My Roommate's Tik Tok Fame Made My Life Hell (2018)

> He explained that his lease was set to renew, but for some (long, complicated, confusing) reason, he couldn’t put his name on it. My name would be on the lease.

There's the red flag right there. Never ever ever do this with someone you have less than absolute trust in. They can bail at any moment and leave you in debt, and there's nothing you can do.

I am sorry, I am not buying this. You entered a 2 year contract with a person that you 've never met. That lives already there but only your name is on the lease. And who is around 20 years old but does plastic surgery to look like a teenager. (is that even a thing?)

And you know what? Screw it. Showing kids videos of pandas eating cucumbers and asking them to be like the pandas, is an ingenious use of narcissism to achieve what parents collectively wasted more energy than north korea's nuclear program ever did. Convincing their kids to eat vegetables.

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EDIT: I 'll contribute a story of my own.

A friend of mine is a photographer in Bay area and LA. Since the past few years he only works with instagram models, predominantly asian girls. I spent some time hanging out with him and two models that are also good friends. The first you notice is that... they are completely unremarkable. Shocking right? They didn't treat the waitress bad, and I was never ignored mid sentence in favor of checking instagram notifications. At least no more than a person with a 2-digit follower count would. And didn't experience a crazy fast do coke and club 6 nights per week culture. Quite the opposite actually, I witnessed the "I 'll take a picture with this drink, and drink only half of it because it has too many calories". I think the most "vapid" thing I witnessed was them being VERY jealous of another influencer who managed to get the "blue verified" icon. That's it. Don't get me wrong, they were kinda shallow, but not magnitudes more than people with no following, that's the thing! I think we love to hate them because they are treated as if they achieved some high-status with no effort. Sure. But we are forgetting that what is projected on social media is total fabrication. Both of them are off instagram now, since they got married (to well-off dudes). Was that an end goal? Was it gold digging? True love? None of my business actually.

That was a pretty entertaining read. And technically an ad for flip, but I’m not mad - I think it’s low key hilarious that they’re sharing roommate horror stories to sell their product. That’s ingenious.

Why not kick the panda guy out of the apartment? The lease wasn't in his name after all.

None of this is new. LA is full of stories like this, going back decades - beyond the lunatic fringe of modern 'social media influencers', every 6 months LA gets a new wave of kids coming into the city to become the next big thing. Those of us who lived there and weren't involved in Hollywood often referred to the new wave of fresh blood as 'enthusiastic space cadets', because after a few months they'd disappear as if they'd gone to the moon.

What an awful made-up story. I wish I did some actual work instead.

Since the lease was in his name why not kick out Alec and find another roommate? Better than paying to break the lease.

Well that's 10 minutes of my life I'm never getting back...

It's an interesting read, but I wouldn't really blame Tik Tok fame in this case. Just a shitty roommate.

That part about him marking everything with sharpy ink and glitter would have been nice for when I had my roommate from hell. I once dried myself off with a towel to half way discover some other traces of matter I didn't want to see... I tossed the towel.

This "article" is a clever ad.

This is literally just an ad for a competitor to Tik Tok. Super fake and /r/hailcorporate.

> Three months into the hell of living with him, I saw his wallet sitting out in the kitchen. He was passed out drunk in his room, so I looked in it

Oh okay, someone left some glitter in the bathroom so it's okay to root through their shit.

Living with this person sounds miserable, and obviously they're in the wrong for everything, but it's still not cool to go through someone's wallet just because they leave it out just to check their ID.

Who sends a person they've never met money via Venmo, for a place to live that they've never visited in person? that's like the #1 rule of how now to get scammmed.

hn should have a filter for these kinda inane marketing submissions

i want to know who this 'muser' is now

It's banned in India now.

Interesting story, at the end it culminates into an ad for the website. It should be noted that people who are media-famous are often miserable and it looks like his roommate was silently suffering. Should OP have been a little bit more sympathetic towards that? I didn't see any mention of OP trying to, you know, talk his roommate through the issues like an adult?