A British woman received a less-than-ideal response after asking her followers to guess her age.
Brand marketing specialist Christie Clark (whose handle is @christiecloggs) took to TikTok – where she shares book reviews with her almost 7000 followers – after a recent live video, during which “someone said, ‘I thought you were the same age as me, I thought you were 34’”.
“I then realized, a lot of my followers don’t know how old I am,” Ms Clark added, before asking viewers to guess.
More than 2000 people responded in the comments – obviously never having learned it rarely ends well when speculating about how old someone is, even if they’re asking you to – with ages ranging between late 20s to mid 40s.
“You look 25, but your style gives off 38-40,” one person wrote of Ms Clark.
“Your face is giving 27, your vibe and classy style say mid 30s,” another agreed.
“Early 30s but from your style it’s more 50+ & rich,” a third commented.
“I wanna say like 35,” another wrote.
“The vibe 35-40 from style, but think you are younger, around 25,” someone else said.
“I’d say 28-30, but your hair, makeup, etc. ages you by about 10 years,” one commented.
In a follow-up video, Ms Clark revealed she’s actually 26 – and was astonished to find that people thought she was that much older, calling it a “debacle” that had prompted her to make changes to her appearance.
“I’m currently making plans to sell my entire wardrobe on [online marketplace] Vinted, and just start again from scratch because apparently, my clothes and the way I style myself makes me look a lot older than I am,” she said.
“For context, I did a live , I can’t remember how long ago now, where someone said, ‘I thought you were the same age as me, I thought you were 34’. And I realised that my followers maybe don’t know how old I am, so I just asked.
“That video has now got a lot of traffic, a lot of people trying to guess my age. I’m 26, by the way. Lots of people were saying 40.
“But I don’t really mind – it kind of solidifies what I was trying to figure out anyway. If any of you have advice on how I can start looking a bit more my age, it would be appreciated.”