Moment TikToker throws herself on the floor and screams ‘I’m dying’ in a busy London hospital so she can film ‘how to be seen in British A&E’ stunt for her channel
- Farah Shams ‘collapsed’ in the waiting room of a busy hospital for a TikTok prank
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This is the moment a TikToker pretended to collapse in an ‘understaffed’ A&E department while shouting ‘I’m dying’ in an ‘unfunny’ joke.
Londoner Farah Shams, 23, performed the stunt for her more than 500,000 social media followers.
In the video, titled ‘How to be seen in UK A&E’, which was recorded by a friend, Ms Shams stands up and begins to growl loudly, before shouting: ‘Oh my God, I’m dying’.
She then walks into the middle of a reportedly crowded NHS waiting area and shouts “Help” as she drops to the floor for a few seconds before standing up and moaning: “Why isn’t anyone helping me?”
The TikTok prankster stood up in the middle of the waiting room and started growling loudly
The TikToker claims she waited seven hours in the emergency room, but it is unknown why she waited
A doctor at the unnamed hospital stops to look at the TikToker and a man who appears to be a security guard asks, “What happened?”
She confronts him and says, “I’m dying, we’re all dying,” before the guard asks her to sit down and one of the stunned patients shouts, “Her friend is filming this.”
The clip has been viewed more than 4 million times on TikTok, but the comments section is full of users dissing the controversial TikToker.
One person said: ‘What a display of stupidity, you think they are ignoring you? They have too little money and too few staff, show some respect.’
Another wrote: ‘Hospital staff have enough to deal with.’
A third added: ‘This is a really selfish thing to do. people sit there for hours…feeling terrible and you’re not making it any better.”
Many people reacted angrily to the video, saying it wasn’t funny and that Farah Shams was a disgrace
Ms Shams hit back at those who trolled her online, explaining: ‘Seven hour wait? And being fired without being told… and then waiting another three hours when no one was going to tell me I was fired?’
A fellow TikTok user said: ‘I don’t find this funny, there are sick/injured people who all have to wait a very long time to be seen.’
Another critic added, “She missed the point with this video. Her others are borderline funny, but this is just disrespectful.”
Ms Shams claims she decided to pull off the dramatic stunt on October 27 after waiting in the waiting room for ten hours.
She hit back at those who trolled her online, explaining: ‘Seven hour wait? And being fired without being told… and then waiting another three hours when no one was going to tell me I was fired?’
She has shrugged off the criticism by calling angry users “keyboard warriors.”
One commenter hit back, saying, ‘Because if there are 120 patients and let’s say 10 doctors, how is it possible NOT to wait? I can’t hang out with you guys.’
But someone replied: ‘That’s how I felt when I was in the emergency room for four hours with a broken foot.’
Ms Shams said: “They are actually violating. What I did is what everyone imagines doing.”
One fan said: ‘This was funny. Why are you guys so angry?’
The TikToker added, “Legit everyone is so busy but half the people are keyboard warriors. If they had been there, they would have stayed quiet.”
In another video, she films herself stuffing a packet of salmon, a tub of butter and a box of cereal into her jacket in a supermarket, before blaming the cost of living crisis in the caption.
MailOnline contacted Farah Shams and NHS England for comment.