The Viral TikTok Group Chat Skit Sequence Will get a Celeb Visitor Star

• Sydney Robinson created the Group Chat, a viral video sequence documenting group chat drama between girls going out to dinner.
• With thousands and thousands of views, many have logged on to maintain up with the drama.
• The season finale simply aired with a cliffhanger — and a celeb visitor star.

Have you ever learn the group chat?

The viral video sequence created by Sydney Robinson, 27, has been taking the web by storm by means of relatable group chat drama, cliffhangers and even a celeb visitor star. 

Robinson — the skit’s author, director, star and cinematographer — went on The TODAY Present to speak about her inspiration for the sequence and the calls for of her new followers to proceed to make content material. 

“I attempt to do it after I get dwelling from work, or within the morning earlier than I’m going, which I do know sounds loopy,” she instructed Savannah Guthrie and Willie Geist on TODAY. “Organising the digital camera and stepping into the totally different outfits is what takes essentially the most time… Typically when individuals are like, ‘It has been 4 days!’ Individuals do not understand I do not do that full-time.” Robinson notes she has a full-time job with an property jewellery firm.

The inspiration for the sequence, she stated, got here from watching Jersey Shore: Household Trip and seeing Mike “The Scenario” Sorrentino telling the solid group chat that he was launched from jail.

“He texts everybody that he is out, they usually’re all on a trip in a home sleeping, and it simply revives the group chat,” Robinson instructed TODAY. “It revives the complete group. Everybody’s like, waking up, taking a look at it, and simply the very thought of his title popping up on their dwelling display despatched shock waves by means of the home.” She says “that feeling” is what she is making an attempt to seize in her TikTok sequence.

The first video was posted on March 30 and brings the viewers into relatable drama in a women’ group chat message when one of many women, Haley, invitations her boyfriend, Justin, to the dinner reservation for that evening. The primary video amassed 30.7 million views.

Extra drama ensues in Half 2 as Haley leaves the group chat, and it’s revealed she’d truly modified the reservation for the dinner two weeks in the past to incorporate Justin within the plans from the start — regardless of not telling the opposite women. Haley nonetheless claims that she meant the dinner to be just for the ladies. Tensions begin to rise. 

After Half 2 was posted, Charlie Puth commented, “I am so invested on this…” to which Robinson replied, “Sorry, I can not make a Half 3- I’ve merely handed away.” When he commented, Robsinon was asleep, after which her mother referred to as her to inform her that Puth commented on her video. She made a video replying to a remark, letting her viewers know she could not sleep after that. 

Half 3 was posted on April 1. Within the video, the ladies focus on whether or not or not Haley will present face on the dinner, and Haley asks to rejoin the group chat. She reiterates that the week has been demanding, and he or she’ll be part of them for dinner. Little did the group chat know, Justin can be on the restaurant. 

Puth commented once more, “Omg sure half 3.” 

Robinson posted Half 4 of the sequence on April 5, the place all of the characters arrive on the restaurant. The video marks a primary within the sequence, with one of many characters being performed by somebody who is not Robinson.

As a really vocal fan of the sequence, Puth, 33, performs the function of Haley’s boyfriend, Justin, through voice-over. Many followers of the sequence have been in a position to place Puth’s voice shortly. After he commented on the video, Robinson requested if he wished to voice a personality. To her shock, he agreed. 

“I do not know why this large man within the music trade with 22 million followers would wish to be part of my ‘Group Chat’ skit,” Robinson instructed TODAY. Puth may not be the final visitor star the sequence sees. 

“At this level, it looks as if Charlie Puth may not be the final visitor star for ‘Group Chat.’ There is perhaps some extra to come back,” Robinson instructed TODAY. “Hopefully, I can preserve penning this eternally, and hopefully, there’s only a bunch of enjoyable surprises in retailer.”

Robinson posted the season finale on April 8, letting followers know that the ladies left Haley on the restaurant to take care of the fallout of discovering out that Justin had a date at stated restaurant with one other woman. It is revealed Haley and Justin have been collectively a 12 months, however she hasn’t met his household, and he is not tagged in her footage. Justin and the opposite woman, Lucy, have apparently been courting for years. The sequence ends on a cliffhanger, with a textual content about Haley being the ‘different girl’ despatched to a gaggle chat together with her. 

Robinson instructed TODAY, “Simply because the dinner phase has ended does not imply the group chat is completed.” She then added, “TikTok doesn’t enable me the time to take a beat. Persons are discovering my Venmo and requesting like one cent, however being like, ‘What I am truly requesting is Half 4.’ “