LE MARS, Iowa ( KCAU )– On January 9, Eli Mielke created an Instagram account called peanutbuttereater16 with the idea of eating small amounts of peanut butter after getting a certain amount of followers. However, that quickly blew up.
“All over the internet they’ve been doing just certain things for so many followers and I thought well peanut butter’s pretty good,” said Eli.
“My first thought was that it was kinda funny and then I started to be in awe at how fast his account was growing,” said Angela Karulish-Mielke, Eli’s Mom.
Eli’s plan was for every 50 followers he would eat one tablespoon of peanut butter.
“I was expecting it kind of as a joke to get you know maybe a couple hundred, but then once it got in the thousands it kept going. And I thought it was funny at first and then when I realized how much peanut butter I had to eat then it wasn’t much of a joke anymore and it was a lot of peanut butter,” said Eli.
On the sixth day, peanutbuttereater16 amassed more than 20,000 people.