WATCH: City of Toronto slammed for 'cringey' safe 'six' COVID advertisement
The City of Toronto is under fire after posting a dance video encouraging people to "practice safe 6ix" under the coronavirus restrictions and public health regulations.
The video features a young, expressionless man dancing to sexually suggestive music, tearing off white t-shirts emblazoned with various COVID-19 related slogans.
🧟♂️🧟♀️Keep up the fight and we’ll get through this. #PracticeSafe6ix pic.twitter.com/pvvUxfZegs
— City of Toronto (@cityoftoronto) November 19, 2020
Twitter users were confused by the posting, with many taking issue with the apparent virtue-signal in direct reply to the City of Toronto's account.
One user wrote "THANKS FOR THE MEMES that'll stop tenants and businesses from getting evicted. Killin it."
Ugh. I hate so much right now. THANKS FOR THE MEMES that’ll stop tenants and businesses from getting evicted. Killin it.
— Sean (@666Seannn) November 19, 2020
Even people who support the lockdowns felt creeped-out by the strange video, with one user saying "nothing says pandemic safety like a TikTok at 5% energy." Another lamented the decision by the city, writing "this is so embarrassing" and "don't post cringe."
One user even went so far as to recreate the video in a comedic sketch, adoring the white t-shirt and black mask and dancing before making a call to his parents, and saying "you were right, I shouldn't have gone to Randolph," a college for performing arts in Toronto.
— Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll (@rodrigofstoll) November 20, 2020
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