This all started about four or five days ago. How many followers have you gathered in that period of time?
I went from, let’s see, I honestly haven’t been on TikTok in hours. I went from 6,000 to 576,000, so I gained 570,000 followers.
(Editor’s note: As of this writing, he now has 1.6 million followers.)
Wow.
This is crazy. It’s the first time I look at it and see it. This morning I had 200-odd, so today I’ve gone from 200,000-odd to half a million people. That’s the first time I’ve looked.
I’m sorry I made you look, to be honest.
No, it’s crazy.
I’m interested in the detective aspect. I know this because you said in a couple of your TikToks that you’re a true crime fan.
Absolutely.
I’m sure you understand the kind of drive people do this, but it seems like a change that it’s now potentially front and center.
I feel like I’m in an episode of crime addict. I usually listen to it while driving to work and now I feel like I’m in an episode, so I’m wondering: where is Ashley Flowers? Where is she? We need to talk. Yeah.
I was alone for the first time, just now, for a minute without my phone exploding. I took a deep breath and thought, I’ve seen this happen to other people in movies, and the fact that it’s happening to me blows my mind.
This may seem like an obvious question, but does it feel different? There are a lot of conversations about the impact of people’s fascination with true crime. Has there been a moment when, in some ways, it became more real?
So when I was on Live, I was singing Danger! songs, because 45 minutes passed between the detectives and the dogs arriving. So I kept saying, “This is the commercial break,” and I thought there was no chance of this happening. It was a fun ending to a crazy story and what a great way to end all of this. The dogs don’t see anything. They leave, case closed. That’s what I expected.
Then the dogs smelled something.
Yeah, that first dog sat down, and in the video you hear me go and I start shaking, and that’s when it became real for me. The moment the white dog sat down, I thought, “This has become very different.”
I bet you.
You see things like this on social media and you’re like, “Oh, that’s crazy. “One in a million.” To be that one in a million, I can’t even put into words how out of body… I keep feeling like I’m going to wake up, and this was all just a crazy dream.
A couple of days ago you were making t-shirts.
Well, when I think we had just hit 10,000 followers, we made t-shirts that said, “Keep digging.” Again, it was a joke. Then other t-shirts that said, “I’m just here for the update.” More or less what each comment on my videos would say.