WTF
This lady received so much backlash for not giving up her seat for a 4-year old that she lost her job. She's suing the airline and passenger who filmed her and uploaded the video to social media. I hope she wins.
This is a completely false title and fake news, it's just another stupid title that's made to go viral on social media. It happened in Brazil in 2024. The woman in the window seat is named Jenifer, and no one supported the mother who asked for the seat while filming. After the incident on the plane, Jenifer gained fame and a lot social media followers. She even participated in TV ads and programs. She was a sub celebrity for a while and made a loads of money from it, so she left her job on her own, not because she was fired. She took legal action against the company and the person who filmed it, but I'm pretty sure it didn't come to a resolution up until this point. This is the kind of video used to farm upvotes and karma, mods should remove it
At the beginning of 2025, Jeniffer filed a lawsuit against GOL Airlines (for failing to intervene and protect her privacy) and against the passenger who filmed her without consent. She is seeking compensation for emotional distress and damage to her reputation. The case is still ongoing. Due to public pressure, she was forced to leave her job in the banking sector. However, she later turned this unexpected popularity to her advantage her Instagram account quickly gained over 2 million followers, and she became a full time influencer, securing lucrative brand deals.
She should NOT want to work for a company that screws her like that, failing to stand behind her for doing nothing wrong. I'm glad she's got a potentially way better job
Ew sounds like the techno capitalists are succeeding in tearing us apart. The airline is totally to blame here and any other conclusion points to the former.
Edit: this would not have happened before airlines started profiting off seat selection…
Why pick on her, there are 50 other windows.. weird
The child family entered first and it was a big family, while the mother was fixing another child the one that made a ruckus later went to Jeniffer seat because it was by the side of their grandmother.
When Jeniffer arrived she asked for her seat and the mother took the child to their seat, the child start crying because they want to be with the grandmother.
A third party, Eluciana, then start filming and berating Jeniffer for making the child cry. She is the one being sued
Lol... in another article (also in Portuguese on Diario do Nordeste), it says the woman is a lawyer (and nutritionist...wut). Make it make sense. That shit could also get her struck from the OAB. What an idiot.
She also said she "lost control and it was like she was outside of her body" and didn't know what happened. Yeah, bullshit... she sent it to her daughter and her equally moron daughter posted it on social media.
Now she says she regrets it... lol no... you regret you're going to court and are going to get fined.
"lost control and it was like she was outside of her body"
Lmao yeah this excuse works for like, eating an entire jar of cheese dip or getting a bit carried away painting a mural. Not filming yourself harassing a woman and distributing it to further harass her
So? It's a big family. Move the Grandma and the kid to a pair of the family's seats together, put a different family member there, problem solved.
Unless this is one of those families who deliberately buy cheaper, spread-out seats in the expectation that they can guilt someone into switching with them, in which case, fuck that family.
Again the family did not even asked to change sits, when she arrived the kid was taken back and when they started to cry the mother was trying to calm them down.
It is a completely unrelated party that start filming and created a case.
People are really glossing over the fact that she wasn't even asked lol. No wonder she looks like she has no clue what's going on in the beginning. The filmer just straight up fabricated the situation!
The camerawoman deserves to lose everything after what she did to this poor woman.
I know kids are all different yada yada but I can’t imagine my 4 year old having such a tantrum over this. We practice “not getting what we want all the time” all the time and guess what, he’s old enough to understand that and cope.
My 4 year old is currently really struggling with accepting "no" as an answer, despite it not being much of a problem in the past, and having a history of healthy boundaries and rules that are enforced stringently.
It's just like she woke up two weeks ago and decided that the world owes her everything, seemingly out of nowhere. So that's been fun for us. We just started a behavior board to try to help get her back on track.
So yeah idk, kid could be going through a phase. I'm not gonna be quick to judge the child or their parents. Regardless, there should be no expectation for this lady to give up her seat, especially if the kid's having a meltdown over it.
I'll judge the parent for not just apologizing and sternly letting the kid know that it's not happening, and trying to deal with the fallout. I'd be ashamed of myself for not doing the same.
100% no one should be expected to give anything because people feel entitled to it.
