In a viral video, a Black content creator is seen finger-checking a man who appears to have interrupted him while he was recording.
The video, shared by @takkmethod, depicts the fitness influencer, who boasts over 700,000 followers, confronting the man directly.
“Very careful,” he told the man repeatedly while tapping on his sunglasses. “Listen to what I said. I said be very careful.”
A viral video captures a tense confrontation between a shirtless fitness influencer and another man on a California boardwalk.
“Why are you disturbing everyone?” the man said. “Who are you?”
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“Are you the police?” Takk asked the man, before pointing out to an officer in the area. “If there was a problem, he would come right away and handcuff me.”
The content creator informed the man that he had the right to respond to his question and react to the impolite manner in which he approached him. Following a brief conversation, Takk emphasized his desire to avoid conflict, and the two men shook hands before parting ways.
Other videos on the influencer’s page from the same day depict him enthusiastically working out on the California boardwalk, with onlookers cheering him on and taking pictures with him. In the comments of his video, Takk alleged that the man had laid hands on his cameraman.
“I’ll scare and discipline you same time, so bring it and let’s do this. God Bless,” Takk wrote in the video’s caption.
“I disciplined him a little but not too much,” he added in his Instagram comment section.
The video was met with mixed reactions online: “He was not expecting you to carry yourself as a gentleman. Well done, Dear. You communicated with dignity and respect for yourself and taught him how to be a gentleman as well,” one person wrote.
“When you are nice, people think you are weak,” a person added.
Another user chimed in, condemning how Tak handled it, “Do not bring God into this and then disrespect a man by putting [your] hands on him because you are bigger and stronger.”
Others found the interaction humorous: “After getting disrespected like a child in front of your family, then you shake hands.”
