Some TikTok challenges are more interesting than others. A recent trend on the app encourages users to visit countries on Google Maps until they find a place deemed “ugly”.
TikTok is now one of the most popular and used applications around the world, especially among younger generations. This app, launched by the Chinese company ByteDance in 2017, works on the basis of sharing short, extremely viral videos. Suffice to say that we have seen many more or less ridiculous fashions emerge over the years. We think in particular of the famous question: “do men really think about the Roman Empire at least once a day?”, but also of the explosion of musical talents in recent years by offering covers of songs on the application.
One of the most popular trends (more commonly called “trend” on the application) currently on TikTok is called “visiting countries until it’s ugly”, which could be translated as “visiting countries until it’s ugly”. let it be ugly.” This idea was widely popularized by creator Natasha Gupta, a TikTok user who amasses more than 200,000 subscribers with her videos where she visits multiple countries to judge their landscapes.
To do this, Natasha Gupta doesn’t really take a hiking bag or plane tickets. The young woman stays on her computer and uses the Google Maps tool and its “Street view” function to “virtually move” around the world. In her videos, Natasha Gupta visits several places at random until she comes across a place that she considers really very ugly. And this in any country in the world.
The least we can say is that the idea works. On his video focused on Franceyoung Natasha garnered nearly 500,000 “likes” from users. She started by visiting several random places in France and obviously came across several magnificent landscapes, small villages and castles in particular, including the one used for filming the show “4 marriages for a honeymoon”. .
It was only after two minutes of research that the content creator finally came across an “ugly” place according to her: it was the Holiday Inn Express Paris hotel, located next to the airport. “Paris Charles de Gaulle”, in rue du Voyageur in Roissy. The famous TikToker didn’t look very far… But it must be said that the place is not very appealing with its gray sky, its rectangular buildings and the total absence of stores, remarkable or even notable sites, and on top of that, not a single passer-by.
The owners of the hotel will probably not take the trouble to justify themselves or make up for it, since the establishment is primarily used for accommodation near the airport. To discover the sublime monuments and landscapes of France, it is better to get away from the airport, dear Natasha.