This viral ‘olive oil story’ has sent TikTok into oblivion and honestly, me too

Right now, all anyone on TikTok can talk about is the “olive oil story”. If you’ve seen it, you’ll know why. If you haven’t you’ll soon understand.

Over the weekend, the original olive oil story went viral, and since then people have gone feral for it. There have been reenactments of the story, and people posting their reactions. It’s also started an entire trend, of people sharing their own terribly embarrassing public stories.

Have you seen loads of people sharing horrific stories as a picture of the king prawn meme shows? Pepe the king prawn has become a TikTok icon. He sits there, whilst you have a few slides of basically trauma dumping for all to see. And there’s where the olive oil story first began.

The original post has over 40million views, and tells the pretty horrific story of when a girl tried to olive oil wrap her hair. Seems pretty innocent? Just you wait. The story is wild purely because of all the twists and turns. Just as you think it might be over, something new happens. Honestly, strap in.

via TikTok

The TikTok olive oil story in full:

“That one night when I was in high school when I decided to try an olive oil mask for my hair since someone laughed at me and said my hair looked like hay,” the story starts.

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“After I soaked my hair in oil, I saran wrapped my head. I went down to the garage to get a drink out our garage fridge. I put way too much olive oil. It dripped everywhere. The path became an oil slick. Suddenly, one of our cats jumped out, frightened me, and I went FLYING on the oil.

“I slammed into the door and passed out. I woke up in complete darkness. (The lights were on a timer.) I panicked, I didn’t know where I was. My phone was dead. I tried to stand. My legs were completely asleep and I was covered in oil.

“I tried to run to the door, I slammed into many things, knocking them over, making tons of noise, screaming. I finally got to the house door and I opened it and set off the house alarm. (My family had gone to bed and set it.) I tried to type in the right code. (I didn’t because I was so confused.) Then I made my way as fast as I can to my room. As soon as I get upstairs, the FULL burglar alarm starts blasting. I had never heard it before.

“My dad jumps in front of me, only in his underwear, wielding a titanium baseball bat. We both scream. He’s p*ssed. He turns off the alarm. I go to my room lay down a towel. Lay down my saran wrapped head for slumber. 15 minutes later, I hear noises coming from the door below my bedroom. I look out the window. Three men in all black with flashlights. Trying to pick the lock.

“I HAVE to wake up dad AGAIN. WE’RE BEING ROBBED. Turns out it was the police checking out the alarm trigger. They were already in the neighbourhood due to a waterline break. My dad is P*SSED.

“By this time, I have to be up in an hour. I don’t sleep. I listen to the winter storm outside. My head soaks in the oil. When it’s time to wake up, I run to the bathroom to rinse the oil out of my hair. Because of the waterline break, there’s no water. I go to school with a saran wrapped head.”

Trauma.

Now, the reactions to the story on TikTok are incredible, and the original poster even made a reenactment

@meganchacalos

Hi I’m olive oil girl #oliveoilstory #oliveoil #oliveoilgirl

♬ original sound – MeganChacalos

The first olive oil story video has millions of views, but now reactions to it do, too. Olive oil girl has unmasked herself and joked that this video getting so many more videos over the rest of her content is “rude” and an attack”. She said she’s now going to have to “explain to her family” her viral fame, and stress to them that “olive oil story” is “nothing sexual”. Oh to be a fly on the wall for that conversation.

@meganchacalos

The olive oil story

♬ sonido original – Un Arácnido Más🕷️

Following her story going huge, olive oil girl (for respect, her actual name is Megan) posted a recreation of the story. Yes, she included tripping on the cat, setting off the alarm and the titanium baseball bat cameo.

“I am so grateful for this trend,” one person said. “The olive oil story has me crying. The reenactment of the olive oil story deserves an Oscar.”

@kjadeg

what an amazing story #theoliveoilstory #oliveoilstory #muppetsmeme #likeaprayer #funny #foryoupage #fypシ #fyp #fypシ゚viral

♬ original sound – 𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐬 ༄

I couldn’t agree more.

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