A TikToker’s 3-year-old daughter left a potty-humor birthday card hidden in a Cape Cod bookstore. Then, the search was on.

The TikToker known as DadChats posted a video earlier this month in which he apologized to a Cape Cod bookstore as his 3-year-old daughter had admitted to leaving a homemade, potty-humor birthday card inside a book on a recent visit to the store.

The post, which garnered more than 740,000 views, set off a “massive scavenger hunt,” he said in a follow-up video six days later, announcing the card had been found.

DadChats, a lawyer and father of four who has 2.7 million followers on TikTok (his wife, MomChats, has 1.7 million herself), as well as millions more on other social media platforms, said his family, while on vacation, went to the Yellow Umbrella Bookstore in Chatham on his birthday, at the request of the 3-year-old.

Then later, as he was putting his kids to bed after returning home to Minnesota, his daughter “confessed to what she believed was a crime that she committed to one of [the bookstore’s] books,” he said in the initial TikTok.

“I think I did something bad,” she said.

The 3-year-old said she had left the birthday card she had made for him (with the help of her older siblings) and its “Happy Birthday Poo Butt Face” message inside a book at the bookstore.

“She thought that the idea … was that she should take my birthday card … and she should put it inside a book inside the bookstore,” DadChats said.

“If you live in Chatham, Massachusetts, or you’re near Chatham, Massachusetts, and you go to Yellow Umbrella Bookstore, there’s a birthday card, I think, for me somewhere in one of the books,” he said.

“You’ll recognize it because it’ll say, ‘Happy Birthday Poo Butt Face,’ and if you do find it, let me know cause I actually would really like it back. It was a really cute card.”

@dadchats

Ok let me know thx

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The search ensued.

“I inadvertently set off a massive scavenger hunt in the town of Chatham, Massachusetts,” DadChats explained in the follow-up video on Aug. 12. “Apparently, y’all just overran this bookstore” and neighboring businesses.

“I would like to personally thank Linda O. from the town of Harwich,” he said, announcing that she had found the card inside a Bluey book she had bought for her grandchildren and emailed him (her daughter-in-law was aware of the story).

When DadChats told his daughter the card had been found, she said, “I think Linda should keep it. I like Linda,” pronouncing Linda as “Winda.”

DadChats then wondered aloud if it would be “a fun movement” for parents to hide their kids’ artwork in bookstores regularly “for other people to find and [to] make their days.”

“We could call it chapter chats or poo butt face chats. Either one really. Both roll off the tongue,” he said.

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Thank you to everyone who helped!

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