The Internet – specifically TikTok – was caught in a frenzy after Canadian comedian and America’s Got Talent judge Howie Mandel shared an unsolicited NSFW-borderline-traumatizing video. After backlash from his followers and numerous tweets expressing disgust, the video was taken down. It wasn’t clear whether Mandel deleted it or TikTok did.
If you’re way too curious to search for the video now, let this be your warning:
i should’ve minded my business instead of being a nosy bitch and searching up howie mandel pic.twitter.com/ePfkQD0yBi
— emma (@besovicious) July 10, 2022
Beyond his mainstream fame as a TV show personality, Howie Mandel has also earned himself a large online following. And TikTok was no exception to that. Earlier this year, his account had already amassed over 9 million followers.
And that was why when he uploaded a 15-second clip of him reacting to a graphic image of a prolapse an*s. He said, “When my friend bent over, this happened. Does somebody know, is this [redacted] related? And if it is, what do we do about it? Ow.” The video immediately circulated online like wildfire. And those who googled it totally regretted that they did and expressed how ‘scarred for life’ they were.
It was deleted hours after the upload and Mandel didn’t offer any comment on it. He just continued to post like it didn’t happen at all. But, of course, Internet people were quick. There’s already a whole hashtag thread on TikTok dedicated to it. But the actual gem that came out of this is the hilarious number of memes on Twitter.
Take a look at some of them.
i was curious why ppl on tiktok were talking about that deleted howie mandel video so i looked it up here…
— 👁👄👁 (@joestarussy) July 10, 2022
I SHOULD HAVE MINDED MY OWN BUSINESS 😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/vUbLrLehdr
when my curiosity got the best of me and i looked up howie mandel pic.twitter.com/EEPtevMqio
— Leafy (@LeafyCarrot) July 10, 2022
just saw the howie mandel tiktok that he deleted pic.twitter.com/W7NLRJ9Xm3
— ✩♡✩ (@iceblinkluxe) July 9, 2022
What prompted Howie Mandel to actually upload and share that video with his 9 million TikTok followers at the time would probably never be answered. But hopefully, he did some introspection and learned to keep that kind of content out of the Internet.