Overview

• The company identified the floating orb videos as a planned campaign for Trippie, its birthday mascot, confirming the reveal on Sept. 22.
• A follow-up clip showed the glowing sphere entering a suitcase at Jewel Changi Airport with a prompt to stay tuned for Sept. 24.
• The earliest viral post came from TikTok user @sundayannab1 on Sept. 19, drawing over 40,000 likes and more than 24,000 shares.
• Clips depicted a luminous object at Tampines, Pasir Ris Park and Yishun, prompting theories that included the rare phenomenon known as ball lightning.
• YouTrip used a similar mystery-visual approach in April with purple skies near the Johor Bahru causeway tied to its Malaysian ringgit wallet launch.