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‘The kid’s got some lungs’: Musician’s eye-twitching reaction to screaming baby on flight wins Internet

Henry Beasley was onboard a 29-hour flight to Berlin and spent a long chunk of it listening to the loud cries of a baby

More often than not, passengers choose to turn their noses up at the idea of having to be on a flight with a crying baby. However, Henry Beasley, a New Zealander onboard a flight to Berlin, had some fun out of the experience and has left the internet in splits!

Beasley, who is a part of the band Balu Brigada, filmed his reaction to the screaming baby on his phone and posted it on TikTok, and his facial reactions which are humorous and relatable in equal parts, have won the internet. The clip has now been viewed over 11 million times, according to a report by NEWS.

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The caption on his post goes, “ate my 29-hour flight to Berlin,” and he continues by writing, “The kid’s got some lungs. Great projection.”

Beasley also gives a summary of his long flight from New Zealand to Germany, measured by the baby’s screams. What is funny is that he goes on to twitch his eyes comically when the baby appears to have screamed in its highest pitch.

“A nice long one here,” he wrote about a particularly prolonged scream. “Kettle’s boiled,” he joked. He continues to twitch his eye and goes on to conclude the clip with this hilarious caption, “Bring it home now. Stellar performance, incredible stamina. 10/10,” he concluded the clip with his eye still twitching.

Social media has given the verdict on his video, with a fast-growing count of 2.3 million likes and more than 30,000 comments most of which are about the screaming baby situation and then some debating about whose responsibility it is to ensure a peaceful and noise-free flight with babies onboard.

One commenter said, “At that point I’d start screaming along." "I think my tubes just tied themselves," one viewer joked, while another said, "And people have the audacity to ask me why I don't want kids," another added. Another was quick to defend the parents and the unfortunate situation by saying, “As a parent who offers to help these people, 80 per cent of them are not prepared. Babies cry, absolutely.” 

While the debate began about defending the co-passengers or the parents, there were some who took the neutral ground as well and let it be known that passengers can be slightly accommodative, but parents must also pull their weight and come prepared to fly with a baby for long. “Oof. I empathise with the parents but good grief, you’d think they’d have maybe prepared something to keep the kid calm on a journey that long,” one person wrote. Internet users also quickly made sure to point out the need for the possibility of baby-free flights. After one viewer suggested there be "kid free flights and kid flights," Beasley responded with a second video saying, "Or you could just plug in some headphones and crank some bangers directly into your skull."

Interestingly, Japan Airlines, a leading airway company, introduced a schema of booking where a patron can view where babies will be sitting, so tickets can be booked as per their convenience regarding the matter- they call it the ‘baby map.’