I wouldn't be surprised at all if this was the case - kind of like an internet flash mob all in on the joke, waiting for reputable news sources to pick it up and show their lack of journalistic integrity.
I mean, the only thing I could see them doing is asking the flight attendants or AA, but both of those are likely hard to get an actual answers for (AA would most likely say 'we are investigating' and would never follow-up). If something is on social media and there are enough corroborating accounts, it's probably enough to write a news article about.
> my go-to assumption when the source originates from Tiktok is to assume it's fake or staged.
Wise, although wiser to make that assumption for most sources. Until this starts being reported independently by more reliable sources then I assume it’s fake.
In this article the author claims to have talked to American Airlines about it:
>American Airlines inspected the Boeing 737-800 as well as the P.A. system itself after these reports. They tell me that maintenance “determined the sounds were caused by an issue with the PA amplifier. There was no external access to the system.”
> “determined the sounds were caused by an issue with the PA amplifier. There was no external access to the system.”
Hard to agree. Those sounds are almost certainly a human voice, presumably digitized. Unless the issue with the PA amp is that someone connected a sample player to it.
Yeah that is not an electrical hiccup in the audio - that’s a human. I am guessing Slavic by the inflection cadence. Also, Cozy Bear and all that.
Longtime guitarist, producer, film fanatic here and this is really going to be interesting.
It does remind me of last Halloween where I had my jumpsuit and hockey mask to be Jason Voorhies and I got a small mp3 player and looped an hour of “ki-ki-ma-ma-ma” lifted from YouTube and played thru a little amp on my porch. Play scarecrow and only move to scare the big kids or their parents haha.
It's getting shared on Social Media. People talk about it and likely never experience it. It's the same principle with the "creepy clowns" a while back.
Where did it say the source was from tiktok? They cited several separate Tweets about this same issue across multiple flights. They have recordings too
Maybe Instagram is worse but TikTok is full of the most dumb shit I can imagine, either that or people plugging their Instagram. There are smart people on it but they don't define the culture.
The immediacy of the format is amazing but the content is awful.
It tries to show me people talking about maths and finance and programming but they're all either infantilising themselves for some reason or not very good at it.
And anyway I have a fair amount of karma here so what does that say about hackernews if your implication is correct...
A lot of what I am complaining about is actually people older than me peddling "advise" - how to become a data analyst (no understanding of data required!).
It just feels like Facebook-tier people given the content equivalent of a machine gun.
