Overview
- UK outlets on Sunday reported a TikTok from Toronto-born creator Matt Griffen sharing his first visit to Birmingham with 394,000 followers.
- In the city centre he called trams “street carts”, which he said he had never seen before.
- He went to the Jewellery Quarter after a viewer’s tip and found the streets quiet despite being told it was “bumping”.
- At the railway station he met “Ozzy”, the city mascot named after Ozzy Osbourne.
- Comments under the clip corrected his tram claim and offered tips like visiting the botanical gardens, with some praising his pronunciation of Birmingham.