Featured Image Credit: @_MikeFromQueens/ Twitter
Topics: US News, Twitter, Viral, Social Media
Poppy Bilderbeck
Topics: US News, Twitter, Viral, Social Media
A video of an X-rated pool party exploding on the NYC subway has sparked a divide response from social media users.
Who needs a flat with a garden or nice green park when you've got the subway to lay out your Slip 'N' Slide on?
A group of partiers took to the underground in New York City dressed in bikinis and other questionable costumes, passing a bottle between them and armed with not just an inflatable pool but Slip 'N' Slide too, dancing and throwing themselves down the carriage.
The video has since gone viral, however, it has prompted a divided response from viewers.
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In the UK, Londoners climb aboard their daily ride to work with sombre and exhausted looks painted across their faces, hopping on before the doors slam into their tired bodies, to deflate into their seat and stare nonchalantly out the pitch black window.
The carriage is utterly silent apart from a sneeze or slow turn of the papers; it's a depressing sight and it's one of the main reasons behind why Londoners are known for coming across anti-social and rude.
While the US may be just across the pond, this video proves the two societies are truly worlds apart.
The user - Mike From Queens - who posted it, noted how they 'wish we'd stop allowing these [people] to have phones'.
Indeed, within the video, the party group can be seen holding a banner which reads: "Viral exposure."
It's certainly achieved going viral, and well, you can see for yourself about the 'exposure'.
The video has amassed over half-a-million views and thousands of likes and comments, with viewers having rained in debating whether the video is hilarious or actually goes way too far.
One questioned Mike as to how he watched the 'entire video and thought that having phones was the issue'.
"Honestly without phones we wouldn’t have these ppl on the net and we wouldn’t be subjected to this being on tape lol," Mike replied.
Another user joked: "Like imagine homie trying to tell his wife that he wasn’t at the strip club at 6pm, the J train had pool party w/ strippers… she gonna look at dude sideways."
Some grimly noted the 'smell' which must have infiltrated the carriage. "After working ten hours and you get on the train home just to smell sea food," one said.
Others took the opportunity to raise awareness of the surging cases of monkeypox as well as coronavirus in the city, condemning the footage as 'sad'.
Tim Minton, the communications director of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, told the New York Post: "This appears to be a Hollywood concoction or a dopey stunt.
"New Yorkers don’t appreciate rides being delayed when trains get taken out of service because selfish grownups came to trend."
UNILAD has contacted the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for comment.
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