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Late last week, Jordan Scott Huggins — who also goes by his social media handle akayoungbeefy — posted a video showing a pair of squiggly, yellow center lines in the middle of South State Street in Raleigh.
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He addressed the video, posted on TikTok and Instagram, to the city of Raleigh.
“I’m not trying to get anybody fired, but dude, can we get a supervisor down here?” he asked in the video.
The city of Raleigh responded on Instagram, asking for the location of the strip of road Huggins showed.
“Sorry I’m not a snitch,” Huggins responded in the comments section of the video.
Still, the city found the location Huggins highlighted, near the intersection of South State Street and Interstate 40 in Raleigh.
“I’m told crews plan to re-stripe that section of S. State Street this week (weather permitting),” city spokesperson Julia Milstead wrote in a Tuesday email to The News & Observer. “It typically takes two days.”
That portion of South State Street was only recently marked with solid yellow lines after residents raised safety concerns, Milstead said.
Huggins said in an interview on Wednesday that the city’s tinkering with South State Street has been an ongoing saga.
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Not so long ago, the city added a bike lane and stop sign to the road around where it runs beneath I-40, he said. The bike lane has narrowed the road and Huggins said he’s heard of several collisions and scrapes there since.
The center lines came after the bike lane, and Huggins theorized they were added to help prevent some of those accidents.
But when he saw the lines, they got “progressively wacker and more out of line.”
That’s when he decided to make a video.
“The video blew up on TikTok and Instagram,” he said.
Through comments and in exploring the topic since then, Huggins said he’s learned a lot about the work and training it takes to paint road lines correctly.
Other communities have deliberately painted squiggly lines on their roads. That was the case in a Pennsylvania township last year, when a road was painted with squiggly lines — called chicanes — to help slow traffic. That township later removed the squiggles when they proved unpopular.
Milstead didn’t answer that question.
It costs the city about $1.20 a foot for a double yellow centerline, according to Milstead. It’s unclear exactly how many feet of squiggly double yellow lines were painted on South State Street.
Milstead said the city uses a mix of contractors and city employees for things like road striping.
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Huggins was happy to learn the city is repainting the road.
“It’s cool, but I hope I didn’t get anybody fired,” he said.
This story was originally published August 6, 2026 at 5:30 AM.