It’s social media at its grimmest, and if Elon Musk’s deranged tinkering hadn’t already, seeing the lack of empathy for an unimaginably terrifying situation play out on Twitter, with so many gleefully giggling away at the horror of it all, I’m starting to think I wouldn’t mind seeing the back of the whole wretched platform forever. Many have been highlighting the material wealth of those on board on social media, as if somehow the fact that there are billionaires on board who spent £250,000 to head on the expedition in the first place justifies the ridicule and indifference to human life. The people trapped in the 6.5 metre sub somewhere in the mid-Atlantic ocean were revealed to include British billionaire explorer Hamish Harding, renowned French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet, and OceanGate founder Stockton Rush, along with Surrey-based businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Sulaiman Dawood.įriends of the people trapped on board have also speculated that those on the vessel could currently be dealing with hypothermia if the vessel has lost power. Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletterĪs families wait anxiously to hear details of the rescue mission, social media users across the world have been joking about the situation sharing memes about which nostalgic games controller they’d choose to steer the craft, and showing contempt for the gravest of situations.Īn OceanGate craft much like the one missing in the mid-Atlantic CBS It’s the deepest undersea rescue operation in history covering some 10,000 square miles of ocean and the sheer scale of the operation is hard to grasp. It is estimated that the five missing passengers have just 24 hours of oxygen supply left inside the vessel.Ī Canadian aircraft searching for the missing Titan submarine detected intermittent “banging” noises from the vicinity of the last known location of the divers, and the search continues. The Titan submersible is equipped with a four-day emergency oxygen supply. The search for the OceanGate Expeditions submarine is one of them.Įver since a craft containing five people went missing on a journey to observe the wreckage of the Titanic on Sunday, our timelines have been full of people making light of the situation - they must be seeing a very different news story to the one we're seeing. As of February 10th, 2021, these are the two highest-viewed videos using the sound.Every now and then, there’s an element of online discourse that reminds you how much of a cesspit social media is. On January 21st, posted footage from the Marine Corps using the sound, garnering over 3.9 million views in a comparable span of time (shown below, right). On January 18th, uploaded a video to TikTok using the sound referring to herself as the grim reaper, garnering over 3 million views in just under a month (shown below, left). Typically, videos see users lip-dubbing to the sound, then showing something or someone that comically represents a "grim reaper" when the grim reaper line comes up (examples shown below, left and right). The original sound from the video took off on TikTok, with over 49,000 videos attached to it in under a month. On January 12th, 2021, uploaded a video to TikTok with the on-screen caption, "some mf changing for a basketball game in 2005" in which he says, "It is hot as hell in this fucky ass, hot ass room I'm in," followed by a cut to an image of Kevin Durant playing basketball, and Sosa yelling, "Is that the grim reaper!?" The video gained over 720,000 views in a month (shown below).
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