Within minutes, we saw our faces on the phones of people sitting around us'

“We can’t eat in peace, we can’t wear clothes in peace; we literally can’t do anything without it being sexualised.”

A woman has blasted an American sporting network after they sexualised a video of her and her best friend eating a summertime snack on live TV.

Last Monday, Annie was attending the College World Series baseball championship game in Omaha, Nebraska, with her best friend; the pair grew up loving the sport and always wanted to attend the match in person. 

Little did they know they’d end up becoming a viral sensation online for all the wrong reasons. 

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“We let our guards down for literally five seconds”

She and her friend sat in their seats, which were located “just behind the dugout”, with an ice cream cone in their hands. 

The temperatures were soaring in Omaha that day, so their dessert was starting to melt. Without hesitation, the girls started eating their ice cream, trying to stop it from dripping onto their clothes. 

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Little did they know, they were being filmed the entire time. 

A clip from the sporting channel, ESPN, showed the two girls licking the ice cream, completely unaware they were being broadcast to the entire nation. 

“It was a 20-second segment of just us eating ice cream or licking our ice cream,” Annie explained in her now-viral TikTok.” Twenty seconds dedicated to, with commentary, just us eating our ice cream.” 

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She and her friend had been careful about the things they ate before the clip went viral, knowing that if they were to eat specific kinds of food, they’d likely get filmed.

“I had just been eating a hot dog like 10 minutes prior to that and I was making sure to eat in front of the row of people sitting in front of us,” she said. “Because we were sitting not far behind the dugout, and I was horrified that if a single camera caught that, that this was going to happen.”

However, it wasn’t until the girls bought ice cream that the cameras started to roll, with Annie insisting she’d only been in her chair for “15 seconds” before they were broadcast to national TV. 

“We let our guards down for literally five seconds,” she said. 

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Annie was horrified when she and her best friend were broadcast licking ice cream on national TV. Picture: .anniej4/TikTok

“Stop making sports a place where women don’t feel safe and welcome”

Annie explained that following the 20-second clip on the sports channel, she and her friend started receiving messages from friends and family who spotted the duo on TV. 

“We were getting a lot of fun texts 'cause it’s like a fun thing; it’s cool,” she said. 

Then came the other messages; friends started to send Annie a barrage of “repulsive” comments they’d spotted on social media from “creepy men” making remarks about the two girls eating the ice cream. 

“What’s funnier than a woman eating an ice cream cone or eating a hot dog or something that can be overly sexualised?” she asked before alleging the network knew exactly what they were doing when filming the girls eating. 

“They just open the door for f**king creeps like this to come in and do whatever they want with it,” she continued. “Within minutes, we saw our faces on the phones of people sitting around us, laughing about it.” 

While Annie grew up in a sports-obsessed world, she never felt welcomed by the guys in the field.

“It is so beyond evident that women are not welcome in the sports world,” she said. 

She ended the video by sharing a message to ESPN, flicking the bird to the camera.

“Stop contributing to the issue, and stop making sports a place where women don’t feel safe and welcome,” she said.  

“We can’t eat in peace, we can’t wear clothes in peace; we literally can’t do anything without it being sexualised.”

Originally published as Within minutes, we saw our faces on the phones of people sitting around us'