A crochet influencer based in Southern California (SoCal), Jenna Bean, was recording herself wearing an outfit based on Patrick Star from SpongeBob when she was shocked by the insensitive remarks of an elderly man who, among many other things, called her “disgusting” and “pig.”
The whole unpleasant interaction was recorded by Jenna and posted on her Instagram account. She was posing as “Sexy Patrick” when, out of the blue, an elderly man appeared to body-shame her.
“I’ve never seen anything more disgusting in my life,” the man is heard saying off-camera. He then added, “You’re disgusting, you’re like a pig. Look at you.”
Stunned by what the unnamed man was saying, Jenna grabbed the camera and pointed it at a shirtless man. Strangely, he was also recording the exchange, with a camcorder of all things. The bizareness didn’t stop there, though.
“I’m 70 years old and I’m in shape,” the man said, while holding the camcorder. “You see me? This is what it looks like to be in shape.”
Jenna and the man called each other disgusting, albeit for different reasons.
“I wasn’t harming you,” Jenna told the man, adding, “I wasn’t saying anything to you. You talked to me first by calling me disgusting.”
The elderly man continued with the rude comments by saying, “Look at how fat you are.” Jenna told him people love her body, and the man answered by saying “No, they don’t” before the video ended.
Reactions, Influencer Response
Jenna’s video was liked by more than 100K people, garnering more than 17K comments. Many users reacted in support of Jenna, calling out the man for his unprovoked attacks.
“In shape. Is the shape an alcoholic beach ball?” one user said. Another user wondered, “Why is he at a park with a camcorder is what we want to know.” A third one added, “Is the fact that he’s recording her too so that he can look at it later for whatever reason. That’s so strange. Very strange man.”
Other comments seemed to match the outrageous insults issued by the man. These were addressed by Jenna on her Instagram stories, in which she asked for “originality,” saying that “reading the same comment 1000 times from different people doesn’t hit the same after a while.”
