OXFORD, Miss. — The camera over Jakiyra Metcalf's door recorded it at 8:37 on Friday night: three young women outside her apartment, making monkey noises and gestures, then walking off toward the stairs.
Metcalf, a University of Mississippi student who lists herself as a member of the class of 2030, posted the Ring footage to TikTok that night. Over the clip she wrote “ole miss??” and captioned the post “what do we have to say about this ??” — tagging the university's official account. Then, in the comments, she added the detail that makes it personal: “We just found out they are our upstairs neighbors.”
The video spread quickly — more than 631,000 likes and 34,000 shares within a day, according to Baller Alert — and by Saturday it was trending on Threads, with commenters flooding the university's accounts demanding a response.
The names the internet supplied
Online, the identification moved faster than the verification. Users named the women as Lauren Mayfield, Alaina Kunes and Sara Whitehead, and alleged they belong to the university's Alpha Phi chapter. BlackSportsOnline and Bouncefeed have published the names, attributing them to the online identification — a chain loose enough that early posts spelled one of the names differently. No outlet has independently confirmed that any of the three is in the video, and the university has not confirmed who the women are.
On Saturday evening, the Ole Miss chapter of Alpha Phi answered — and disputed the connection outright. In a statement posted to its Instagram Story, the chapter said the individuals identified are not members of Alpha Phi and never have been, and blamed the confusion on similar names. The chapter condemned racist language and conduct, said the incident should be taken seriously through university channels, and asked people to stop circulating the names and photos of the women it says were misidentified. Alpha Phi's national organization has issued no public statement.
Previously is not printing the names as fact, and the reason sits inside this story: they rest on social-media identification alone — BlackSportsOnline attributed its identification to a post by a parody account — and the one organization to speak says the internet has the wrong people. If the identities are confirmed by someone in a position to confirm them, that will be reported as confirmed. Until then, the names are the internet's claim, not a finding.
The party that hasn't spoken
From the university itself, there has been nothing. As of Saturday evening, Ole Miss had made no public statement about the video, confirmed no identities and announced no disciplinary action. Baller Alert, Bouncefeed and BlackSportsOnline each checked and reported the same absence. No police involvement has been reported by any outlet.
The silence is conspicuous because Ole Miss has answered this exact moment before. In May 2024, during a pro-Palestinian protest on campus, a white student was filmed jumping up and down and making monkey noises at a Black woman. His fraternity, Phi Delta Theta, removed him, and the university opened a student conduct investigation. Two years later, the conduct is on a student's own doorbell camera, the women accused are said to be her upstairs neighbors, and the only institutional voice so far is a sorority chapter's Instagram Story.
Student conduct, behind closed doors
What happens next runs through the university's student conduct process, which federal privacy law keeps mostly out of public view. The demands have already been delivered: commenters have flooded the university's social accounts, and Bouncefeed reported users directing emails to administrators asking for an investigation and a public statement. As of publication, neither has come. Whether Ole Miss confirms who is in the video, whether the women are its students at all, and whether the chapter's denial holds are all unanswered — and until the university speaks, they are the story.
Sources
- Baller Alert — “Doorbell Camera Catches Ole Miss Classmates Making Monkey Noises” (November 7, 2026): the video and its timestamp, Metcalf's post, her “upstairs neighbors” comment, the like and share counts, the absence of a university statement, and the May 2024 precedent.
- Bouncefeed — “Lauren Mayfield, Alaina Kunes and Sara Whitehead Identified in Ole Miss Ring Camera Video Showing Three Women Making Monkey Noises Outside Black Neighbors' Apartment” (November 7, 2026): the online identifications and their sourcing, the university's non-confirmation, Alpha Phi's national silence, and the emails demanding a university response. The names appear there as online identifications; they are unconfirmed.
- BlackSportsOnline — “Ole Miss Students Lauren Mayfield, Alaina Kunes and Sara Whitehead Does Monkey Sounds to Black Student” (November 7, 2026): the identification as attributed to a parody account's post, the absence of a university statement, disciplinary finding or police action, and the May 2024 precedent via NBC News.
- Ole Miss chapter of Alpha Phi — statement on its official Instagram account (@olemissalphaphi), Saturday evening, November 7, 2026: the identified individuals are not members and never have been; the confusion attributed to similar names; condemnation of racist language; a request to stop circulating the misidentified names and photos.
- Jakiyra Metcalf — the original Ring footage, posted to her TikTok account (@jakiyrametcalf_) on Friday, November 6, 2026, and embedded above from her post.
