This College Student Placed Her Fate In The Hands Of The Internet And Now She Has To Dress Like A Christmas Tree For Five Days

“I did not think this would happen and that I’d have to wear it,” the college student told BuzzFeed News.

This is Kelsey Hall, a 20-year-old college student at the University of Alabama. She's a junior and a chemistry major and this week she underestimated the internet. On Saturday she told Twitter that if she received 1,000 retweets she would don a VERY spirited costume for the duration of the semester.

“I did not think this would happen and that I’d have to wear it," Hall told BuzzFeed News.

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Well, she significantly passed the 1,000 tweet requirement. Now — the rest of the week — she gets to look like this:

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Observe this tweet from Sunday evening:

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“I’m like 'Oh man I have to do this all week.' I followed through with it," she said. "It’s right before finals and everyone’s stressed out about studying, so I thought this would bring them some joy and make them laugh."

"I definitely got weird looks," she said, noting not everyone knew about her tweet. That said, she has also stopped for photos with fans. Here she is on Day 1.

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To make matters more complicated, on Tuesday it rained and she endured not only a Christmas tree costume, but a WET tree costume. “It was so bad because it’s still really hot outside, so it was really warm, but also just soaked in water," she said.

She said that it was complicated to maneuver with an umbrella in the costume: "It’s obviously sticking out from the umbrella," she said.

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Three days left!

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Never tweet.

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