To doxx or not to dox, that is the question setting social media ablaze after a baseball game photoshoot shot to viral proportions.


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The drama began over the weekend when fashion influencer Jackie La Bonita took to TikTok to detail how she was mocked by two women sitting behind her at a recent Houston Astros baseball game.


“Watch my confidence disappear after these random girls make fun of me for taking pics,” Jackie captioned the initial clip, which has since amassed upwards of 6 million likes, appearing to show two fellow attendees, later identified as Litzareli Madrigal and Alondra Poullet, sticking their tongues out, seemingly calling her “lame” and in the case of the former, photobombing her clip with her middle finger.



Though Jackie ultimately turned off the comments on her viral clip, which has since received more than 35 million views, the video quickly spread throughout the internet, prompting condemnation and messages of support, including one from artist Cardi B, who detailed the very Cardi B way she would have handled the situation.


“I would of put that ring to use,” she quipped referencing Jackie’s giant accessory.



Yet, facing the wrath of the “Bodack Yellow” singer was just the beginning for the internet’s latest “mean girls,” Madrigal and Poullet, who found themselves the targets of not only outspoken criticism but also widespread doxxing.


Within several hours of Jackie’s video, several users took to social media, sharing their full names, suspected employers, and in the case of TikTok creator @shatriiii, a Prezi slideshow with Madrigal’s name from almost nine years ago.



Prezi – the internet’s flame-retardent Library of Alexandria.


Though Jackie, Madrigal, and Poullet have remained tight-lipped on the unfolding drama, one TikToker named Stephano, who claimed to have previously dated one of the “mean girls,” took to social media to speak out against the backlash.


"I don’t understand how you guys stand against bullying and literally cyber-bullying every single person that is not even involved in this,” Stephano said in his video.



“Going as far to take down a company just because you thought she worked there,” he continued, alluding to how Houston, Texas-based real estate agency Limestone Commercial Real Estate, essentially wiped their internet presence following a string of (sometimes Wattpad-worthy) one-star reviews.



Stephano isn’t alone in these concerns. As Madrigal and Poullet’s personal information continued to make the rounds online, a debate emerged on social media about whether their doxxing was fair retribution for their disrespectful behavior.


“Doxxing as a form of public safety (to protect people from abusers, rapists, violent racists, etc) and doxxing as a form of punishment for being rude is not the same,” wrote @ramoumaaa in a viral Twitter post.


“Okay those women in the background of that woman’s TikTok were obnoxious but stop doxxing people for stuff like that come on now,” reiterated @offbeatorbit.


“The women in the back could have just moved or politely asked to not be filmed,” mused @dieworkwear on the situation. “But ppl now doxxing them and trying to get them fired in a country where healthcare is connected to employment and rent is sky high shows how the internet is insane and you guys are the bully.”


Meanwhile, others maintained that the punishment did, in fact, fit the crime.


“Love social media. Y'all found them two mean girls real quick lmao that girl is strong, though, cause me personally, I would've said something and got in their faces,” wrote @lovelyy_am.


“This is why I don’t believe high school mean girls can change, once a mean girl always a mean girl,” mused @mihletshemese on the matter. “Honestly, fuck these bitches."


Social media isn’t like baseball – sometimes no one wins. To paraphrase the wise words of Twitter user @FEELZ_____ “All this internet shit is weird as fuck.”