
The Strange Allure of Pool-Cleaning Videos
The New York Times
Clips of swimming pools being cleaned have racked up millions of views on TikTok. Researchers have some ideas as to why.
Some TikTok creators have become successful on the video platform by dancing, singing or performing everyday tasks.
Miles Laflin has amassed 11 million followers by cleaning pools.
Better known by his moniker, @thep00lguy, Mr. Laflin, a swimming pool engineer from Britain, posts short videos to his channel that take viewers through the often laborious process of cleaning his customers’ grime-covered swimming pools, with the most dramatic “green to clean” transformations gathering over 100 million views.
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