[Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] I work as a barista but I've been growing a following on Tik Tok I've recently passed 50,000 followers I know it's nothing compared to some of the biggest creators on Tik Tok with tens of millions of followers but for me it's a huge deal one day I hope I can quit the coffee shop and be a full-time content creator the only real drag about being a Tik tocker are the creeps I've always attracted my fair share of thirsty weirdos on the internet but ever since I've been trying to do Tik Tok
it's been a million times worse every time I post a video 80% of the comments are well-meaning but then the other 20% are nauseating remarks about my body and disgusting things people want to see done to me all these creeps are telling me to get an only fans but I have no intention of ever doing that unfortunately I feel like I have to leave those comments up and I can't block those people because I need the engagement on my profile I thought I'd get used to it but they've only been getting harder to ignore they've
all started messaging me because I ignore their comments at best they're asking to take me out on a date but at worst they're basically threatening to make me the star of their own personal snuff film as creepy and unnerving as it is I know 99.9% of them are all talk however it's been getting even weirder than that I've been doing a lot of live streams recently during which I always have the same window in the background when I prop my phone up on my desk and I've been seeing something weird in it while I'm filming
it always happens out of the corner of my eye and I can't go back to see if it was really there but I keep seeing a Green Dot flash on the curtain like a taser pointer is shining through my window I always assumed it's just some dumb kids in the neighborhoods messing around but it felt weird to me that it would only happen when I was live streaming then I noticed that I've been getting attention from a particularly persistent creep I'll just call him Richard he comments on every single one of my videos then messages
me minutes later for a while it was always the same stuff like I love you I need you I want to give you a big tip at your job I talk about being a barista on my page sometimes but I've never mentioned where I live or work yet somehow Richard knew the exact coffee shop I worked at Richard even said he knew where I lived but as I looked through his profile he didn't have any posts so I assumed he was just another troll then one day Richard took it a step further he sent me
the exact street address even my apartment number not only did he have that but he also knew the make model and year of my car as well as the license plate he was even threatening to steal mail out of my mailbox but that's when I realized he had already been doing that for days as it had been suspiciously empty the threats just continued to ramp up with him saying that if I wasn't going to be with him he was going to do something to me I could no longer ignore this Richard freak anymore he was
an actual psycho and I couldn't stop thinking about him breaking into my apartment at night or ambushing me in my car I couldn't sleep I just kept looking out my window trying to see if I could spot him but he was never there I didn't want to block him as I didn't want to give him any more reason to do something else and I wanted to be able to show all of his info to the cops all I needed to do was make it through the night so I didn't have to go to the police
station in the dark however when I stepped outside to go there the next morning I was met with a terrifying scene all the windows on my car had been smashed every single one was totally broken through I called the police right then and there to report it but when they came they said there wasn't anything they could do frustrated I took matters into my own hands I swept the glass out of my car then I took it to an auto glass shop I got the car fixed and immediately got a security camera I eventually set
up the camera to point right at where I parked my car about 2 days later I came out to the exact same situation all the windows of my car were broken but this time my license plate was also gone I immediately checked the camera where I saw footage of a man driving up to my car getting out and smashing all the windows ripping off my license plate then driving off I was able to read the license plate of the culprit car in the video and gave the information to the cops about a week or so
later the cops arrested a man named Richard Newman it was revealed that he had been stalking me through Tik Tok and had become absolutely obsessed with with me it turns out that he lived in the same city as me and took advantage of it what's even more alarming was how he was the one shining lasers through my window during my live streams ever since then I've been scared to live in my own home I'm scared of continuing making Tik toks fearing him or someone else will attack me and not my car next time around this
story was inspired by a disturbing incident regarding a Tik Tok influencer who was scared to live in Oklahoma City apartment after several incidents involving a stalker within the last month Richard Newman was arrested on April 10th and found to be the alleged stalker the victim stated it was scary I would get messages telling me they knew where I lived and to do whatever they say I've gotten tons of messages from a random account or two that mentioned personal details about where I live what kind of car I drive and what I do for a living
