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Your Worst Fears Confirmed: Can Your Plane Crash if You Turn Your Phone Off Airplane Mode?

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The goal of the Comedy Central social creative team’s Under the Influencer week featuring YouTuber Simmi Singh was to cast her in a variety of Comedy Central’s properties. A highlight from this week was one of our most successful franchises, Your Worst Fears Confirmed, in which Dr. Natasha Vaynblat presents comedically scientific answers to questions that people have wondered – and Googled – about for many years. Spoiler: the news is always bad.

Strategy and Execution

As with other episodes of Your Worst Fears Confirmed, the genesis of this episode came from a regularly Googled question: “Can the plane crash if I don’t turn on airplane mode?” Appearing in the video as a “Cellular aviation expert,” Simmi Singh assists Vaynblat in a number of “facts” that will affect anyone who experiences air travel with any regularity.

Results

A vital component of Simmi Singh's Under the Influencer week, this episode of Your Worst Fears Confirmed received nearly 275k views on YouTube and 40k views on Facebook.

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