Though a viral TikTok came to bite the user who made it after she was accused of using a Starbucks worker to create content—though in the end, it all worked out just fine.
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The episode started on @tanjewest’s TikTok account, with a posting Wednesday that drew over 800,000 views in two days.
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It begins with her in the Starbucks’ drive-thru line, and the young man opening the window … only to be greeted by her singing, “Thank you for getting me this drink! You are pretty cute!”
He then closes the window immediately, causing her to turn to her friend in the passenger seat and express embarrassment for being so quickly and decisively rebuffed.
“Did he just close that?” she marveled to her passenger, who responded, “That was so rude” in what appeared to be mock horror.
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“I was trying to shoot my shot with the cute Starbucks worker but he turned me down before I could even try,” she wrote in a post accompanying the video. “Sooo embarrassed!!!” she added.
This led to dozens of commenters decrying her actions and accusing her of using the Starbucks worker to create content.
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“Working a minimum wage job I don’t got time to listen to a customer do a musical in the drive thru,” wrote @selenaswap in a now-deleted tweet. “Take your venti coffee and move.”
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Another, Asia Chloe Brown, added, “Service workers not tolerating people using them for content.”
However, as Tan noted in a follow-up video, at least one person was a good sport about the creation of the video. In a follow-up video, she said, “I ended up banging on the drive-thru window, and climbed through it.
She also said, “I ended up getting him fired … but now we’re on her first date,” and then swings the camera over to reveal the Starbucks worker sitting in her passenger seat, smiling and waving.
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As one Twitter user pointed out, OP’s TikTok account reveals that the pair is actually married in real life, though the woman maintains that the video itself wasn’t actually staged:
*First Published: March 5, 2021, 12:22 pm
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