This is the video of the week, category “smile and dramatization”. It was filmed in Canada, in Toronto, three million inhabitants, where a huge snowstorm fell on Sunday January 16 and Monday January 17, covering the metropolis with 30 to 40 centimeters of snow in places. Of course, local television went out to meet the victims, and among all the testimonies that were broadcast, it was that of Carter Trozzolo, a 9-year-old boy, who won over viewers with his spontaneity. The CTV News channel met him outside, in the street where his house is located, a big shovel in his hands, in the process of clearing the entire sidewalk, without any amazement at the face of the snowpack, quite the contrary.
One of my favorite kids was on the news tonight in Toronto and I have officially died. I’m dead. The nameplate alone. Gold. pic.twitter.com/3XNs27oHoh
— Meaghan Derynck (@MeaghanDerynck) January 18, 2022
With all schools closed due to the storm, Carter told reporters, “Fright now, I’d really rather be in school“, because “shoveling in the cold is exhausting (…) but I do it for myself, for my friends, for neighbors no doubt, and most likely for people I don’t even know, I’m exhausted.” This “I’m exhausted“, repeated with each sentence, and underlined by an exaggerated sigh has made social networks happy, where many people have recognized themselves there, drawing parallels with the Covid epidemic “exhausting“, the fear of being contaminated”exhausting”, the tests, the wearing of the mask, the distance, and the various and varied protocols, “exhausting“.
In a few hours, the video has accumulated millions of views on Twitter and TikTok, touring the English-speaking world, taken up by TVs in Australia and Ireland, and Carter, 9 years old, without having foreseen it, became the incarnation comical, funny of a very real generalized exhaustion. “Unintentionally, concludes his mother, found by CTV the day after the interview, I think his cry of tiredness captured what a lot of people are feeling, that exhaustion that a lot of us can relate to right now..”