Punk teenagers have been mocking the death of white teenager Austin Metcalf on TikTok.
Supporters of his convicted killer, 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony, have been dancing “with knives and pretending to stab themselves as the viral rap song ‘Austin Bop’ plays in the background,” according to the New York Post.
VILE: disgusting new TikTok trend called the “Austin Bop” has exploded among young black Karmelo Anthony supporters. They gleefully dance, with and without knives, while making repeated thrusting and stabbing motions toward the chest in a brazen mockery of a teenage boy’s brutal… pic.twitter.com/cqTYD122ok
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) June 16, 2026
“Austin bop, knife had blood on the tip when he dropped … coughin’ up blood, you think he got ebola,” read the lyrics to the official song, which was reportedly uploaded to Apple Music a day after Anthony’s conviction.
In one TikTok video viewed by the Post, the creator of the video included a caption mocking Metcalf’s family.
“Happy Juneteenth to the METCALF family 🥳,” the caption read.
The caption is seen as the creator of the video, a black woman, pretends to stab herself and gag on blood.
DISGUSTING: Since I first reported on the emerging “Austin Bop” trend, more Black individuals have joined in, dancing to a song about Austin Metcalf’s death while mimicking the stabbing that took his life. https://t.co/TBiUpXIblU pic.twitter.com/3dGh5iQlRo
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) June 17, 2026
Responding to these videos, Post columnist Kirsten Fleming has alleged that the ladies of “The View” deserve some culpability and blame for all the misinformation they’ve spouted about the case.
“It’s been two weeks since Karmelo Anthony has been found guilty of murder, and the lies keep rolling out,” Fleming wrote in a column published Wednesday.
They “keep rolling out” thanks to race hustlers like “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin, a black woman “who always sees the world through a racial lens,” according to Fleming.
“Now she is clinging so tightly to the fantasy that Anthony was denied a fair trial because our country has a two-tiered system,” Fleming added.
Indeed, Hostin suggested on Monday that Anthony had stabbed Metcalf in self-defense. Never mind that a jury already rejected his claim.
“We also have to look at self-defense here, because there seems to be two systems of justice at play in this country, and there have been for a very long time,” she said, according to Mediaite. “In this case, this young man, you heard [Anthony] say, ‘He put his hands on me, and I told him not to.'”
Hostin also claimed that Anthony wasn’t judged by a jury of his peers because the jury didn’t contain any black people. Never mind that potential black jurors had to be removed from the jury because they admitted upfront that they couldn’t judge the case fairly because of their racial bias.
Sunny Hostin and ABC are facing mass calls for a lawsuit after claiming Karmelo Anthony did not receive a fair trial because there were no black jurors, while also misrepresenting the words of Austin Metcalf’s father, Jeff, to millions of viewers.
Rein in your harpies, ABC. pic.twitter.com/aFphCw9x5Z
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) June 23, 2026
Hostin also distorted Anthony’s weight by portraying him as significantly smaller than his actual size.
“She claimed that Metcalf, who weighed 200 pounds, was far more physically imposing than poor wee Anthony, weighing in at a mere 130,” according to Fleming.
“Anthony was obviously much larger than that. His online recruitment profiles list his height as 5-foot-11 and his weight as 162 pounds. The facts be damned, Hostin needed to recast Anthony as a meek victim, removing agency from him,” she added.
There’s also the fact that Anthony provoked Metcalf by daring him to “touch me and see what happens.”
Tying Hostin’s dishonesty to the TikTok trend, Fleming added that “The View” host “is still giving these cretins the fuel to dehumanize Metcalf — and the material to build a fictional narrative that he was some brute bully who got what he deserved.”
“Hostin so desperately wants to be a story about race, when it’s really a two-part tragedy. One innocent boy unnecessarily lost his life at the hands of another boy who has terrible emotional regulation and impulse control,” the Post columnist concluded.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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