We’ve all seen kids throwing tantrums in public. Usually, it’s something like a three-year-old who didn’t get the scoop of ice cream they asked for or who is being forced to leave friends at the playground to take a nap.
But in this case, the internet is ripe with reactions to a now-viral clip of a teenager throwing a toddler-like tantrum in an AT&T store in the Atlanta area. The video, first captured by Instagram user, @shotbychichi, shows the young girl begging her mother not to disconnect her cell service, grabbing her arm and neck and screaming “Mama, please!”
The mom, however, seems unbothered by the girls’ in-store fit, telling her to shut up as she drags her, still screaming, out of the store. The clip has since received millions of views on all social media platforms, as viewers want to know what the heck was on that girl’s phone that made her lose her natural mind on her mother in public.
You can watch the clip for yourself here:
TikToker @ohdatsbigk2 was just one of the viewers who was shocked and horrified by the scene the teen made in the store.
“This new age of parenting, this gentle parenting, out the window immediately,” she said. “You know what type of ass whooping I would have got right then and there, recorded or not, in that store if I would have acted an ass like that on my mama? I’m getting flashbacks just thinking about it!”
The conversation spilled over to X as one person suggested mom handle her business at home so she could give her daughter a proper old school butt whooping at home.
“She could have called customer service to have that phone cut off..... So she could whoop her azz properly in the comfort of her home,” wrote one X user.
But TikToker @lesleyturner_ is asking people to stop recording scenes like this for people to gawk at and give people the help they need instead.
“The moral of the story is that instead of grabbing a phone, ya’ll should have been sending that girl and her mama positive energy, positive vibes or prayers,” she said. “Now this video is going to follow that young lady for the rest of her life because somebody chose to grab a phone instead of actually sending prayers to them.”