The erosion of the division between public and private has been coming for a while now. Millions of strangers on the internet want to know about her personal life. Now she is a public figure, a hashtag, and a target. All she did was board a plane and chat with her seatmate. No one asked her if she had any reservations or concerns about being made part of a viral story. She deactivated her social media accounts and declined an invitation to go on the Today show. She began receiving crass, sexually explicit messages in the comments of her personal Instagram profile. That didn’t stop the online mob from tracking her down.
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The man, a former professional soccer player named Euan Holden, embraced the media circus, but the woman, uncomfortable with the newfound spotlight, hesitated.
Then the incident took an even darker turn.Īn online hunt began to find the identities of the couple, now identified by the hashtag #PlaneBae. Many initially thought the story was adorable, even if others found it creepy and intrusive. Her thread went mega-viral, racking up 900,000 likes, getting picked up by national news outlets and earning Blair thousands of new followers. Blair proceeded to live-tweet as she observed the woman and her new seatmate chat and eventually start flirting, discussing their mutual love of working out and subtly touching elbows, all details captured and posted by Blair. Last week, an actress and photographer, Rosey Blair, asked to switch seats with a woman on a plane from New York to Dallas so that she could sit next to her boyfriend.
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