2 Two women overwhelmed with hate because of a clip posing for satirical effects

• TikToker received 33 million views after it filmed two women who appeared to make fun of it at a baseball game.
• Viewers immediately turned against the women, deploring their apparent behavior.
• Some have gone so far as to try to trace their identities to post their personal information online.

Netizens have pounced on two women caught in the background of a viral video as they appear to be mocking an influencer for taking a selfie while attending a baseball game.

A TikToker who passes @employee He has more than 258,000 followers on the published app video On April 22, it showed her posing for photos in an outdoor seating area on what appears to be a sports field while two women giggled and gestured from two rows behind them.

Based on Share on Instagram Judging by the influence and the clothes she and others in the audience wore, the incident appeared to have occurred at a baseball game at Minute Maid Park, a stadium in Houston, Texas, while the Houston Astros baseball team was playing.

In the upload’s onscreen caption, TikToker wrote that her confidence vanished after “two random girls” were seen pulling faces behind her, one of whom stuck her middle finger into the camera and appeared to record the influencer on her own phone and call her “lame.”

“Realizing they were talking about me. Feeling super self-conscious. I wanted to cry,” the text-to-speech voice over in the clip said.

In explaining the video, @employee “Please be nice,” he wrote, and included the hashtag # girls And # Oh, Lord.

The video went viral, with over 33 million views.

Although the influencer turned off comments on the video, many users received millions of views after they linked the upload and shared their own thoughts on the incident.

1 user They said they were “hurt” by seeing women “mean” to other women, and described the behavior as “unfortunate”, while another She reassured the influencer that she was beautiful and that the two women were wrong.

Reaction to the video extended to Twitter as well, where it caused an uproar. the majority of users She supported TikToker’s decision to take pictures and Suggest it was unfair To make fun of her though some thought She shouldn’t have released the video to her large audience, as it led to a backlash towards women.

Even the rapper Cardi B She weighed in, telling her 29.5 million followers that she would use this ring, apparently referring to the thick jewelry the influencer wore on her fingers.

Some users took it further and attempted to track down and reveal the identities of the women featured in the video, sharing their findings online, in an act known as doxxing. International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media and Communication Published in March 2020, it describes doxxing as a form of “online harassment that violates the boundaries of perceived privacy by spreading information through online media channels.”

One TikTok seen by Insider, which showed a screenshot of a personal Instagram account purporting to belong to one of the women, had been viewed 6.9 million times. Many users posted what they believed were the women’s identities, including details such as where they attended college, LinkedIn accounts, and companies they thought they worked for, prompting netizens to leave a slew of one-star reviews. The company’s Yelp page.

Insider has reached out to the company identified on several TikToks but has not been able to confirm if either woman works for the company. Insider was also unable to confirm whether the women identified are in fact the women in the video, and was unable to reach them for comment.

One TikToker appears to be caught in the crossfire as she says viewers mistook her for one of the women in the video. The uploader who passes @employeeWhen it received 1.3 million views It’s sewn TikToker video on April 23, and wrote in a caption that she had received insults for something she didn’t do, and asked people in her comment to stop harassing her and her mother.

in tracking She said that she and her family received so much abuse that she had to private her Instagram account, but people simply took this as proof of her guilt. “You can never win,” she said in the video.

The legal ramifications of doxxing can vary from state to state in the United States. In 2022, Nevada passed a bill banning the activity and giving victims the opportunity to file a civil lawsuit against their daughter.In California, a person who attempts to endanger others and their immediate family through a BI can get a one-year sentence in county jail, a fine of up to $1,000, or both, CNN reported.

Social media users are increasingly inclined to take sides with someone they perceive as a victim of bullying behaviour, although this sentiment can lead to more severe harassment against perceived perpetrators.

On March 29, Mika Lussier, a contestant on the Netflix reality show “Love is Blind,” wrote in a statement on Instagram that she was stopping her comments to protect her mental health after she was labeled a “mean girl” on the show. , which sparked a wave of backlash online. Earlier the same month, Selena Gomez said on Instagram that Hailey Bieber told her she was receiving death threats after rumors about the couple exploded online, and Gomez’s fans believe Bieber is involved in mocking her.

influencer @employee supports makeup And Transfer of clothes On TikTok, he has more than 29,000 followers Instagram. It did not respond to an Insider’s request for comment.

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