{"id":20040,"date":"2026-03-18T14:16:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=20040"},"modified":"2026-03-18T17:56:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T01:56:59","slug":"follow-up-social-media-the-coldplay-kisscam-video-was-not-at-all-what-people-thought-it-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2026\/03\/18\/follow-up-social-media-the-coldplay-kisscam-video-was-not-at-all-what-people-thought-it-was\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow up Social media: The &#8220;Coldplay&#8221; Kisscam video was not what people thought it was"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Remember the Coldplay &#8220;Kisscam&#8221; video clip &#8211; turns out it was not what people thought it was: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/us\/news-today\/article\/coldplay-kisscam-boss-kristin-cabot-andy-byron-9qst70b7z\">Coldplay kisscam HR boss Kristin Cabot on 16 seconds that ruined her life<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Social media and the media coverage destroyed both of them. They lost their jobs. She&#8217;s been declared unemployable since then. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow up: <strong><em>Both were already <a href=\"http:\/\/[Coldplay Kiss Cam Exec Kristin Cabot Tells Oprah Her Estranged Husband Was Also at Concert](https:\/\/www.today.com\/popculture\/coldplay-kiss-cam-kristin-cabot-oprah-interview-rcna263856)\">separated from their spouses<\/a> at the time. In her case, she says it was an amicable separation, and her soon to be former husband was also at the concert with his own date.<\/em><\/strong> The ex-CEO Byron, and his wife, who had been living apart, have reportedly reconciled and are back together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was a bit of disaster showing how media and social media can misrepresent a situation that then spirals into the danger zone on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things are not always what they seem &#8211; but the social media mob can still destroy people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20600,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20040\/revisions\/20600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}