Student wearing Christmas tree costume takes Twitter challenge, regrets it immediately

Gianluca Mezzofiore
Updated

This story teaches you at least two valuable life lessons. Never take a bet you might later regret. And never underestimate the power of social media. 

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Kelsey Hall, a 20-year-old student from the University of Alabama, posted on Twitter a pic of herself while wearing a Christmas tree costume and challenged Twitter to give her 1,000 retweets and she'd wear it for the rest of the semester: 

But as the retweets trickled in, she soon regretted it: 

People got back on Twitter just to retweet her: 

Calls to retweet her multiplied over the hours and Kelsey started to get nervous: 

Even Twitter official account weighed in: 

Kelsey was now resigned to taking up the challenge: 

The tweet got more than 15,000 retweets, and she had to follow through: 

I mean, seriously, look at her face: 

Closer...

This is the face of regret. Lesson learned. 

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