The moment of Coldplay ‘Kiss Cam’ quickly wrapped in something much bigger online. During the band’s concert, the camera approached the CEO of astronomer Andy Byron and HR head Kristin Cabot. Both of them immediately split up as if they were “caught red”. The audience broke out with laughter, while the chief singer Chris Martin joked that they could only be “shy” or “have a ratio”.
What started as a critical scene on a large screen has now become a full-fledged Internet trend-and unexpected, video game Pixel-art.
The clip spreads quickly through Tiktok, Instagram and X, accumulating millions of views. Within a few hours, Internet users identified a couple and the hashtags associated with the scandal gained global traction.
Shortly after the video created waves, developer Jonathan Mann launched a game called Coldplay Canoodlers, as announced via his X, @songadaymann account. The goal is simple: players must find a “cheating pair” hidden in a crowd of pixened concerts.
According to the insidered Insider Gaming games over unpredictable and MEME, he quickly warned the inspired design. Thousands of users have joined in a few hours and pushed the rankings to Overdrive. Some fans even demanded other scandalous games in which Mann wittyly suggested that he could auction the future edition.
Since then, the game has become a viral joke – what many they call “playable meme”.
In response to the controversy, the astronomer – which counts Salesforce Ventures and Insight Partners, among its investors – a short statement: “It is expected that our leaders will determine the standard in behavior and responsibility.” The company added that an internal investigation is underway.
What is “Coldplaygate”?
The incident concerning Andy Byron and Kristina Cabot caused a wave of speculation online after the couple was caught at “Kiss Cam”, which looked visibly uncomfortable and tried to hide their faces. Byron, who is married to Megan Kerrigan, has become the subject of online chat after users noticed that after a viral moment, “Byron” from her name on Facebook.
(Tagstotranslate) ColdPlay Canoodlery
