This TikToker Shared Videos Of Her Breakup Online & Millions Watched Their Last Goodbye

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A Toronto Tiktoker catapulted to social media fame after vlogging the intimate moments of her breakup. Bridgette Vong, a 24-year-old social media and influencer marketing specialist, took to TikTok to document the end of her five-year relationship with her former boyfriend (from their very last talk to their final hug), and the videos have now reached millions of people online. Narcity’s Brooke Houghton chatted with Vong about her newfound TikTok fame and how her life has changed since that breakup video went viral.

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00:00so yeah i set up the camera as our final goodbye was like a hug and he helped me move into my new

00:05apartment in toronto and it was super emotional and um really heartfelt and i posted it and it

00:11was it just went off wow so that's it huh just four o'clock and you are gone for good why am i

00:18so sad am i doing the wrong thing absolutely not it's just that sometimes goodbyes are a bitch

00:27hey bridget hi how are you good thanks so much for coming on to narsity to chat amazing i'm super

00:35excited to be here it's gonna be great to talk to you okay beautiful so your tiktok journey actually

00:40started with vlogging a breakup with your longtime boyfriend what was that like yeah so um i guess

00:47i never really expected or kind of planned to have it blow up but i was a really tiny creator i think

00:54i had like 200 followers at the time and um for my job i do like little tiktok videos so i just had

01:00my own personal account and i ended up vlogging like our final goodbye and it went super super viral

01:06very unexpected um i think it's at 13 million views right now and i ended up gaining i think like 15

01:13to 20 000 followers from that one video so um it was crazy for sure and what was the thought process

01:19behind that like setting up the camera saying okay i want to have this moment recorded yeah i get that

01:24question all the time i think that the way that my like marketing brain works and especially because

01:29i was creating tiktoks already for my tiny channel um i had just started to vlog and diary entry almost

01:36these little um sad moments of like my five-year relationship ending just honestly for myself and my

01:42tiny like my friends really so i wanted to vlog our final goodbye we were moving cities and

01:48um it was really it was really just men for not me like actually me but i was like no one's gonna

01:54see this um and i just i want it to have like i want it to be emotionally set and um setting up the

02:01camera was pretty normal for our relationship just with like whether it was cute moments or whether we

02:06were going through something like this it was just kind of like a natural thing that i would do and

02:10he was like super okay with it and always like yeah like whatever whatever works for you like i'm here to

02:14support you um so yeah i set up the camera as our final goodbye was like a hug and he helped me move

02:20into my new apartment in toronto and it was super emotional and um really heartfelt and i posted it

02:26and it was it just went off which i for me posting something like that was like not normal but it wasn't

02:33weird but i definitely looking back now understand how like raw of a moment that would be to be posting

02:39online but i think when you're like in this like blurred breakup heartbreak phase like you're not

02:46really thinking about stuff like that 100 and what was your reaction when it blew up and you know

02:50millions of people watched it i was shocked i did not expect that at all um i think what i was most

02:57shocked to hear was a lot of people right away in the comments were just sharing their breakup stories

03:02or something that's similarly happening or um concerned about how they can prevent something

03:07like that from happening and i think it got a lot of traction because you could really see like we

03:13didn't care that there was a camera there like it was just a real last moment that we were ever going

03:17to see each other and like um yeah it was just it was like it was a big shock i was like overwhelmed

03:23actually for sure yeah and how did that kind of spurn on your content creation because now you're

03:28bolstering over 50 000 followers yeah so i think i don't know i guess for me content creation has

03:36always been like a natural thing it's just part of my job as a social media manager so once i got that

03:42following um i think it was like 25k is when it kind of like started to chill out a little bit more but

03:48i continued to post my breakup journey literally like what i was doing day one day two i called it my

03:54healing girl era um which it definitely was and it was just kind of the term i used to talk about how

04:00i was getting over the breakup and um what going no contact was like and how living alone was like

04:05and it was just um i just figured it would be a good opportunity to share more of my story because

04:11people were i was like talking to people who had similar stories and it just felt really like natural

04:16to lean into that i love that and for you you've mentioned that you work two other jobs what other jobs

04:21you're working right now alongside content creation yeah so my full-time job um is as a social media and

04:29influencer marketing specialist um for for a large company and then i also do freelance digital marketing

04:35management for like a bakery that has six locations um so i do kind of all of their assets and kind of

04:42like their online stuff so i do that and then the tiktok is kind of just what i like i started it as

04:48really just like a passion project or a hobby but it's definitely been um super fortunate to have

04:53that kind of turn into something else amazing and for your tiktok too is that also a source of

04:57revenue for you or just a creative outlet it's definitely become a little bit of like a passive

