A 19-year-old daughter just turned her dad into the hottest thing on Instagram this week with a single Tweet that went viral. Her father has gotten over 600,000 new followers in just the past few days for his photos of hotel carpets.
Bill Young is a photographer and pilot who travels for a living and stays in a lot of hotels. During his stays, he sees all kinds of designs under his feet, so he decided to start an Instagram account to document the seemingly endless diversity of hotel carpets. His first photo was published on Instagram at @myhotelcarpet back on August 27th, 2015:
But up until last week, no one paid attention to Young’s photos, and over two years he had managed to amass a grand total of 83 followers.
On November 25th, Young’s his 19-year-old daughter (and number one fan), Jill, came up with an idea for the perfect Christmas present this year for her dad. She would try to make his Instagram account go viral.
She posted a simple Tweet that states: “All I Want For Christmas is for my Dad’s hotel carpet Instagram to go viral, please help this happen.”
All I Want For Christmas is for my Dad’s hotel carpet instagram to go viral, please help this happen pic.twitter.com/pqCWDglFf9
— Jill (@jillisyoung) November 25, 2017
Boy did it go viral. Over the next few days, Jill’s Tweet was Liked over 25,000 times and Retweeted over 8,000. After her request and Bill’s photos began spreading across the Internet, Bill’s Instagram went from having 83 followers to having over 28,000 two days later.
But that was only the beginning. Soon the Instagram account was being covered by the mainstream media and the largest publications on Earth.
My dad has over 15.5k followers on instagram now, thank you for making my christmas dream come true, this literally insane https://t.co/AY2aDSM98n
— Jill (@jillisyoung) November 27, 2017
anyway my dad’s hotel carpet account has over 20k followers (!) and he’s officially cooler on the internet than I’ll ever be– I’m so proud
— Jill (@jillisyoung) November 27, 2017
At the time of his writing, Bill’s Instagram now boasts over 612,000 followers.
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