Influencer Makes Terrifying Discovery That Websites Are Selling Cardboard Cutouts of Her Without Her Permission

Mar. 15, 2025

Kelsey Kotzur with one of her cardboard cutouts.Photo:Kelsey Kotzur/TikTok

Kelsey Kotzur/TikTok

Lifestyle and fashion influencerKelsey Kotzurhas mixed feelings after finding copies of her likeness sold online.

“If you didn’t believe me, here’s one that my aunt and uncle bought just to troll me,” she added, showing a photo of herself posing beside her cardboard twin.

In her post from Wednesday, March 12, Kotzur said she was “just alerted” that another cardboard cutout of her was listed. This time her image can be seen in a “new pose” titled “Kelsey Kotzur (Jeans).” According to the site selling the cutouts, this new version is considered a “hot product,” with 50 views over the course of 24 hours.

“When I decided to make videos on the internet, this is the last thing I thought would happen,” the content creator concluded in her TikTok. In her caption, she asked, “Who is doing this to me?”

“I’m cracking up but also feel like we need to report this,” one user said. Another echoed the same sentiment, writing, “This is hilarious but also so weird and scary. The duality of the internet.”

Kelsey Kotzur.Kelsey Kotzur/Instagram

Kelsey Kotzur/Instagram

The social media personality replied to the latter comment. “Literally [I don’t know] if I should be flattered or freaked … out,” Kotzur wrote.

When she first discovered her cardboard cutouts on Walmart’s website in September 2024, she once againtook to TikTok to question the product. Not only did she question the very concept, but Kotzur also said she wasn’t particularly pleased with one of the prints.

“Not for nothing, I know you could have chosen a better picture. My eyes are like halfway shut in this,” she noted on the green screen from last summer.

source: people.com