People could not believe the screams recorded in the man's video were from a human child, wondering if it was perhaps a reptile or a French bulldog.
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One man's viral video of his miserable time on board a flight with a screaming child is giving TikTok plenty of entertainment.
A TikTok user who uses the handle bhrino0 posted the video online on August 4. During the 10-second clip shot in an airplane cabin, a child can be heard screaming loudly in the background.
The TikTok user added an expletive-filled caption to his video expressing his annoyance at having to deal with the screaming, comparing the child to R2D2, the droid from "Star Wars."
The TikTok clip was also captioned: "Gremlin."
It's unclear what airline the man was flying on, but he appeared to be sitting in a window seat. He tagged the video's location as New York's LaGuardia Airport.
The video has, at press time, been liked more than 418,000 times. And people are lighting up the comments section wondering how a human child could make noises like that.
"Aint no way that's coming from a human baby, that shi sounds like a cat in heat bruh," a TikToker named Marisa commented.
"French bulldog?" a TikTok user with the ID Desolate87 commented.
Other people likened the child to Gir, a robot character from the cartoon "Invader Zim," zombies from video games, the Smurfs, and more.
The TikTok user also got plenty of sympathy from people.
"Happened today on my plane it sounded like a demon summoned from the pits of hell," one commenter wrote.
"Just muzzle your godamn hellspawn," another TikToker commented.
And perhaps one TikToker summed it up best with their three-word comment: "Oh hell no."
Stories about screaming children have divided the internet. In October, a TikToker got backlash from parents after he complained about a baby screaming through his "29-hour flight" to Berlin. And in April, one man received flak — as well as a fair share of sympathy — for losing his temper and launching into an expletive-filled rant over a crying child.
The presence of screaming children has motivated several airlines to create child-free zones on their flights. Scoot, a budget airline based in Singapore, launched Scoot-in-Silence cabins in 2013.
AirAsia X, the long-haul division of the Malaysian carrier AirAsia, also has a quiet zone on its Airbus A330-300 flights.
