BALTIMORE, Md.— Local TikTok creator Jenna Morales aka SkibidiMom32, has successfully dodged the soul-crushing monotony of a traditional 9-to-5 job by embracing the soul-crushing monotony of repeating the same joke for the 528th consecutive day, her followers have confirmed.
Morales became a viral star in a series in which she pretends to misunderstand her teenage daughter’s slang as awkward dance moves — a joke that garners her millions of views and is now repeated, daily, with the precision of a corporate timecard punch.
“It started by accident when I heard my teen say ‘rizz’ and I was like, what is that a dance? So I made up a dance to the word ‘rizz’, it went viral, and I quit my desk job a month later,” Jenna said while arranging her phone on a tripod for a recording of herself fake-misunderstanding the phrase ‘mid.’ “Office jobs are so repetitive, but this has freedom. Sure, it’s the same joke, every single day, several times a day. And it’s not like I can just clock out or skip a day, even weekends. The algorithm doesn’t rest.”
Jenna’s family, however, is beginning to worry about her.
“She wakes up at 6 a.m. every morning and sets to work like any diligent employee. Except, instead of replying to emails or attending meetings, she opens her DMs to see what new slang her followers have thrown her way,” Morale’s husband Eric aka GolfGuy1981 said. “Today it’s ‘rizz’ and yesterday it was ‘bussin’. Regardless of the word, her response is always the same: a look of confusion, followed by a silly dance that subtly reminds older users of nostalgic dance moves from the 90s.”
Jenna admits that she’s tried to branch out into other content but to no avail.
“I’ve tried to pivot to other material like the Sleep Scream Challenge and Toaster Tag but the engagement just plumets. They just want the dance. It’s kind of like I’m stuck in an assembly line. Except instead of screwing caps onto bottles, I’m screwing the joke into the ground.”
Experts are noticing that people who leave one job to escape monotony usually just find it in another form.
“Much like the office workers they swore they’d never become, these “influencers” spend their days in repetitive motions and performing tasks that, at first, seemed fun,” Dr. Laura Hopkins, professor of New Media Studies at Loyola University Maryland said. “Yet, as they slog through their daily routine of repeating the same thing that made them famous, they are haunted by the very thing they are trying to avoid: an overwhelming sense of sameness.”
For now, Jenna has noticed that her TikTok mortality is drawing near and has announced plans to open an OnlyFans account where another repetitive task she once took pleasure in awaits her.
