The response, she said through tears, has been overwhelming. Having seen other people who go viral ask for assistance for things like student loans, Petersen decided to share her story and link to her Cash App in a tweet. "My husband and I just bought a house, and trying to make ends meet every month, to deal with expenses that come every month with being human, it’s piled up really aggressively." "I have to have an MRI, mammogram, biopsy, and two ultrasounds every six months to track what’s going on, and that gets really expensive in America," Petersen said. Petersen said she and her doctors were at a loss to explain the tumor.
The type of breast cancer Petersen has had is one typically seen in much older women, and with no family history of breast cancer. She joked that if Hollywood needs an extra in Jurassic World, she'd happily "drop everything and go do it."īut easily the most life-changing aspect of her viral success, Petersen said, came after she opened up about her the financial and emotional toll she's experienced as a result of breast cancer, which she was diagnosed with after finding a tumor in her breast at 19. If I can decide what to be and go be it, I’ll be it." The past three days have been a total eye-opener for me. "Now that this has blown up I’ve remembered how fun it was, being up on stage and performing and loving it. Petersen said she loved to act when she was growing up, but was so devastated when a high school teacher told her that she'd never be as good of an actor as her brother and sister that she quit doing it entirely. "I’ve had writers and producers and actors and influencers that I admire say, 'I saw your video it was awesome, keep it up,'" said Petersen, who said she was particularly starstruck by praise from TikTok creator Tessa Violet, Blade Runner 2049 writer Michael Green, and actor Christy Carlson Romano: "My 8-year-old self dressed in a Kim Possible outfit is freaking out right now." Though Petersen hasn't been able to do any fieldwork during the coronavirus pandemic, she said the overwhelming response to her TikTok has reminded her of another passion: acting. 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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