Wanting the general public to understand and appreciate the heavy emotional toll that comes with your job is a feeling quite a few folks can understand.
First responders, social workers, 911 dispatchers, mental health professionals, medical professionals and more all share that same desire. Maybe, if more people understood, more people could make better choices.
The desire to be understood - to make a difference - is understandable.
Having said that, there are ways to go about garnering that sympathy and understanding... and then there's whatever nurse and former TikTok user @olivia_tylerr33 did.
We say former because she ended up deleting both the video we're about to talk about and her entire account.
But, as we've said countless times before, the internet is forever.
Her video has been shared and stitched so many times that there's no erasing it now.
You're probably wondering what she could have posted that set people off so much, huh?
It wasn't anything gorey, or anything that violated any privacy standards or anything like that.
To many people, it just made her look like a narcissist.
Here's a tweet featuring the clip.
\u201chttps://t.co/VMZ5ODZn9X\u201d— nikki (@nikki) 1656806209
The brief video shows the nurse in scrubs leaning against the walls of her hospital, looking despondent. She takes deep breaths, removes her mask, and uses the wall for support - all indicating that she is wrapped up in grief.
Over her head, text reads:
"lost a patient today"
" 'shake it off, you have 5 more hours' "
The 15 second snippet features part of Sia's song "Unstoppable" as it's poignant soundtrack.
While most people understood what the nurse may have been going for, they were pretty turned off by where she ended up.
The Stitches were brutal ...
@thelukecook #stitch with @olivia_tylerr33 2022 is a weird time #tiktok #socialmedia #lol #jokes
@butchescobar #stitch with @olivia_tylerr33 Alright I just had to. #stitch #WTF #why? #LENOVOJUSTBEYOU #FORDfortheBuilders #fyp
@inkscaledragon #stitch with @olivia_tylerr33
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Twitter wasn't any nicer.
\u201ctf is this? I lost many patients, not 1 time did it cross my mind to make a tiktok! \ud83e\udd26\u200d\u2640\ufe0ffffs\u201d— Michelle \u2661. \u2022\u00b0\u2022 . \u2022\u00b0 (@Michelle \u2661. \u2022\u00b0\u2022 . \u2022\u00b0) 1657052246
\u201cShe unplugged the life support machine to setup a ring light.\u201d— Digital Creative/Your Fave Digital Designer (@Digital Creative/Your Fave Digital Designer) 1657011044
\u201c@ateenyalien When you are emotionally upset at the loss of a life (rightfully so) but then draw attention to yourself so others can see that you're upset, then it is no longer about the person who died or their memory, but rather about yourself. That is called narcissism.\u201d— nikki (@nikki) 1656806209
How would you feel if you found out the professional who treated your lost loved one posted this?
It seems a lot of people would not be OK with it.
