I mean, these cameramen all know what they're doing, right?
It seems to happen during every major sporting event. The camera operators find an attractive young lady, focus on her, maybe the announcers make some thinly-veiled sexual comment (or if you're Brent Musburger looking at Kathryn Webb, not veiled at all), and they go viral on the internet for a few days as random weirdos make creepy comments.
At this point it happens too often for it to just be a happy little accident...has to be intentional.
Well the latest viral moment came from the College World Series game on Monday, when the cameras decided to spend 20 seconds focusing on two young ladies in the stands eating ice cream cones.
https://twitter.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/1806380348294451474
The announcers commented that because it was 93 degrees, you "got to get it before it melts and it's liquid," and that the two girls were "working fast."
And you can imagine what the online comments were like...not gonna post those here, but they're exactly what you'd expect.
Well the video quickly made its way back to one of the girls who was shown just trying to enjoy some ice cream (no doubt after her phone blew up). And she's not happy about it.
In a five minute video posted to TikTok, Annie blasts not only those on the internet who were making crude comments about her, but also ESPN for spending a full 20 seconds showing her and her friend lick an ice cream cone in the heat:
"We all knew what direction that video was going to head in. And lo and behold, the creeps of TikTok got ahold of it, because we woke up being compared to the Hawk Tuah girl...It is so beyond evident that women are not welcome in the sports world...We just wanted to enjoy a baseball game, and it was 100 degrees so God forbid we eat some ice cream. Then people sit back and wonder, 'Why don't women feel welcome in these environments?'Because what's funnier than a woman licking an ice cream cone or eating a hot dog, 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 fucking 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 shit...So to ESPN, just stop contributing to the issue and stop making sports a place where women don't feel safe and welcome."
