A TikTok user by the handle @izzybigbelly has gone viral after posting a video showcasing her confronting an older man after she claimed he hit on her then 16-year-old sister in public.
The video she initially posted was set to dramatic music about what she “plays in her head” when she’s going “head to toe with a grown man after he hit on my 17-year-old sister in front of me.”
Since the video went viral, amassing over 4.6 million views, the woman has also posted a second video with the audio of the two fighting, and a follow-up video explaining exactly what happened.
Here’s the first video of @izzybigbelly confronting the man she says hit on her young teenage sister.
The TikToker, whom we will call “Izzy,” explained in her follow-up video that a group of women, including her, her then 16-year-old sister, their mother (she’s the one in the red hat in the video with her), and a friend, were all out to eat in the middle of the day at a beach restaurant she said was the “equivalent of a Chili’s.”
This fact, apparently, was important because predictably, men in the comment section of the video were arguing that a 16-year-old should not have been at a “bar” in the first place, seemingly suggesting that should a child happen to eat with their family in a restaurant that also has a bar, she deserves to be hit on by creepy men sporting gray hair and a receding hairline.
“She can be there if she wants to be there,” Izzy says in the video. “There is no issue with her being there. Her being there doesn’t give anybody the right to hit on her. Me being there does not give anybody the right to hit on me. Women existing in general, in public, does not give any man the right to hit on them or give them unwanted attention.”
Izzy further set the scene by describing how, after she, her sister, their mother, and another female friend had sat down to eat, the man immediately started “hovering.”
He spoke to the girlfriend at one end of the table and pointed his finger at Izzy’s sister, asking, “What’s her deal?” to which the friend replied, “She’s 16.”
While that should have been the end of the conversation immediately, Izzy said despite hearing her age, the man continued to talk about her sister, saying “sexual” things about her and “sexualizing” her.
She didn’t provide specific details about what sexual comments the man made, but it was enough that the 16-year-old herself pulled out her phone and started recording the video. (So all the video you see is recorded by the 16-year-old, meaning she never appears in any of the videos, although Izzy does provide a screenshot in her follow-up video of all the “characters” in the film.)
Eventually, after Izzy says the man continued to harass their group, she stood up and, in her words, started “popping off.”
Izzy says “nothing really happened” during their argument other than the man repeatedly calling her a “f*ing c**t” and pointing at her sister.
“You can hear me in the video say, ‘she’s 16.'” Danielle adds. “And he continued to argue with me after that.”
Danielle addresses the fact that no men really stand up for her in the video, but notes that she was “not expecting anybody to save me.”
She also explained that the man was eventually kicked out of the establishment, and she has had another young woman reach out to her privately, telling her that she was also harassed by the same man at the restaurant, so this wasn’t his first offense. The man has not been identified, but some eagle-eyed viewers pointed out that it appears the man is wearing a wedding ring in the video.
“Nice wedding ring that pedophile is wearing,” commented a TikTok user.
“People defending this dude (who appears to be married btw, not just old as dirt) need their phones and hard drives checked,” added another commenter.
Izzy ended her video with a plea to others to find the courage to stand up to men who make other people, especially young women, uncomfortable.
“If you see something, say something,” she urged. “If you are uncomfortable, say something. If you think that you should make a scene, make a f**king scene. Defend yourself, defend the people you love. Defend people you don’t know if you’re somebody like me who is not afraid to go 10 toes down, toe to toe with a f**king grown ass man, and you know the repercussions, and you’re still not scared. Stand the f**k up and say something.”
