Roommate from hell story video maker
One shared flat, one person who does not share anything back. The ChatsRat story maker turns your own roommate from hell story into a 9:16 video with a title card, a narrator and big word-by-word captions, and splits a long one into parts. Start from one of our five original roommate from hell stories or paste your own.
Fiction. Original story. Made with ChatsRat.
The story in this video
My flatmate labelled the fridge, then broke every label
Our flatmate introduced a labelling system for the fridge. Everything must have a name and a date. He drew up a chart. I labelled my milk, my cheese and my leftover pasta, very neatly. Three days later my pasta was gone and his own milk, unlabelled, had been sitting on the shelf since the weekend. I did not say anything. I just made a second chart, with columns for who had eaten what, and left it in the kitchen. By Sunday it was full. He read it, went a little red, and quietly bought me a new carton of milk and a box of pasta. The fridge has been perfectly organised ever since.
About 44 seconds read aloud. An original story written for ChatsRat, with invented people and no real places or businesses.
How a roommate from hell story works
A roommate from hell story is about a flatmate who ignores the rules, the rota and the fridge labels.
- The beats
- A shared space, one person who writes the rules for others only, and an answer that is kind, funny and impossible to argue with.
- What makes it work
- Small, specific habits: a fridge chart, a trumpet at six, a laminated timetable. Everyone has lived next to one of these.
- What to leave out
- Real addresses, real names, and anything that makes the flatmate dangerous. The humour is that they are merely impossible.
Five original roommate from hell stories to start from
- My flatmate labelled the fridge, then broke every label (113 words)
- My roommate practised the trumpet at 6 a.m. and called it "dedication" (110 words)
- He bought a couch for the living room and then charged us rent for sitting on it (113 words)
- My flatmate decided the heating was "personal" and cut the dial (115 words)
- My roommate took over the bathroom for "skincare" every evening (106 words)
All five are fiction we wrote for ChatsRat. None is copied or reworded from any post anywhere. Change any of them, or paste your own.
Four twists for a roommate from hell story
The reveal
Then I found out that the roommate had been under a lot of stress, and had been too embarrassed to say anything. Over a long, honest dinner, we cleared the air.
The update
Four months on, we have a rota that works, a shelf each in the fridge, and a rule that nobody practises anything difficult before nine. It is the calmest flat I have lived in.
Karma
A month later the same roommate was asked to follow the same rules by a new flatmate. They stood in the hallway and said, quite seriously, "that sounds fair".
The receipts
I had the rota, the photos and the chart. I never used them as leverage. I only had to put them on the table once, and then we both laughed.
From story to video
- Pick the roommate from hell trope in the story maker, or paste your own story. Edit the title card, the username and the text.
- Choose a narrator, a second voice for comments, and a moving background.
- Press Make my video. A long story is split into Part 1, Part 2 and more, each with its own TikTok, Reels and Shorts caption.