TikToker apologizes for controversial \u201crandom act of kindness\u201d video TIKTOK: LIFEOFHARRISONA TikToker recently apologized after his \u201crandom act of kindness\u201d video sparked backlash. The 22-year-old content creator, whose real name is Harrison Pawluk, went viral after posting controversial video which has gained over 64 million views on TikTok. The video shows Hawluk handing a stranger a bouquet of flowers at a food court, asking the woman to hold them while he puts on a jacket. He later tells the woman to \u201chave a nice day\u201d before he walks away, leaving her stunned. TikTok \u201crandom act of kindness\u201d controversy When the video, which is captioned \u201cI hope this makes her day better\u201d was first posted on TikTok, it was mostly perceived positively. \u201cMy heart! That made her feel so good and it looks like she might have needed it\u201d one user wrote. Another wrote \u201cWhen she started crying i couldn\u2019t hold it back.\u201d But not long after the video started blowing up on the social media app, the woman, Maree, shared her thoughts about the viral clip. \u201cThese artificial things are not random acts of kindness\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s the patronising assumption that\u2026 older women will be thrilled by some random stranger giving them flowers.\u201d Maree says she initially didn\u2019t \u201cthink much of it\u201d when the video went viral, but she later felt \u201cdehumanized\u201d and \u201clike a clickbait\u201d when reports described her as \u201can elderly woman\u201d with a \u201cheartbreaking tale.\u201d Following Maree\u2019s comments, users are now calling out the TikToker for exploiting strangers for views. \u201cExploitation king\u201d one user wrote. Another commented \u201cIf you record yourself doing a selfless deed, is it really ALL that selfless?\u201d \u201cSo men really can never just leave women in peace huh, no matter how old we get.\u201d a user wrote, gaining hundreds of likes. Harrison Pawluk\u2019s apology over controversial video TikToker Pawluk has now apologized to Maree, although he refuses to take the video down. \u201cMaree I apologise for what has happened and I would love to be able to owe you a coffee and to be able to get you a bouquet of flowers that are more to your taste\u201d he says. Pawluk, whose videos boasts millions of views, stresses that he only makes videos with good intentions. \u201cI know my true intentions and I know that if I can inspire even 1 percent of the people that watch my content to go out there and do something good, I have done something that I believe is good for the world.\u201d He pointed out that he\u2019s not targeting elderly women, as his content includes a wider range of demographics. \u201cThe person that I look for in a video is just someone that I believe is going to appreciate the gesture.\u201d The TikToker continues to post \u201crandom acts of kindness\u201d videos to his 3.2 million followers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TikToker apologizes for controversial \u201crandom act of kindness\u201d video TIKTOK: LIFEOFHARRISONA TikToker recently apologized after his \u201crandom act of kindness\u201d video sparked backlash. The 22-year-old content creator, whose real name is Harrison Pawluk, went viral after posting controversial video which has gained over 64 million views on TikTok. The video shows Hawluk handing a stranger […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}