You’ve all seen the video by now. You’ve seen every angle, you’ve read every tweet, you know this moment inside and out.
But like everything that happens online, the story just won’t go away. You’ve got vulture news reporters reaching out for interviews, and you have ordinary people who are excited to go on TV. It’s a match made in hell. The family gets a request to do an interview for NBC Philly, and I guess for some reason the father never thought that maybe he could have just said no. He could have just said, “thanks for the offer, but we’d prefer to not put ourselves back in the public eye any further”. But they did the interview.
Man was that uncomfortable. It’s a shame because the dad is in an impossible spot. He can’t say what he actually wants to say about the Karen. There are like 3 words that perfectly describe the type of person she is, but none of those words are fit for television. But without being able to say how he truly feels, he ends up looking weak. And the camera adds 10 extra layers of weakness. He can’t just call the woman a C U Next Tuesday who he wanted to get out of his face as quickly as possible without beating her. So instead, he just has to scramble around about how she was loud and adamant. The son doesn’t buy it. Tough break all the way around.
Because everything was going great for a while. Everybody had their pitchforks out for the Karen who ran over and demanded that he give back the home run ball. Everybody agreed she was the worst, and everybody was overlooking the fact that this dad caved. Everybody was willing to look past whatever it was that he did with his hands when the Karen came storming over to him. And most importantly, people were even willing to look past the fact that he gave the ball away. It would have been the perfect opportunity for this dad to just lay low and let it all blow over.
Moral of the story: If the local news is reaching out to you for an interview after a viral moment, just say no. Nothing good can ever come out of it. 15 minutes of fame is only supposed to last 15 minutes for a reason.