Filipino influencer Emmanuelle “Emman” Atienza has recently been attacked for a TikTok video that many people say is rude and doesn’t understand how people feel.
Emmanuelle Atienza and her friends played “Guess the Bill” at a luxury Japanese restaurant in the deleted video
The group tried to guess how much their meal cost and the best guesser was supposed to pay the bill, which was ₱133,423.99, which is about £1,777.
Netizens were very angry about the video because it quickly went viral. They said Filipino Influencer, Atienza was showing off her money and wasn’t aware of how hard things are for many Filipinos financially. Some students’ tuition for the term was paid for by the money seen in the video, say critics. The big difference between this and the daily minimum wage in Metro Manila, which is ₱645 (about £8.62), was also brought up.
In a second TikTok video, someone said bad things about Emmanuelle Atienza
She is the daughter of TV star Kim Atienza and the granddaughter of Lito Atienza, who used to be mayor of Manila.
It was made clear that the dinner was part of a friend’s birthday party and that her friend’s company paid the bill.
That video was just for fun, and Emmanuelle Atienza was mad about how people reacted to it. She said, “Even if I had paid that much, it is our choice and our freedom to do what we want with the money that we earn.“
Even with her explanation, the video has caused more people to talk about inequality in wealth and power in the Philippines. A lot of people on social media have asked celebrities and people with a lot of followers to be more careful about what they post, especially in a place where a lot of people live in poverty.
Many people have also talked about how important it is for public figures to set good standards for their fans and how social media affects human values.