What if the world's origins could be traced back to a cross-purposes conversation between God and an angel? That's the premise of Eliza Petersen's TikTok video from September 2020, which still lives rent-free in the mind of a Twitter user who goes by @svftwang, who tweeted that it will "always get me."
"Hey, angel, did you give the dinosaurs more muscle like I asked?" asks Petersen, playing "God" in the clip.
"What?" she responds as the angel.
"I told you to make them meatier?" says "God."
"Make them... a meteor," replies a horrified angel as the punchline.
After the video went viral, Petersen told BuzzFeed the joke goes back decades, but she was inspired to turn it into a TikTok sketch when she saw it resurface in a tweet.
As a keen amateur paleontologist, Petersen said the emotion displayed in her dramatic interpretation of the offending angel was real, although it ended up giving the clip even more comedic value.
"I think I'm around dinosaurs enough that I've grown this level of appreciation that most people don't have," Petersen told BuzzFeed. "I thought about how it would be so sad to obliterate the dinosaurs, and simply by accident too, so I started to tear up."