“Emily In Paris” May Be Trashy, But This TikTok Showed How The Streets Of Paris Are Worse Right Now

Their viral video with the caption, “Hopefully emily can save paris in the new season!! xxxx,” now has over 11 million views. They said they were inspired to make a TikTok after seeing a video where someone had edited Emily (played by Lily Collins) from Emily In Paris taking a selfie in front of the piles of rubbish. 

Before posting their video, Shadrack and Foley were a little worried that people would misunderstand their light-hearted joke and find the video offensive. Thankfully, however, that didn’t happen. 

“There’s a lot of people who kind of find it funny that we really glamorized Paris,” Foley said, “and we showed the best parts because obviously, that’s part of our job is to make it look nice so we just thought it’d be funny just to show the reality.”

The soundtrack for the series is being used by a lot of people to post clips of trash, and Emily has been memed too. In one TikTok captioned, “thank you emily for romanticizing paris,” someone edited Emily onto photos of the protest.