Southwest Passenger Snaps Photo of Seatmate’s Giant-Font Facebook Post: Their Personal Needs Are Now All Over the Internet

A Southwest Airlines passenger’s texting is going viral. Their seat opponent snapped a photo of what they typed into Facebook, and it’s turned into a copypasta meme, with people retyping the message out of context all over the internet: “Lawwwwwd if a man don’t find my G‑spot soon.”

It’s easy to see because they’re using “the same font size my mother uses” as on Twitter user put it. And it’s “your annual reminder to get a privacy screen on your phone.”

This appears to be a real, not edited photo. The user interface matches Facebook; large letters are normal there for short posts; the rest of the photo makes sense from the seat pocket 737 MAX 8 with Southwest branding and the safety card revision IF‑554 Rev 25‑01. The photo doesn’t appear to be altered.

And it is… perfect for a copypasta meme. It’s a one‑liner that’s easy to reuse along with a vivid photo and recognizable brand and context.

  • A copypasta is a short, easily shareable block of text that gets copied and pasted across the internet, usually word-for-word, until it takes on a life of its own.

  • The term comes from copy + paste → copypasta, originating in early-2000s chatrooms and gaming forums, where users repeat the same text to spam, troll, or build in-group humor.

  • The text itself rarely changes, though minor mutations often appear as it spreads. Here we see “G shot” (cosmetic enhancement) occasionally replace “G spot”. And it’s context-free with people posting it anywhere, regardless of relevance, for comedic or absurd effect.

Here’s the mutation:

When you’re squeezed into a coach seat on a plane you just don’t have privacy. Don’t take the opportunity to watch porn, and don’t text things you’re not comfortable with everyone around you seeing. Don’t work on any thing truly confidential, either. Over the summer we saw a passenger’s condolence text misinterpreted as a mid-air bomb scare and American Airlines diverted the flight.

Closer to home with this one, we’ve seen a Southwest passenger texting his mistress “I’m on my way to see you. My dumb wife doesn’t know about us. Soon I’m gonna leave her to be with you.” The internet then decided to track everyone down. Another philandering passenger was spotted texting the same message to multiple women. And a man got called out for his racist texts, too.

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Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel - a topic he has covered since 2002. Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »

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Comments

  1. If they were posting on Facebook, wouldn’t it be ‘on the internet’ already, ok, fine, just not ‘viral.’ Surely, this wasn’t staged. Where’s the outrage! The clicks! The eyeballs! The ad revenue!! Oh my!

  2. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should (talking about sending out someones private text, not about finding her g-spot – that you should always do)

  3. Why do people have the need to get into other’s business. And yes, don’t type things you don’t want others to see.

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