Meet The Internet's Newest Meme: United's CEO Happily Riding His Bike While His Company Crumbles Around Him
Daily Mail- With United Airlines reeling from viral videos showing a bloodied and screaming passenger getting dragged and carried from his seat in Chicago, CEO Oscar Munoz spent Easter Weekend relaxing at his palatial Florida beach house, and DailyMail.com has the exclusive photos. Munoz, 58, appeared to enjoy time off from the onslaught of complaints and charges against the airline with his wife and four children in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, despite the fact that his company lost nearly $1 billion in stock value in the wake of the April 9 scandal. And while he promised far-reaching reforms, Munoz appeared to do little work as he rode his bike along the beach and visited with well-heeled friend on Millionaires’ Row, a 7-mile stretch of beach just south of Jacksonville where the smallest house is selling for $1.5 million.
I wish I could buy stock in a picture and trademark it so people would have to pay me every time it was tweeted out just like Michael Jordan gets $5 whenever someone uses the Crying MJ face (Source: Ja Rule). Because this picture is the next big thing. I just know it. The NBA and NHL playoffs are churning, just waiting for millions of fans that know their hearts are about to be slowly ripped from their chest. The minute a series really turns against the Caps, this image will actually trend on Twitter.
And of course it’s baseball season. So at the very least #MetsTwitter could put my daughter through college and me in a 5-bedroom Manhattan apartment if they gave me a dime every time they attach this picture to a Chicken Little “Sky is falling” tweet. Because lets be honest, the “This Is Fine” Dog’s time is up. I almost tweeted it when Kristaps Porzingis skipped his meeting with the Knicks, but I felt it was too stale. If we are being honest, it’s probably time to bring This Is Fine Dog to the vet so they can “bring him to a farm upstate” so he can play with all the other old memes.
But like clockwork, the Internet Gods blessed us with TIF Dog’s replacement when Oscar Munoz went for a ride on his bike during a warm Florida day, with false swagger oozing out his ass thanks to his paycheck, the Masters windbreaker, and that hybrid smile/kill me look as United stock slowly morphs into toilet paper. The internet always finds a way to replace the old with the new like the circle of life. God bless the internet.
And I like this little nod to the original.