By skyforbes 
Chronicle of chaos from following internet trends with photographic evidence
This story belongs to one of my close friends who told me all these details, so names and characters are not the same as original
It started innocently enough. My friend Sophie was scrolling through TikTok during a particularly boring Tuesday when she saw a video claiming you could clean your entire bathroom with just Dawn dish soap and a single lemon. The comments were filled with people saying “OMG this changed my life!” and “Why did nobody tell me this sooner?!”
Sophie, being the kind of person who once spent three hours trying to fold a fitted sheet because a YouTube video made it look “super easy,” decided this would be her month-long project: trying every viral life hack TikTok threw at her.
“How hard could it be?” she said, with the dangerous optimism of someone who’d never tried to follow a 15-second instructional video that skips about 47 crucial steps.
Thirty days later, Sophie’s apartment looked like a cross between a failed science experiment and the aftermath of a very confused burglary. Her security deposit was in jeopardy, her relationship with her neighbors…