05:02income it's not anything that's like my bread and butter but it is definitely nice to be getting

05:07like smaller brand deals and just talking with some of my favorite brands in toronto and things like

05:11that i love that and for you in the future do yourself do you see yourself becoming a content

05:17creator full-time eventually or do you think you'll always kind of like straddle different

05:20pockets even though you're kind of all in the same sphere i feel like i love keeping busy i think it's

05:27like really important for me and just like my mental health to always be doing something and i've always

05:32kind of had that motivation to never like sit still so i don't even know what my life would be like

05:36if i wasn't as busy as i was but it is definitely a dream of mine to be a full-time content creator

05:42and i know people say that all the time and it's definitely it's a crazy ambitious goal and it's you

05:49know it's an unstable income but it would be amazing if people followed my journey because they liked

05:54me and it was just like a very authentic transition into like this transformation of like my life

05:59yeah i love that and your content is super raw it's like what i'm spending as like living in the

06:04city like my rent like what i'm doing for the weekend it is super transparent and you know

06:09with your content how do you feel about sharing so much of your life online i think that i don't

06:16really see any other way to do it i feel like even just from the beginning posting the breakup stuff to

06:22like what i spend and what i do this weekend going on like my first dates and like i just feel like

06:29when i get the feedback is when i realize how transparent it is because going into it i'm like

06:34i'm such an open person and i try to be really friendly so i feel like when i'm making these

06:38videos i'm really it's almost like i'm facetiming a friend like i'm just like sharing little updates

06:43so when i get the feedback of people being like oh you're so transparent or thank you so much for

06:47like sharing like a real day in toronto that's when i realize that it's like not um a common thing or

06:55it's not necessarily the norm that we're seeing online so i i like sharing my life online i'm there's

07:01definitely negative feedback and positive feedback but for me if it's helping like one person or even

07:06just like making someone smile which i know sounds so cheesy but it's like i don't know i have nothing

07:11to hide really and like as long as i'm safe then i feel like i'm happy to share and like be a little

07:16bit more vulnerable and a little like authentic i love that and you know looking back at that breakup

07:21video now how do you feel watching it um i definitely see it come up um with like my tick tock

07:28notifications um as it trickles in like the likes i think there was times in my breakup when i would

07:34look at it and i couldn't watch it and i almost never watched it um especially when it was blowing

07:40up and i was right in the heat of my breakup back in july um but now i look back at it and i have such

07:46like happy memories because i'm very thankful that my ex-partner and i ended on such amazing notes and

07:52it concluded so mature and wonderful and it gave me a crazy platform that um is something i've

07:59always wanted and things like that so i look back at it and i i'm just like i'm happy it's like it's

08:05weird because it's definitely like a very sad tick tock but i think for me i just like can feel all

08:11the love that was there in that video and like i don't know it's just it's um it's definitely an

08:17important part of my life i love that that's so sweet and i feel like it really does show and it

08:22did give you a platform for now you can kind of share your toronto life so how did moving to

08:27toronto fit into the mix all this yeah so my best friend actually um i went to school here i went to

08:33tmu um a while back and i ended up meeting a boy and we moved away and and did the whole thing and then

08:39the minute that the breakup was starting to happen my best friends were like you need to move back

08:44here like you have to move back here there's just no way around it and i am i wasn't a toronto girl

08:50i kind of like moved away into a smaller town but i was like you know what what better place to be

08:55than with like my best friends as like a young 20 year old um so yeah we packed up my best friends

09:01helped me look for a place and within like a week the ball was rolling it was pretty fast but i mean

09:06everything was crumbling down really quick anyways so we had to move quick and yeah i knew i wanted to

09:12live alone um it was really important for me and like my healing journey to like find the means of

09:18like making sure that my income was enough to be able to live alone in toronto and um it was a crazy

09:24fast move but i'm so so grateful to have a space where i can just like feel at home and feel like

09:29myself that's amazing and you know with future partners do you think that you'll vlog your relationship

09:33again i think i'd like to keep that part of my life not necessarily private but i don't think that

09:42it's something i don't want to be like throwing a camera in anyone's space who isn't comfortable

09:46and um i don't necessarily have the largest platform in the world but i do know that like

09:50some people aren't as you know content creation passionate um so while i'm happy to share kind of

09:57parts of like my dating life my dating story and like updates from hinge and things like that i feel

10:02like um because that's me and that's truly what i'm going through that week or that month or um i don't

10:08think it's something i want to be like plastering my partner's face over the internet they're not

10:13comfortable with it 100 well that's awesome thank you so much for taking the time to chat today i

10:17really appreciate it yeah absolutely thank you so much for having me

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