A couple is horrified after finally discovering why their rented bathroom smelled so horribly.
Julia Lang-Malone and her husband moved into a new home on Australia’s Gold Coast earlier this year.
However, the couple was perplexed by the orange “dirt” that kept appearing in the corner of their shower – no matter how many times they cleaned it.
On Tuesday, Julia uploaded a TikTok shows her washing away the brown particles that accumulate on the shower floor.
Confused by why they kept appearing, she added, “You can’t imagine the smell.”
Pictured: The bathroom in Julia Lang-Malone’s rented bathroom. The couple couldn’t figure out what had caused the foul smell in their shower
After noticing bits of tobacco on the floor, the couple discovered that the old tenant had placed hundreds of old cigarettes in the shower frame
While pacing back and forth between the bathroom sink and the shower, Julia captioned the clip, “Watch me discover the most disgusting thing you’ll see today.”
After pouring more clean water over the area, the TikToker noticed larger brown particles starting to circulate.
She added, “Where did it come from?! There it looks like large pieces of tobacco from cigarettes.’
Moments later, Julia noticed two cigarette butts on the shower floor – confirming her suspicion that the old tenants had been shower smokers.
Instead of throwing away their cigarettes, the video ends with Julia discovering how they had placed hundreds of butts in the hollow shower frame – most of which runs up the wall.
“I think I fucking figured it out,” she said. “This b***h dumped her cigarettes right here in this little square, so now we have an unlimited supply of cigarette butts in this thing right here.”
After uploading the two-minute TikTok earlier this week, Julia’s clip has been viewed more than 4.7 million times — leading some users to speculate that the water might just be rusty.
In response to this comment, Julia posted a follow-up video of her and her partner prying open the shower frame to reveal the hundreds of old, wet cigarette butts left there by the previous occupant.
Julia’s videos have been viewed millions of times in the past four days. In the photo, responding to a viewer who said the cigarettes looked like “pasta.”
Left: Julia and her husband couldn’t figure out what was causing the ‘dirt’ on their shower floor. Correct: they then noticed large brown particles, which they safely assumed was tobacco
Left: The hollow shower frame where the old tenant had disposed of his cigarettes. Right: the view from the shower frame
Julia shared the footage with invested viewers, writing, “IT’S NOT RUST!”
As her partner is heard saying “holy s**t” into the camera, a shocked Julia said, “Oh my god…”
In a third videoshe addressed her viewers and said, “Okay, I did [initially] think this was that mold you guys were talking about when we looked at it last night.
“But if you look closer, it’s 1,000 percent cigarette butts.”
Speak against Yahoo News AustraliaJulia added, “It smells really bad.
‘We actually wrecked the whole shower – which is a shame – to access the cigarettes, but we didn’t have much choice because it was so disgusting and we were desperate.
Unsurprisingly, the images of the rotting cigarettes have similarly dumbfounded the millions of people who watched Julia’s series.
The videos left viewers horrified and have been viewed millions of times over the past four days. One said the behavior was “feral.”
“THIS IS FERAL,” one said.
“I want to be sick,” added another. “Oh my goshdd.”
A third wrote, “Who the hell smoked in a bathroom? A teenager??’
“I thought they were mushrooms at first,” replied a fourth.
Meanwhile, a fifth mused, “I thought it was pasta!”