![]() When Petersen saw Tidwell's viral tweet, she said she was excited to be reminded of the joke, and credits the tweet as the script for her TikTok. "My dad was telling that joke in the '80s, so it's kind of been rattling around in my mind my whole life." "The actual joke of 'meteor' versus 'meatier' is a decades-old joke," Petersen said. Not only is Petersen's dad one of her biggest fans, he's also partly to thank for inspiring the meteor TikTok. "By the end of the workday when I checked it, it already had a million views," Petersen said. ![]() It wasn't until she got a text from her dad (who is one of Petersen's biggest fans and had been religiously tracking the popularity of a previous viral dinosaur TikTok she posted this summer) that she realized the video had blown up. She initially wanted to refilm the scenes where she was crying, but told herself that few people were likely to see the TikTok anyway, posted it to the app, and set her phone down for the rest of the day. Petersen filmed the TikTok, which now has nearly 10 million views on the platform, during a slow day at the law firm where she works when she's not volunteering. "I thought about how it would be so sad to obliterate the dinosaurs, and simply by accident too, so I started to tear up." "I think I’m around dinosaurs enough that I’ve grown this level of appreciation that most people don’t have," said Petersen, who has volunteered at the Natural History Museum of Utah's paleontology department for the past five years.
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