Back in the day, doomsday preppers were seen as paranoid and overly fearful of the world’s end. While the world isn’t exactly looking so sunny either, Chad and JT—comedians from California—decided to turn preppers into the butt of their latest public skit on TikTok. JT tried to pretend to be a doomsday prepper in front of a grandmother, only for her to pull an Uno reverse on him.
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“Are you prepped for when shit hits the fan?” JT slid into the frame, mysterious shades and all. The grandmother seemed unaware that she was being filmed.
“It already has,” the woman casually remarked.
“So, you got your water?” JT confirmed.
“I have everything,” she said. JT also checked if she had fuel stashed, and she confirmed this as well. When asked if she has a stash of wood, she merely laughed.
“It never gets that cold,” she knowingly remarked. She also claims to have solar panels—because where else would anyone get electricity once the power grids die in the event of the apocalypse?
Shockingly, she returned the question on JT, who’s now floored by her quick answers. She asked, “Are you prepared?”
He agreed, but when she asked him to prove that he is, the younger man simply cowered. He said as an excuse, “I don’t wanna show off my stuff. Low visibility. Don’t be the loot spot.”
TikTok grandmother flips the script
She disapproved of this, calling him out and saying, “That’s a lie.”
She then started to ask the more important questions, “Why are you wearing glasses when you’re interviewing someone, apparently? What are you hiding? Why are your lips twitching? I’ve hit a nerve. What’s going on? Who are you?”
If he thought this would be a regular interview, JT was wrong—this grandma seems like she worked for the CIA back in the day. JT, desperate to take control of the conversation, diverted it to cutting wood.
She said she had no use for a chainsaw during the end of the world. The grandmother explained, “I’m not cutting wood; I’m gathering wood that’s already fallen and dried. Easily portable.”
Without any other explanation, she got up and told JT, “See you after Armageddon.” She looked him in the eye through those thick shades, “We’ll meet here.”
He could only ask, “Promise?”
Without turning back, she said, “No.”
Is she a former CIA agent?
Social media ate the interaction up. JT clearly intended to confuse and prank the old woman, but she rode along with the joke and walked out of it in full control. At this point, almost everyone is convinced that she was a legitimate doomsday prepper.
One TikTok poster wrote, “Please tell me this isn’t scripted and she’s real because I’m obsessed.”
Someone else posted, “She was 3 steps ahead of you the entire time.”
But someone rightfully pointed out, “She former CIA?”
Whoever this woman is, she seemed to know too much—and gave away too little to work with. Another possible explanation is that this diva grandmother that TikTok now seems to be obsessed with had her time in theater. Her ability to quickly dovetail in a conversation and improv on the spot points to her theatrical talent.
But she could just be a random TikTok grandma that may be a little overprepared. One of the commenters in the original clip claimed that she’s his grandmother. But it doesn’t matter what her lore is—we’ll know where to meet when the Armaggedon finally arrives.
(featured images: Petra Nesti, chadandjt, Julia Cameron)
