Influencer: Early retiree goes viral in cigarette pack suit | Area

Nienburg (Lower Saxony) – One person, one suit – and millions of clicks on the internet. Early retiree Frank Zeidler (57) is currently conquering the Internet with a crazy idea. He inspired people all over the world in a cigarette pack suit.

Frank Zeidler from Nienburg (Lower Saxony) is already known to the Internet community as “Crown Cap Frank”. This early retiree created a bottle cap room in his basement from 150,000 bottle caps – the floor, walls and ceiling are decorated with bottle caps. It also brings the cigarette pack aisle and pack soup room online.

Millions of clicks with cigarette settings

Tens of thousands of users already follow the 57 year old man. With his new project, the man from Lower Saxony has achieved a real coup. He danced to the song “Take Your Time” by the duo “Azuur & Cello” in sunglasses and a homemade cigarette pack suit. The video has been viewed more than 15 million times on TikTok alone. On Instagram Another six million users saw it.

His brother gave him a jacket, and his pack of cigarettes was often a donation. Because Zeidler doesn’t smoke

Photo: Crown Cap Frank

There is a sad reason behind this strange idea

The Lower Saxony people’s love of collecting did not happen overnight. “The reason was my mother’s prolonged dementia care. It was very stressful. I lost all joy in life,” recalls Frank Zeidler.

Frank Zeidler (58) has won many fans on the Internet through his love of bottle caps

With his love for bottle caps, Frank Zeidler has won many fans on the Internet

Photo: kronkorken_frank/Instagram

He cared for his seriously ill mother for ten years until she died. His uncle gave him the idea to glue bottle caps and took the first 2,000 bottles with him. “The cork calms me down,” says the early retiree. And they managed to divert their attention from daily care: “At first, things didn’t just stick,” he told BILD. He spent two years working out the right method for filling the inside of bottle caps with glue: “Glue is my trade secret.”

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His brother gave him a jacket for the video

Frank Zeidler has also been collecting cigarette packs since 2021 smoke he hasn’t been there for 20 years. That’s why fans often send him these boxes as donations. “At some point I thought that I should do something on the Internet that no one else was doing,” said the early retiree. And when his brother gave him an old jacket, the cigarette pack suit was born. “I just glued the boxes together.”

He performed his crazy dance creations accompanied by his favorite song “Take Your Time”. Zeidler said: “The Cello artist reminds me of my late wife. She looks like her and sings like her.”

He didn’t expect his video to be so successful: “In one hour I had 150,000 clicks on TikTok. People in Australia and Indonesia were watching my video.”

“Kronkorken-Frank” wants to move forward. “On December 19 I will be in Ingolstadt to shoot a video. I will appear in my costume for the new album of the German rock band Stereons,” he announced.