The text overlay-as well as the text-to-speech effect-on the video calls what happened to the boaters “karma” as the song dedicated to showcasing epic fails on the platform, “Oh No,” plays. We were nicer than they were,” the caption on the video reads. “We safely got them out of the water immediately. The video then cuts to the boaters in the water as their boat had “blew up.” The video shows their boat engulfed in flames and heavy smoke. In the viral video, which has been viewed over 4.9 million times since being posted on Monday, a woman can be seen giving the finger to the boaters. The bully seafarers had earlier taken offense to the Pride flags flown by their eventual rescuers, and hurled slurs before their circling boat exploded into flames. The TikToker captured some of the harassment on video. A blue vessel circled the family and shouted homophobic abuse, the passenger said.
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UhOhBigBoi/TikTok A family of four was targeted for flying Pride flags on their boat, one of the passengers told Insider. The boaters allegedly shouted gay slurs at the LGBTQ+-supporting family and circled their boat in Moses Lake, Washington. Jun 4, 2021, 3:11 AM A viral TikTok video shows a boat explode shortly after the passengers harassed a family flying LGBTQ flags.
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TikToker was out on the lake with his family for Memorial Day when they ran into some boaters who apparently objected to the rainbow flag flying from their boat. Boaters who allegedly shouted gay slurs at a boat that had Pride flags on it got a taste of humble pie recently when they had to be rescued by the very group they had been harassing.