While none of the women who posted the videos mentioned above wanted to speak to Refinery29 about their take on the situation (and their critics), one woman who posted a similar video did. Twenty-six-year-old Cariad from Manchester, UK created a video (which quickly amassed 3.3 million views) about a woman’s partner she saw out at a bachelor party. Watching the intro to the video, you think, Oh here we go again. “If your fiancé is called Lewis and he’s just had his stag do in Dublin and your name is Lily, you want to hear this.” This time though, it’s good news. The man in question, named Lewis, was seen intervening and helping a woman being harassed by another man. Cariad said she “loves watching this sort of content” so decided to make her own, thinking, What better way to find Lewis’ partner than through TikTok? “It’s become so apparent in the comments of the video that people are so surprised by ‘good news’ these days, which is sad,” she says, as lots of viewers also assumed the story about Lewis would be bad. I asked Cariad if she still would have made the video if instead she’d seen a man cheating that night. “Hmmm, that’s a good question. I think I probably would have tried to find the girl but maybe not so publicly — that would be the worst way to find out your fiancé had been unfaithful.”
