Adam Aron Did Not Appear to be Wearing Pants on this Zoom Call
Important journalism here.
Former Sixers CEO Adam Aron was doing a Zoom call Thursday and his camera fell over. When he goes to adjust it, it appears as though he is not wearing any pants:
Former Sixers CEO & creator of Phil E. Moose Adam Aron got caught on a Zoom call with no pants pic.twitter.com/8AvgDfOFuJ
— The Wooderboys (@wooderboys) June 4, 2021
Fantastic stuff, but the real question is this –
Is this a violation? I think the answer has to be no. There are no rules stipulating that you must wear pants while videoconferencing, and so this does not go down as a violation in my book.
For some background here, we used to have television anchors who would wear a suit and tie but then go with flip flops because they knew the camera wasn’t shooting anything below their knees. Or, sometimes they would be on the desk for the entire show so they could get away with shirt/tie/jacket and they’d just throw some shorts on instead. This was typically allowed because those television studio lights are HOT and it ends up being something like 98 degrees on the desk, with Nick Lachey.
In Aron’s case, he’s dressed for comfort. It’s a little bit like the mullet, where you’ve got business in the front and party in the back, but in this case we’re talking tops and bottoms, or lack thereof.
Edit –
I guess we should provide some background here. Why is Adam Aron talking to some Youtube dude?
Long story short, Aron is the CEO of AMC, the movie theater chain, which has been struggling. You’ve got a pandemic and people who sit at home and watch a lot of stuff on Netflix or whatever else these days, so the theater business ain’t what it used to be.
With the stock price taking a nose dive, the same types of dudes who bought up Gamestop went and did the same thing with AMC, which saw the stock go as high as $72. At its low during 2020, it was trading for less than $2 a share.
The meme guys who buy this stuff are known as “apes,” and they’re basically retail investors who are bullish on heavily-shorted stocks, like Gamestop. Wall Street types go to “short” those stocks because they predict a business will crash and burn, but the internet guys come in and prop up the business, and in this case it’s basically been a lifeline for AMC.
That’s the most basic way to explain it.