Keith Lee tried out a sushi restaurant and appeared to eat a worm

TikTok is in absolute frenzy after its beloved creator Keith Lee ate a piece of sushi that appeared to contain a worm while reviewing a sushi restaurant for his channel.

Last week, Lee visited a unique sushi restaurant called FOB Sushi Bar in Seattle, Washington to review it for his 16.7 million TikTok followers. The restaurant is a buffet where customers choose a bunch of sushi and pay by weight. Lee grabbed ten pieces of sushi before returning to his car to do a review.

As he enjoyed the food and rated most of the pieces between a six and an eight, eagle-eyed viewers noticed something as he held up a piece of salmon nigiri to the camera.

You can watch it below – and note the right side of the salmon at the 1:50 minute mark. Don’t mention it.

As you might expect, the comments were absolutely frenzied from people who saw the worm and others who were downright concerned about Lee’s well-being after eating him.

“Are you okay?” one user commented.

“I love raw sushi, but you always have to check it for parasites before I eat it,” said another.

“Not that I gasped when the worm moved,” one TikToker wrote.

Since posting the video on November 11, Lee has not commented on the situation that many are calling “wormgate.” However, after intense calls for a response from FOB Sushi Bar, the company released a statement.

“A video recently circulated online claiming that worms were found in our sushi. We want to address this claim and assure you that it is completely false,” the restaurant wrote on Instagram.

“At FOB Sushi, we are committed to maintaining the highest health and safety standards to provide clean, fresh and safe food to every customer.”

The post outlined the company’s practices with seafood and denied that the movement in the video was caused by worms or parasites.

“Regarding the video, the movement observed in the fish may be due to natural elasticity or the pressure of chopsticks when applied to its instruction,” the statement continued.

“We would like to reassure our customers that this is not indicative of worms or health problems.”

In the caption of the carousel statement, FOB Sushi Bar claimed that “rumors like this can hurt small businesses,” which is why they “addressed it head-on.”

While it’s unclear what the touching thing actually is, Lee seems to be doing well since eating the squiggly sushi and has continued his taste-testing journey around Seattle. However, in all the videos made since wormgate, his comment sections are full of people asking him to comment on the worm-like situation.

Will Lee comment on the tortuous situation? Only time will tell.