TikToker under fire with \u2018animal abuse\u2019 allegations after controversial videos TikTok: avanireyesA popular TikToker has come under fire after posting a video that some critics have deemed as animal abuse, accusing her of showing a lack of care for her pet cat. Avani Reyes has over 3 million followers on TikTok, with her low-energy videos making iced coffee both funny for viewers and offering some inspiration for everyone\u2019s iced coffee needs. Perhaps most notably, however, Reyes is known for \u201ccopying\u201d the Gorilla Glue girl, having to go to the emergency room after putting some in her hair and not being able to wash it out. Now, though, she\u2019s under fire for more serious reasons, as outraged fans question her treatment of her cat in a video posted to TikTok. Each of Avani\u2019s iced coffee videos start with her throwing a tray of ice cubes onto her counter \u2014 and this is the root of where the backlash has come from. In a TikTok posted on January 13, Avani throws her ice down on the counter like she always does, but this time her cat is in the way. Instead of moving the cat, however, or changing things up, Avani acts as if they aren\u2019t there and still throws the ice down. She hits the cat and, in the subsequent moments, the pet falls off the counter, with Avani ignoring them the entire time. Click here if TikTok doesn\u2019t load Before long, most of the comments came out to speak against Avani\u2019s actions and question her treatment of her cat. The top comment asked \u201cwhy do this to an animal,\u201d while others insisted that the cat didn\u2019t deserve that treatment, or that \u201cthis is just really upsetting.\u201d Avani actually doubled down and posted another similar video, throwing ice on her cat, clearly either unaware on uncaring of the backlash she was facing. Click here if TikTok doesn\u2019t load The comments on the subsequent video were pretty much exactly the same, questioning the TikToker\u2019s motives and asking why they would do this in the first place. At the time of writing, Avani has not yet responded to the backlash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TikToker under fire with \u2018animal abuse\u2019 allegations after controversial videos TikTok: avanireyesA popular TikToker has come under fire after posting a video that some critics have deemed as animal abuse, accusing her of showing a lack of care for her pet cat. Avani Reyes has over 3 million followers on TikTok, with her low-energy videos […]<\/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-61475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61475","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=61475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}