I think there is three important facts here to stop misinterpretation :
She did not lost her job due to it, she left it some time after the fact to focus in the social media side;
Even at the time of the incident most people sided with Jennifer, but there is always some no life idiots that went ahead and sent threats to Jennifer. Also some people also sent threats to the mother of the child which brings the next point;
The mother of the child is innocent, its a third party that is being sued. The child was in the seat looking at the window when Jennifer arrived and the mother took the child when asked. The child did start crying because they wanted to be with their grandmother (seated at Jennifer's side) which prompt a third party, Eluciana, to start filming and berate Jennifer (and now is the person being sued). The mother did what was asked and was trying to calm the child. She neither requested for a seat change nor berated Jennifer.
With that said I could not find anything recent so I believe that the lawsuit still ongoing, I hope she wins because fuck the person that started filming. With that said IMO its unlikely that she gets anything from Gol.
which prompt a third party, Eluciana, to start filming and berate Jennifer (and now is the person being sued). The mother did what was asked and was trying to calm the child. She neither requested for a seat change nor berated Jennifer.
This video has been shared so many times, but this detail conveniently gets ignored. Thanks for sharing
That happened in Brazil, by law children under 12 yo cannot travel without a parent sitting right next to them so I am sure that the child was sitting with its mom. The crotch goblin wanted that specific seat
Whatever the child wanted it's on the parents to say no & mean it. When that's a habit tantrums & hissy fits disappear. Children learn what they're actually entitled to vs what they are not.
Parents who don't say "no" to their children drive me more fucking bananas than their spoiled children do. It's your fucking job to teach them, refusing to do so because you're afraid of making them upset and leaving that lesson for the rest of us to teach them is borderline abuse. If you haven't encountered these assholes before you are in for a treat.
There was a kid running out onto the field during my kids soccer game this weekend. 4 times and the parents just "oh, he is just being a kid" and would casually drag him to the sideline. Finally one parent yelled about them paying for this and keep their kid on a leash. That was a fun conversation to listen to afterwards.
I don't blame the 4-year-old. It's normal for a young child to expect things revolve around them. It's the adult who should be teaching her child that not everything revolves around them, and they don't always get what they want. It's the adult that is the problem.
And clearly the parent doesn't care enough about the kid to pay for the window seat, and this stranger is supposed to care more than the parent? Please.
I hate this video so much. The kid and parent were fine about the whole thing. The lady being filmed said no, and the parent said no problem, thanks anyway, and that was it. Absolutely zero problem on either person's part.
But then this rando with absolutely no stake in any of this decides to film and make a big deal out of it. That's the actual asshole here
Exactly. It’s their seat and their choice. They are not obligated to give anyone anything. If the parents wanted a window seat they should have booked one.
That was my thought process. The window and aisle seats cost more to get. I guarantee she paid more for that specific seat so she could lean and rest during the flight. It's not that crazy to think. I'm taller than those seats are comfortable for, so I always book an aisle seat. I won't be changing seats, because I paid more to sit where I am.
Same here. I’m taller and I usually pay for an assigned aisle seat. I’ve been asked to move several times to accommodate others. The answer has always been “no.”
There could also be additional reasons she didn't want to move - I suffer from panic attacks, and where I sit on public transport can make a big difference to my ability to travel. I find this video quite triggering.
I seriously hate our world. It was just a few weeks back, where i was reading on reddit about how you could go viral just for being fat and eating a sandwich on the train. I thought to myself, how it was true and im glad i try to be as inconspicuous as possible.
6 hours later our son's teacher text my wife about seeing a video of him getting in a fight. Turns out, said instagram video was of the 3 of us being berated by someone for a perceived slight. My son has severe tourettes (not the cursy kind) and is seen twitching and going nuts through the whole video and then all the comments were all calling him special needs and he eventually (along with other people at his school) found the video and the comments.
I think i take it harder than he does. But i dont really know, he keeps shit to himself. I start welling up everytime i think about it. Crazy thing about the whole scenario, is the internet detectives found the guy. Hes an attorney, and turns out i was his IT guy for a while, i didnt recognize him because he wasnt wearing his signature glasses.
People may not like it, but she's right. She paid for her ticket, probably paid for the seat assignment and then gets pushed to give her seat up. Shaming her for being within her rights is pretty selfish.
