The beauty of using TikTok is that you can be exposed to a huge range of varied and rich human experiences that you previously had no knowledge of. The downside of using TikTok is that you can be exposed to a huge range of varied and rich human experiences that you previously had no knowledge of. In one recent case, users are wishing they could go back in time to before they learned what an “Amish oil change” was thanks to the app.

According to Know Your Meme, some of the earliest online references to an Amish oil change, including an Urban Dictionary entry from 2011, define it as a woman performing fellatio on a horse and spitting it out. Why something that’s presumably incredibly rare would need its own term is beyond me, but the “Amish” part of the term refers to the fact that Amish people use horse-drawn buggies instead of cars.

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My Amish father taught me at age 13 how to do an Amish oil change.

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A popular TikTok video from last year made by a former Amish man provides us with a different, less upsetting definition. According to Eli Yoder, an “Amish oil change” in his neck of the woods involves donning a glove and having to manually remove shit from a constipated horse’s ass. Still an upsetting visual, but hey, at least it’s not bestiality.

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The concurrent definitions are causing some confusion on TikTok, but regardless of which definition people find when they Google “Amish oil change,” they’re guaranteed to walk away feeling incredibly grossed out and in need of a shower.

FWIW: The less disturbing definition is most likely the accurate one. Confirming as much, one commenter on Eli’s YouTube channel shared, “I’m from Ohio too, I know that joke with a bit of a twist — what do you call an Amish man on the side of the road with his arm up a horses behind? The mechanic!”