Streaming CEO Turns First Class Into Content Again—Passenger Says ‘Don’t Record Me,’ Gets Called Racist

Lemuel Plummer is CEO and co-founder of streaming service Zeus Network and has millions of followers online. He also has a penchant for acting out inflight in first class cabins, filming it and broadcasting to the world.

Flying Air France La Première (international first class) in the past few days, he was traveling with two companions so occupying three of the four seats on the plane. They were likely flying from Los Angeles to Paris, and some commentary suggests they were connecting to Milan.

There was a fourth passenger in the cabin. He objects to being filmed and, Plummer says, he objected to them talking so much in the cabin. That passenger records Plummer and his group, while Plummer records him and calls him racist and says he’ll record him for the whole flight “just like you’re recording me.”

The passenger says “please don’t film me,” and Plummer responds along the lines of “nobody is filming you… shut up.” (Though of course this is filmed!)

Im crying everyone go watch Lemmie’s instagram stories!! pic.twitter.com/C0bo8tmACZ

— Baddies USA (@thezeusbaddies) January 16, 2026

Zeus CEO Lemuel Plummer Gets Into A Plane Confrontation After Man Accuses Him and His Team of Filming Him pic.twitter.com/1Ia6NCULse

— livebitez (@livebitez) January 16, 2026

Plummer later claims that they were seated quietly and respectfully when the other passenger boarded – saw “three Black men” in first class, stared, and interrupted by telling them to “be quiet” and “not talk.”

pic.twitter.com/uT4FrJytAI

— Baddies USA (@thezeusbaddies) January 16, 2026

Now, Air France like many airlines has rules that largely go unenforced around not recording anything that shows another passenger or crewmember. In general the expectation is that cabins are mostly public spaces, photos happen, but it’s best to be discrete about it. We don’t know how the incident started, just that it seems to be escalating inappropriately. If indeed a passenger is racializing the cabin and making a group of other customers uncomfortable, that should be flagged for crew to address rather than getting into direct conflict.

I’m also intrigued because Plummer created a video trip report of sorts of his recent (December or January) Los Angeles – Hong Kong flight on board Cathay Pacific CX883, connecting to Thailand.

He’s flying with his companion Scotty, and notes that there are “a lot of Asian people” on board and they are the only Black people there (a Cathay Pacific first class cabin has just six seats in total).

And he starts doing a loud Chris Tucker–style bit, including the “big big case for the FBI” and calling out to people across the cabin.

He asks the crew what food they have, says he can’t read the menu, and when the crew points out English is on top he jokes about needing “closed caption,” asks for “soul food” items (fried chicken, greens, mac and cheese) which they don’t have.

like what is this? pic.twitter.com/4yDYF0WdLr

— Louis Pisano (@LouisPisano) January 17, 2026

Some of his fans see “Chris Tucker energy the entire trip” and feel like he nailed the impression as a great way to pass time on a long transpacific flight. I dunno. He’s doing a better Chris Tucker impression than I would, but it still seems like he’s trying too hard.

And his “can’t read the menu, where’s the fried chicken and greens” seems rude to the flight attendants, and ironically he’s leaning into stereotypes himself even as he gets offended in Air France first class claiming another passenger is doing that. Go figure.