For anyone who hasn't heard the term, a 'hot mic' moment is when someone is done speaking on a microphone, but them makes an offhanded comment to themselves or someone, intended to be private, that is picked up by the mic and heard by everyone
For anyone who hasn't heard the term, a 'hot mic' moment is when someone is done speaking on a microphone, but them makes an offhanded comment to themselves or someone, intended to be private, that is picked up by the mic and heard by everyone
The most memed one (at least stateside) has to be (CW: homophobic slur) this baseball one. Not really catastrophic for anyone besides him, though. The Diamond Joe "this is a big fucking deal" incident is more well known but it doesn't come with a copypasta-ready apology and also didn't really matter.
edit: scrolling through the hot mic Wikipedia article and there are a few fun ones in there:
i still consider myself a man of faith
and that's a drive by castellanos into deep left field
Death to America
out of all the things to dump on british food about, haggis isn't one of them.
go put a napkin on your head and stuff your snout into some ortolan, Jacques "Off" Chirac.![france-cool france-cool](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/92c0af52-89d2-4c08-a1b6-de4e387d9b61.png)
absolute hot girl shit
I'm so glad that the secret to mermaid man's success was jacking it