A weird #MeToo moment at Peloton

I'm noting an experience my partner had during a taped Peloton workout over the weekend.  She's still researching the event, and has reached out to Peloton directly, so there will be updates and more to come.

My sense is that there's no blame here to Peloton--instead what occurred results from the tendency for men to behave stupidly when they think they're part of a large group, or "anonymous."

Here are the details: my partner was doing a 45 minute ride.  As is always the case, you can sign on to scheduled new rides on Peloton, or pick from a library of zillions of recent live rides.  When you do a recorded workout, you're riding against the leaderboard from the live ride.

For whatever reason, the instructors normally call out select achievements from those participating in the live ride (recorded session riders get to hear those call outs, even though those riders have long moved on to other sessions).  Anyone with a Peloton is familiar with expressions like "Denverbiker, 750th ride...I see you!"

On this particular ride, some enterprising (male) rider had achieved some goal and was called out.  Anticipating this, this fun guy had changed his Peloton user name to "I want to poke you."

One can only assume he masturbated to the wonderful experience of having a buff female instructor yell out "Cheers to Iwanttopokeyou on 500 rides" or whatever.  My partner reports that the instructor balked for a second (given how wonderfully chroreographed and performed all Peloton sessions are, it's weird to see a momentary hitch) and may have said something like "oh...that's not nice," once she realized what she'd just said.

The recorded session is still available, four days later and counting.  So it appears that no one complained. 23,000 live riders watched this occur and no one noticed?  Seems unlikely.

Edits to follow.  You would hope that Iwanttopokeher has finished jerking off, has cleaned up his mess, and has been banned from Peloton.