Cassidy Tweedt shared her story in a “stitch” with another video, requesting people who have “had pretty privilege your whole life,” to stitch the video and “tell me what your worldview is.”

The original video, by TikTok user @lizagnabathwater, continued to explain her own experience with gaining “pretty privilege” and how objectively nicer people now treat her compared to before when her appearance was different.

“I just recently got a degree of pretty privilege and it has been insane how kind people are when they find you attractive. People who wouldn’t even look at me before, they go out of their way to be kind to me,” she continued, before adding that it’s likely a subconscious decision by other people to treat her differently.

Tweedt replied to the video, agreeing with it before adding her own reverse anecdote on “pretty privilege”: “So I work in the service industry, I’m a bartender and, if you were unaware, the way you look influence a lot, whether that’s tips or how people treat you, it just does.”

As she explained her experience, Tweedt began to become emotional, saying: “When I tell you my whole life changed when I started getting help from my eating disorder which resulted in weight gain after the pandemic. People don’t even look you in the eye anymore, they’re not nice to you, especially men.”

“I would walk up and say, ‘hey how’s it going?’ and I used to get, ‘I’m doing really great honey, how are you?’ Now it’s a little more like, ‘hey how’s it going, what can I get you?’ [and they reply] ’two Coors Light and a Bud Light,’ and for people saying that doesn’t actually happen, please raise your hand if you would willingly like to live as a fat person, and the fact no one raises their hand makes the point,” said Tweedt in the video.

“I almost didn’t notice the change in the way I was being treated. I remember being a little less happy when I left the bar at the end of the night, but I could never quite put my finger on it until someone else mentioned it,” Tweedt told Newsweek.

On the specific differences she’s noticed recently, Tweedt says that “eye contact is a big one. When patrons don’t find you attractive they won’t quite look you in the eye. They will talk to my co-worker instead of me when I am standing right next to her, as if I were a ghost they couldn’t see or hear.

“You also get a lot of curt responses. I used to get a bit of small talk out of people and would have a quick laugh while I served them. Now they will often cut off my opening ‘Hi how are y’all doing tonight?’ with their drink order. In the past, I would hand people their change/receipt and say ’thank you!’ and would be responded to with a ’thank you,’ now they just walk away and don’t even look back.”

“When you’ve served the same crowds of people for over four years it’s not difficult to see how the attitudes change as the weight comes on,” she said.

After explaining the causes of her weight gain, including recovering from an eating disorder, Tweets added that, “even if none of that was true, fat people don’t owe you an explanation as to why they weigh what they do to deserve common courtesy and decency.”

“We are all so quick to accept that people can be naturally skinny, but nobody wants to acknowledge some people could be naturally chubby. I’m healthy, I exercise, I eat well for my body, and yet my body just exists as a 14/16. But even if I wasn’t doing any of those things, I shouldn’t be ashamed of my body. There are plenty of thin people who live an incredibly unhealthy lifestyle and no one ever comments on their body,” she said.

Tweedt told Newsweek that it’s certainly not just a personal experience either, but instead an industry-wide issue: “I’m passionate about this issue because we need to stop accepting the use of beauty as a commodity. I know male bar managers that will only hire women, essentially using those female bartenders as a commodity.

“The hope of getting with the hot bartender/flirting with her/watching her work is enough to keep business coming back and honestly, it’s a little gross. It’s 2021, can we please start respecting people for more than their looks?”

According to a recent survey by One Fair Wage, more than 70 percent of women who work as servers, bartenders or in other food industry roles say they’ve been sexually harassed by their employers, coworkers or customers,.

After being posted just 14 hours ago, Tweedt’s TikTok video has gained over 500,000 likes and two million views, and the comments have been flooded with support and those who also relate.

“My weight has fluctuated all my life. I am 100 percent treated nicer when I weigh less,” commented one user, gaining over 42,000 likes.

“I’ve worked retail forever and just those days I’d go without makeup vs with, I noticed such a difference in the way people treat me,” added another. “My tips are dramatically different without makeup. Also more ‘smile more’ comments on those days,” related one viewer on days without makeup.

Although Tweedt’s experience was far from positive, she believes there is room for change and that “we are making a little bit of progress. Maybe not in the service industry, but in the minds of the everyday people. With so many big creators talking about this issue, more and more people are realizing the beauty standard of society needs to change.”

“I would have given anything to hear some of these things as a child, and maybe someday another girl will benefit from this work and choose to eat dinner instead of skipping it.”

Update 6/23/21, 02:56 a.m. ET: This article was updated with comment from Cassidy Tweedt.