The Cleaning Addict Taking Over the Internet | Aurikatariina DexertoAuri Katariina Kananen is famous for cleaning some of the messiest homes on the internet \u2014 and her obsession with cleanliness has made her an icon both online and in her home country of Finland. You may have seen some of Auri Katariina Kananen\u2019s videos while scrolling through social media. The Finnish influencer is known far and wide for cleaning up some of the messiest houses out there \u2014 without charging her clients a single penny. Kananen\u2019s videos have garnered millions of views across multiple social platforms, showing the creator clearing out nasty homes with stunning results. The before and afters make the houses she cleans look brand-new, but it\u2019s the stories behind the grime that leave viewers feeling truly satisfied. Kananen told us what kickstarted her cleaning journey and why she cleans homes for free in an exclusive interview with Dexerto, showing off just how much of a famous figure she\u2019s become both at home and abroad due to her efforts. Click here to watch the full interview. How a cleaning \u201cobsession\u201d led to international fame Kananen says her path to viral fame first started after she recorded herself cleaning the home of one of her Tinder dates as a birthday gift. The video racked up 5 million views almost instantly, with Kananen gaining 100,000 followers after uploading it. Since then Kananen\u2019s social media following has skyrocketed as a result, with folks across the internet wanting her to clean their homes, too. She\u2019s now \u201caddicted\u201d to cleaning, saying she wants to \u201cfind dirtier and dirtier places\u201d to clean. She\u2019s even been conscripted to clean homes all around the globe, saying she\u2019s cleaned in the U.K., Switzerland, Sweden, and claims she has plans to clean in France and even Miami, Florida. How cleaning helps a mental health crisis But what made Kanenen so obsessed with cleaning? To start, she told us that her life wasn\u2019t always the \u2018squeaky clean\u2019 success story viewers see today. In fact, the influencer said she was severely depressed as a teen, but after getting better with the help of a therapist, she realized she wanted to help others who were struggling with their mental health just like she had. \u201cWhen I was young, I was depressed,\u201d she told us. \u201cMy life just sucked. Like, I thought that I would never live this long, like never ever. Or, I hoped I wouldn\u2019t live.\u201d After volunteering for a suicide hotline, Kananen began cleaning houses for depressed people who were struggling with their condition so much that they couldn\u2019t keep up with their own housework \u2014 something that\u2019s a major theme in many of her videos. \u201cI can understand that you can be a completely different person,\u201d she explained. \u201cYou can do things that you normally wouldn\u2019t do. Like you can live amongst filth, but if you were normal or healthy, you wouldn\u2019t do that.\u201d Aurikatariina explains why she cleans homes for free That\u2019s not all; Kananen does her work completely for free. Knowing that it would cost thousands to clear out some of these homes, Kanenen claims that her videos rack up hundreds of thousands of dollars, allowing her to clean without charging her clients and further adding to their stress (while still making jaw-dropping amounts of cash). \u201cSome people would want to pay me, but I don\u2019t accept any money,\u201d she said. \u201cThey need their money more than me.\u201d Aurikatariina wins awards for viral cleaning videos Kananen\u2019s videos are some of the most satisfying content out there, and it\u2019s clear that people love watching her transform dirty homes into clean abodes. At the time of writing, Kanenen boasts over 19 million combined followers thanks to her hard work; more than three times the entire population of her home country, Finland. Kananen has also won multiple awards in Finland as a result of her viral cleaning videos, including Iltalehti Magazine\u2019s Breakthrough of the Year. \u201cIt\u2019s nice and it means that I have done something. I have shown the whole world how fun and easy cleaning is, so I feel like this is the reward of that,\u201d she said. Kananen loves her job and helping people in need, saying that cleaning up dirt and grime is the \u201cbest feeling.\u201d With plans to clean up even more homes abroad in the future, it\u2019s clear that her \u201cobsession\u201d with cleaning is benefitting many people and even inspiring folks to clean their own homes, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Cleaning Addict Taking Over the Internet | Aurikatariina DexertoAuri Katariina Kananen is famous for cleaning some of the messiest homes on the internet \u2014 and her obsession with cleanliness has made her an icon both online and in her home country of Finland. You may have seen some of Auri Katariina Kananen\u2019s videos while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}