“Stay where you are! Move and this sword, carved of Ohmu shell, will pierce your ceramic armor.”

It’s a weird case from the start. A case with a hole in the center. A doughnut.

I JUST SAW ONE WITH A GIRL DOING THE “my biggest flex is having hot friends check” AND THE FIRST THING THAT POPPED UP WAS THIS VIDEO. IT IS GRAPHIC AND DEFINITELY TRAUMATISING.

I have also been told that there are several other tactics that people are using. A few of them are:

- craft videos with multiple steps. they will show one or two steps before cutting to the video.

- innocuous videos (ie, someone showing their pets or kids) will also show the clip. a good way to tell is if it seems like a poor-quality video.

- aesthetics videos (one that is circulating is a halloween aesthetic video)

- lastly, it will seem to be a person making a rip post for the man in the video

these are just the ones i have heard from friends or people posting about this. pls be safe and pause to read the comments on tiktoks to get an idea of what the video may be.

The man’s name is Ronnie McNutt, he was a 33 years old Iraq war veteran from Mississippi who had just lost his job at a Toyota plant, and the video did not originate on Tiktok. 

McNutt killed himself during a Facebook live video for his friends, friends who were trying to talk him down. Then some unknown person took that video and put it on other platforms.

I feel this information is important because:

Ronnie McNutt was a real human being and his name was not “man with a beard”

He deserves the same level of dignity and respect that should be afforded to all people. He had a name, he had a story, he is not a nameless unknowable entity who existed solely in the context of a snuff film.

Treating him as a nameless unknowable entity who only existed in the context of a snuff film is exactly the sort of attitude that results in the further propagation of this video

The video was not created for mass public consumption

If you think this video is traumatic for you, imagine how it felt for its actual intended audience, the people who loved and knew him. Now imagine experiencing that trauma only for someone to treat this horrific act like shareable content.

It is unnerving that in every post I’ve seen warning people about this video I haven’t seen any consideration for how his loved ones must feel about McNutt’s death going viral 

Someone decided to circulate this across platforms. McNutt did not stream this for TikTok, he did not post it to Twitter…. someone saw this horrific death on Facebook and then decided to cross platform it.

McNutt’s friends and family have been speaking out about the trauma of witnessing his death in this manner and how Facebook did not do everything they could have to stop this. 

It’s a line that gets said to Marta repeatedly by the family, and she’s expected to be grateful for it. But when she uses it at Meg, Meg is so offended by it that she tells the family about Marta’s mother’s immigration status. Literally, this lovely, leftist, progressive white girl is so furious at the temerity of the poor Hispanic nurse offering her charity that she immediately lashes back by using her enormous privilege to put Marta back in her place. She risks Marta’s mother being arrested and deported, so that she can assuage her own ego.

And she feels guilty about it, sure. She feels terrible afterwards.

The Next Season: 

No wonder no one bothered to have me practice. He’s 10 yards away…

Mulan Reference boom. Every single time I think of this

No—okay the subversion is great and I love it but he’s still fat!!!!

The punchline wasn’t that he got skinny and ripped and the ex regretted it, it wasn’t even that he got skinny and ripped and started dating his trainer! He’s working out sure and maybe a little more “in shape” but the important thing is he’s fat and happy in the end.