The Dumbest Woman Alive Went to North Carolina to Visit a Town She Saw in a TikTok That's Actually in the Swiss Alps

This is one of many TikToks on Zachary Keesee's channel showing some of the most beautiful places in the world and very clearly jokingly labeling them as cities in the Carolinas. Anyone with half a brain could look at that video and understand it is not of a Charlotte, N.C. suburb. Anyone with a brain firing on the absolute minimal level possible could have at least Googled "Gastonia, North Carolina" if they saw that and still weren't sure — there's nothing wrong with being a moron if you're self-aware and know how to mitigate your stupidity.

Olivia Garcia did not do either of those things.

WBTV — Olivia Garcia road tripped with her family to the Carolinas from Jupiter, Florida, to check out the snow during Winter Storm Izzy last week. While driving to Angel Oak Park in Charleston, S.C., the 26-year-old found a TikTok video labeled “Gastonia, NC.”

Mesmerized by the mountains in the video, she convinced her family to make a detour. “I’m from south Florida, so the closet thing we have to mountains down here are landfills, which is why I was so excited when I saw the TikTok,” Garcia told the Observer. “I had never heard of Gastonia before, but the name sounded like something out of a Disney movie.”

What Garcia did not know is that the TikTok was actually a video of Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland, not Gastonia, west of Charlotte.

“I realized when we were like 20 minutes out that something wasn’t right,” she said.

Oh, I suppose we should give Olivia some credit for recognizing 20 minutes outside of Gastonia, N.C. that she was not, in fact, in the Swiss Alps. How could she possibly have known beforehand?

The people at fault here, however, are the other family members in that car. You would have made it one exit in the wrong direction with me in that vehicle before I asked where the hell we were going. And then you'd have had to explain to me we were headed to Charlotte to see the Swiss Alps and that would have been the end of that.

Stupidity is the real pandemic in this country.