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Oxygen Girl Clapping for ICE is a viral video of TikToker Heather West (@cheetahvibes24) clapping under the caption, "Clapping for all the ICE agents who are DOING THEIR JOB," referencing the 2025 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in the U.S. The video, set to Iggy Azalea's song "Black Widow," was uploaded in mid-June 2025 and received heavy criticism from TikTokers, who began duetting and responding to her video to critique and make jokes about her, including jokes about her being on oxygen. Heather responded to the criticism as it continued to go viral, eventually deleting her account.

Origin

On or around June 16th, 2025, now-deleted TikToker^[1] @cheetahvibes24 posted a video in which she claps to the song "Black Widow" by Iggy Azalea under the caption, "Clapping for all the ICE agents who are DOING THEIR JOB." In the video, she has an oxygen tube in her nose.

That day, TikToker^[2] @corey_obrien posted a response to the video in which he pretends to cut her oxygen cord, garnering over 420,000 views in 10 days.

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TikTokers continued to criticize TikTok user @cheetahvibes24 over the following days, inciting several responses from her.

For example, on June 17th, 2025, TikToker^[3] @joshua.marsella posted a video mockingly recreating the original, garnering over 500,000 views in nine days.

On June 19th, TikToker^[4] @ogonwadi posted a response to a follow-up video by @cheetahvibes24 in which she claps under the caption, "NEWS FLASH: Supporting our government for doing their job does NOT make you racist," garnering over 540,000 views in a week.

On June 20th, 2025, TikToker^[5] @growingupwithlisa reposted a video by @cheetahvibes24, which has since been deleted, where she responds to the hate, suggesting the video was taken out of context, garnering over 2.2 million views in six days.

On June 21st, TikToker^[6] @cherryjaine posted a video in which she celebrates @cheetahvibes24 seemingly deleting her account after the criticism, garnering over 200,000 views in five days.

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