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Christopher Sebastian

Does social media have an animal cruelty problem? Experts say yes, as TikTok user air fries crabs

“How is that not a community guideline violation? I feel like I just watched a crime.” That’s what TikTok user @werty1627 said when she posted her response to the latest viral TikTok that spawned countless reaction videos and stitches (where users clip parts of other creator’s videos into their own). 

In this one, a woman whose screen name is Chels is making typical recipe content. It starts out uneventfully, her chirpy voiceover narrating the action in the style you come to expect from such material. “Y’all let’s make a crab boil in the air fryer…”

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