A woman who attended the men's College World Series on Monday night took issue with the ESPN broadcast after it showed her and her friend eating ice cream and others made references to the viral video of the woman now known as the “Hawk” girl. Tuah.”
It was in the third inning of Game 3 between the Tennessee Volunteers and the Texas A&M Aggies when cameras caught a woman who calls herself Annie J on TikTok and her friend struggling to finish their melted ice cream.
“You've got to get it before it melts and turns liquid,” ESPN's Karl Ravech said, with his co-commentator adding, “On a night like tonight, you're working fast.”
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Annie said she woke up to comments from TikTok users comparing her to “Hawk Tuah” girl Hailey Welch, who went viral earlier this month for comments she made in a video recorded in Nashville.
A College World Series patch during the Division I baseball championship game between the Tennessee Volunteers and the Texas A&M Aggies at Charles Schwab Field on June 22, 2024, in Omaha, Nebraska. (Photos by Tyler Schank/NCAA via Getty Images)
Annie called the comments repulsive and criticized ESPN for allowing that to happen.
“It was a 20-second segment where we were just eating ice cream or licking our ice cream. 20 seconds dedicated. With commentary! Just us eating our ice cream,” Annie said in the video. “And lo and behold, the TikTok perverts took over because we woke up being compared to the Hawk Tuah girl, which is no offense to her. Girl, do what you want.”
“When I tell you, the comments section on that video is absolutely disgusting, to know that there are people who have families on their profiles and their profile pictures smiling with the kids that they're raising, feeling bad for them and their father… It's beyond evidence that women are not welcome in the world of sports.”
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Annie said she made sure not to be caught on camera trying to eat a hot dog because she was worried about possible comments when doing so.
“What's funnier than a woman eating an ice cream cone or a hot dog or something that might be overly sexualized?” he said. “But ESPN can keep it pretty vague, and the ambiguity is what protects them, when they just open the door for these damn guys to come in and do whatever they want with it.
“So maybe we just do better and not record videos of women in the crowd at sports games knowingly doing this s–t. As if I'm doing something wrong by trying to avoid heat exhaustion.”
To end her video, Annie sent a middle finger to ESPN.
An ESPN camera at a UFL game. (Wes Hale/UFL/Getty Images)
“So to ESPN, stop contributing to the problem and stop making sports a place where women don't feel safe or welcome. We can't eat in peace. We can't dress in peace. We literally can't do anything without it being sexualized and completely out of context. The problem isn't that they showed us on TV. We were there for the whole game. They could have shown us any time watching the game. They could have framed us fanning ourselves because that's how hot it was in there.”
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