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Savanna Shea's "I Saw This Cute Guy at the Grocery Store" Video or the Savanna Shea Stalker Video is a likely satirical viral video in which TikToker Savanna Shea (@savannaxshea) tells a story about seeing a cute guy at a grocery store, learning his name from his credit card while at the checkout, then stalking him and his mother online to get a date with him. The video was uploaded in March 2024 and went viral, becoming the subject of reposts criticizing her for her stalker-ish attitude and discussing a perceived double standard, where if a man told the same story he'd be chastised. The video also inspired a series of duets in which TikTokers play the tune of "Every Breath You Take" by The Police, a song about a possessive lover, as she tells her story.

Origin

On March 6th, 2024, TikToker^[1] @savannaxshea posted a video in which she claims she saw a cute guy at the grocery store, followed him to the checkout counter, looked at his credit card to find out his name, Googled him, found his social media profiles to determine he was single, navigated to his mother's page, found out she was part of a local book club, joined the book club, attended a meeting, bonded with his mother and told her casually she was single. His mother said she had a son who was single and she gave the mother her number, then received a text from the man asking for a date that weekend, ending the video, "so I guess we're going on a date. I'm really excited." The video gained over 14 million views in a week (shown below).

The video is likely satirical, as the TikToker has posted several other comedic videos similar to this. On March 7th, she posted another video to TikTok^[2] continuing the story, garnering over 900,000 views in a week (shown below, right).

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The video became the subject of reactions and reposts over the following days. On March 8th, 2024, TikToker^[3] @emilywking posted a video criticizing the video, saying it exposes a double standard and shows how bad women are at approaching men and how fearful women are of rejection, garnering over 1.6 million views in a week (shown below).

On the same day, X^[4] user @mensrightsbunny posted the video, writing, "Let's not sugar coat this. She's a stalker. A massive one. Too dumb to realise what she's admitting," garnering over 21,000 likes and 4,000 reposts in a week. It was also reposted by Japanese X^[5] user @martytaka777, garnering over 2,000 likes in the same span of time.

On March 10th, OutKick^[6] published an article about the video titled "Unhinged Woman Goes Full Stalker To Land A Date With A Guy She Saw At The Grocery Store." On March 11th, TikToker^[7] @mikepetroff posted a video adding on to a series of duets with the original upload playing the tune of "Every Breath You Take" while she tells her story, garnering over 1.4 million views in four days (shown below).

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