Woman slams ESPN after getting called the next 'Hawk Tuah' girl (2024)

ATikTok user has put ESPN on blast for giving 'creeps' a chance to sexualize them eating ice cream during the College World Series in Omaha.

During a game between Texas A&M and Tennessee earlier this week, ESPN featured 'Annie' and her friend, behind the dugout, eating their ice cream to fight the high temperatures at the ballpark.

However, things took a vile turn when the clip went viral and a flood of inappropriate comments were made on the video - including comparisons to the now-infamous 'Hawk Tuah' meme.

'It was a 20-second segment of just us licking our ice cream,' Annie - who recently graduated college with a history degree and works as a wedding photographer - says in the video slamming the network. 'Twenty seconds dedicated to - with commentary - just us eating our ice cream. We all knew what direction that video was gonna head in.

'And low and behold, the creeps of TikTok got a hold of it because we woke up getting compared to the Hawk Tuah girl. No shade to her, girl do whatever.'

Haliey Welch gained virality for an infamous street interview that earned her the moniker 'Hawk Tuah girl.'

In an interview with creators Tim & Dee TV, Welch was asked: 'What's one move in bed that makes a man go crazy every time?' Her response, which resembled a sexual act, birthed the X-rated phrase.

'When I tell you the comment section of that video is absolutely repulsing,' Annie continued. 'To know that there are people who have families in their profiles and their profile photos just smiling away with the kids that they're raising. Feel bad for them and their dad.'

On her page, Annie reposed several compilations to expose the hideous comments from men towards the video.

'I don't know about you all,' user lil_wolf wrote. 'But double duty is better than one hawk tuah in my opinion.'

'That's hawk-ona-a and hawk-two-a,' wrote user xpressomedic.

User Corey Cadell suggested: 'What we all wanna know is why aren't they in the kitchen! Making that delicious ice cream!'

Other comments in a sea of plenty included the phrases 'lick and slurp' and a user asking 'Do they sell frozen bananas?'

'It is so beyond evident that women are not welcome in the sports world,' Annie continued after citing how she is not one to rant in videos.

She also detailed how she does not feel the need to justify going to a baseball game. Annie shared how she grew up playing softball, her dad played baseball and her friend's brother also played America's favorite pastime.

'We just wanted to enjoy a baseball game,' she said. 'And it was 100 degrees so god forbid we eat some ice cream. It's like we can't sit and eat our food in peace.'

Annie also claimed that she had to take caution while eating a hot dog at the game. Being sat by the dugout, she knew how vulnerable she was to the broadcast cameras and the likelihood of being sexualized for eating.

'I had just been eating a hotdog like 10 minutes prior to that,' she shared.

'And I was making sure to eat it in front of the row of people sitting in front of us. I was horrified that if a single camera caught that - this was gonna happen.'

'But no, instead we let our guards down for literally five seconds and the ice cream was melting comedically fast. We hadn't even been in our seats for 15 seconds when they started filming us.'

'I don't have the relevance of Taylor Swift at all. But what is proven time and time again is that women just can't exist in these spaces without something being commented on or drawn attention to.'

'As If I was doing something wrong, trying to avoid heat exhaustion.'

'Within minutes, we saw our faces on the phones of people sitting around us, laughing about it,' Annie revealed. 'I can only imagine what those texts said.'

Furthermore, Annie commented on how ESPN routinely pans to women at sporting events. She also featured a comment that read: 'Nah ESPN needs to be called out bc we know exactly why they did that.'

'What's funnier than a woman licking an ice cream cone or eating a hotdog or something that can be overly sexualized? But ESPN can keep it vague enough and the ambiguity is what protects them. When they just open the door for f****** creeps like this to come in and do whatever they want with it.'

'So maybe we just do better and we don't knowingly take videos of women in the crowds at sports games doing this s***.'

'So to ESPN,' she said before pausing and flipping off the camera. 'Just stop contributing to the issue. And stop making sports a place where women don't feel safe and welcome.'

To close her five-minute video, Annie said the broadcast could have panned to them at any moment during the nine innings. She suggested that ESPN should have been featured while fanning themselves and cheering. Furthermore, she emphasized how the focus should have been on the game in the first place.

'We can't eat in peace. We can't wear clothes in peace,' she claimed. 'We literally can't do anything without it being sexualized or absolutely turned into something way out of context.'

'To say I'm making a big deal out of it and there are more important things to focus on, I agree,' Annie continued. 'Namely, the national championship game that we came to watch.'

'So don't say we make it about ourselves when you guys do it for us anyway. Be better at your job ESPN.'