Shoutout To This Girl Who Gained 300K Followers on TikTok By Accidently Convincing The World She Was Amish
On July 7th, an "Amish" girl named Spice (@spice0765) posted a TikTok. It blew up. 4.1M views & 481.9K likes.
People were fascinated with her because she was Amish, and Amish people shouldn't have phones. In hindsight, that probably should have tipped everyone off that this whole thing was a ruse. But Amish people can be sneaky. They're people just like anyone else. Of course a young Amish girl who's been completely sheltered her entire life would be curious about the world around her. So it makes sense that if one day she stumbled upon a cell phone she might take it home to see what all the fuss is about.
Regardless, everyone believed her. This girl, who was simply an actress who had to dress up as an Amish woman for a part and decided to post a TikTok while in costume, with a single video had people thinking she was actually Amish. So she said, "Well shit... these dumbasses all think I'm actually Amish. I guess I'll just be Amish."
Everyone believed her. Or at least enough people that she started to get big. She'd post a new video about every other day. After only a month, she had accumulated 286.8K followers. She racked up roughly 80M views in only 18 total posts. All just basic TikTok dances, or simple videos using whatever the trendy filter of the day was.
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Until just the other day when she posted the video of her in Times Square smoking a cigarette to let us know we're all very stupid and she's been an actress this whole time.
The only reason I knew about this girl is because her videos somehow ended up on my fiancée's algorithm, and she started following her life. And the only reason I paid it any attention/the only reason I'm writing this blog is because my parents grew up in Amish country in Indiana. Whenever we go back to their hometown we encounter some Amish. So because of that I'm always interested in anything Amish related. There was actually one Christmas when my family was back in Indiana where my parents grew up, and my dad forced us to go visit one of his Amish friends from high school. Me and my brothers were all still kids. So obviously were like, "Fuck that."
We said, "Dad that sounds super awkward, do we have to?"
He said, "Yes".
Then we said, "We can't just barge in. Does he even know we're coming?"
My dad said, "Well it's not like I can call ahead of time."
Which was a pretty fair point. So our family pulled up to their Amish home in a mini van. We just walked right through the front door. I believe the dad's name was Menno. Menno gathered his entire family around the living room. They all had their own rocking chairs. Suddenly there was family of like 15 Amish just staring at us like we were aliens. The mom brought us a bunch of chocolates. They were good chocolates, but I remember it being sort of hard to enjoy them because the smell of manure around the house was so strong. Then the dad went around the room and introduced everybody to us. One of his daughters had a mental disability, and I'll never forget when he very plainly said, "This is my retarded daughter _" (I forget her actual name, but as a 12-year old kid I nearly spit out my chocolate covered pretzel when he said that). It was quite the experience. Very nice family. We should really stop by and see them again someday.
So whenever I see anything Amish related I typically check it out. Anyways, shoutout to the fake Amish girl who pulled the wool over the eyes of 300K people because they were dumb enough to instantly believe that some random actress in a costume was actually Amish. Kinda wish I would have thought of that one.