A TikTok dad's revenge plot over a petty feud with an 8-year-old girl has captivated millions of viewers — and split opinion

• Over 30 million viewers tuned in to a father's "beef" with a girl who he said snubbed his daughters.
• The TikToker bought an inflatable pool after he said the 8-year-old turned his kids away from hers.

A dad became embroiled a feud with a little girl who he said snubbed his daughters, and documented his revenge plot on TikTok, going mega-viral in the process.

On May 10, a TikToker who goes by Christian Hardwick posted a video that showed him adding an $899 inflatable pool to his cart on Amazon, while an on-screen caption said that a little girl down the street wouldn't let his daughters play in her $20 pool, so "now I got beef with an 8 year old." He wrote that he couldn't wait until the little girl asked to play, alongside a video caption that read, "Don't mess with my girls."

The upload blew up, with 24.6 million views and 16,500 comments that were conflicted on the dad's reaction. Some popular comments sided with the little girl and suggested they wouldn't have let random people in their pool either, or that it may have been the decision of the girl's parents so she wasn't directly at fault, while many others appeared to support the father's petty revenge and asked for more videos.

Hardwick accrued a further 6.2 million views in a series of updates where he said he was waiting for the pool to arrive, showed he had opted for a $582 model instead, and filmed what appeared to be his kids playing in the water-filled inflatable when it eventually arrived.

Beneath each video, viewers consistently asked Hardwick to set up his camera and film the reaction of the little girl down the street if she asked to play. "Please please please for the love of God, record the other girls reaction when your daughter denies her access to her awesome water slide," one viewer wrote in a popular comment that received 580 likes.

However, some pushed back and said filming another person's child, especially to capture her crying or being rejected, would be strange and unnecessary.

In a wholesome twist to the tale, Hardwick posted a video on May 16 which appeared to show his daughter asking if she could give the little girl another chance and invite her to play in the new pool, which the TikToker agreed to.

The upload received over 420,000 views and over 600 comments, however viewers were less forgiving. "So sweet but I lowkey wanted to see the mean girl crying lol," one responder wrote in a top comment that received over 8,600 likes.

"Raised em better than that," Hardwick wrote in the caption alongside the video.

Hardwick has over 71,200 followers on TikTok where he regularly posts car themed videos.

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