Earlier this week, a TikToker with the deal with @VitorNotVictor shared a video of him and two of his associates singing alongside to Beyoncé’s tune “Cozy” at dwelling earlier than heading to her live performance.

The plan, it appears, was to sing a part of the refrain at dwelling and the opposite half of it from the present.

As a substitute, solely two folks appeared within the second half — after the third good friend allegedly died whereas en path to the live performance.

“pov your good friend died on our strategy to beyonce’s live performance however we loved it for him  rip,” the content material wrote over the footage. Within the caption, he added, “he would’ve appreciated that we went anyway #beyonce #deadfriendforever #fyp #cowboycarter #rip”

The unique video has since racked up greater than 2.6 million views because it was posted three days in the past. The feedback on the publish had been full of two debates — one over whether or not the scenario was, in truth, actual and one other over what they’d do if confronted with an analogous, horrifying scenario. Do you bail on the live performance … or soldier on, figuring out it is what your good friend would have needed yo to do?

“As a good friend i might perceive nonetheless going… however who the hell informed yall to complete the tiktok?” requested one fashionable remark. “might this sort of friendship NEVER discover me” added one other.

“Ima nonetheless be lifeless so yeah go. Do cry at the least twice in the course of the present, however nonetheless go,” wrote one other viewer. “word to my associates, if i die on the best way to a live performance DONT YOU DARE waste your ticket and never go, go have a blast in my reminiscence and likewise use my ticket to take another person free of charge as nicely,” mentioned another person.

Critics left feedback like, “This technology is tremendous desensitized ,” “Not one swollen eye in sight ,” “I BEG YOUR FINEST PARDON??” and “Wait, huh??? ON THE WAY!? So yall simply left him lifeless & continued on? ”

Others took concern with the hashtag, #DeadFriendForever … which he continued to make use of in all his different movies concerning the alleged incident. As a result of, sure, there are extra movies persevering with the wild saga.

Within the first two followup movies, @VitorNotVictor defined the “backstory” to his authentic publish.

“So the backstory to that’s, my good friend and I’ve all the time needed to go see Beyoncé collectively. I stay in Paris so he came over me so we might each go collectively. It was a lifelong dream and we had been actually actually exited,” he started. “So we filmed the primary a part of that TikTok, we needed to do the transition earlier than and after on the live performance.”

“By the point we received into the subway, he began getting this actually sturdy chest pains. He had pre-existing coronary heart circumstances, so we had been a bit fearful. Then it received worse and worse, so we received out of the practice,” he continued.

“We known as the ambulance and by the point they arrived, he had fainted and the paramedics informed me that he was not respiratory, so he was lifeless,” mentioned the TikToker. He mentioned he and his good friend had been then left questioning what they need to do — ought to they go dwelling, or go see Bey?

“We determined to go to the live performance anyway, as a result of we actually really assume that is what he would have appreciated and that is what Beyoncé would have appreciated,” he added, “in his honor, to essentially benefit from the live performance to the most effective of our skills. We had been actually unhappy.”

He later shared live performance footage of Beyoncé flying over the viewers on a large horseshoe, writing over the video, “When she flew over the gang I am positive she was making an attempt to get nearer to him. In some way she knew.”

“Her voice might be heard in all places!” he captioned the video, together with the #DeadFriendForever hashtag.

The confused feedback stored approaching these three posts as nicely

“‘That is what Beyoncé would have appreciated,’ I urge your pardon?!” exclaimed one. “That is what Beyoncé would’ve like’ what is that this? A cult?” echoed another person, whereas one other added, “The backstory made it even worse.”

Many additionally began asking whether or not the entire saga was “satire,” a stance that continues to achieve traction because the movies stored coming.  “I am refuse to imagine this story is actual i REFUSE,” mentioned one viewer, earlier than one other wrote, “okay now im positive that that is undoubtedly a prank ”

“Until you vlog the funeral Idk if that is actual ,” shared another person.

Responding to the most well-liked touch upon the primary video — of a viewer saying they thought it was about his canine, who additionally appeared within the footage, dying — @VitorNotVictor shared one other video, saying, “I’d by no means go to a live performance if my canine had simply died.”

He adopted that up with a video of him together with his boyfriend, saying his different half “would not perceive” the scenario.

“My chronically offline boyfriend would not get the significance of a viral TikTok and retains saying I must be extra unhappy about what occurred and fewer enthusiastic about ‘this social media stuff,’” he wrote over the footage. “So now he is leaving town on his bike to ‘get away from all this.’”

In yet one more video, he then responded to the viewer who commented, “‘That is what Beyoncé would have appreciated’ I urge your pardon?!’”

“If you happen to assume you realize Beyoncé’s higher than I do, I have been to seven of her live shows, I’ve all of her albums and our birthdays are 12 days aside from one another,” he mentioned in response. “I do really feel like I do know her higher than you in a deeper stage and she or he would really like for me to honor my good friend. I would sit this one out if I had been you.”

He then shared a photograph of him on the present, “proper after my good friend died” — a photograph he says proves his “good friend was already in contact with another stage.”

“So that is me on the live performance proper after my good friend died. The insane factor is he was the one who informed me to put on a t-shirt and look who’s within the shirt. It isn’t solely Beyoncé’s, however Jay-Z. He knew, he knew Jay-Z would come,” the content material creator mentioned within the footage. Bey’s husband, in fact, made a shock look on the Paris present.

“What’s going on?! i wanna chortle however i simply really feel like it might be inappropriate if the good friend actually died,” commented a confused viewer. “your good friend died and u with one beer in your hand, are u killing me? PF, SO SO SO AMAZING,” mentioned one other, as many got here to the conclusion the entire thing was faux. @VitorNotVictor, nonetheless, has not mentioned he made something up.

Along with sparking debate within the feedback and on X, the place the unique video was shared broadly, social media star Kalen Allen additionally reacted to the saga on his web page — and revealed what he hopes his associates would do if confronted with the identical choice.

After breaking down the scenario, he mentioned, “I simply needed to come back right here and say that, in case you are a good friend of mine … and you will see Beyoncé’ and I die, I provide you with full permission, as a result of I perceive.”

“I’d go too. I am lifeless, what the hell we gonna do?” he continued. “Ain’t nothing I can do about that! Ain’t nothing you are able to do about that. I am gone. I truthfully assume, if my associates mentioned to themselves, ‘What would Kalen do?’ Kalen would go to the Beyoncé’s live performance.”

He did, nonetheless, add, “Now they did not have to complete the TikTok, they did not have to try this, that was a step too far.”

So … what do you assume … and what would you do?!