and I was like this is someone who knows me news Outlet have concealed her name because she said there could be more arrests soon her Tik Tok handle according to the documents is at rubber ducky Joe or simply Joe police were involved when on March 25th Joe woke up and found out that her license plate was stolen and her car window was busted out but on March 27th police responded to her apartment complex yet again because her window was broken again but this time Joe had set up surveillance cameras which caught the vehicle and the
people involved on March 20 8 documents detail that Joe called the police again due to harassment online this is when the comments became more personal and became threatening eventually police found the vehicle with the matching license plate and pulled it over and inside was a man named Justin Delaney documents say that Delaney admitted to police that another man named Richard Newman was the one who was allegedly stalking Joe through Tik Tok and was infuriated with her he also allegedly gave money to Joe's account because he liked her so much it's it's also alleged that Newman
would watch Joe's Tik Tok and when she went live he would shine a laser pointer in every window at her apartment complex to find out which specific apartment she lived in despite the confession Delaney was arrested and charged Joe said that she knows there are others who are stalking her and that more arrests could come as a result Newman faces several charges including Larsen stalking assault and more his bail is set for $100,000 and he sits in Oklahoma City [Music] [Laughter] [Music] Jail you've reached the number for emergency services please describe sir calm down what's
going on it's my kid they've gone crazy what what are they doing is anyone hurt so what's about to be if they don't stop this goddamn Tick Tock ban excuse me sir you hurt me [ __ ] I need the tick tock ban to stop before someone gets hurt out here you C that sir I'm afraid I'm not able to do that why don't you just tell me your address and I'll send someone over help please you have to help me bring back tick Tok sir sir where are you when I got my first call
that night from someone freaking out about Tik Tok being banned I'll admit I found it pretty amusing I mean every single day as a 911 operator I get calls about robberies kidnappings murders all sorts of stuff in comparison hearing people crying over a social media app is just silly as hell I've never been a big social media person I have all the apps but I never use any of them I just don't understand how people can get interested in having fake conversations with random people they don't know hearing those people freak out was funny at
first but as the night went on more and more people found out about it and that's when the only calls I got were about Tik Tok it got on my nerves so badly that I broke protocol at the start of every phone call I asked if it was about Tik Tok and if they said yes I tell them to piss off my co-workers mostly the officers that would usually be responding to those calls certainly got a kick out of it a lot of them started to accumulate around the station as it seemed all crime and
wrongdoing had come to a stop because every single person in our jurisdiction would rather cry over losing an app than do anything else however the situation continued to deteriorate from funny to annoying to problematic a few hours into the Fiasco I spotted a guy staring at me out the window he looked Vaguely Familiar like I already knew what his voice sounded like that's when I realized he must have been one of those guys I had on the phone earlier who claimed to be a famous Tik Tok star I'd probably seen one of his videos and
forgot about it so I asked Michael a nearby officer about it hey Mike you see that guy over there oh yeah I know him I follow him or I guess I used to well can you make sure the doors are locked he's giving me the creeps yeah I'll take care of it Mike went over to the front door of the police station and unlocked them the man didn't seem to react except by turning to Mike with an expressionless his face I couldn't tell what it was but there was just something off about that man then
I noticed a crowd of people were quickly approaching the building behind Mike's back they all look the same like influencers and ticktockers I shouted at Mike to close the door but it was too late The Horde burst through the doors the Swarm pushed through and flooded in like a horde of zombies they overran the station piling on to the officers and ripping them to shreds I was in at shock unable to flee as I saw my co-workers and Friends being eaten alive all the while the Tik Tok freaks kept pouring into the building and they
eventually turned on me I sprinted away looking for an escape but all the exits were swarmed and I realized there was nowhere for me to run with no other option I jumped into the Janitor's Closet and locked myself inside I couldn't find the light switch so I was sitting in darkness listening to the sounds of the catastrophe outside I tried to cover my ears but I could hear everything the screams the sound of Flesh tearing and bone breaking along with the cheers of those deranged inhuman Tik Tock Stars celebrating the spectacle slowly the noise died
