I have this picture of sasuke on my phone that chase and I call “safe for work sasuke” and it’s because it’s the tallest picture in my camera roll so whenever he sends me any nsfw stuff when I’m in public I just send sfw sasuke and he takes up the whole screen
PEOPLE ARE ALSO EDITING THIS CLIP INTO OTHER TIKTOKS.
I JUST SAW ONE WITH A GIRL DOING THE “my biggest flex is having hot friends check” AND THE FIRST THING THAT POPPED UP WAS THIS VIDEO. IT IS GRAPHIC AND DEFINITELY TRAUMATISING.
I have also been told that there are several other tactics that people are using. A few of them are:
- craft videos with multiple steps. they will show one or two steps before cutting to the video.
- innocuous videos (ie, someone showing their pets or kids) will also show the clip. a good way to tell is if it seems like a poor-quality video.
- aesthetics videos (one that is circulating is a halloween aesthetic video)
- lastly, it will seem to be a person making a rip post for the man in the video
these are just the ones i have heard from friends or people posting about this. pls be safe and pause to read the comments on tiktoks to get an idea of what the video may be.
THIS IS A VIDEO GRAPHICALLY SHOWING A MAN COMMIT SUICIDE VIA SHOTGUN TO THE HEAD. IT IS SHOCKING, IT IS TRAUMATIC, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY KEEP SCROLLING OR REPORT IF YOU SEE THAT FIRST FRAME. IT HAPPENS VERY QUICKLY WITH LITTLE TO NO WARNING.
yeah reminder not to go on tiktok y'all i lit got tricked into watchin that video that’s goin around so rlly don’t go on today
if u see this man on ur screen literally scroll away bc it’s The video!!!!
i have not watched this video, but i think it’s important to warn people that according to comments this man commits suicide on camera. there are a lot of comments simply telling people to “keep scrolling” but please also say what the video is. it took me a good minute to find that info just from the notes.
As someone who did watch this video, it’s awful. If you see this screen, immediately keep scrolling. I recommend turning off autoplay on your tik tok account .
tiktok has a history of not being the best at handling things like this so do your best to keep yourself safe. if you have younger siblings, friends or maybe kids of your own pls try to get them to stay off tiktok for a while or pass this information off.
It was really bothering me that the person who commits suicide in this video is nameless in every post I’ve seen warning about the video, so I decided to look him up.
The man’s name is Ronnie McNutt, he was a 33 years old Iraq war veteran from Mississippi who had just lost his job at a Toyota plant, and the video did not originate on Tiktok.
McNutt killed himself during a Facebook live video for his friends, friends who were trying to talk him down. Then some unknown person took that video and put it on other platforms.
I feel this information is important because:
Ronnie McNutt was a real human being and his name was not “man with a beard”
He deserves the same level of dignity and respect that should be afforded to all people. He had a name, he had a story, he is not a nameless unknowable entity who existed solely in the context of a snuff film.
Treating him as a nameless unknowable entity who only existed in the context of a snuff film is exactly the sort of attitude that results in the further propagation of this video
The video was not created for mass public consumption
If you think this video is traumatic for you, imagine how it felt for its actual intended audience, the people who loved and knew him. Now imagine experiencing that trauma only for someone to treat this horrific act like shareable content.
It is unnerving that in every post I’ve seen warning people about this video I haven’t seen any consideration for how his loved ones must feel about McNutt’s death going viral
Someone decided to circulate this across platforms. McNutt did not stream this for TikTok, he did not post it to Twitter…. someone saw this horrific death on Facebook and then decided to cross platform it.
McNutt’s friends and family have been speaking out about the trauma of witnessing his death in this manner and how Facebook did not do everything they could have to stop this.
This was and continues to be a deeply malicious act that, every step of the way, reveals just how fucked up social media culture is.
