Eshia Anderson was scrolling through TikTok’s suggested sound clips in early August when she came across a familiar song — and an idea for a video.

“I heard the sound of the Australian national anthem when I was flicking through,” said Anderson, a 20-year-old Indigenous woman from South Australia. “I was going to skip it right away, but then it brought back a memory of how it was like in primary school.”

That memory, Anderson said, was of being sent to the school principal’s office after refusing to stand for the anthem. She decided to recreate the scene and post it on the short video platform.