- A millennial mother went viral after touring her minimalist home in response to childhood clutter.
- Commenters were less than impressed, describing her home as “bland” and “boring.”
- Its creator, Meesh, told BI that the popular account is a way to process childhood trauma.
The TikToker and professional home stager who created a comedy video criticizing her mother's “anxiety-inducing” tendency to clutter is now being criticized by viewers for her ultra-minimalist home.
Meesh, a 33-year-old mother of two from Arizona who preferred to be called by her nickname, told Business Insider she started the @notlikemymother TikTok account last year as a way to process childhood trauma. Currently, the number of followers has increased to 215,000.
In addition to I grew up in a mess Miesch also grew up in Mormonism, a “high-demand religion,” including rooms packed with furniture that could only be accessed by small paths, and told BI that she experienced mental illness that she felt her mother didn't approve of. Ta.
On Thursday she A partial home tour has been posted. Her minimally appointed space has been viewed 3 million times. “We don't have crappy furniture crammed into every nook and cranny,” she joked.
She told BI that while she has been talked about online before, she has never received this much hate. She said she believes many of them are either Gen Z or baby boomers, judging by their profile photos. Her detractors instead scrambled to defend a “maximalist” aesthetic, likening her home to a “home.”airport lounge” or calling Airbnb “bland” and “boring.”
“Gray tones on gray tones on gray tones with a sarcastic tone,” one commenter wrote.
Misch made it clear on TikTok that she didn't mean to mock the maximalist design aesthetic (which she loves). She was just screaming.mini hoarding“She grew up with us.
“People are either millennials and love their homes, or they're not millennials and hate their homes,” she told BI.
That's especially ironic, she says, considering her job for the past seven years has been to “neutralize” homes and get them marketable.
“It's a millennial gray, maximalist, very bleak house,” she says of her style. “But I don't mind it at all. It's comfortable for me.”
“My mother reaped what she sowed,” said Miesch.
Meesh had been sending comedy videos about her mother to her sister, but at her sister's urging, she started sharing them on TikTok. These videos then “went super viral overnight,” she told BI.
Misch added: “I love my mother and I certainly do.” “But she is of her mother's own blood.”
Her mother knows about the page, but doesn't go on social media much, so “what I know doesn't really affect her,” she said.
That being said, she told BI that people have criticized the way Meesh talks about her mother, including calling her a “bitch” and criticizing her tone. She doesn't necessarily disagree, but she doesn't plan on stopping anytime soon.
Misch told BI that her criticism is somewhat muted given the topics she is able to cover, including her mother's views on the LGBTQ+ community and the patriarchal values she espouses. .
“My mother reaped what she sowed,” Misch said. “She accidentally turned me into a raging feminist.”