Evansville Plato’s Closet goes viral with social media trend

HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT)- An Evansville business gets the attention of hundreds of thousands of people after an Instagram post has gone viral.

Plato’s Closet in Evansville posted the video to the social media platform, playing off of a Tik-Tok trend. The employees featured in the video say that the store posts a couple of ‘reels’ or short form videos to Instagram every day, but this time they tried something a bit different, and it seemed to pay off.

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“We sorta made it and didn’t expect anything to happen.” says employee, Jaylyn Shoemaker. “I mean, our Instagram posts, I mean, I don’t want to say they don’t get traction, but it’s mostly people that shop here. So I didn’t really think it was going to get that viral.” adds employee, Piper Like.

They say that it has been cool to see the comments about how their store compares to others. The video currently has over 650,000 views and 35,000 likes.

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