'Looks like a scene in a horror [film],' another TikTok account commented

The sight of people standing with their hand over their heart for the National Anthem at a Southern California restaurant appeared to shock and horrify TikTok users.

In a v***l video posted to the social media platform last week, about a dozen people are shown standing for the Star-Spangled Banner as it plays on a television screen in the bar area of Rainbow Oaks Restaurant in Fallbrook, California.

One TikTok user who was dining at the establishment posted the video with the caption, "By far the most dangerous situation I’ve ever been in." She used the hashtags #godblessamerica. #getout, #illegal, and #whitepeoplethings afterwards.

The post garnered over 17,000 comments, with many expressing disgust at the patriotic display.

One TikToker revealed she worked at American restaurant Mission BBQ and had to stand for the anthem every day. "I h**ed it there so much," she complained. Another agreed saying she hadn't been back to that restaurant after experiencing the same thing.

One person said the scene looked like one out of a horror movie.

"Serious question. Is this real? Like people actually do this in real everyday life?" another user responded.

Some from other countries found the tradition bizarre.

"In Spain we dont even hear the national anthem that much, so this would 100% freak me out so much," another user responded.

Several others called the video, "wild" "scary" and "terrifying."

The Southern California restaurant said it plays the anthem every day at noon in a recent social media post. The restaurant has kept this tradition for the past six years, San Diego's KUSI News reported.

I told you I was not posting it on OPP it would be a waste of time. OPP loves Russian immigrants they think like Trump and you that Putin is brilliant and every Intel agency in the US are wrong about Russian interference in our e******n. Trump said I believe my good friPutin.

I want to post it on other sites where republicans have common sense. I want to show a Russian immigrant allowed to enter this country and her family Father, mother, you and your shingle salesman son never sacrificed anything for this country and your husband had enough brains to get the hell out of that environment of h**e for this country. It will be amazing taking a living breathing Russian immigrant that came to this country and she h**es the party that allowed her and her family to come to this country.
But you Trump and Putin are very close to making this country into an autocracy the same life you and your family escaped from. That’s what you call gross ignorance. Maybe you were to young but your parents were not they just raised an ignorant person who hasn’t got a clue.
He is in court for Rape and you except rape as normal because it’s your love for Trump, and that Jack-ass won’t even defend himself. He is indicted for Fraud but as a Putin lover you believe non of it.
Everybody that goes up against Trump needs bodyguards to protect themselves from Trumps criminal cabal.
But you can’t see it he runs his life like the Mafia, and you sweetie Putin.

Hey stop showing your ignorance where did you get your info from your c****e friends in Russia or Fox News.

Hey I hear your Hero Putin has lost over 100,000 of your c****e friends in Ukraine lost there lives. Do you still think like Trump that your Friend Putin is Brilliant.
Pretty sad but you being a c*******t immigrant don’t you find it strange that a war that was suppose to last 2 weeks is still going on.
I just hope non of your c*******t family members have lost there lives. Do you still have family in Russia

Oh had your son signed up to serve in the Russian military he avoided the US military same as Trump. Was there a reason why he wasn’t excepted. Was it lack of education.
Very sad you being a Russian immigrant and never sacrificed anything for this country but you sure do know how to cut and paste Russian propaganda attempting to bring down our democracy. But you do have 4 people on OPP that encourage your propaganda campaign.