The ‘Meth Lab Oompa Loompa Girl,’ whose actual title is Kirsty Paterson, has been by lots over the previous week, however even she wasn’t prepared for the most recent twist in her story. After being compelled to be taught an AI-generated script for a disastrous Willy Wonka-themed occasion in Scotland and going through hordes of hate on X/Twitter, Paterson received a message from somebody she by no means anticipated: Chrissy Teigen.
“Any person get the Wonka meth lab lady on Cameo instantly—whereas IT’s nonetheless sizzling,” Teigen mentioned in a recent Instagram story. “I would like a Cameo.”
Teigen received her want, in addition to one among Paterson’s first videos on Cameo, a platform the place customers should buy customized movies and textual content greetings from all kinds of celebrities. Paterson currently charges $25 for video greetings and $3 for texts. Her response time is 24 hours.
How the ‘Meth Lab Oompa Loompa Girl’ Turned Into an Web Meme
The 30-year-old actress from Glasgow noticed her life turned the other way up by the failed “Willy’s Chocolate Expertise” occasion within the metropolis final month, which was promoted with fantastical AI-generated pictures of lollipop forests and jellybean waterfalls.
Nonetheless, the fact was a far cry from what was promised within the AI pictures. As an alternative of the “place the place chocolate goals grow to be actuality,” dad and mom and their kids encountered a unclean and gutted manufacturing facility with a few plastic sweet canes and different props sparsely thrown in regards to the naked concrete ground.
Paterson was one of many actors employed to work on the occasion and performed an Oompa Loompa. In an interview with Vulture, the 30-year-old shared that she noticed a number of purple flags earlier than the occasion, similar to getting the script the evening earlier than the occasion and seeing a bared-bones set throughout gown rehearsal. The state of affairs didn’t enhance the day of the occasion, Paterson recalled, and organizers finally instructed actors to desert the script and simply let the friends stroll by the venue.
At this level, the actress was manning a so-called “Jellybean Room,” the place she needed to ration a meager three jellybeans per little one, and feeling humiliated and indignant over what was occurring. IT was then that somebody snapped the now notorious photograph of Paterson standing behind what seems to be like a smoking chemistry set with an expression that appeared to say she was questioning her present life decisions.
The photograph rapidly went viral and received its personal entry on KnowYourMeme. Whereas some folks poked enjoyable at Paterson, others had been needlessly merciless, criticizing her look and accusing her of doing medicine. The Twitter feedback had been onerous on the actress, who mentioned she stopped her telephone for days as a result of the state of affairs was “an excessive amount of.”
“The feedback are savage—very, very savage and never very good. I feel folks must be taught to be a bit extra variety and understand that individuals are simply human beings,” Paterson mentioned in a video on TikTok, the place she’s already amassed greater than 13,000 followers. “I’m only a regular 30-year-old lady from Glasgow who did a job that’s the worst performing job I’ve ever accomplished in my life. I like my job. I actually do. I do different stuff and the entire thing’s psychological to be sincere with you.”
Making a Cameo for the ‘Viral Oompa Loompa’
That doesn’t imply Paterson hasn’t gotten a kick out of a number of the feedback and memes. The actress mentioned she and the opposite actors have laughed at a number of the humorous features popping out of the Wonka catastrophe. Paterson mentioned she’s now engaged on attempting to show the expertise into one thing constructive.
Her new followers on social media assist her. When Paterson, wearing her Oompa Loompa costume from the occasion, introduced she was now on Cameo on Monday evening, many customers had been delighted. Some instructed her to go “make that cash.”
As of Tuesday morning, one of the well-liked feedback was a query on whether or not Paterson would do a Cameo collab with The Unknown, an evil and creepy-looking character on the occasion who additionally went viral. The id of the actor who performed The Unknown is presently, lol, unknown.
“Perhaps someday!” Paterson replied.
We’ll be ready.