About

The "Ruben's Room" TikTok Trend, also known by the lyrics Come to the Land of the Lost and Lonely, refers to a TikTok trend about showing quirky or gross items in one's bedroom, set to the song "Freaks" by Jordan Clarke. The videos roughly followed the phrasal template, "I'm scared to join X's room," which was said by an item being added to a person's room.

Then, other items are shown greeting the new item, welcoming it to the "one big family of freaks," per the lyrics. The name of the person whose room it is replaces the "X" in the template. A viral video from a TikToker named Ruben (@sweaty_betty2) started the trend in mid-June 2025. Other videos from TikTokers @mcbrh__ and @jellybelly835 were also referenced by many amid the trend. The videos sparked viral reactions from other creators who reacted to the gross nature of the rooms being showcased. The footage of grotesque rooms is similar to neckbeard nest content.

Origin

On June 17th, 2025, TikToker^[1] @sweaty_betty2, also known as Ruben, posted a video with the description, "Love my room #freaks #fyp." The video has since been deleted, along with Ruben's account, but the video still appears in Google searches as of writing (shown below).

On June 22nd, TikToker^[2] @jollywoodburning reposted what they claimed was the original "Ruben's Room" TikTok, writing in text overlay, "TS video used to be lost media BTW" (shown below). The video starts with a "battery in a bottle" saying, "I'm really scared to join Ruben's room," set to the song "Freaks" by Jordan Clarke.^[3]

Spread

In the following days, others followed the example of the Ruben's Room video, such as TikToker^[4] @jellybelly835 on June 20th, 2025, whose video received over 114,400 likes in three days (shown below).

On June 21st, TikToker^[5] @mcbrh__ joined the trend by posting a video of their cousin's room, gaining over 185,000 likes in two days (shown below).

The videos received viral reactions from other creators on the app during the same timeframe.

For instance, on June 19th, 2025, TikToker^[6] @tjz2025 posted a video in which he called the rooms "disgusting," further writing, "There are colonies of undiscovered life forms growing in the room you sleep in." The video gained over 368,500 likes in four days (shown below).

Also on June 19th, TikToker^[7] @priv.era posted a video of a woman turning around and looking at the camera with a text caption reading, "Some of y'all doing this trend are scaring me," gaining over 768,200 likes in four days (shown below).

On June 20th, 2025, TikToker^[8] @zooeeyoi posted a video of her cleaning her room, captioned, "Me cleaning my room after that fuckass trend 🥀," gaining over 172,400 likes in three days (shown below).

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