About

Passenger Shaming is a Facebook page and Instagram feed which highlights photographs of public transit and commercial transport passengers violating various rules of public etiquette.

Origin

In January 2013, flight attendant Shawn Kathleen launched the Passenger Shaming Facebook^[1] page. The first photo was uploaded to the page on February 8th, featuring a barefoot airline passenger placing their feet in between the seats in front of him (shown below).^[2]

Precursors

On June 10th, 2007, the "single topic blog";https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/single-topic-blogs Flights From Hell^[7] was created, which contains stories about flight experiences with terrible passengers.

On August 10th, 2010, the single topic blog Going With Eddie^[3] was launched, which highlights photos of subway passengers committing various faux pas while riding the train (shown below)

Spread

On March 25th, 2013, the news site Today^[7] published an article about the Passenger Shaming Facebook page. On October 6th, the Passenger Shaming Instagram^[6] feed was created. On September 14th, 2014, BuzzFeed^[5] highlighted several notable examples from the Passenger Shaming Facebook page. On September 17th, CNN aired a segment on Passenger Shaming photographs (shown below).

In the coming days, several other news sites published articles about Passenger Shaming, including Yahoo News,^[8] Complex,^[9] UpRoxx,^[10] The Daily Mail^[11] and Jezebel.^[12]

Notable Examples

Search Interest

Not available.

External References