Woman Relaxes in High-Rise Bedroom—Then Sees Someone at the Window

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A video of an apartment resident caught in an unexpected "embarrassing" moment while attempting to enjoy a lazy day in bed has gone viral on TikTok.
The clip was shared by @sweatyratz and has garnered more than 24.1 million views since it was first posted on April 9. The footage begins with a view of a couple of window cleaners strapped into harnesses while dangling outside a floor-to-ceiling glass bedroom window. The camera later pans to a woman in the bed wearing a hooded sweatshirt.
Text overlaid on the video reads: "POV [point of view]: Thought you'd be safe to bed rot in ur high-rise apartment but ppl [people] come out of the LITERAL sky to judge u."
"Stay safe," the poster advised in the caption shared with the post.
There are soaring housing costs in the United States. A rise in rent prices during the COVID-19 pandemic has led to an "unprecedented affordability crisis," with around half of U.S. renter households burdened by housing costs, according to a 2024 report from the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University.
Around 12.1 million households are "severely cost-burdened," with more than half of their income spent on housing expenses. Millions of potential homebuyers in the United States have been "priced out of the market by elevated home prices and interest rates," the report found.
'So Embarrassing'
Viewers on TikTok were mortified on behalf of the apartment resident in the viral clip, with several raising various concerns.
User richindaisies posted: "THIS IS SO EMBARRASSING one time this happened while I had my back to my bedroom window & was scoffing down a big mac watching a movie. I thought it was raining til I realized it was a window cleaner."
User @yourmomma876 commented: "Don't they send notices when they're gonna do a window cleaning on the building?"
User bunnydollxo added: "How do you sleep without curtains."
User YoinkerBadu wrote: "People who don't own curtains are just begging for this to happen."
User kaylaaa_425 said: "idc [I don't care] HOW high my windows be, I will NEVER not have blinds idc, I'm convinced there's nosy ahh ppl across the skyline w[ith] binoculars, I ain't takin NO chances."
User KO asked: "WHAT IF YOU WERE CHANGING??"
User @finequeenbean posted: "This would be so problematic, I am a nudist at home. Do they warn you in advance at least??"
Ems noted, "The things those guys must see," and Charlie said: "I can only imagine what those guys have seen."
Shaq wrote: "they must love and fear their job."
A screenshot from a viral TikTok video about a resident in high-rise apartment who is startled by window cleaners that appear outside her bedroom.
A screenshot from a viral TikTok video about a resident in high-rise apartment who is startled by window cleaners that appear outside her bedroom.
@sweatyratz on TikTok
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