A Tallahassee, Florida , native has gone viral on TikTok for his helpful home repair hacks.
“I’m gonna show you how to adjust your cabinet doors with just a screwdriver. I get this question all the time, so let’s dive right into it!” Gator said in one of his videos. Gator always ends his videos with his signature catchphrase, “NEXT!”
Gator revealed to Fox that his signature catchphrase was something that he began to randomly say at the end of an early video, and added that he didn’t give it much thought at the time. Looking back on his beginnings on the platform, he noted that it never would have occurred to him that “NEXT!” would become one of his trademarks.
“It was totally just nothing,” he told the outlet. “And the next few videos I did, I didn’t say that, and people were asking what happened to the next? And I was like what are y’all talking about? So then I started saying next, and it gradually transpired into what it is today, you know?”
He explained that his son inspired him to create these videos. “[My son] posted a couple silly videos… and they did really well, close to a million [views],” he explained. “And I was like, ‘Well, let me just get that app.’ And then I actually started posting videos.”