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We’ll take it: a TikToker rallies pledges to buy Spirit Airlines after its abrupt weekend collapse
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In a remarkable display of community support, a TikToker quickly mobilized followers to pledge financial backing for Spirit Airlines following its sudden collapse over the weekend. Within just hours, he launched a rudimentary website to facilitate the movement, which he humorously described as a "janky" creation. By Sunday, the initiative had attracted an impressive 36,000 "founding patrons," collectively committing nearly $23 million, leading to server crashes from the overwhelming response. This grassroots effort exemplifies the power of social media in rallying support during a crisis.
Within hours he'd thrown up a website — a janky, one-hour job, by his own admission — and by Sunday, 36,000 "founding patrons" had pledged nearly $23 million, crashing his servers in the process.
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