Stranger Things fans best know Natalia Dyer as Nancy Wheeler, the bubbly yet determined older sister of Mike Wheeler. But on Monday morning, the 27-year-old actress began trending for a reason unrelated to her hit Netflix series — after a cosmetic beauty nurse practitioner on TikTok attempted to give some pointers on how Dyer could improve her face with injections and fillers.

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Yes, that Natalia Dyer — the veritable porcelain doll of a human being who obviously needs no help in the beauty department. And yet, the following TikTok video went viral after Twitter user @probablypersian tweeted it out on Sunday evening.

“I could never be a celebrity because if someone made a video like this about me I would get violent,” they tweeted, along with the clip.

i could never be a celebrity because if someone made a video like this about me i would get violent

— 𝖓𝖎𝖑𝖔 (evil hag) (@probablypersian) July 24, 2022

The woman in the video is Miranda Wilson, N.P., who works out of a Laguna Beach-based skincare practice. Among her various suggestions is that Dyer treat the masseter muscles that are attributed to her unique jawline, add filler to her chin and lips, and botox to give her a brow lift. The audacity, in a word, is astounding — and the finished product, which Wilson helpfully demonstrated with some Photoshop work, barely even resembled the actress.

The video seems to have since been deleted after it went viral, but a couple of Wilson’s other videos tell on herself.

Namely, one TikTok suggests that money really can buy happiness with a side-by-side of Khloé Kardashian’s cosmetic transformation. In another, she reveals before and after photos of her own apparent glow up — unveiling a “before” face shape not completely unlike Dyer’s.

However, as the video with suggestions for Dyer, in particular, went viral, plenty of fans piled on to defend the actress while generally deriding toxic beauty culture.

“One thing they taught young me in advertising (before I left it) is that our job was to destroy self esteem,” tweeted radio host Rafael Shimunov. “By targeting someone people hold as extremely beautiful, they are targeting your self esteem more than they are Natalia Dyer.”

One thing they taught young me in advertising (before I left it) is that our job was to destroy self esteem. By targeting someone people hold as extremely beautiful, they are targeting your self esteem more than they are Natalia Dyer.

— rafael shimunov (@rafaelshimunov) July 25, 2022

Another user correctly pointed out that uniqueness is a huge factor in beauty, and particularly when it comes to Dyer’s features.

the way people demonize other people’s unique features like natalia dyer’s jaw like can we acknowledge that her uniqueness is a huge factor in her beauty? im tired of everyone being expected to look the exact same and being insulted for not fitting the mold

— ⛅️ (@miyeonent) July 25, 2022

YouTuber and blogger Elly Arrow called to abolish the plastic surgery industry:

Abolish the plastic surgery industry.

Also Natalia Dyer is gorgeous!

— Elly Arrow (@EllyArrow) July 25, 2022

One user went so far as to suggest that Dyer should “beat her ass.”

still can’t believe a plastic surgeon spoke on what she’d change about someone’s face without a) their consent, b) any indication that the person disliked those features + c) putting a disclaimer that the person is already beautiful as they are?

natalia dyer should beat her ass.

— jade (@itsjustjadaxo) July 25, 2022

Plenty of others pointed out that the cosmetic beauty industry just seems to want all women to look generic and identical.

Social media has done a lot of terrible things, and many are far worse, but popularising the pervasive idea that beauty means everyone having the exact same face is (imo) up there

— Sarah Manavis (@sarahmanavis) July 25, 2022

plastic surgeons after giving every woman in the world the same face

— 🤍☘️ (@newshot) July 25, 2022

…i hate people. natalia dyer is absolutely stunning as she is.
not everyone wants to look like a great value kardashian.

— fat sajak (@fatsajak_) July 25, 2022

plastic surgeons when they see a non generic pretty face

— ٩نس (@bcd776) July 25, 2022

If Dyer is somehow aware of the controversy surrounding her face, at the very least, hopefully, she gets a laugh out of the whole thing. Wilson, on the other hand, probably not so much!