Video of people playing ping pong on the subway has New York Twitter very annoyed
New Yorkers are famously unflappable, but a viral video of two people playing a full game of ping pong on a 6 train has New York Twitter visibly annoyed at the players.
Author Mary Carr posted a video of the admittedly impressive subway athletes around 7:00 p.m. ET on June 29. Her video subsequently went viral, mostly because people were ticked off at the audacity of anyone who would clog up a whole subway aisle during rush hour.
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Even Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez weighed in on the issue, hoping that at the very least the players weren't ping ponging in her district.
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At least one person seemed fine with adding a little whimsy to the subway. Just the one though, for the most part.
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In a city where any given subway ride might turn into a mariachi concert, or a breakdancing "showtime," or any number of impromptu performances, it seems like ping pong is where New Yorkers truly draw the line.
Alexis Nedd is a senior entertainment reporter at Mashable. A self-named "fanthropologist," she's a fantasy, sci-fi, and superhero nerd with a penchant for pop cultural analysis. Her work has previously appeared in BuzzFeed, Cosmopolitan, Elle, and Esquire.
