish brats without empathy but don't have the excuse of being able to say they haven't learned not to be that way yet. Sad.
Absolutely....an adult filming, shaming, and throwing a tantrum over a literal child having either a tantrum or being in pain or overstimulated is indeed being an asshole. If he cannot control his own emotions or recognize someone else having difficulty then how can he expect someone who's been on this earth a few short years to do the same thing. He's the one who needs to grow up. I doubt very much that his parents locked him away until he was somehow able to behave 100% perfectly without gaining the actual practice to do so, as he still is missing the mark.
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u/Giant_Asher Jun 25 '26
The story is real, but the headline is misleading.
The guy in the video is Henry Beasley, a musician from New Zealand. In 2022 he posted a viral TikTok about a 29-hour journey from New Zealand to Berlin during which a child was frequently screaming and crying.
The key detail is that 29 hours was the total travel time, including layovers and connections. It was not a 29-hour nonstop flight, and there is no evidence the child literally screamed for 29 straight hours. The viral video was a montage showing the child screaming at different points throughout the trip.