Viral Ring Clip Explodes – Ole Miss Rocked

A doorbell camera caught two Ole Miss students beating their chests and making monkey-like sounds outside a Black student’s apartment, and one of them has now stepped forward to apologize.

Story Snapshot

A 13-second Ring camera clip posted November 6 shows two white students making chest-beating gestures and monkey-like noises while passing a Black student’s apartment door.
The University of Mississippi called the behavior “deeply troubling, hurtful, and unacceptable” and opened a formal investigation.
Student Alaina Kunes publicly apologized, calling her actions “insensitive, inappropriate, and deeply harmful,” but denied she intentionally targeted anyone because of race.
The clip has drawn more than 11 million views, reviving comparisons to a separate 2024 Ole Miss incident involving similar gestures.

Doorbell Footage Sparks Viral Outrage

Ole Miss student Jakiyra Metcalf posted the Ring camera clip on TikTok on November 6, showing two students passing her apartment door while beating their chests and making monkey-like sounds. Metcalf identified herself as one of the residents and confirmed the apartment housed Black students, giving the moment a clear and personal target rather than an abstract gesture caught by chance.

The imagery matches a long-standing and widely recognized racist trope that compares Black people to apes, which is why contemporaneous reports described the conduct as racist taunts rather than random horseplay. That history is part of why the footage spread so fast and hit so hard across social media within days of being posted.

University Responds With Investigation

The University of Mississippi condemned the behavior directly, saying in a statement that it was “deeply troubling, hurtful, and unacceptable” and did not reflect the school’s values. Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Shawnboda Mead said two offices, the Office of Conflict Resolution and Student Conduct and the Office of Equal Opportunity and Regulatory Compliance, were reviewing the incident. That dual-office response signals the school is treating the matter as a formal conduct and discrimination case, not just an online dispute to be waited out.

Student Apologizes, Denies Targeting Based on Race

Alaina Kunes, one of the students shown in the clip, released a public apology through a representative on November 10. She said, “To the women I offended and to the Ole Miss community, I sincerely apologize,” and described her conduct as “insensitive, inappropriate, and deeply harmful”. At the same time, Kunes said she had never met the women before that night and was unaware of their race, and stated she “would have never intentionally made those noises or gestures toward a person of color”.

UPDATE: Ole Miss CONFIRMS Alaina Kunes Is No Longer a Student After Viral Racist Monkey-Gesture Video.

Kunes, 18, publicly identified herself as one of the women filmed making monkey noises and gestures outside an apartment shared by three Black students in Oxford, Mississippi.… pic.twitter.com/qKj1Gizqzo

— i Expose Racists (@SeeRacists) November 10, 2026

That combination creates two competing readings of the same apology. Kunes’s words confirm the conduct happened and caused real harm, which lines up with what the video shows. But her denial of intentional racial targeting complicates any claim that she meant to harass or intimidate the residents specifically because they are Black, a distinction the university’s ongoing investigation will likely have to sort out before any final discipline is decided.

Unanswered Questions Remain Before Any Final Judgment

Several basic facts are still missing from public view. Reports have not established whether all three women seen in witness accounts understood the gestures were being made toward the apartment, or whether the students knew who lived there. The original recording’s full context, including audio clarity and footage before and after the 13-second clip, has not been independently verified in available reporting.

Coverage has also linked this incident to a separate 2024 episode at Ole Miss, where a woman made similar ape-like sounds toward a Black woman during a campus protest. The comparison raises fair concerns about a pattern on campus, but it does not by itself prove the two incidents share a common cause, plan, or set of people involved.

A Familiar Pattern of Viral Judgment Before Facts Are Settled

This case fits a pattern seen again and again online: a short clip delivers strong evidence that something offensive happened, but weaker evidence about intent, planning, or full context. Researchers call this effect context collapse, where audiences with different assumptions view the same post and reach very different conclusions. That gap matters here because the university’s public condemnation and the student’s apology both confirm harm occurred, while the question of deliberate racial intimidation remains legally and factually unresolved pending the investigation’s outcome.