An avid cleaner recently shared her jaw-dropping results from wiping down a nasty handrail at her home — but a few of her fellow TikTokers are calling her a unclean liar.
Tera Nelli, who calls herself the “Queen of Deep Clean,” has gone viral by dividing viewers on whether she cleaned or ruined a wood railing in a video sweeping the platform with nearly 15 million views.
Within the seven-second clip, Nelli sprays the banister with a bubbly liquid, then wipes it down with a rag that becomes covered with a yellowish-brown residue.
“Please don’t say I’m taking off the varnish/top layer,” Nelli wrote in an try to brush off would-be haters. The discussion went off the rails anyway.
“THE VARNISH IS COMING OFF!! MY MOTHER DID THE SAME THING AND WE HAD TO REVARNISH THE HANDRAIL,” one user insisted.
“Genuinely it looks like you’re taking off the varnish,” one other agreed.
“That is certainly varnish because there’s literal flakes of varnish on the rag,” one other concluded.
Nelli defended her cleansing practices in a follow-up video, this time using a brand recent Mr. Clean Magic Eraser that seemed to be immediately covered in “dirt” when brushed against the handrail.
“Come over Valerie and let’s clean it together. And don’t come at me for not wearing gloves. I do know … lol,” she rebuffed a viewer within the caption, setting the video to Amy Winehouse’s “Valerie.”
“Y’all are gonna need to recover from the Magic Eraser considering the primary video is a rag,” one commenter defended Nelli.
“I don’t think anyone has actually tried to remove varnish before. it’s loads harder to remove varnish than simply wiping a Magic Eraser on it,” one other added.
“Why can’t people just accept that you already know what you’re doing?” one more wondered.
Others didn’t find the second video convincing.
“I get that it’s dirt, but a Magic Eraser is a terrible thing to make some extent with, it removes paint,” one person theorized.
“Isn’t a Magic Eraser literally sandpaper? Yes, that is loads of dirt, but it surely’s quite possible you’re taking off some varnish too…” one other reasoned.
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