Going Viral with Antoni

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Antoni Bumba got on TikTok to make friends — and to rant. But with her signature POV videos parodying "someone with a BBL," she became an instant TikTok favorite.   This is Going Viral with Antoni Bumba.

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00:00Just Bella Hadid, like I was just channeling Bella Hadid,

00:02but like with like a sprinkle of like Stassi baby.

00:05Hi, Brute, I'm Antony Boomba,

00:07and this is the story of how I went viral.

00:10♪♪

00:15I just moved to New York, and I started making videos

00:19because I didn't know how else to make friends.

00:22And so I was like, I'm not going to go out to a club

00:24and meet a bunch of people

00:26and talk to a bunch of random people,

00:27so I'm just going to post videos of myself online

00:29and hopefully my people will find me.

00:32And then I started just making astrology videos,

00:35rants that I would normally rant to my friend

00:37over FaceTime too, but like on camera.

00:40And then I was like, oh, wow, people like these.

00:42So I started doing that,

00:43and then I started doing like pop culture takes.

00:46I didn't think about people

00:47and like what people would think about me

00:49or like my whole brand.

00:51I wasn't thinking about that.

00:52I was honestly just, I needed a place to vent,

00:55and TikTok was that place for me to vent.

01:00Once I was sitting down and I was eating Van Leeuwen ice

01:03cream, and for some reason I heard this audio

01:06and I was like, this is something iconic.

01:11I wanted to be like lip filler girls,

01:14the girls who, you know, have the bright under eye

01:17and always make Instagram stories with some filter

01:20blurring out their entire face, those girls.

01:23I felt spiritually connected to them.

01:25And I was like, how can I make a caption on screen

01:29that's gonna make it niche and people will understand it?

01:32And then it came to me, somebody with a BBL.

01:35It's a BBL baby.

01:36Whoo, nice!

01:38This is like the second BBL video I ever did.

01:40But it was the first one that people were like,

01:42oh, I fully understand what you're talking about right now.

01:46Okay, I didn't have hair.

01:47I have hair now.

01:48That is so interesting.

01:50I have hair now, but I didn't have hair back then,

01:53and I was using a like $3 white do-rag from the bodega.

01:59as like inches so this was interesting and I was also eating Chinese food. I was eating sesame

02:04chicken and while I was eating it I was already eating it because it was hot and I was like

02:11this should be a video.

02:15And then this one okay the quesadilla one was actually there was another level with the quesadilla

02:20one. Every video I wanted to top what I did last but also I wanted it to play into the randomness

02:28of someone scrolling on their FYP and the first thing they see is someone like

02:33with like the camera being crazy like what the is going on right now.

02:39Okay and this is when she graduated to the BBL wave. I was like a judge on some dating show

02:43and um when I walked out um the guy who runs the show his name's Adam he was like when you walk

02:51out you should put lip gloss on and like do something you know cute just whatever and I

02:56was like okay. So then I walked out and then I was like I just really love people and like

03:04I feel like when people are far away and there's like a lot of them it feels like they're all

03:07little like you know you know like I'm like saying hi with every finger. Okay yes oh my god my alter

03:15ego the airport celebrity. I actually was going to LA with this guy who started somebody else

03:23the day before we went oh my god I was like so like what is going on um it was just really chaotic

03:29and you know I but like I don't know like even though there's like so much chaos going on it's

03:37like never not too chaotic to slay. I started realizing that I do this um because my friend

03:48told me that I did. My friend was like oh can you I need your face to scan your face and I was like

03:56you know just to make sure I can see you know um and it like recognizes that my like

04:02default face. I thought it was really funny I thought nobody was gonna get this but a lot of

04:06people did. I make a lot of like silly videos and my it's just like my energy I like to put out like

04:15light-hearted energy in the world because I feel like there's too much heaviness but I feel like

04:20I'm like a person who's like really grounded in gratitude at all times because of the support that

04:26I've experienced after going viral um it makes me feel like there's actually like a place for me

04:35in the world in a community that I can express and share myself with authentically which makes

04:41me feel like warm inside.

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