Why Was She Giving Out Literal Red Flags At Nashville Bar?

woman shares bar experience (l) woman holding red flag (r)

It’s hard to navigate today’s dating culture. With catfishing, short attention spans, and a significant gap in expectations, finding “the one” has become a Herculean task.

Sometimes, it doesn’t even have to be as big as any of those reasons. For many, a man wearing socks with sandals is enough to swipe left. That’s why, when one woman at a Nashville bar encountered a sea of red flags, she didn’t hesitate to make the men aware of the vibe they were giving.

You Get A Red Flag, You Get A Red Flag…

Meesh Mays (@diabeticdiaries_) shared a TikTok filming herself handing literal tiny red flags to men at a Nashville bar. Her clip, which earned over 300,000 views, had women applauding her efforts in the comments section.

The clip, captioned “Humbling the men of Nashville,” begins with two men smiling at the camera. One of them wears a backward hat while the other holds up a tiny red flag. However, we can probably guess who the red flag is intended for here. The second clip shows a man with a flashy cowboy hat. Mays tacks on not one, but two tiny red flags to the hat. Mays then adds one to a man’s shirt pocket, hands one to yet another backward-hat-wielding man, and gives a third to a seemingly innocent man. Though we can trust Mays’ judgment as to why he deserved the prop.

There is yet another man with a backwards hat—doubly offensive since he’s wearing a sports jersey, too—whose face falls when he sees what Mays is gifting him. The following man’s offense is so obvious that viewers didn’t have to guess his sin for long. He dons a cowboy hat and a shirt exposing his chest so much that one of the women zips it up all the way to his neck.

The last three offenders included a man keeping his phone in his back pocket, one passed out on the street, and Mays’ Uber driver, who, according to her comment, made the car ride awkward by turning off all the music.

Viewers Are Here For It

Mays’ TikTok viewers thanked her for doing a “civic duty.” Mays didn’t reveal the reasons the men deserved the tiny red flags, but a few—like the open shirt guy—could be easily guessed.

“I wanna see this re-edited with captions underneath their faces for why they deserve the red flag,” a top comment read. Another wrote, “The funny thing is, most of them had no idea what the red flag was for. Which proves they needed the red flag!!!!”

Many were amused by the men’s reaction. Mays shared in a comment that a couple of them were really nice about it.

“The way the light went out of the dude’s eyes in the jersey as he processed,” one wrote. “The slow zip up took me ooooouuuuut,” a second user commented.

Others campaigned for the practice to be normalized at bars. One wrote, “Can we start giving these out in every public or social situation where the red flags be at full mast? I’m kinda loving this idea.”