![]() That title would belong to the man he defeated the other night, Steph Curry, and the footwear brand he’s put on his back, Under Armour. Sorry to be a buzzkill guys but maybe we shouldn’t joke about it or make fun of these people for how they spent their money, they are real humans.LeBron James may have captured his first NBA championship with the Cleveland Cavaliers, but he’s not the current basketball player on top of the sneaker world right now. His wife and daughter are back home absolutely terrified. “idk man i know we hate rich people but i think if you’re laughing at the idea of any non-evil person dying perhaps the most nightmarish death imaginable, it may be time to log off for a little,” a Twitter user said.Īnother said: “Two of the people on the Titanic submarine are a father and his teenage son. ![]() One wrote: “The tweets joking about the missing #OceanGate sub make me physically ill. ![]() There are plenty of people on Twitter who have recognised such, and voiced their anger at the ghoulish reactions they’ve been seeing online. 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. Every now and then, there’s an element of online discourse that reminds you how much of a cesspit social media is.
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