Though the dumbest, most inane, and most ridiculous things trend on TikTok, a few gems are hidden deep in the rough. One such one just found its way to Twitter, though it didn’t go viral on TikTok, the communist Chinese app. That video shows a young man who is far ahead of his peers in drive and mechanical know up fixing up cars.
Catch Up, a Twitter account that posts viral clips and memes, found and disseminated the awesome video. Posting the clip, Catch Up said, “Why doesn’t video content like this go viral on TikTok? Instead the only things that take off are NPCs going ‘ice cream so good.‘”
Check out the fun clip here:
Why doesn’t video content like this go viral on TikTok? Instead the only things that take off are NPCs going “ice cream so good.” pic.twitter.com/oCuSDkBwWf
— Catch Up (@CatchUpFeed) August 22, 2023
As you can hear in the clip, the young man is named Jack. His dad owns a junkyard full of cars just waiting to be fixed up, and Jack was told he could have whatever he could fix. So, rather than just sitting around on his phone or playing video games like many in his peer group do, Jack figured out how to fix up the cars.
Introducing what he’s going to do in the video and why, Jack said, “Hi, I’m Jack and this is my dad’s junkyard he told me I can have anything that I can get running. So let’s start with that Ranchero.”
Continuing, he described how he diagnosed the first, most obvious problems with the vehicle, saying, “Let’s get started. Check her out. The first thing I notice is we need a battery. So let’s get that we have a bunch of sparkplug wires, so let’s go find one. Oh, I’ll take this.”
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Finding that, he tried turning the car over and eventually got it going by hotwiring it, saying, “Let’s see if she’ll turn over. Ah, I guess we’ll have to hotwire it. I got my ignition hotwire. Let’s see if she’ll turn over .She sounds good.”
Then he wrapped up the quick video, saying that he got the old Ranchero going and would get her driving on the next post, saying, “Let’s get some gas hooked up to her. Well, we know she runs now let’s get her driving on the next one.”
The Committee of Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS), an interagency housed under the Treasury Department, said in a statement in March that some transactions can “present data security” risks, warning Americans about it. Though TikTok wasn’t specifically mentioned, the statement was an indirect warning about the dangers of the app.
“In every case the committee reviews, however, CFIUS takes all necessary actions within its authority to safeguard national security and will not clear any transaction unless it determines there are no unresolved national security concerns,” the CFIUS statement said.
“Broadly speaking, some transactions can present data security risks — including providing a foreign person or government with access to troves of Americans’ sensitive personal data as well as access to intellectual property, source code, or other potentially sensitive information,” the statement continued.
“CFIUS, on a case-by-case basis, will ensure the protection of national security, including to prevent the misuse of data through espionage, tracking, and other means that threaten national security,” it concluded.
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video