A woman who attended the Men’s College World Series on Monday night took issue with ESPN airing a segment showing her and a friend eating ice cream and referencing a viral video of the woman now known as the “Hawk Tua” girl.
During the top of the third inning of Game 3 between the Tennessee Volunteers and Texas A&M Aggies, a woman known on TikTok as Annie J and her friend were caught on camera struggling to finish a bowl of melting ice cream.
“You’ve got to grab it before it melts and turns into liquid,” ESPN’s Karl Labeck said, with his co-commentator adding, “On nights like tonight, you work fast.”
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Annie said she was woken up by comments from TikTok users comparing her to “Hawk Tua” singer Haley Welch, whose comments in a video filmed in Nashville went viral earlier this month.
College World Series patch during the Division I baseball championship game between the University of Tennessee Volunteers and the Texas A&M University Aggies at Charles Schwab Field on June 22, 2024 in Omaha, Nebraska. (Photo by Tyler Shank/NCAA via Getty Images)
Annie found the comments offensive and slammed ESPN for allowing them to be made.
“It was a 20-second segment where we just eat and lick ice cream. 20 seconds with our own commentary! Just us eating ice cream,” Annie said. He said in the video“And lo and behold, some pervert on TikTok got hold of it because we woke up to being compared to Hawk Tua girl. No offense to her. Girl, do what you want.”
“I was really disgusted to see in the comments section of that video that there were people who had families and profile pictures of themselves smiling with the children they were raising. I feel sorry for them and their fathers. … It’s no proof that women are not welcome in sports.”
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Annie said she was careful not to be seen on camera trying to eat a hot dog because she was worried about the comments she might receive if she did.
“What’s more entertaining than women eating ice cream and hot dogs and doing sexually extreme things,” she said, “but ESPN is able to keep it vague, and that vagueness protects them, while they open the door and allow any freaky freak to come in and do whatever they want.”
“So maybe we can do a better job and not purposely videotape women in the stands at sports games doing this, as if I’m doing something wrong by trying to avoid heatstroke.”
At the end of the video, Annie gives ESPN the middle finger.
ESPN cameras covering a UFL game. (Wes Hale/UFL/Getty Images)
“So, ESPN, please stop being complicit in this problem. Stop making sports a place where women are not safe and welcome. We can’t eat in peace. We can’t wear our clothes in peace. Literally anything we do is sexualized and taken completely out of context. This isn’t about whether it was on TV or not. We were there the entire game. You could have shown us watching the game at any time. Show us fanning ourselves, it was that hot.”
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ESPN declined to comment on the matter.
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