You can find everything in the metro, but really everything: people who read but also people who do sports, acrobatics, even exercise bikes. People who shout at each other but also people who love each other, taking all the passengers to witness. People who eat but also who cook. And a whole bunch of other unusual activities spotted by Gaëtan on his Instagram account People In The Subway.
A veritable nugget factory, with moments that make you smile and others downright bizarre, Gaëtan, 38, from Burgundy, had the idea of creating this account shortly after his arrival in Paris. The man, who worked in the audiovisual sector for 10 years, is an observer and very quickly the metro becomes, he tells 20 Minutes” a playground “.
A marriage proposal
At first, Gaëtan posted photos on his personal account, then in 2016, he created an Instagram account, with “about twenty photos”. Six years later, here it is with 348,000 subscribers and subscribers, and the account has become collaborative. Because Gaëtan no longer lives in Paris, which he left after confinement, to settle in the South. “Tired of Paris, yeah, but the metro, no, I won’t get tired of it!” he says, laughing at 20 Minutes.
Among the nuggets that Gaëtan has collected in recent years there is this video has become almost cult among his “followers” of a woman who rots someone on the phone, a certain Daniel, who we don’t really know if he is her companion, while saying to him just afterwards “see you this evening”. “There is a gimmick that has settled with this Daniel, often people ask me ‘how is Daniel'”, smiles Gaëtan. But it’s not just people screaming, the proof, this marriage proposal video:
