LSU’s newest influencer is leaving their mark on campus, receiving mixed feelings from students.
A recent TikTok trend has taken over universities across the country, especially in South Louisiana. In just the past few days, anonymous TikTok accounts have gone viral with posts of the user urinating on different campus locations. LSU’s received its own public urinator, and the “LSU Leaker” is causing outrage, laughs and plenty of messes across campus.
“I think it’s an interesting form of expression,” Pelaija Miller, a social work major, said. “I don’t think it’s necessarily appropriate, but it is very interesting and might just be to get attention.”
The culprit records themself, from behind the camera, urinating on LSU landmarks and signage with the act taking place at night. The account has gained plenty of attention, receiving over 150,000 views on the first video. Since the rise in popularity, other accounts featuring the same content have begun to appear.
An LSU spokesperson would not say if LSU is currently investigating the videos.
“LSU expects all community members and visitors to respect campus property and one another,” an LSU spokesperson said. “Behavior that creates health hazards or defaces university property violates university policy and may be referred to LSU Police and Student Advocacy & Accountability.”
The LSU Pisser is another public urination account, created shortly after the LSU Leaker began to go viral. The account has also reached thousands of views by urinating on the Electrical Engineering building, Mary Coleman Herget Hall and Robert L. Himes Hall, causing an online rivalry between the two accounts.
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness,” the LSU Leaker said to the Reveille, quoting Oscar Wilde, in regards to possible imitators.
The mysterious accounts leave students with many unanswered questions. Who runs the account? Will they be caught? Is the liquid real urine?
Thomas Bourg and Dylan St. Aubin, both construction management majors, strongly believe that the liquid is actual urine. St Aubin also believes the account is run by a freshman, while Bourg has other suspects.
“It might be a professor,” Bourg said. “They could be taking action back on the college campus.”
Bourg only supports the owner of the TikTok account urinating on Himes Hall; however, he believes the LSU Pisser needs to be brought to justice, because their actions are not acceptable.
“I think it’s kind of funny,” Jaylen Pruitt, a kinesiology major, said. “It doesn’t really bother me.”
Pruitt says the stream of urine looks like water and seems inconsistent, almost as if the person behind the camera has to continue squeezing a water bottle or has underlying health conditions. Pruitt can imagine his friend Josh Hanna, a biology undergrad, participating in the trend.
“I would actually join him in those missions,” Hanna said.
Landscape architect major Gage Fouts says the LSU Leaker is scary and believes the account is run by an upperclassman.
Construction management major Dailon Wiley says he has not seen the LSU Leaker in person, but has seen multiple videos from him and other accounts online. Wiley is upset that this content has made its way to LSU’s campus, since it is a form of public indecency.
“I think it’s an epidemic going around every university,” Wiley said. “It’s more than pissing too, I think it’s a lot of bodily fluids, and it all needs to stop.”
Savannah Vasher, an information systems and analytics major, also does not support public indecency.
“I think it’s definitely water,” Vasher said. “I can’t see anybody’s stream being that high, to where it’s making it onto all of the signs.”
Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana received a similar TikTok account days ago, and the “Nicholls Pisser” was arrested by University Police on Sept. 11.
“The campus community was at no point under any threat,” Jerad David, director of communications and legal affairs at Nicholls, announced in an email. “There are, however, consequences to the behavior demonstrated in the posts, including violating state law and city ordinance.”
