A TikToker who makes videos popularizing a hole on a neighborhood block in New York tried to put a “Karen” on blast for complaining, but viewers seem to be siding with the woman.
@special_head, aka “Mole Man,” is a content creator with over 328,700 followers on TikTok. He is known for filming videos of “The Hole,” a small underground space under the curb of a neighborhood block.
His video trying to blast a “Karen” for telling him his videos are extremely disruptive to residents got over 179,900 views and 13,300 likes since it went up less than a week ago.
Captioned “#karen reacts to be making #thehole famous #onlyinnewyork #karensoftiktok,” the video shows a woman telling him his videos are making life difficult for residents of the neighborhood.
“You’re making it worse for people who live here,” the woman says. “And then you post it on TikTok, and all your little friends make racist comments about my neighbors.”
The video then cuts to the “secret tunnel” under the concrete where people are blasting music from a D.J. set. “Mole Man” also regularly wears a mole mask and runs around “The Hole” while filming.
“Go to your own block instead of messing up where we live,” the woman continues.
“We’re allowed to shoot on the street. We’re not going in there,” the TikToker responds.
“You were; I just saw it,” the woman fires back.
“Do you know how many people across the world I make happy and smile and laugh,” the TikToker argues, to which the woman says: “At the expense of people that live here.”
“A lot of people who live here come up to us and say ‘You brightened my day.’ They also said ‘Don’t worry about her (the woman), she’s like that to everybody,’” @special_head says
However, many of the 572 commenters sided with the woman.
“I feel like… you might be the Karen lmfao,” one said.
“It honestly seems like a small ask for you to find a different place to hang out,” another said.
“‘Do you know how many people I’ve made happy and smile and laugh?’ Be humble bro,” a third urged.
In yet another one of the TikToker’s videos, filmed three days ago, another apparent neighborhood resident cursed the TikToker out for allegedly disturbing the block.
The Daily Dot reached out to @special_head for comment via TikTok message.
Editor’s note: Due to a technical error, our original message to this TikToker may not have been delivered. We have since reached out.
Update June 8, 2:17pm CT: Reached for comment, @special_head says most of the comments on his video did not support the so-called “Karen.” In an email, @special_head said that “the article falsely represents that a majority of people commenting on that tiktok video sided with the woman and didn’t think she was a Karen. Looking at the comments it was less than half of the commenters.”
“Furthermore I uploaded 2 other versions of this video and on those videos I had overwhelming support & there weren’t many commenters saying she was right.”
The Daily Dot did not report that the “majority” of comments were pro-Karen, just that many sided with her. He continued: “The ironic part about all of this is that what was upsetting the neighbors wasn’t so much me going into the hole as they were ok with it at first. It was once I started bringing publicity to it through articles such as on Daily Dot that upset them.”
“The initial outrage was when the video went viral on Worldstar & then when the New York Post came out. Which became a self fulfilling prophecy as the more controversial it became the more publications such as yours wanted the story.”
As a post-script, @special_head made an 11-minute documentary about the viral situation. He says the hole itself led to attention which led to three infrastructure fixes that were prioritized by the city. It’s a mission he’s continuing. The doc also clarifies that the hole was in front of an abandoned building, and was not a front-door nuisance to a local resident.
In the end, @special_head says, the real hole is “inside of you.”
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