• A TikToker went viral with an “unethical life hack” about air-conditioning individuals who recline.
• It is the newest in an limitless collection of aircraft etiquette movies to achieve traction on TikTok.
• Viewers have been polarized, though many high feedback rejected the tip.

A TikToker sparked one other fiery aircraft etiquette discourse — this one which paradoxically urges viewers to blast chilly air on passengers who recline their seats too far.

The tip, which the creator has admittedly known as an “unethical life hack,” has amassed over 1.7 million views because it was posted on Friday, and a pool of divisive responses.

“When you’re on a flight and the individual in entrance of you reclines their seat all the way in which and leaves you no room. Activate the aircon above you on full blast and level it on the high of their head,” the consumer @thelkshow wrote in on-screen textual content to a brief TikTok video.

The consumer supplied no additional context to this “hack,” though in a response to a commenter they mentioned that reclined seats will be bothersome if one is attempting to eat or watch a film.

Many high feedback function folks balking on the TikToker’s suggestion. “Recliner seats are there to recline,” one individual famous. “If my seat reclines…I am reclining all the way in which again. Each time,” one other commenter wrote, garnering tons of of likes in assist.

Nonetheless, the creator appears to be doubling down on his stance.

“If the airline enables you to recline, recline,” one individual wrote. “And if an airline enables you to aircon, aircon,” the creator replied.

Regardless of some pushback, a number of viewers thought it was a “fully affordable” suggestion. 

One viewer mentioned they might begin bringing hats and beanies onto flights to guard themself in case anybody tried to blast them with the air conditioner.

@Thelkshow has made quite a few different movies with “unethical life hacks,” together with a well-liked one advising those who they need to take sick days one-to-three days after one other coworker calls out sick as a result of their boss will assume an sickness is “going across the workplace.”

Insider has reached out to @thelkshow.