A Walmart shopper calls out what appears to be white supremacist decorations on cakes in a Walmart bakery, shocking viewers in a now-viral TikTok.
In a video with over 154,000 views, TikToker Sara Higginbotham (@theriseofbensolo) shows a refrigerated shelf with several red, white, and blue cakes at Walmart.
She pans over to show a cake resembling a Nazi swastika and one resembling a burning cross, a symbol frequently used to reference hate crimes by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), a racist, anti-Black organization.
Each cake also features American flag fondant, as the video was filmed the day before Independence Day.
“Walmart, explain yourself…” the caption read.
@theriseofbensolo Walmart explain yourself… #um #lol #lmao #fourthofjuly #4thofjuly #america #darkhumour #hmm #what #walmart #fypシ゚viral #fyppppppppppppppppppppppp ♬ This Is America – Childish Gambino
Viewers react
Many viewers were shocked at the cake decorations, which resembled hate symbols.
“I audibly gasped what the hell?!?!” one viewer wrote.
“The GASP I GASPED! Please tell the manager if you haven’t already!” another said.
“My jaw dropped to the GROUND,” a third added.
However, some said they didn’t see the resemblance.
“Absolutely the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard…. that’s not even close to a swastika,” a commenter said.
“Girl that is supposed to be a firework. Please don’t get someone in trouble be you’re looking to hard at things,” another wrote.
Were the hate symbols added on purpose?
Others took a closer look at the cakes and suggested that it may not have been intentional.
“The second one says ‘4th,’ but I do not know what the goal was for the first one,” one said, referencing the decoration that looks like a burning cross.
“I think it’s supposed to look like a firework,” another wrote.
“I would ask the decorator because as a decorator myself I doubt they saw it that way they probably threw a design on and started the next. We are exhausted this week,” a third added.
The Daily Dot reached out to Higginbotham via Instagram and TikTok direct message. We also reached out to Walmart via press form for further comment.
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