Why TikTok Turned on the DoorDash Lady

There Are No Girls on the Internet

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Society & Culture, Technology

4.4 • 820 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

We all know the internet loves a viral story. But what happens when that story is about a real woman being harassed and the platforms that ostensibly should be protecting her instead punish her? That’s what happened to Livie, a DoorDash driver in New York State whose story is currently going viral on TikTok. Bridget breaks down what actually happened, why the story is drowning in misinformation and AI generated fake videos, and what the story tells us about where we’re at right now when it comes to women speaking up online.

See Livie's video(s) for yourself: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19jTtPWjZH/?mibextid=wwXIfr

MuURLS, a creator on TikTok was cloned by AI: https://www.tiktok.com/@muurlz/video/7563725293693783309?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc

NotKristen’s TikTok on AI clones: https://www.tiktok.com/@notkhristen/video/7563433687476358430?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc

Liberal feminist “triggered”: https://imgflip.com/i/65wr5r

The real “triggered feminist” video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byOlBCpNKeM

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:08.4	There are no girls on the internet as a production of IHeart Radio and UnBossed Creative.
0:16.5	I'm Bridget Todd, and this is there are no girls on the internet.
0:22.1	So we all know the Internet loves a viral story.
0:25.6	It loves outrage, suspense, villains, drama, all of it.
0:29.7	But what happens when the story is about a real woman who says that she's been the victim of a sex crime?
0:36.2	And the platforms that ostensibly should be protecting her, punish her instead.
0:41.3	That is what happened to this woman called Livy, a Doradesh driver in New York State,
0:45.5	whose story recently went viral on TikTok.
0:48.0	I wanted to talk about this on the News Roundup, but honestly, I had so much to say about it
0:52.8	that I thought, this needs to be its own
0:55.2	episode because I think it shows us so much about where we're at right now when it comes to
1:00.4	the state of women speaking up online. Mike, when we were talking about potentially doing an
1:06.2	episode about this situation, in the beginning when I first started researching it, I was just curious
1:11.4	about this story. I was seeing this story all over my TikTok feed, and I wanted to understand it
1:16.1	better. But by the end of putting together my research and really doing a deep dive into what's
1:20.8	going on here, I went from curious to pissed off and also quite worried about what this situation means for all of us.
1:30.1	So I'm going to get into the logistics of what's going on here with this viral DoorDash story
1:34.8	on TikTok, how AI is fueling how we got to this place and what it all means.
1:40.7	It seems like a complicated story, an interesting one, I think a good one for you to tell.
1:47.0	In some ways it is complicated, but in other ways it's very uncomplicated, tale as old as time,
1:53.7	the most simple story that we all recognize and understand.
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