Social media has given everyone a platform, and unfortunately, some people use that platform to be absolute garbage. We have all seen those “people of Walmart” style videos where someone films strangers just to mock them. It is cruel, it is lazy, and it is the lowest form of content. But one aspiring influencer on Reddit just found out that if you dish it out, you better be ready to take it, because karma has a phone number.
Our narrator knows a girl who is clearly desperate for internet fame. She isn’t a close friend, just an acquaintance, but the OP has her contact info. This girl decided to post a “comedy” video on her public Instagram that is, frankly, repulsive. She used the song “My Lovin’ (You’re Never Gonna Get It)” as the soundtrack to publicly shame random people minding their own business.
She zoomed in on an overweight person and captioned it “never gonna get it: skinny.” She mocked someone with acne saying “never gonna get it: a boyfriend.” She even went after a garbage man doing his job with “never gonna get it: a real job.” First of all, garbage collectors make good money and keep our cities from becoming landfills, so put some respect on their name. Second, this is just bullying disguised as content.
The OP saw this train wreck and tried to do the right thing. They texted the girl and asked her to take it down. A normal person would realize they crossed a line. But this girl? She doubled down. She called it a “joke” and told the OP not to take it seriously.
She refused to even make the video private because people were “finally viewing her stuff” and she thought she could get “Insta famous.” She got a whopping 100 likes and thought she was the next big thing. She was willing to humiliate strangers for triple-digit engagement. That is a level of thirst that cannot be quenched with water.
Realizing that logic and empathy were foreign concepts to this girl, the OP decided to speak her language. They fired up their own video editing software. They took the same song and applied the format to the bully herself.
The video featured the girl’s face with captions like “Never gonna get it: an education since she’s so busy on instagram” and “Never gonna get it: friends since she is so judgy.” It was petty. It was personal. It was perfect.
But here is the key difference. The OP didn’t post it. They didn’t blast it to their followers. They sent it directly to her with a simple question: “How would you like it if you saw this online?” It was a mirror, not a weapon.
Predictably, the girl who loves dishing out shame absolutely could not handle receiving it. She “flipped out,” calling the OP a hypocrite and a huge ahole. It is fascinating how quickly “it’s just a joke” turns into “you’re cruel” when the target changes.
So, is the OP the ahole? Not even close. Sometimes you have to show a bully what they look like. She was punching down at strangers who couldn’t defend themselves. The OP punched up at a bully privately. The fact that she can’t handle a private roast while publicly humiliating others proves she needed that reality check. N-T-A.