Memphis on the internet.
TikTok Hole
A Memphis man climbed into a hole in the road and into viral fame.
Traynor Jennings’ TikTok video had nearly 250,000 likes and 5,300 comments at the end of last week, and his story had been picked up by news organizations across the country.
The text of the video says, “Hey Memphis! Repair the holes in the road.” Then, Traynor climbs into a large hole and says, “Hey city of Memphis, there’s holes like this everywhere. We’re like in the middle of the street … on Waring Road.”
The city responded with an “um … actually” Facebook post that aimed to “clear some things up” about this “TicTok [sic] video.” At first, city officials even claimed Jennings removed a metal plate over the hole to climb in it. Nope. They removed that reference.
Then, even though Jennings nor his post ever said the word “pothole,” the city Facebook post teed off on the idea, pushed its glasses up its nose, and gov-splained something about erosion and the hole being a “cavity” not a pothole. It also humble-bragged that the city is great at filling potholes and that “this TicTok [sic] may be funny to watch, but it was unwise to place yourself into the cavity of washed away soil in the middle of a street.” WTF?
