A food influencer who recently visited a Virginia restaurant with her husband to celebrate their anniversary is receiving a ton of backlash online. The woman had posted a TikTok video in which she carried out a lighthearted food review while seeming to be dismissive about a “dead body” lying a short distance outside the venue. Her video has since gained thousands of views on the platform.
For brief moments, the video cut to the street outside, where police officers and emergency responders could be seen standing around a cordoned-off area marked with yellow tape. What appears to be a deceased person lies covered on the ground. Parked around the scene were also police vehicles and a fire truck.
While the authorities were handling the situation outside, the woman was seated across from her husband inside the upscale steakhouse, filming their meal of oysters, Brussels sprouts, and “strawberry upside down cake.” In her voice-over, she casually referenced the incident outside, folding it into her narration as if it were part of the evening.
At one point, she says, “I wasn’t planning on filming our anniversary dinner, but we walked up, there was a dead body outside, so I knew it was going to be an eventful one.” Later, she adds, “We enjoyed our romantic evening under the red and blue strobe lights,” referencing the flashing police lights outside.
Towards the end of the video, she also said, “We split the bill like every good couple does on their anniversary and walked home under the red and blue lights,” while she and her husband posed in the streets with the police scene visible in the background.
Viewers Slammed Her in the Comments
Netizens who came across the video were outraged by the Virginia woman’s attitude, with one even calling her “revolting.” Another person wrote, “Omg! This is disgusting and inhumane,” while a third asked, “Are people just losing their minds these days?”
Others felt she was being insensitive toward the person who had died. “This is not okay… Someone lost their life,” one viewer wrote. Someone else chimed in with, “Just a dead body? not a person? not someone’s passed loved one?” A similar comment read, “It’s not just a dead body it’s a person cmon.”
One person even went as far as to say, “If I ever died and someone included my death in a quirky influencer food vlog I’d haunt them so bad.”
As of now, the Virginia influencer has not publicly apologized or removed the video.
