A white Instagram influencer faces major backlash after fans caught her using a Black model’s image and digitally pasting her own face over it—then trying to pass the photo off as her own at a tennis tournament. 

The original snapshot belongs to Tatiana Elizabeth, a Black woman who attended the 2024 US Open in New York, wearing a green and white tennis‑style outfit, posing with a Louis Vuitton bag and the unmistakable backdrop of Arthur Ashe Stadium. 

Two years later, her image resurfaced on the account of Lauren Blake Boultier, an influencer with 1.6 million followers. Though the image was…altered: Boultier’s face edited onto Elizabeth’s body, right down to the identical tattoo and wrist placement. Unlike Elizabeth, she tagged the photo’s location as Miami. 

“So, this photo to the right is a photo of me at the US Open in 2024,” Elizabeth said in a video shared on TikTok. “This photo to the left is a photo I came across this morning on Instagram.” She then went on to explain how the entire ordeal unfolded before expressing confusion.

“By no means am I trying to bash this girl,” Elizabeth said. “Mental health is real, and I’m not a bully. I’m just a little perplexed. I just want to know the reason. Has social media gotten into our heads so much that we are disregarding couth?”

The situation went viral quickly; even tennis star Coco Gauff weighed in, according to The Sun.

“This court is not even in Miami…” she remarked, noting the incorrect location tag.  

Eventually, Elizabeth received a stiff apology from Boultier.

The influencer also gave an interview with TMZ Sports that many viewers described as a bizarre attempt to dodge accountability.

Boultier blamed her team and an “A.I. content system” used to generate photos, claiming she “did not see the original image” and “did not intentionally set out to copy anyone’s work.”

She said, "I understand this impacted another creator, especially when it comes to respecting original work, and I never want to contribute to that kind of frustration or harm within the creative community that I have been a part of for 10 years."

Community notes on her latest posts now call out her pattern of using AI‑edited images and fake geotags.

Many felt that framing the theft as an AI mishap ignores the fact that the original model was a Black woman whose likeness was erased and repurposed without credit or consent. It’s a discussion that’s becoming more frequent as of late.