I watched the video when it came out. The first couple sentences the woman speaks do sound as if she's deaf - but then she sounds progressively less deaf as the disagreement goes on. As the public spat continued, I visited her TikTok account and (as of yesterday), she's pinned this December 2024 video where she says the ear doctor told her she's losing her hearing, and you'll notice she's speaking pretty normally.

I have friends and relatives who have become increasingly hard of hearing as they aged, including a couple that have gone completely deaf, and none of them have that "lost hearing before learning to speak" deaf 'accent'. That's because their brain and muscles remember what the movements for those words sound like. They do tend to lose verbal 'crispness' over time, but it takes years. So right off the bat, she was implicitly exaggerating her 'hearing loss' in the viral video.

Someone on yesterday's reddit thread commented in part

I went down a rabbit hole of her TikTok, and she's a disgusting person personality wise. ALWAYS playing the victim. [...] We don't know what led up to this. I hear them constantly bring up "accommodations". My bet is she was making a scene about her "accommodations" and during that the attendant saw the cup. Rather deal with someone whose drunk [...] [they] decided to kick her off so she can [...] calm down.

To which someone else replied

I used to follow her TikTok (until I realized she is super annoying) and she is both a law student and is rather litigious in general. She’s involved in a variety of legal issues with her HOA (which was the story that initially got me to follow, admittedly but it’s no longer interesting).

I'm betting that this isn't the only person who's found her annoying and the HOA storyline now boring and she's lost followers, and this is her latest attempt to ~~recoup followers~~ grift.