Grave Cleaning Girl / Stacey Habecker

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About

Clean Girl is the online handle of American TikToker and YouTuber Stacey Habecker, a professional cleaner who uploads videos of herself deep-cleaning graves, public restrooms and other spaces and items. Uploading videos since September 2023, The Clean Girl has since gone viral on social media several times. The content creator and influencer is often referred to as the "Grave Cleaning Girl" by many online.

Online History

On September 5th, 2023, Arizona-based professional cleaner Stacey Habecker launched her YouTube^[1] channel, Clean Girl, creating a TikTok^[2] account (@_the_clean_girl) two days later. On September 5th, Clean Girl uploaded her first video, a YouTube^[3] Shorts titled "Cleaning Mcdonald's Bathroom Using ONLY Menu Items 🍔," which gained over 20 million views in one year (shown below).

On May 10th, 2024, Clean Girl uploaded a video of her deep-cleaning a dirty SpongeBob plush toy, which accumulated over 212 million views on YouTube^[4] in three months, becoming her most popular video as of August 2024 (shown below).

As of August 28th, 2024, Clean Girl had over 5.3 million subscribers on YouTube and 2.1 million followers on TikTok.

Grave Cleaning Videos

On social media, Clean Girl is best known for her videos in which she cleans old graves and identifies the person they belong to while commenting on her work in a bubbly, air-headed manner that references the "Blonde stereotype".^[5]

For example, on February 5th, 2024, Clean Girl uploaded a video of her cleaning an abandoned grave that received over 4.4 million views on YouTube^[6] in six months (shown below).

Clean Girl's grave cleaning video went viral on X / Twitter in early March 2024 following a viral, since-deleted post by user @BuhleMahlangu14,^[7] and again in August 2024 following an August 24th post by user @blasullua that garnered over 6,300 reposts and 62,000 likes on X^[8] in four days.

On X / Twitter, Clean Girl's grave cleaning videos saw minor criticisms over the potential insensitivity of the content and lack of information regarding whether the cleaning was consented to by the families of the dead,^[9] while other users praised Clean Girl's public service.^[10]

Personal Life

Stacey Habecker is a Chandler, Arizona-based influencer and former bodybuilder.^[11] She previously ran a local cleaning business, Maid a Mess,^[12] and is currently the face of her cleaning product.^[13]