You don’t have to be a Beyoncé fan to know that her “Cowboy Carter” show is one of the hottest tickets around. But if you are a fan and you can get your hands on one of those tickets, it’s likely that almost nothing would stop you from being in the building. Now, three friends who experienced an unthinkable tragedy on their way to one of Queen Bey’s Paris shows have sparked a viral TikTok debate about whether or not the show should go on if someone you were supposed to go with passed away en route.

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We should start by saying, we haven’t been able to confirm whether or not the whole thing actually happened. We just can’t tell yet if this is a hoax, but that hasn’t stopped thousands of people from getting in on the conversation, which is the point of us looking into it.

Here’s the low down. It all started with a post shared by TikTok user @notvictor, in which he explained that it had been a lifelong dream to see a Beyoncé concert with his friend, who flew to Paris to attend one of the “Cowboy Carter” shows. While getting ready for the show, the group of three friends filmed a pregame TikTok with the intention of filming part two when they got to the show. But one member of their group, who allegedly had some preexisting heart issues, started having chest pains on the way to the show and sadly didn’t make it. The two surviving friends didn’t just go on to the show, they finished and posted their TikTok.

Check out their TikTok transition post for yourself here:

Although the two surviving friends look like they have no regrets for going to see Queen Bey, the internet had plenty of thoughts, including whether or not the whole thing was all made up. Here are just a few of the highlights:

I Would Go Too

Some, like TikTok user Kalen Allen are willing to give the friends who went on to the show some grace. He said he would want his friends to have fun seeing Beyoncé, even if he wasn’t physically able to be with them.

“If you are a friend of mine and you are going to see Beyoncé, and I die, I give you full permission, ’cause I understand. I would go too,” he said

His post received nearly 40,000 likes and included lots of comments from people who agree that the show should go on for the surviving friends. One commenter hoped their friends would make sure Beyoncé paid tribute to their passing during her show.

“Ima tell my friends to go and ask Beyoncé to shout my name during II Hands II Heaven because that is where I will be watching the concert,” they wrote.

Where is the Love?

TikTok user MercurialLuvr had a different take. Although she understands Beyoncé tickets aren’t easy to come by, she can’t see a side of the argument in which it’s ok to leave a friend’s dead body alone – especially when he’s far away from his family.

“All I can think about is just the fact that this is a friend that flew out to come and be with you guys. It’s not like it happened where he lives, where he has family,” she said in a post. “He literally was alone out there with you guys, and you left his corpse with strangers.”

Her commenters agreed, arguing that the friends who went on to the show without making sure their friend’s family was notified, aren’t friends at all.

“I pray in God’s name these types of friends will never find me,” wrote someone in the comments.

You Finished The Transition?

TikTok user @valbulosity didn’t have a problem with the friends going to the concert, but she did have some very strong feelings about the surviving members of the group finishing the TikTok transition post they started when their friend was still alive. She argued that the two should have gone to show and honored their friend’s memory privately.

“It’s not the fact that your friend passed away and you still went to the Beyoncé concert,” she said in a post. “It’s the fact that you finished the transition. It’s the fact that the first clip was you, your friend and your other friend getting ready to go to Beyoncé, and then [in] the second clip, you’re at the Beyoncé concert saying that your friend passed away. You didn’t have to do that. That was a bit much.”

“Also not him saying they sold the extra ticket and used the money to buy merch at the concert,” wrote another disgusted commenter.

A woman may have committed arguably one of the most embarrassing faux pas in public transit history after not paying attention to where she sat. Nola (@nolagordon) shared a pair of Snapchat photos she took while riding the bus. Her lack of situational awareness earned her over 270,000 views on TikTok.

‘This seat is reserved’

Nola’s first Snapchat photo, which showed her covering her mouth, was captioned, “I was wondering why everyone was staring at [me] AND I LOOK AT MY SEAT TO SEE THIS.”

The next photo showed a sign tacked on the seat she was in. It read: “This seat is reserved in honor of Rosa Parks.”

It continued, “RideOn is proud to pay tribute to Rosa Parks and to all who make a seat available to everyone.”

Needless to say, Nola probably felt like she wanted the ground to swallow her up. She added in the caption, “Crying cause there’s actually no way??”

Viewers are cracking up 

Nola’s commenters couldn’t contain their teasing. Several laughed at her misfortune, with some sharing what they’d do in her shoes. 

“What are they gonna do? kick you off?” one joked. Another told her to pretend she couldn’t read English. 

Others defended Nola, with one stating the sign should’ve been bigger and another saying they “would definitely assume that was just an ad and not read it.”

What is the ‘Rosa Parks seat?’