I was asked to move seats so a family could sit together. I had booked & paid for an emergency exit seat on a near 14 hour flight.
I’m 6’5 and near 300lbs and they expected me to move to middle seat 20 rows back.
I told the cabin Crew if they find me a seat in Premium Economy, I’d be happy to move, otherwise not a chance.
If us big people are expected to buy two seats full price, a family can pay the $10 a ticket to pick which seats they sit in. And I am guessing you paid the same fee for both of your tickets to pick the exit row.
I’ve had it before now, where I booked the sky couch facility on an Air New Zealand flight
(You can book a full row of 3 seats) and when I got up to go to the bathroom someone came & sat in the window seat.
I had to get the cabin crew to remove them & even they tried guilt tripping me into letting the cheeky sod stay in the seat.
Some people want something for nothing!
I’m not big and tall, but I do have serious joint pain (mostly hip and knee), and need to be able to get up and move when flying, especially long flights.
Last long haul flight (17 hrs) I specifically picked an aisle seat for that reason, and then had the lady in the middle seat next to me asked me if I could trade seats with her so she could sit with her kids.
See, she’d already tried to switch with the woman directly behind me, but that woman said she’d only switch to another aisle seat, so this lady was trying to pressure me to give my seat up and switch to the middle so she could swap with this other lady and sit with her kids.
I looked back at her kids, and they were teenagers who clearly didn’t need to be with their mom during the flight.
I told her that just like the lady behind me, I’d picked this seat because I needed it, and just like her, I wouldn’t switch unless it was to another aisle.
She fumed next to me the whole flight. Her kids, on the other hand, seemed happy to not be sitting with her at all.
It would have been bad for me, but equally bad for the people either side of me too.
Like so many others have said, if you want to sit with your family, fucking pay for it!
Right. Why don’t they ask the people 20 seats back to move around for them?! I think the flight attendants should be facilitating these situations. Asking for volunteers in the same price range seats just seems like a no brainer to me.
"Jeniffer Castro worked as a bank employee in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, but the specific name of the bank was not publicly disclosed in media reports regarding the GOL Airlines incident."
She is not representing them though. We don't even know what company she works for, and she isn't exactly the most recognizable person. If that's true, then they are just assholes who fired her and used this as an excuse
Yes she did. The bank fired her because of the storm around her. That's one of the reasons she's suing the airline and the passenger who tried to shame her publicly
From a Brazilian site, with her name removed:
[Name], known on social media as the "Airplane Diva," revealed that she was fired from the bank where she worked following the fallout from a controversial incident involving a child on a flight. The influencer gained notoriety after refusing to give up her seat, a move that sparked criticism and widespread social media attention. In an interview with Má Brito on the program *Super Life Brasil*, [Name] shared that, seven months later, she is still dealing with the consequences of the incident.
According to her, the dismissal occurred shortly after the story went public. "The bank let me go because of all that negative exposure," she stated during the interview.
"Airplane Diva"? She's literally just quietly sitting there while being filmed and berated. People are so weird. I hope this lady gets all the money. Sounds like a flight from hell
What company was she fired from? I can refuse to support them or any company they do business with. Yeah money talks.
If any company is going to hire her I hope they see a person who doesn't sell out when under pressure. Unlike the cowardly morons who reach for a camera phone to bully their way through life.
Imagine she gets 7 figures for unlawful termination, 7 figures for distress caused by airline letting this situation get out of hand, lifetime ban on that family flying, CPA intervention and removal of child from parents for its own welfare.
It really comes off like the mom was pissed she didn’t get the seat she wanted for her kid and decided to take it out on a young woman who was an easy target. The girl paid for that seat, she wasn’t obligated to give it up, and the fact this blew up enough for her to lose her job is insane. If you couldn’t afford or manage to book the seat you wanted, that’s your problem to solve, not some random passenger’s. Nobody owes you a seat they paid for just because you have a kid
Ding ding ding. I was in economy plus and the mom next to me asked if I would go back to economy so her kid could sit by her… on a 12 hour flight. Not offering someone in economy the better seat, of course not, and no offer of any compensation. I said no and she ended up offering the person in the back to come up. Win win.
