A TikToker has left viewers shocked after she posted a video where she cooked two live crabs inside her air fryer.
With millions of videos across the platform, it’s hard to tell what will go viral on TikTok. It could be anything from a restaurant allegedly storing supplies in the bathroom to BookTok drama and more.
Thousands of users share their cooking videos on the app as well, but one upload from ContentwithCee has sparked backlash across TikTok.
Cee was putting together an air-fried crab boil recipe when she dumped two live blue crabs into the bowl… leaving viewers shocked in the process.
TikToker was “kinda sad” watching them die
“Let’s make a crab boil in the air fryer,” she said to start the video. “Listen, don’t knock it till you try it.”
Cee went on to detail various parts of the recipe as she put potatoes, corn, spices, and more in the bowl for her air fryer.
“Then I had a couple of blue crabs, my air fryer’s pretty small, so I only got two. I was scared… I was jumping because they were like, live,” she said.
“It was kinda sad watching them (die), but these crabs came out so good and juicy.”
Cee’s video quickly went viral, sparking a reaction from viewers across the internet as the video received over 19,000 comments.
“Your air fryer didn’t have a crab setting because it’s an insane thing to do,” one user commented.
Another replied: “Slow cooking an animal alive is a whole new level of animal torture.”
“After following Howie the crab, I learned so much about crabs and how intelligent they are. This feels all kinds of wrong,” a third user said.
After gaining almost a million followers on TikTok, Howie the crab’s owner, Laura Porter, revealed the crustacean had suddenly died back in February 2025.
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