He does all this, yet he calls it a rental addition.
After closing his local movie rental shop during the Coronavirus epidemic, a man spent his spare time building a tribute building in his own basement.
“During quarantine, my husband built a video rental shop in our basement,” says the man’s wife A Viral Tikkok Video Tour of Space. The clip, published on Tuesday, has garnered 300,000 likes till Wednesday afternoon. It was uploaded to an account with a handle @thevideobunker, Which currently has only two videos – both space tours – but has more than 307,000 likes.
The man was inspired to build his basement into a replica of the ’90s energy blockbuster when his local rental location closed during the epidemic and left its shelves. The store apparently went most of the movie rental on its way to brick-and-mortar – save for a plucky blockbuster in Bend, Oregon, now a tourist hot spot.
“Quarantine began last year with the closure of our local family video, which put my husband in a lot of shelving and got a crazy idea,” the woman says, walking in a carpeted corridor packed with DVDs and a The mass “ET” statue.
“He decided that he needed a project at home to keep himself busy.”
But, to her apparent annoyance, “Instead of refinishing our kitchen cabinets, she decided to build a video rental store.”
In the store’s main room are collections of DVDs and Blu-rays, a drink fridge, a counter full of movie snacks, a cash register, “as well as a lot of random movie noir-nacks, which he is now picking up. And Again.”
The main room has a viewing room with two recliners, including a wall-to-wall shelving of man’s VHS tapes, a LaserDisc player, and a collection of retro video games.
In the second video of the account, a man wearing rainbow suspenders and a tuck-in graphic T-shirt – perhaps the creator and proprietor of the basement rental joint – shows where the adult segment is.
“It’s here, behind the counter, so you have to blush when you ask a title like ‘The Night Crawler’,” the man says, holding a VHS tape that affects the image of a man in bondage.
Since being posted, TikTok videos have been cross-posted and gone viral on other social-media platforms including reddit.
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