There's a place in Tennessee where it all goes down, and any trip to The Volunteer State wouldn't be complete without stopping by the Celina 52 Truck Stop.
Whether it be playing the claw machine based on the breasts of lot worker Nevaeh Petty, or enjoying a crust-only pizza while watching the "P*ss Jugman vs Tyson" fight, you can also listen to Betsy's rendition of "WAP" (Worship and Prayer).
Still, it's not that easy, as despite amassing 32,000 followers on X, 567,000 on Facebook, and boasting a Reddit with an active community of loyal fans, getting to Celina 52 is a little harder than you'd think.
While some of the staff seen in the viral posts are real, and we're assured that P*ss Jugman is also legitimate, Celina 52 is forced to bat off accusations that it's little more than a creation of artificial intelligence.
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UNILADTech dived deeper into the mysteries of Celina 52 and its real-life location, and spoke to the man behind the outfit, Howard, who explained a little more about how Celina 52 works.
Starting off as a joke between him and a friend, the pair created the fictional Weaber Valley Speedway in Tennessee.
While it was obvious that this was a satirical page, Howard wanted to make a truck stop that people would think is real. Posts started in January 2021, with Celina 52 soon taking off thanks to most of those behind the page working or having worked at a truck stop. Howard assures us that, yes, bottles of urine in the middle of the lot are a regular occurrence.
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He reiterates that almost everything is real 'in some way'. Employees like Lead Cashier Colby Kappleman and Donny the Blind Forklift Operator are all actual people, although the fan-favorite Nevaeh Petty has a filter to disguise her real identity.
Around half of those you see on the page work at the 'real' Celina 52, while the rest are friends.
In terms of where Celina 52 is, you can visit the location, although it's called the Eco Travel Plaza. Howard has taken over 2,000 photos at the Eco Travel Plaza, with most posts being created with some clever Photoshop trickery. He admits that AI is occasionally used, "but the core of what you see are real photos."
As for what happened when internet sleuths deciphered that the Eco Travel Plaza is Celina 52 in a now-viral Reddit post, Howard explained: "At first my reaction was probably, 'Oh no, they found us', but now I embrace it."
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Saying that once the Eco Travel Plaza address was public, the team got tired of comments saying everything was AI. With the truth out there, Howard continued: “[We] started telling them where to find us to see it for themselves and know that the place and the people they see on the page are real. So in a way, the real name being leaked became a positive."
He told us that he's trying to persuade the owners to change the name of the Eco Travel place to "Celina 52 Truck Stop" because it could be a shrewd business move, but he's currently had no luck on that front.
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For those who still assume Celina 52 is AI, Howard would like to remind you: "Our photos are too coherent and legible to be AI, and the captions are always written by me, a presumed human.
“People will even call our 30-minute live videos 'AI,' which is ridiculous, saying they are somehow deepfaked, even though we are responding to comments in real time."
Frustrated that some people can't seem to comprehend that Celina 52 is real in some way, he concluded: "I spend dozens of hours a week creating posts, so getting dismissed as 'AI' is frustrating.
“If someone thinks our stuff is AI, we invite them to come to the truck stop, meet the people in the photos, and watch how we create the posts in real life.”
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Reddit is full of examples of people who've made the pilgrimage to the Eco Travel Plaza, and with those behind the page 'splashing' out on an eight-foot P*ss Jugman costume, you can meet the guy himself. There are unfortunately no P*ss Jugman plushies just yet, but that sounds like a stroke of marketing genius waiting to happen.