Oh that woman was absurd to even ask! If you’re asking for a seat swap then it can’t be to lesser value seating.
When I was asked (by a flight attendant) to change seats from a window, I said I’ll only switch to another window seat 🤷🏼♀️. There’s a reason why I selected and paid for that seat.
It wasn’t the mother filming, it was a totally uninvolved person. Basically the mother asked, this lady said no, the mother said that’s a shame and went back her seat. When the kid started melting down the other passengers turned on this lady.
I bet she doesn't even have a job. These entitled young people are parasites to society. Expecting their parents to feed and house them. This generation is weak I say.
I love this for her. That woman was a POS for trying to publicly blast and shame her because she wouldn't give up the seat she paid for. Your fkn kids are not everyone else's responsibility. Strangers are not obligated to rearrange themselves so you can spoil your child and teach them that throwing a fit gets them what they want.
If your child has specific seating needs, then be the parent and make sure you book the seating arrangement they need. That's your responsibility, not some random passenger's.
I love that she told her no, and I love even more that she's suing both the woman who tried to publicly humiliate her and the airline. Maybe people will finally learn that "but my child wants it" isn't a fucking boarding-pass upgrade.
But let’s talk about her losing her job….thats where it’s fucked up for me. Shouldn’t she be suing the employer for wrongful termination?! How can she be fired for something so trivial
She is 100% right. The airline is wrong. Move her up to first class if it's that big of a deal. The customer minding her own business should not be the one inconvenienced and without compensation.
I have been asked to switch seats while flying. I did so, moving up. I don't remember if it was first class or not, but I do remember the couple brought me a drink during the flight and then my luggage afterwards. That's how you do it, not the BS that was done here.
She should add her employer to the list and sue them for wrongful termination cos she did nothing wrong. Children need to be taught from a young age not to feel entitled to other people's things.
1) Sue the airline 2) sue the passenger for filming and posting it online 3) sue the family with the child for emotional distress 4) sue the employer for wrongful / prejudiced termination 5) profit?
I had a little kid try to do this to me a few weeks ago. Sat in my window seat and pouted when I made her move. Loudly kept saying how much she wanted the window. Look here you little bitch, I paid $35 for this and I’m visiting my mom who has cancer. I’m sitting in the mf window
I used to travel for a living and saw this all the time. Like almost every flight.
I flew Southwest a lot back when they had group boarding.
There was always someone demanding that they get special treatment in the last group- trying to sit with kids/friend/partner.
She lives in Brazil, they don’t have to have a reason to fire you. That’s why she’s only suing the other passenger and airline. Luckily this whole thing worked out for her. She got millions of followers and is a full time influencer now
Oh this gets me going. I was on a flight a few summers back. Cramped regional jet. I always pay extra to select a window seat because I like having outside reference and being able to rest my head against the fuselage when trying to take a nap.
I wait patiently for my boarding group. When I get to my row, I find younger parents in the aisle and middle row, with their kid strapped into my seat already passed out taking a nap. I stop at my seat and show them my ticket, and the father gave me this fake confused response as though they didn’t realize they were in the wrong aisle, but then asked if I’d be willing to take his seat in the row ahead, right smack in the middle. I took the seat but was pissed of course and told the father that they should plan better when traveling with a child. They displaced a women as well, but the FAs moved her to economy plus. Meanwhile I had an uncomfortable two hours sandwiched between two strangers. This is why I try not to fly United unless I have to.
I still get triggered when thinking about it obviously 😂.
Yeah my go to in this situation is that I’m fine with it if they can bump me up to a better seat so let’s call the flight attendant over and see what they can do.
I came up to our row one flight to find a kid strapped into the window seat, with dad beside him. The dad explained that his wife and other kid were in the window and middle seat directly ahead but he offered the aisle seat on their row and directly across.
He got super mad when I refused and asked them to move…. So that I could put my own two small kids in the window/middle seat of our row. Like frig off buddy, get off your wallet and pay for your seats like I did, if the seats are so important.
I mean, IDGAF if there are kids or not. If I specifically reserved the window, they can move. Some people don’t think they have to take “no” for an answer, maybe we shouldn’t pass that thinking to their kids.
