New England Patriots wide receiver Mack Hollins is a different dude. He never wears shoes (unless he has to), he eats with his hands (no utensils), owns snakes, hates cats, and has a popular TikTok account where he shares car maintenance tips.

Hollins calls his TikTok car maintenance lessons “MACKanics.” The tips he shares are targeted at the average person. Nothing too fancy. This is, after all, a guy who showed up to a freezing cold game against the Denver Broncos last year dressed up as Fred Flintstone, barefoot and all. (He did it again for an exceedingly game in Buffalo this year. The barefoot part, not the Fred Flintstone costume.)

His videos are usually quick hits on topics like how to check your tire pressure or fix a cracked windshield. Other topics he covers include oil changes, cabin filters, floor mats, headlights, and jump-starting a car. Almost all of his videos get tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of views and comments. Pretty impressive, since as recently as 2023, he didn’t even own a car.

Mack Hollins also shares other tips on TikTok called ‘MackHacks’

Hollins, who has become something of a cult hero due to his idiosyncrasies, also shares numerous other tips on TikTok. He calls these “MackHacks.”

Need to know how to remove marks made by a Sharpie? He’s got a video for that. Looking for the best way to remove a stubborn label from something? Hollins has that covered. And that’s just the beginning.

So… why does he refuse to wear shoes?

Mack Hollins is now in his eighth year in the NFL after walking on at the University of North Carolina. He has called players who received college scholarships “soft” and “pampered.” That’s partly why he goes barefoot all the time.

“People are so soft now,” Hollins said at his introductory press conference with the Patriots. “Like bro, do something hard for once. It’s not even hard to wear no shoes… walking into games, no matter what, I have to be barefoot.”

He also feels like shoes interfere with the body’s connection to the ground.

“If I cut the roots out of a tree, it wouldn’t make very much sense. If this is how I feel the ground, this is how I connect to everything around me, why would I cover it?” he told The Athletic. “Nobody is wearing mittens here, but everyone has shoes on. Feet and hands are the exact same when you’re a baby, and then all of a sudden they put shoes on.”