The seat is a symbolic tribute to Black civil rights activist Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, on Dec. 1, 1955. Her civil disobedience catapulted the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which was a historic event in the Civil Rights movement. 

Today, the metro honors Rosa Parks with the reserved seat tribute on buses and other public transit, usually during February, which is Black History Month, or near the anniversary of Parks’ act. The seat is supposed to be left unoccupied to urge folks to reflect on her courageous act against segregation. While the signs began popping up on trains for the first time this year, the gesture has been around for a while. 

In a post uploaded to the r/mildlyinteresting subreddit, one user shared a photo of such a sign in 2022. It was not without its controversies. One top comment read, “So they’re telling you where you can’t sit in honor of a woman who ignored people who told her where she couldn’t sit.” 

However, one user fact-checked them: “Rosa Parks wasn’t told where she couldn’t sit and sat down. She was sitting in the black section of the bus, when the bus got crowded, the white section had no remaining seats – by law of the time, when that happens, a black person must give up their seat to any white person that wants to sit down.

“The difference is important. No one told her she couldn’t sit there. They told her that she only could sit there if no white man wanted to sit there,” they wrote. 

Is that true?

The big misconception about Rosa Parks

Most folks think that Parks was in a seat reserved for whites only, and that she sat down because she was “tired.” However, Parks, a lifelong activist, was seated in the row behind the section reserved for white passengers. When the bus began filling up and white passengers boarded, the driver told Parks to move even further back. She refused and said she was not in a seat for whites, according to the National Archives. She was then arrested, kickstarting the boycott that had a major impact on the Civil Rights movement. 

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“I adjusted the screen brightness on my phone and everything trying my hardest to back you up, but sweet Moses that is a very gray chair.”

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A woman asks the internet to confirm her “blue” chair isn’t gray, and everyone agrees that it is aggressively gray. However, the story has more twists than you’d expect—and it turns out, she’s colorblind.

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Kristin (@im.krispy) blew up on TikTok recently after posting a simple question that led to an absolute avalanche of hilarious responses. In her viral video, Kristin asked viewers to confirm that both her couch and the chair she was giving away were blue, not gray. The internet, however, strongly and unanimously disagreed.

Her tone was sincere. “I know they’re both blue,” she said in the video. “Just tell me you see it too.” Unfortunately for Kristin, no one did. Here’s the furniture in question:

TikTokers responded to Kristin’s blue-or-gray furniture question with humor

The moment quickly snowballed into one of TikTok’s funniest visual misfires in recent memory. Unlike the infamous white-and-gold vs. blue-and-black dress debate, which was a result of a visual trick backed by science, this one had a clear consensus with the simple explanation of color blindness.

Both pieces of furniture were gray. Stone gray. Victorian-child-haunting-your-attic gray. 

@im.krispy

WHAT COLOR IS THIS CHAIR!!

♬ original sound – kristin

Commenters showed Kristin no mercy as they joked about the color of her furniture. One person wrote, “That chair is so gray I forgot what blue is.”

Another declared, “Mama, you’re color blind. If that chair got any more gray, I’d slap ‘Earl’ in front of it and make some tea.” 

Even attempts at diplomacy fell flat. “I adjusted the screen brightness on my phone and everything trying my hardest to back you up, but sweet Moses that is a very gray chair,” one sympathetic TikToker wrote.

“I wasn’t expecting it to be the grayest shade of gray that’s ever grayed,” another person said in the comments.

An update to Kristin’s story revealed two hilariously shocking twists

Kristin, ever the good sport, laughed along in a follow-up post. 

But the story didn’t end there. Viewers were surprised to learn in one of Kristin’s next videos that her day job requires acute attention to colors.

“I know you’re gonna hate to hear this,” a follow-up began. “But the most concerning part about all of this is that my 9-to-5 is selling rental furniture and designing living room sets.”

One commenter asked in response, “Are you responsible for the millennial gray in people’s homes thinking it’s blue?” while another added, “Millennial gray saved your career.”

The irony of the Be My Eyes app

Then, in a plot twist worthy of a Netflix docuseries, viewers later found out from Kristin that she had spent time helping people with visual impairments via the Be My Eyes app.

If you haven’t heard of Be My Eyes, it is a platform where volunteers assist blind and low-vision users through live video. And regrettably, Kristin had already been “assisting” visually-impaired people on the app.

@im.krispy

I’m sorry if I’ve been your eyes and steered you wrong

♬ original sound – kristin

While well-intentioned, her TikTok performance cast serious doubt on her color perception skills.

“Girl get off that app you’re not helping as much as you think you are unfortunately lol,” one person told her.

Many people in the comments were surprised that the app didn’t do a colorblindness test before Kristin could start helping people shop. The consensus was that the TikToker should change roles on the app if she keeps using it.

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