Overview

Miata Borders Substitute Teacher TikTok Video Controversy refers to a viral video posted by TikToker @thehandmade.ceo, real name Miata Borders, in which they record themselves starting her "new hustle" as a substitute teacher at a school, later reported to be Lake Cormorant High School in Mississippi's DeSoto County School District. The video shows the TikToker dressed in a dark blue checkered shirt and khaki pants as they go about their first day at school, teaching, grabbing lunch and walking around the halls while recording students' reactions to them. Several students are shown to be reacting with surprise at seeing a substitute teacher who looks like Borders, and one clip later shows a young student looking at Borders, prompting her to respond, "Damn, shorty, sheesh. Man, I gotta get up after these school kids tryna take me down."

Borders' video gathered over 500,000 views in short order and multiple comments admonishing her for posting schoolkids' faces without parental permission before it was removed from TikTok. In a later video, Borders said that she was fired from the school after her first day at work. Several internet users reacted to the viral video and specifically Borders' decision to call a young student "shorty," while Borders made repeated posts on Twitter / X denying accusations that she was flirting with the student.

Background

Sometime in late October 2025, TikToker @thehandmade.ceo (Miata Borders) posted a video chronicling her first day as a substitute teacher at a school, recording herself saying, "new hustle unlocked, I'm a school teacher now," while teaching class, grabbing lunch and encountering students in the hallways.

At one point in the video, she records a young girl alongside a voice overlay that says, "Damn, shorty, sheesh. Man, I gotta get up after these school kids tryna take me down." The video gathered over 500,000 views before the account was removed from TikTok.

A repost from TikToker^[1] @baybaygotfans on October 27th gathered over 1 million views and 30,000 likes in three days.

On October 26th, TikToker^[2] @thehandmade.ceo1 then posted a video talking about how she was fired from her substitute job after the aforementioned video went viral, insisting that she never recorded while students were in the class, and that her comments were being misrepresented online as she would never flirt with a student.

The story was covered by local news station WREG Memphis^[11] on October 21st, and by the New York Post^[12] on October 25th, 2025.

Developments

Miata Borders' Response

On October 28th, 2025, a person claiming to be Miata Borders posted a tweet to the X^[9] / Twitter account @thehandmadeceo (created sometime in October 2025) that read, "I’d never f--- a child, I’ve never been sexually attracted to a f----- kid and Me noting their attraction towards me does not make me a p---phile." The post gathered over 17 million views and 3,000 likes in two days.

A Facebook^[10] user by the name Miata Borders theb reacted to the aforementioned post, claiming the Twitter / X account was fake and saying, "To make a fake twitter of me is insaneee 😭 mane yall got toooo much time on yall hands p."

Online Reactions

On October 24th, 2025, X^[4] user @unlimited_ls reposted the clip, writing, "NEW: Lesbian teacher fired on her first day … as a substitute teacher at Lake Cormorant High School in Mississippi after posting TikToks from her workday on October 17." The post gathered over 5 million views and 24,000 likes in a week.

NEW: Lesbian teacher fired on her first day after posting TikTok appearing to s*xualize a young girl “Damn shorty, jeesh…”

Miata Borders, 24, was fired from her job as a substitute teacher at Lake Cormorant High School in Mississippi after posting TikToks from her workday on… pic.twitter.com/x2mOoagSdJ

— Unlimited L's (@unlimited_ls) October 24, 2025

On October 26th, 2025, TikToker^[3] @chicagojon posted a video created with Sora AI, showing an animated version of Miata Borders behaving inappropriately around school. The post gathered over 2 million plays and 280,000 likes in four days.

The X^[5] account @mymixtapez also reposted the clip on October 27th, 2025, gathering over 15 million views in three days. X^[6] user @koffiebrwn then quoted the post that same day, highlighting how Borders timestamped noon as "12:25 am" instead of "pm," gathering over 140,000 likes in three days.

12:25 am https://t.co/6e36alk7l9

— tall jawn (@koffiebrwn) October 28, 2025

Other internet users like X^[7] user @godspeedbrother described the clip as, "one of the funniest videos I’ve ever seen lol," while X^[8] user @Lubzio wrote, "A lunchable and Skittles talmbout a lil breakfast lmaooooooooooo," gathering over 15,000 and 75,000 likes, respectively, in two days.

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