- TikTok user Lily Hennessey went viral this month
- The Irish social media star shared a video of her and some friends convincing an American man that ‘Google doesn’t exist’ in their home country
- Other users hopped in the comments to share their similar experiences
With travel becoming more accessible to so many, the world seems to be getting smaller every day.
But every now and then, a cultural difference will still arise – which is exactly what Irish TikTok user Lily Hennessey found earlier this month.
Sharing a video to the social media platform captioned ‘No Google in Ireland’, the clip shows Lily and her friends gently ribbing an American man, as they fool him that the search engine doesn’t exist in their home country.
“Wait, you guys don’t know Google? It’s Internet search,” he exclaims, to which they reply, “If we have to look something up, we go to the library, it’s mad.”
After getting him to Google ‘palm trees’, they then get a friend on FaceTime, and excitedly tell them, “This guy is telling us that he types in his phone on this thing called Google, and then a picture [comes up].”
The funny clip clearly struck a chord with audiences – as it garnered over 106k likes.
Fans share their experiences
Fans also went wild for the video in the TikTok comments – and couldn’t resist sharing some of their similar experiences.
“As a teenager, a group of us on a trip abroad convinced a load of Americans that we don’t have Wednesdays in Ireland, that we just do a six day week,” wrote one. Another added, “Hahahahah I’m Irish and this is my favorite thing to do, ‘No no we just got our first bus last year, no we don’t have trains.’”
Someone else continued, “An American told me, an Irish people, that there’s no electric in Ireland. We were in Dublin airport at the time”, while another laughed, “I told Americans I worked with in NYC that we had no Tuesdays in Ireland, just Monday 1 and Monday 2 and that made the rota incredibly challenging. I also told them we had two moons in Ireland.”
And even the British couldn’t help but get involved, joking, “Can someone American explain what happens in this video please? I’m in England and we don’t have TikTok here so I can’t watch it.”
