The man told Newsweek: 'I thought it was odd and grabbed my phone for a TikTok. I never expected it to get the response it did.'
You usually know what to expect when you check into a hotel, but one man was baffled by a lamp that appeared to lead to an inaccessible room.Eric Counts, who works in personal finance and owns CreditNerds.com, usually shares finance videos to TikTok, but a throwaway clip he 'didn't give a second thought' to led him to go viral on the app.Counts told Newsweek that he had been on a work trip to Detroit.
'Another user told Counts to 'call the front desk and ask why,' or even to knock on next door's room and 'ask if the lamp is plugged in and if they could unplug it' before passing the cord back to him.A third viewer even accused the poster of doing it on purpose 'to make your video.'Counts said the most unfortunate part of his clip gaining popularity was 'how many people attack you and treat you like you aren't a real person when something goes viral.
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