Crystal Chunks Are Bursting Through The Road In China

A video of what looks like quartz breaking through the surface of a roadway is making the rounds on TikTok. I don’t get over there much, being suspicious of the Chinese social media platform over concerns of it spying on its users, as the Financial Times reports. OK, fine. Actually, I just don’t get the humor on there because I’m old. As it turns out, TikTok’s native country may be the origin of the ripped up, pock-marked road, and the shoddy construction that’s plagued China could be to blame.

The video in question is a months-old repost that traces back to the r/China subreddit, where Reddit users cite the “tofu-dreg projects” so common in the Eastern superpower. They go on to blame hasty road construction for the rock clusters breaking through the asphalt. Here is the video, per TikTok:

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