A woman from Los Angeles has gone viral online for putting her aunt’s obsession with Temu to good use.
The writer and actor, who prefers to only go by Heb (@hebontheweb on TikTok and Instagram), was staying overnight at her aunt’s house and decided to go through her nighttime routine using bathroom products from the budget-friendly online marketplace.
“I knew my mom had been obsessed for years, but I didn’t know the bug had bitten my aunt. I honestly didn’t know how in-deep she was until staying at her house a few months ago,” the 28-year-old told Newsweek.
Despite poking fun at her aunt’s bathroom products, Heb clarified in her caption: For the record, I hate Temu.
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Starting with hygiene, the clip begins as Heb washes her hands with an automatic soap dispenser that displays the temperature. On the side of the sink sits a pest Repeller: “You gotta keep the pests out, I guess,” she said in the video.
The humor continued as she introduced an automatic toothpaste dispenser and a shower cap emblazoned with an unintentionally amusing slogan “always keep smile” with some letters printed backward. “I think whoever made this maybe didn’t know which way the English words went,” Heb said in the clip.
One of the funnier moments arrived when Heb demonstrated an automatic trash can, adding to the string of unusual but oddly useful gadgets found around her aunt’s house.
The video has already amassed four and a half million views—an achievement Heb found both surprising and amusing.
Despite being a professional content creator as well as an actor, she marveled at the success of her off-the-cuff video. “Of course, the video I made in three minutes and did in one take is the one that popped off, but I’m not mad at it,” she told Newsweek.
Heb’s clip also clocked up thousands of comments from other social media users, some of whom saw the practicality in her aunt’s products.
“The toothpaste dispenser is a great adaptive tool for people who don’t have the hand strength to squeeze toothpaste,” one user wrote. One called Heb a “Temu victim,” while another joked: “We must relieve gen x from the grasp of Temu.”
One user also corrected Heb and informed her that the hand soap dispenser doesn’t have a thermostat on it and rather an indicator for the level of soap: “So it’s at 82% and when it gets to 1% you’ll need to refill it,” they wrote.
Speaking to the reaction online, Heb told Newsweek that, because it was making her laugh, she wanted to share it with the world. “It’s hard for me to keep anything that makes me laugh to myself,” she said.
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