A young mum who loves to clean has become such a big internet sensation she’s even becoming more popular than famous cleaning guru Mrs Hinch.
Abbi McMilan, 26, began posting videos of herself cleaning everyday household items on social media site Tik Tok seven months ago and now has over 1.5m followers.
This means she has a million more fans on the site than Mrs Hinch herself, aka Sophie Hinchliffe, who shot to fame after sharing her cleaning hacks on Instagram.
Abbi, from Huyton, Merseyside, became a viral hit after creating the Clean with Abbi TikTok account in October and has since racked up a whopping 16 million likes in comparison to Mrs Hinch’s 500k.
The following is thanks in part to her dedication and commitment to posting daily videos which capture her cleaning everyday household items, reports the Liverpool Echo.
“I started off by just watching YouTube and cleaning videos to get motivation,” Abbi explained. “I just loved watching them and it was my way of down time once the kids were in bed.
“I noticed a few cleaning accounts already about, so I made mine in October and literally it just blew up straightaway.
“I had a couple of videos that went viral and then other pages started sharing my content and it just went a bit crazy.”
Mum of two Abbi said she also does her best to keep her house immaculate adding: “I like to try, but it’s hard because my partner is like my third child so it is very hard and I feel like I can relax more when it’s all done.”
But the cleaning influencer said while she loved Mrs Hinch, she tried to make sure she was different with her own content.
“I do try and stay away because I am my own person and sometimes I do get a few people saying Mrs Hinch wannabe,” Abbi explained.
“It was a couple of years ago I actually made an Instagram account, and I didn’t tell my family or anything. I felt embarrassed that it was a cleaning account and I ended up deleting it.
“This was all before Mrs Hinch got very popular and it’s just weird looking back thinking I was embarrassed, and I shouldn’t have been.”
Abbi’s account has actually become so popular she has even received requests from people in America asking her to come over and clean homes in the U.S.
She added: “I get people from America asking me where I'm based, wanting me to go and clean their house. It's crazy but I always think about how much I should charge.
“I’m always getting requests in my inbox of people asking for advice.”
The cleaning enthusiast never imagined she’d become a social media influencer revered by millions of people across the world and is still surprised by the fact.
“People say I’m a cleaning influencer and it all still feels a bit crazy to me to be honest,” she said.
“It started going crazy when I hit a million because it was shooting up so quick, I don’t think I really had time to sit and think wow what’s going on.
“Some days it is a little bit hard but I say to myself I do have to slow down.
“Sometimes I think I need to post but I do a lot of filming while the boys are in school and then I’ll put those videos in my drafts so I can space them out.
“So, it looks like I’m cleaning all day everyday but I’m not, it’s just so I’m getting it up.”
Luckily, Abbi does enjoy cleaning so filming herself doing it is not such a chore.
“The sink is my favourite thing to clean,” she added. “It’s very therapeutic to me. Say if I’m having a busy day then I’ll clean that and I’m just happy then.”
