WATCH: Missouri News Anchor Flips Insults From Body-Shaming Trolls Into a Viral Takedown
David Gilmour Dec 8th, 2025, 8:11 am
A Missouri morning news anchor has gone viral by flipping the sexist and body-shaming comments written under her reports, mockingly reading the insults out in her best broadcast voice and laughing at them.
Carissa Codel who fronts on Fox 49, amassed a six-figure social media following by treating internet hostility as material rather than a menace.
In TikTok clips viewed millions of times and also posted to X, the 26-year-old journalist theatrically recites the comments viewers post about her body.
“Dayumm Gurl, I want you to put a hurting on me like you do those midnight snacks,” she reads in one video, barely containing a grin.
“Shawty obese,” she read

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