A woman went on a racist rant in a US pizza shop. TikTok vigilantes went after three innocent accountants.

Before the Hatboro police publicly identified Bellew and TikTok found her Facebook page, several Twitter and TikTok accounts doxxed Bogar, then Sally Poppert and Tracey Gaida – three women who have nothing in common with Bellew other than being blond accountants employed in Montgomery County. — Photo by Solen Feyissa on Unsplash

Candice Bogar changed her name because she didn’t want to be called a Karen, but that hasn’t stopped the Internet from doing so.

Bogar, who legally changed her name in 2021, did not want to be associated with the archetypical name for someone perceived as a white woman of privilege. Yet, that pejorative – and a bigot – are all she has been called on the Internet since being mistaken for a woman who spewed xenophobic vitriol at a Hatboro pizza shop owner last month.