AI-animated satire from DOOOD What The?!. Reacts to a real news story; see transcript below.
Dooood! What the? Okay, check this out. Spirit Airlines is gone. The whole airline shut down. They told everyone do not even come to the airport. Then a guy on TikTok said, what if we the people just bought the airline ourselves. Get in, losers. We are buying an airline. Forty five dollars each. That is one Spirit ticket. We run it like the Green Bay Packers. Owned by the people. No billionaire can sell it for parts. We already pledged three hundred million dollars. To be clear, nobody has actually paid a cent yet. So broke people are buying a broke airline with money they have not sent. Owned by the people. Delayed by the people. Lost your bag? That is also you now. Duuude... What the. (sigh)
Spirit Airlines abruptly shut down operations, advising passengers not to travel to affected airports.
A TikTok user proposed a crowdfunding campaign to purchase and operate Spirit Airlines as a community-owned business model similar to the Green Bay Packers football team.
The crowdfunding initiative has received pledges totaling $300 million, though no actual payments have been made yet.
Running an airline through a community-owned model would face significant logistical and financial hurdles, including operational management and regulatory compliance issues.
While the concept is gaining traction on social media, it remains highly speculative given the complexities involved in acquiring and operating an airline.
DOOOD, What The?! is a faceless AI-animated daily news-comedy cartoon. The host, The Reactor, reacts in disbelief to one real news story per episode, with whip-pan cutaways to animated characters. New episodes post daily.