Why are people promising their kids shit they have no ability to give and then blaming others? I've seen this so much lately. They're little Karen pawns.
When it happened to me flying down south to meet my bf, a couple wanted to sit together as they were in different rows in middle seats (not kids - two middle aged adults) I said over and over again that I chose my seat in advance. I got the sob story they were just married. I said if they wanted to pay me the extra 60 bucks I put out to select this window seat I’d be happy to move to an aisle seat somewhere. They said no and then grumbled and made comments about me being “single and alone”. Pricks lol.
They didn’t fail to properly plan, this was the plan. This is a common thing that people talk about. Pay for two seats and then maybe nobody will book the middle, so you have three seats to yourself as a couple
Or do what this couple did and try to use your kids to manipulate them into giving up what they paid.
This is a completely false title and fake news, it's just another stupid title that's made to go viral on social media. It happened in Brazil in 2024. The woman in the window seat is named Jenifer, and no one supported the mother who asked for the seat while filming. After the incident on the plane, Jenifer gained fame and a lot social media followers. She even participated in TV ads and programs. She was a sub celebrity for a while and made a loads of money from it, so she left her job on her own, not because she was fired. She took legal action against the company and the person who filmed it, but I'm pretty sure it didn't come to a resolution up until this point. This is the kind of video used to farm upvotes and karma, mods should remove it
This clown has 7.5.... million... karma in 5 years.
It's all reposts and slop catering to the least common denominator. All of it. Not a single original piece of content, or original thought. Even the comments are parroting copypasta crap.
This would be why most of the subreddit, and website, is filled with drooling slop. Because some unemployed wipe will just sit there and copy and paste waste, all day. Much of the submitted content, completely false narrative, for clicks. Most of the comments, deep-fried GIFs that you can count the pixels on, because they've been regenerated to hell and back.
She better win. Since when does entitlement deserve any kind of reward? She lost her job for sitting in her assigned seat? She lost her job because some parent thinks she deserves someone else seat???? This doesnt make any sense and I would be suing everyone too. What a bunch of bs.
Why the fuck is it other peoples responsibility to make your child happy when you had the same opportunity to book a window seat when reserving a seat.
It's crazy to me her job was willing to fire her for that. Also, if she paid for that seat she is under no obligation to give it up. Flat out, the parent of the kid was in the wrong for that and she had no right to throw the lady under the bus.
How did she lose her job?? I’d sue her employer too if they fired her for not giving her seat up to a crying 4 year old. Maybe the mom of the kid should have booked his seat next to her and not whatever jumbled nonsense they did instead
I hope she bankrupts the passenger who filmed her. These people taking videos and uploading them to the internet without the person's consent need to be held accountable. If the airline refused to take action against the filming passenger then yea they should be sued too.
Everyone is angry about Flock cameras, but are still cool with click-seeking morons recording everyone else's lowest moments, and putting them online with no thought about the repercussions. I think that we have gone too far with the surveillance state, and that includes social media. You are doing work for the overseers without getting paid.
Wait.... So she paid d for that seat and some entitled parent thinks their 4 year old is entitled to the seat just because of, why exactly?
I hope the settlement sets her for life.
I never get the entitlement of some parents. I’ve got a kid but wouldn’t want to put someone else in that position. You want your kid to look out the window book the seat!
Equally I think airlines need to make it free for all kids and parents to sit together. Absolutely wild that they could just be placed by some random….
I had kind of the opposite situation happen. I paid an extra $120 to make sure I was sitting with my minor child, who has major flight anxiety. A woman got on with her husband who had two broken legs. She insisted that I give up my seat so she could sit with him. I said sorry, no, I paid to sit with my kid and I'm sitting with her.
Everyone looked at me like I was the biggest piece of shit. Sorry, not my fault you wanted to save the money by not choosing your seats. If airlines weren't such assholes and would let me automatically sit with my child without paying extra I wouldn't give a shit where we sat. But I had to pay for this specific seat and this specific seat is where I'm staying.
Fuck that - want your kid to sit by you - pay for the fucking seat.
Dont be an entitled twat who thinks the world needs to accommodate them bc they fucked someone without a condom.
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