Dean Withers, a political commentator and popular TikToker, has gone viral on social media after a recent video showed the content creator seemingly instructing his fans to dox an individual and call child protective services (CPS) on him live on stream. On July 6, 2025, a two-minute-52-second video of Withers conversing with the same man surfaced on platforms such as X, Reddit, and TikTok.For context, Dean Withers was debating a husband-and-wife couple on his livestream when a conversation about Donald Trump walking into changing rooms at Miss Teen USA pageant shows started.For those unfamiliar, in a 2005 interview with Howard Stern, Trump talked about going backstage at Miss Teen USA shows when 'everyone was getting dressed'. It's worth noting that he owned the Miss Universe Organization, which included Miss Teen USA and Miss USA, from 1996 to 2005.While debating the husband, Dean Withers asked the following hypothetical question:"Can you answer my question? Do you think that you have the right to consent to 65-year-old men looking at your son while he is naked? Do you think you have the right to allow it? Do you think if you did allow it, that you would be violating the consent of your child?"The viewer responded:"I wouldn't allow it. They have no choice in the matter whatsoever. It's my decision as the parent, and I wouldn't put my kid in that situation. That's why I think pageants are weird in the first place. I would never..."While expressing surprise at the individual’s response, Dean Withers abruptly ended the call. After a few moments of silence, the streamer seemingly asked his audience to track the husband's details using "facial recognition software":"So, here's what we're going to do... I think you don't deserve to have any custodial rights of your child. So, for those watching, their handle is (the streamer says the individual's social media account name). If there happens to be anybody in here that's good at, like... that has facial recognition software..."The husband rejoined the call, insisting that "nothing he said was wrong." When he confronted Dean Withers for doxing him, the content creator responded:"What's your name? Okay, what's your name? (The person says, 'Why are you trying to dox people? That's weird.') Because I want to find who you are so I can call CPS, and have them take your child away from you."Dean Withers then appeared to rally his audience to investigate the individual's identity and information:"Just putting this out there for anybody — feel free to, like, you know, take his profile picture. Maybe you can go to TikTok.com forward slash his handle. You could save his profile picture, run it through some reverse image search. Maybe it will link back to a Facebook or something, where you can find his name. And if you do find said information, that's public, by the way. Feel free to take that information and report it to CPS. Feel free to take that information and report it to, like, the law authorities in his area.""I could have handled it significantly better and dropped the ball" - Dean Withers responds following recent controversyOn the same day (July 6, 2025), X user and influencer @SarahisCensored expressed their discontent with Dean Withers' actions. They stated that "children do not have a legal right to consent," and that it is the responsibility of parents to protect them and "never put them in this hypothetical situation":"This is an INSANE liberal twist. Believe it or not Dean, Children DO NOT have a legal right to consent. It’s OUR responsibility as parents to protect our children and never put them in this hypothetical situation. Your drama is ill placed and you have a lot to learn."Dean Withers replied, admitting that his response to his community was "not it." Claiming that he could have handled the situation "significantly better," the TikTok content creator wrote:"After some more thought, I believe that what he said was extremely bad, and given the full context of the conversation, what he said is made even worse (He defends Trump looking at teenagers while naked, given that their parents were okay with it). But with that said, my response here to my community was not it. I could have handled it significantly better and dropped the ball. I will absolutely acknowledge that."Dean Withers provides context for comments he made after getting accused of doxing viewerOn July 10, 2025, Dean Withers posted a TikTok video in response to those calling him a "predator" following the doxing controversy.Claiming that he was "sticking up for children's safety" while talking to a husband-and-wife couple on his livestream, Withers played a clip from the broadcast where the discussion turned to Trump going backstage at Miss Teen USA shows. Dean Withers said:"At the start of the conversation, the very first thing that was said was, ‘Here’s Donald Trump walking into the changing rooms of these [bleep] teens. And, what was your first response to that? (The husband responds, ‘The parents gave consent that they allow it.’) Precisely. I don’t think that a parent can allow for their underage teen to be [bleep] on."The TikToker also played another moment from the livestream, during which the wife shared her thoughts on what she considered a "transactional" aspect of teen beauty pageants:"From my research, it was more transactional than anything. If anything because these girls are competing against each other. They want Donald Trump, when he was back there, should get some sort of… not promotion, but like, to get some sort of feedback and transactional advice from the guy because he’s a businessman."A few moments later, Dean Withers responded to allegations that he "doxed an innocent father" by saying:"There’s many people on this platform and others saying that I doxed an innocent father that simply said, ‘Kids can’t consent.’ And to respond to the first half of that claim, saying that he was doxed, that’s also not true. I told the people watching my conversations with this guest live to take his public information privately to his local CPS authorities. Even explicitly stating to not post on the internet. And I didn’t do this with an intention of malice or harm, but rather because of a potential concern of the safety of children. These are genuine red flags."This is not the first time Withers has made headlines for controversial reasons. In October 2024, the content creator apologized after YouTuber Bryce Hall leaked DMs in which the former used the N-word.