“She Stood Her Ground” — Woman Who Cut Line to Leave Plane Early Goes Viral, Sparks Debate

There's an implied common courtesy that folks are expected to adhere to after a plane lands. The folks at the front of the aircraft leave first, and each subsequent row disembarks in an orderly fashion. However, there are some people who, for whatever reason or another, try to cut in front of other passengers so they can get off more quickly.

A woman featured in a viral TikTok posted by a user on the platform who goes by Brian (@itsme_brianli), apparently did just that. And she ended up angering a lot of people in the process. Brian recorded snippets of her exchange with other fliers, and it's dividing users on the application.

While some castigated her for trying to get up and out of the plane before people seated in front of her, others said that they were impressed by the way she clapped back at all comers who came after her.

The video begins with footage of airplane passengers looking at the drama unfolding before them. Scene-wise, it resembles something of a Renaissance painting. Expressions on fliers' faces range from bemused, confused, amused, to intrigued. A child with wide eyes stares at the angry woman exiting the plane behind another adult female passenger.

The irate woman leaving the plane is holding a bag in one hand and can be seen arguing with a man seated on the aircraft. She doesn't appear to be too fond of his attitude towards the situation. "Right now why don't you shut your mouth?" she says to him.

He counters, "I'm waiting for the people in front of me to get up, that's how we do it," he says. The angry woman's response to people calling her out for rushing to exit the plane is to blame everyone else around her.

"My God, you're all whining for no reason," she says, waving her hands in a dismissive motion. Another seated man hypothetically asks aloud, "Where you going though? Let the people go."

The angry woman then directs her vitriol towards the other man who spoke. "Get up, when you want to, OK?" she tells him, pointing her hands in his direction, punctuating her response.

The other seated man, who is wearing a white t-shirt, retorts, "You're just a Karen, and that's just the way it is." Other folks on the aircraft seem to find this nomenclature amusing, as some chuckles can be heard while others aboard smile at his reply to the woman.

"Just deal with it people, my God," she says, asking everyone to accept her behavior that they find is in poor taste.

Next, the video cuts to her turning around and talking to others on the plane, "Why don't you all shut up? It's not affecting any of you." After she makes this statement, the man in the white t-shirt begins to chant, "Karen, Karen," repeatedly, which causes more smiles among people on the plane. A young woman seated beside him covers her mouth.

The angry woman trying to cut in front of other passengers shoots a look back at the man, "So funny," she says facetiously while slapping her hands together. Following this, she asserts that she isn't the one who is a Karen, but everyone else who took issue with her decision to try and cut in front of other passengers in order to depart the plane early.

"You're the Karens about it because you're the ones, you're the ones who are making noise."

The man simply tells her, "Have some respect."

Then, she begins to look in the direction of the TikToker recording the video. She asks the passenger if they have her permission to record.

One person states aloud that the recording is taking place "in public," to which the early plane de-boarder promptly claps back with, "shut the f--k up."

The man she curses at winces and says, "Oh," seemingly humored by her disdainful response. "Oh, f-bombs," the man in the white t-shirt says, acknowledging her foul language.

"Cause you've never said one," the angry woman says, diverting the issue away from the fact that she was being called out for trying to cut the line of people waiting to leave the plane.

She then points back to the man sitting behind her, claiming that she knows he's definitely cursed before due to his accent.

This seems to raise the ire of another flier on the plane, a blond-haired woman who thought the irate flier was being discriminatory toward the man on the aircraft. "You can be a jerk [but] you're not gonna insult someone because of an accent, we're not doing that."

The flier, seemingly lapping up the drama, then starts an argument with this woman, again shifting the discourse to the woman pointing a finger in her face.

Someone then says to the blonde woman, "This is a low-IQ human being right here. You ain't gonna change this."

The angry passenger then parses the man's words, stating that individuals who use the word "ain't" aren't intelligent. Following this, the blonde woman stated that she says the word "ain't" but is in a doctoral program.

Again, the irate woman defaulted to mocking the female passenger, stating that she is a lawyer who doesn't say "ain't."

A young boy ended up calling her racist, to which the woman stated that the young man should probably get his nomenclature correct if he's going to start throwing out terminology to attack her character. "When we get off this plane, I'll meet you out there with my bar card," the woman told him.

The man she maligned for using the word "ain't" informed her that she will probably lose her bar card after the video of her behaving poorly on the plane goes viral.