Social media often becomes the unwilling accomplice for false rumors and there are numerous examples of how a false story is chaperoned and it soon becomes viral only to be proven false.
However, by the time the truth dawns upon the hapless users the purpose for which such false news is floated is often accomplished.
Robby Witt’s Viral New York CEO Lamborghini Poop Story
A social media user floated a bizarre story of an employee pooping on a New York CEO’s Lamborghini.
He did this act after resigning because his Christmas bonus was blocked.
The user who goes by the name of Robby Witt even compartmentalized the story into two parts to make it more authentic.
In the first instalment he talked about the poop act and in the second he detailed his resignation.
The video has since become viral on social media.
Netizens soon started splitting the proverbial semantic hair and one user commented on TikTok,
“Wow. Denying bonus and showing up with a brand new car???”
A second netizen took to social media platform X to air his views,
“A company can exist without a CEO but it can’t exist without employees,”
A third netizen stated,
“Have you heard about the CEO that had his brand new Lamborghini pooped in because he took away his employees Christmas bonus before buying said Lambo?”
Some users also linked the incident to Luigi Mangione’s case. Luigi Mangione is the prime accused in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel.
The two incidents are alike as chalk and cheese but still, the flights of imaginations of netizens found the two instances similar.
However, Robby Witt’s story is just a piece of imagination and he in his Instagram bio made this amply clear when he stated that he made the one-minute sitcoms which feature only fiction and satire and is meant only for fun and entertainment.
In an email to fact-finding site Snopes, he stated,
“The fictional story is meant to be an entertaining piece that satirizes out-of-touch employers (like one who would eliminate Christmas bonuses and use that money to buy a Lamborghini for himself). For the most part, this piece is inspired by the work of @lisabevolving and @corporate.sween, who do phenomenal comedy skits about modern American corporate workplace and the ‘bosses’ who run them.” Witt also linked us to a piece from The Atlantic about engagement-bait videos, saying he believed the article stood as “the best take on the genre I operate in that I have seen.”
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