A woman has claimed that a man at her gym handed her a framed photo of herself after keeping it on his own bedside table for days.
TikToker Mackenzie, who goes by the username @liftymcthicc, posted a video last month showing three of the photos that the man gave her, one of which was framed.
Playing in the background of the clip is a sound bite from America's Next Top Model in which the show's creator and main judge, Tyra Banks, can be heard telling a group of competing models: "How many people were scared? Me too. I was really, really scared."
Check out the video below:At the time of writing, the video has since racked up three million views and nearly 3,000 comments from concerned users on the platform.
Check out some of the comments the video received:
The fitness fanatic also posted the video to her Instagram account, this time including a lengthy caption to provide extra details.
In the post, Mackenzie revealed that she was actually the second girl that this had happened to.
She wrote: "I almost didn’t tell anyone at my gym cause as soon as this happened, I wanted to cry and leave. But I’m glad I spoke up, we can’t let things like this be seen as normal or okay."
The content creator went on to say that his interactions with her initially appeared "harmless", however, soon enough red flags began to emerge.
Mackenzie recalled how "he began to make comments about how I shouldn’t gain anymore muscle and then insisted on two different occasions that we take a photo together."
She added: "This man even confidently told me that he kept the FRAMED PICTURE of me on his night stand for 2 days before giving it to me !!! What the f*** is wrong with people, I’ll never know."
Mackenzie then shared how staff at the gym responded to the man's concerning conduct, explaining that they "put a warning on his account".
They also spoke to the man, which resulted in him getting "very defensive" and claiming that it, in actual fact, it was the girls who were supposedly asking him for pictures - not him.
The situation appeared to sort itself out when the man's son called the gym himself and told staff they needed to cancel his father's membership.
Mackenzie added: "I can’t even begin to imagine what he told his son for him to be that concerned about his father, but I’m just glad he’s gone."
Concluding her post, she advised other women to "stay safe" and "never feel bad for not being friendly to strangers."
The social media user reiterated the additional details in an update video posted to her TikTok account.
She explained that when she told the front desk about how uncomfortable she felt by the encounter, they initially told her they were not able to cancel his membership.
It was only when the man's son called the workout facility and told them to cancel his father's membership that the action was realized, she explained again.
Mackenzie continued, as she held up the framed photo of her: "I'm not sure if it's because he saw this lovely photo of myself sitting on his dad's bedside table for two days. Because that's what he told me he did with the photo."
She remarked at the end of the video: "So, I'm safe, I guess."
