March 7, 2023–Clancy’s Auto Body, a body shop in Oakland Park, Florida, recently became a viral sensation on TikTok due to a humorous video published by the shop’s social media manager, NBC News reports.
Joel Velazquez is the 29-year-old social media manager for Clancy’s Auto Body. He had the idea to post something comedic on the shop’s TikTok page.
The TikTok is 9 seconds long and shows the exterior of the shop, edited to look as if a monstrously-large cat is dancing behind the building. A caption over the footage reads, “Guys I lied on my resume and got a job doing the social media of this body shop, please blow this up so I don’t get fired.”
Velazquez did not, in fact, lie on his resume, but had the idea and found the concept humorous.
“One of the trends right now with young people is that they’re lying on their résumé and everything, so I mixed that with a cat,” Velazquez said to NBC. “I didn’t know the combination was going to be so explosive.”
The shop’s owner, Hooman Rafiee, was stunned by the success, and is now featured in videos on the TikTok page under the name “BossMan.”
According to Velazquez, he and Rafiee have a “strong personal relationship” that had grown over the past several years, allowing the “the kind of comfort and trust that encouraged full creative freedom.”
