28-year-old James Potok stood up in the middle of a flight from Toronto to Jamaica and announced that he was just in Wuhan, China, and he wasn’t “feeling too well”
was intended to “create a viral video, to get something that, in my opinion, would have gone onto 6ixbuzz,” a Canadian Instagram account showcasing hip-hop artists. When asked if he regretted the stunt, Potok was somewhat contrite, saying, “It wasn’t the best thing to do. Me, as an entertainer, we always look for a reaction from people. I didn’t get the reception that I was looking for. I didn’t get the reaction that I was looking for.
Surprisingly, this is not the first time that someone has taken advantage of the hysteria surrounding the virus to gain social media clout. Last week, a Vancouver teenager posted a TikTok claiming that his friend had contracted coronavirus, accompanied by a headline reading “First presumptive case of coronavirus confirmed in B.C.” “He had to call 911 if he started coughing violently. Turns out he had it [grimacing emoji],” the TikTok caption read.
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