Bonnie Blue Hit During Freshers Tour

Bonnie Blue, an online adult content creator, is currently on a UK Freshers’ tour dubbed the “Bang Bus”/ “barely legal” tour, making stops in university towns and cities such as Glasgow, Newcastle, Lincoln, Leeds, Sheffield, Nottingham, Oxford, Cambridge, and London. 

Last week, only a few stops into her UK “Bang Bus / Barely Legal” Fresher Week tour, Bonnie Blue (Tia Billinger) rolled into Leeds and as expected, things got wild. The vibes, chaos, memes—every Freshers’ cliché came alive.

However, with all the fan selfies and commotion also came a lot of uncomfortable and even rage filled interactions.

In Leeds, Bonnie’s “Bang Bus” showed up parked right outside a main building of Leeds Beckett University; a pretty divisive move, especially among students.  

She made an appearance at Disco Spoons, also known as The Hedley Verity, where things got a bit chaotic in a “who can get the closest selfie, a hold of merch, or shout loudest” kind of way.  

The merch that Bonnie handed out was t-shirts with the words "Barely legal" printed on the front. This made a number of people feel uncomfortable and this was when the anger started to emerge.

Fiona Williams, originally from Manchester, posted a TikTok where she had filmed herself meeting Bonnie in Disco Spoons. Although the video is mainly focused on her face and not Bonnie's, the audio is very clear from both of them.

The line that has gone viral on TikTok with over 3million views is "Do you know how many years you've set back feminism?"

To which Bonnie denies multiple times and ends her short-lived interaction with Fiona by saying, "Get these fat f**ks out," to her security.

"I don't agree with what she's doing," Fiona said, "and it's not just me who disagrees, there is always people in her comments slandering her vile content, but no one was actually saying it to her face. I decided to speak up because no one else was,"

The hate towards Bonnie Blue and her involvement in the feminist debate first gained attention when she set a challenge to sleep with 1000 men in 24 hours. The most common argument about this online is: objectification or empowerment?

In the argument of objectification, some argue that it feeds into the very system that feminism pushed against: treating women's worth as tied to sex, shock value, or male attention. This is the side that Fiona demonstrated in her posts after the original video of the interaction.

"You are making money at the cost of making womens lives s**t," she told Bonnie.

Leeds was like a microcosm for what is happening on this tour; high energy, big crowds and an even bigger spectacle.

For some this tour is entertainment, something to laugh about or share, but for others it is discomfort.

What does "barely legal" imply? What about safety and what social media is doing to freshers culture.