Overview
- Codel’s recurring “Reading Viewer Comments” clips began in August and now span at least 14 installments, including a Dec. 1 video that topped 2 million TikTok views and about 200,000 likes.
- She posts the segments across TikTok, Instagram and Facebook, where she has amassed more than 1 million likes, with reporting citing over 123,000 TikTok followers and over 222,000 on Instagram.
- The Ozark’s First morning anchor delivers body-shaming remarks in her broadcast cadence on camera, reframing them as a bit that resonates widely on social platforms.
- Codel says she launched the series to show how women in broadcast are judged on appearance and because news consumption is shifting to digital platforms.
- She has said she skips the most extreme remarks, treats creative insults as material, and has received public support from her mother and co-anchor Angela Luna.