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> He wholeheartedly apologises to Maree if she was offended by what he did and urges her to contact him privately so he can personally apologise.

> If she requests him to take down the video he will do that.

The video should've been taken down already.

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You assume that she would request the video taken down. But she might have realized that from her perspective, the damage is already done and she would gain nothing from the video being taken down. And would very much prefer him to get his share of unwanted attention as well (e.g. making it all the way to the hn frontpage)

It's probably a pretty safe assumption that she would be comfortable with it being removed, considering her feedback.

Particularly considering his current caption for the video remains "A beautiful gesture - little big moments".

I'm also guessing if she had made that request after it had already gotten millions of views, he'd have then made another video "why I took down my last video" or something to that effect, and disrespected her more. I certainly wouldn't risk Streisand effecting myself.

Honest thing to do would be to disclose the profits from the video and share it with her.

The honest thing to do would be to donate any profits to charity and make a real apology. Sharing profits would just encourage this type of distasteful behaviour that social media seems to be encouraging.

Aren't the profits from TikTok videos still approximately "fuck all"?

Who knows how much the average TikTok star makes, but the higher end are making bank. Like $500k/yr

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-money-tiktokers-mak...

Yep. It should have occurred to him that taking it down is the right thing to do.

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