down and that's when I Got a notification on my phone that someone was going live with me I felt I had no choice but to open the live stream I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it the video was being filmed by someone in that crowd of Tik Tock addicted monsters now all bloodied from their attack on the station and they were piled up outside the door to the Janitor's Closet the door I was hiding directly behind they must have known as soon as I joined the live stream because they immediately started pounding on
the door and screaming at me to bring back Tik Tok I had no weapons to defend myself all I could do was scream and beg for mercy unfortunately the door didn't hold for long and within seconds they were on me and I ended up like everyone else in their path no no no this story was inspired by an incident regarding the viral Tik Tok ban that had millions of users in chaos as Tik Tock barred access throughout the United States Tik Tok shutdown in the US has caused absolute chaos what some users reportedly calling 911
in a panic following the Supreme Court's decision to upload the Nationwide ban on t talk users have started receiving notifications confirming the app's removal while many are voicing their frustration online some have taken it to a whole new level by dialing 911 emergency services emergency dispatch centers across the country are now dealing with non-critical calls from distraught users including teens and children who are upset over losing access to the app one bizar 911 call from Anoka County Minnesota even involved a caller who was described as incoherent while professing their love for Tik Tok imagine being
a dispatcher expecting a real emergency and instead hearing someone crying over losing their for you page officials are now urging the public to stop using emergency hotlines for non-urgent matters warning that it diverts critical resources away from actual emergencies [Music] [Laughter] [Music] I've worked hard for everything I have I go to college work a fulltime and live alone so I have to take care of myself completely I lived in a decent house with not much around it it was a rural area so there were just a few houses but mostly grassland that meant that I
barely had any friends or acquaintances most of the time I'm mindlessly just scrolling on Tik to watching brain rot while I'm at work or at home not only is watching a Tik Tok mindless and effortless but so is making one that's why I envy Tik Tock creators with a burning passion it's the main source of negativity in my mindset these days not loneliness or fatigue just a seething hatred for these people that have it so easy I guess that's part of the loop that keeps me hooked the back and forth between the dopamine hits and
rage bait I just can't stand how dumb [ __ ] they do goes viral earning them Revenue an opportunity that a hardworking person like me would spend Decades of their lives hoping to achieve above all there is one tick tocker that drives me insane more than any of them kobby lame it's not even that I find his videos to be exceptionally bad in fact when I first encountered him he honestly gave me a good laugh but then I discovered something about him that changed everything the guy was was my nextd door neighbor when I recognized
him there wasn't a hint of celebrity worship it was all rage I worked 60 hours every week to afford my house and there he was living right next to me with the money he made from putting out a 30second video every couple days I always see him through the windows filming his stupid videos not even bothering to say a word it's like he's doing it on purpose to make sure I see it when I come home from work or wash dishes I just see him making a few gestures here and there and doing something mundane
I know that all he's doing is making fun of some even dumber life hack video but I always know he's making a lot by doing it kabi is richer than anyone else who lives in my neighborhood he could move out to a Hollywood Mansion or a Manhattan penthouse but for some reason he sticks around the guy was a weirdo I often catch him glancing at me gauntly while he's filming smiling never opening his mouth to be honest he freaks me out but that's why I keep my my machete underneath the loose floorboard in my bedroom
just in case over weeks and months I slowly grew to despise cabi more and more even giving up Tick Tock just to keep a lookout for him kobby also began taking greater notice of me in some of his videos he never even looked at the camera while he was filming he was just looking through the window right at me one night I couldn't stand it anymore the standoff the silence what what do you want from me come on why won't you say anything just stop staring at me you got it we would have tense face
off with him here and there but I tried not to let it ruin my day after that I was pretty exhausted so I went upstairs and crawled into bed I slowly fell asleep I remember tossing and turning in my bed trying to fall asleep when I heard it it sounded like tapping sounds I tried to ignore and sleep through it thinking it was just the wind from outside or something but I heard it again this time the tapping sound sounded even louder now I knew someone was definitely there that's when I sat up on my
bed to look at what was making those noises what the hell do you want from me [Music] [Music] oh no no no a help me somebody get this freak out of my house help what what does that even mean why won't you just talk you better get the he out of my house what how where did it go [Music]
