Thelife- A video of a woman who said she refused to give up her window seat on a 15-hour flight went viral.
- Over 2,000 people commented on the upload which was watched 5.2 million times.
TikTok viewers are flocking to support a woman who said she refused to give up her window seat on a plane despite having a full row to herself, as part of an ongoing wave of viral videos about plane etiquette.
On March 10, a TikToker who goes by @mewhiskers123 shared a video that showed what appeared to be her legs stretched out across several plane seats beneath a blanket. An on-screen caption read, "no one is in my row and someone asked to take my window seat and i politely declined because i don't owe anyone anything and i deserve to be comfortable for my 15 hour flight as well."
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The end of the six-second clip showed the TikToker smiling at the camera before she pulled an eye mask over her eyes.
The upload received 5.3 million views and over 2,100 comments, the vast majority of which expressed agreement with the TikToker's decision to hold onto her seat.
"Sometimes I think 'it'd be nice to do something nice for someone' but it'd be even better if I did something nice for myself," one viewer wrote in a top comment which received over 31,700 likes.
Some viewers also shared anecdotes of occasions they had been asked to give up their seat on a flight and had refused to do so.
One comment which received 5,600 likes said someone once asked if they could have the window seat because they had asthma, while another, which received over 16,000 likes, said a fellow passenger got "so mad" when they weren't willing to swap seats with a child.
The topic of plane etiquette and seat switching in particular have repeatedly gone viral on TikTok in recent months.
On February 27, 25-year-old influencer Audrey Peters shared a video to her 653,000 followers at the time with an on-screen caption that read, "When a family asks me to switch seats on a plane so they can sit together," while she could be seen sipping a drink and lip-synching to a popular TikTok sound that said, "Girl, fuck them kids, and fuck you, too." It was viewed 2.2 million times.
Earlier in the year on January 13, another TikToker shared a two-part story about her seat-switching saga. During the uploads, which received a combined 5.3 million views, she said she intervened when she spotted a passenger asking a woman in her aisle, in premium economy, if she would swap seats with someone sitting in economy.
In both instances, the majority of the comments appeared to side with the TikTokers who were opposed to seat switching on a plane, and applauded how they said they handled the situations.
The TikToker @mewhiskers123 has 901 followers and just 14 videos on their account, which feature pets and lip-synching.
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