Lady in the Tree

About

Lady in the Tree refers to a series of viral TikTok videos showing a tree that has the shape of a woman encased in its roots, complete with hair draping off of the supposed woman's head. The lady in the tree was first posted to TikTok in October 2022 by @officialsamhiscock, who posted new videos of the tree over the following months, often as a response to comments theorizing about her being a tree spirit and making jokes about the supposed woman.

Origin

On October 10th, 2022, TikToker^[1] @officialsamhiscock posted a video captioned "Lady in the tree 👻" where he records a tree that appears to have the shape of a woman with moss in her eyes in its above-ground roots. The "tree lady" has human hair draping down from her head, which was likely added by the TikToker. The video gained over 12.5 million views in three months (shown below).

Spread

Over the following weeks, TikToker @officialsamhiscock reposted the video and another video of the lady in the tree as a response to comments under the original video offering both theories and jokes about the tree. For example, on October 19th, 2022, the TikToker^[2] posted a video where someone suggests she used to be a real woman who ate a tree seed before death, garnering over 6.7 million views in three months (shown below, left). On October 28th, the TikToker^[3] responded to a comment complimenting the lady on her "mosskup," set to "Made You Look" by Megan Trainor, garnering over 3.6 million views in three months (shown below, right).

On December 16th, the TikToker^[4] posted a video of the tree lady in response to a comment about the tree having an ear, garnering over 17 million views in a month (shown below).

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