I need to flag a limitation here: the source material provided is a one-line Reddit post title ("Got a nice little air show on my way to work today!") linking to a video hosted on Reddit's video platform (v.redd.it), with no accompanying article text, no research context, and no description of what the video actually shows. There is no discernible aircraft type, location, airspace, altitude, maneuver, or operator identified in the material provided. Without being able to view or otherwise access the content of that video, any specific claims about what "air show" occurred, which aircraft were involved, or where this took place would be fabricated rather than analyzed.
That said, a few general observations are worth making about this category of content for a professional pilot audience. Commuter-observed aerial activity — whether military formation flights, aerobatic practice, airshow rehearsals, or unusual traffic patterns near a driver's route to work — is a common genre of aviation social media content, and posts like this one typically circulate on communities such as r/aviation or r/flying without substantive detail in the title itself. These posts often generate value only once commenters identify the aircraft, unit, or event in question, which underscores a broader point relevant to working pilots: informal spotting and citizen documentation has become a meaningful, if unofficial, channel for situational awareness about local airspace activity, including MOA/restricted area usage, TFRs tied to airshows or VIP movements, and military training patterns that civil pilots operating VFR or IFR in the vicinity should be aware of.
For corporate, airline, and Part 91/135 pilots, the broader trend worth noting is the increasing overlap between recreational social media documentation and practical flight-planning intelligence. NOTAMs and TFRs remain the authoritative source for planning around airshows, formation flights, or military exercises, but crowd-sourced video and spotter networks increasingly provide earlier or more granular real-time cueing — for example, flagging unbriefed low-level jet activity, unusual formation flying, or airshow practice sessions near uncontrolled fields or busy Class B/C corridors well before official notices are published or updated. Pilots transiting areas near known airshow circuits (Oshkosh, Sun 'n Fun, regional airshow season activity which peaks through summer months) or military training routes should treat this kind of ambient reporting as a supplement to, not a replacement for, official preflight briefings.
Given the complete absence of substantive facts in the source material — no aircraft, no location, no altitude, no context beyond a commuter's brief excitement — a genuine analytical treatment of "what happened" cannot responsibly be produced. If a fuller article, video transcript, description, or additional research context describing the actual aerial event becomes available, a properly grounded analysis connecting it to specific airspace, traffic, or safety implications for professional pilots can be written.