Game dev has already turned Astronomer CEO cheating scandal into a video game
A game developer is going viral for taking the Astronomer CEO cheating scandal and making it into a fully playable, ‘Where’s Waldo’ style game in mere hours.
The internet was set ablaze on June 09, 2025 as footage from a Coldplay concert began circling on social media, but it wasn’t the band that was going viral.
Instead, it was a couple who’d been caught by a cameraman and then displayed on the big screen at the event — Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and his head of HR, Kristin Cabot.
The two were swaying from side to side in the music as Bryon’s arms were locked around Cabot. After getting caught on camera, the two quickly shied away from each other, prompting frontman Chris Martin to joke, “Either they’re having an affair, or they’re just very shy.”
“Either they’re having an affair or they’re very shy"Coldplay’s Chris Martin responded after a couple at his show hid from the cameraspic.twitter.com/vatUKDajL3
It turns out that the latter was true, as netizens wasted no time figuring out the identities of the couple at the concert. In just one day, the scandal had taken over social media, and both Byron and Cabot have been placed on leave effective immediately.
Among the thousands of memes that have already spawned as a result of the scandal, one developer is taking off like wildfire online for turning the viral moment into a video game.
Astronomer CEO cheating scandal turns into video game
X user ‘songadayman’ says he “vibe coded” the game in just “two hours,” although his previous tweets say he started at 4 PM the day prior to posting the first gameplay clip.
Creatively titled ‘Coldplay Canoodlers,’ the game is an interactive ‘Where’s Waldo’ experience where players must comb through the crowd to find Andy Bryon and Kristin Cabot’s infamous embrace on the jumbotron.
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i vibe coded a little game called Coldplay Canoodlersyou’re the camera operator and you have to find the CEO and HR lady canoodling10 points every time you find them👇linkpic.twitter.com/aA6e1R5aGJ
Mere hours after being posted on X, users have already racked up hundreds of points in the game, with one managing toscore 110at the time of writing.
Songadayman usually challenges himself to make a song a day, using AI-powered tools. However, it seems his meme-based game is significantly more popular — and it’s little surprise, given how extremely viral the cheating scandal that inspired it has become.
Just two days after getting caught at the Coldplay concert, Astronomer hasbegun an internal investigationinto the matter. “Astronomer is committed to the values and culture that have guided us since our founding,” the company said in a statement. “Our leaders are expected to set the standard in both conduct and accountability.”
