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The death threat has hail after the American influencer Sam Jones, 24, lifted a vomit in Australia.
On Friday, she chose to flee the country.
Now she responds to the hate storm.
The influencer leaves the country – after the clip
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-I caught a baby wombat!, Says Sam Jones, who is really called Samantha Stable, and laughs in the well-known Tiktok clip.
She was filmed when she picked up a screaming Vombat kid from the roadside while being chased by the Vombat mom.
The video has aroused a frame scream in Australia.
The country’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese described the incident as a scandal and suggested that Jones try to “take a crocodile kid from his mother and see how it goes”.
When Interior Minister Tony Burke threatened to withdraw her visa if it turns out that she has violated the conditions, the 24-year-old chose to leave the country on her own.
“There has never been a better day to be a baby Wombat in Australia,” Burke said after the message that she had left the country.
Furthermore, he said he did not expect a new visa application from the young woman.
Parded for Social Media
After the hate storm, the influencer, which describes itself as a “outdoor enthusiast and hunter”, locked its Instagram account.
When she made the account publicly again on Friday, she had uploaded an apology to her more than 96,000 followers.
Since the incident, Jones says she received “thousands of death threats”.
“I have been thinking a lot about this situation and realized that I did not handle it as well as I should have done,” she writes.
The influencer Sam Jones with the Vombat King. “Was not about likes”
The influencer says she lifted the animal because she was “extremely worried” for its health.
“Since Vombates are so often hit on the Australian roads, I stopped to make sure they got off the road safely and were not hit.”
She further writes that she ran away from her mother for fear that she would be attacked.
“I want to be clear that this was never about social media or getting likes. It was not staged or done for the sake of entertainment, ”she writes, highlighting that she should have given more context to the clip.