A protest staged by a vegan activist group in Sydney has gained a different kind of publicity than its organisers were hoping for, as many social media users focused their attention not on the event itself but rather on a lone man who appeared to be trolling the protesters.
The currently unidentified man did not interfere with the protest directly – he merely stood nearby while holding a big box of KFC in his hand and eating a chicken drumstick, with a “cheeky smile” on his face, as news.com.au put it.
While a video of this scene, captioned “Meat eating protest in Sydney gets a hungry visitor”, quickly accrued tens of thousands of ‘likes’ on TikTok, a number of social media users went on to voice their admiration for the KFC eater’s actions.
Some, however, didn’t seem particularly amused with this stunt.
According to the media outlet, the protest was held by a group called “Anonymous for the Voiceless” whose events usually involve “members standing in a square wearing V For Vendetta masks or blindfolds and holding screens showing pictures or footage of animals being killed for the meat industry.”