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Anyone interested in this might also be interested in Kala on TikTok. She's been building a tunnel system under her house and documenting it for a couple of years.

https://www.tiktok.com/@engineer.everything?lang=en

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I can't quite put my finger on it, but there's something... odd about her approach.

The OG tunnel influencer is, of course, Colin Furze: https://www.youtube.com/@colinfurze

Don't forget Tornado Dave, who is currently burying a plane to add to his underground tunnels

https://www.youtube.com/@Tornado_Dave/videos

Nah, he stopped tunneling.

I've been following her since the beginning. I'm really skeptical 4 years later whether or not it's real at this point because it feels like it's pretty dangerous and expensive and I find it hard to believe she got the permitting necessary to keep digging below the house like that. But I still follow her.

The weird part is her onlyfans-style alternate account which is kind of strange...

I don't know how close you have been following but she did get shut down.

And she had to do a lot to get it permitted and set back up.

Makeup and fingernails with pickaxes and minecarts. Yeah I totally believe it... Even those experimental archaeology influencers with an excavator working between the cuts were more genuine than that.

Wouldn't it be pretty easy to get made up for the short videos, but not be made up during 99% of the actual work?

I wouldn't be surprised if it's BS but I also don't think makeup and fingernails are the smoking gun.

It would be pretty easy and also pretty unconvincing for anyone who did any manual labor in their life, let alone as backbreaking as mining with a pickaxe.

there is a lot of "primitive life" videos that are blatantly scams. you can see the tracks of the excavators, etc.

maybe shes swapping nails and hair for overalls and a pickaxe, but given just how much fake BS is on the 'gram or 'tok, it's safer to just assume fake

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