A younger lady has revealed how she turned the goal of an obsessed fan after promoting her spare room for lease on TikTok.
Sydney-based swimwear designer Sophie Kim, 31, has shared a two-part video the place a possible home mate went from ‘love bombing’ behaviour, to ‘blurring boundaries’ of friendship and even becoming a member of her fitness center after one assembly.
Sophie mentioned her preliminary TikTok video exhibiting off her inner-city condo and spare room shortly went viral, with the $650-per-week room attracting quite a lot of curiosity.
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Sydney-based swimwear designer Sophie Kim, 31, has shared a ‘horror story’ after looking for a flatmate for her bougie inner-city condo
‘As a result of it went so viral I assumed that the individuals who responded and have been messaging me have been individuals that did not know me,’ she mentioned.
‘And identical to wanted a spot to dwell.’
However it turned all too obvious {that a} younger applicant, a medical scholar, had performed her analysis into Sophie and knew her very properly.
‘She would have needed to watch quite a lot of TikToks over a very long time interval to get all the data she had,’ Sophie mentioned, in a two-part sequence on the ‘horror’ encounter.
Issues began off properly, Sophie and the girl chatted over the cellphone earlier than arranging a time for her to view the room.
‘She introduced presents for me, my flatmate and my canine which at first I assumed was candy,’ Sophie defined.
Trying again she seems like the girl was ‘love bombing’ her.
Sophie mentioned she actually favored her present and have become suspicious as a result of it was ‘too good’ for somebody who should not have identified something about her.
She defined the girl would blur boundaries, messaging her on each platform if she wasn’t responded to right away
The swimwear designer additionally famous the younger lady had the identical bag as her – and initially thought they ‘had the identical model’.
After the preliminary inspection issues escalated.
The younger lady started blurring boundaries – attempting to maneuver from stranger to greatest pal instantly.
‘Issues began to get a bit an excessive amount of. She began messaging me in every single place like on Instagram, Whatsapp, TikTok. If I did not reply on one platform she could be messaging me on different platforms,’ she mentioned.
Sophie mentioned she turned overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of messages the place the younger lady invited her to ‘get matcha’ or ‘seize meals’ collectively, regardless of assembly twice.
The subsequent pink flag was the quantity of intimate questions the younger lady requested.
‘I used to be like I do not know these questions are a bit unusual, coming from you, somebody I do not know,’ she mentioned.
Sophie went on to elucidate the younger lady would speak to her like ‘she already had all this different data’ about her.
Sophie mentioned she did not count on somebody who ‘knew every thing about her’ to use for the spare room – as a result of so many individuals had seen the video commercial
‘Though she acted like she did not know me, had by no means heard of me till she noticed the video to maneuver in.’
Issues escalated when the younger lady determined she and Sophie have been such good pals she may inform her extra private data.
‘She began to dump trauma on me. She informed me her ex boyfriend cheated on her together with her greatest pal,’ she mentioned.
‘All the pieces she was saying was attempting to evoke sympathy from me,’ Sophie mentioned.
The video included a tour of the condo and pictures of the unimaginable views – however restricted details about Sophie
She added that they solely ever met twice and ‘the primary time wasn’t actual’ as a result of it was simply an condo viewing.
Sophie observed the younger lady began making extra content material of her personal, mimicking her model.
She mentioned this did not hassle her an excessive amount of till she noticed the younger lady on the fitness center.
‘She did not say oh my gosh Soph, I joined the fitness center too, since you talked about it in your movies. She simply did not say something and acted prefer it was all a coincidence,’ she mentioned.
Sophie has since moved from the condo and hinted she could be making a house within the japanese suburbs.
She promised a 3rd installment within the ‘nearly housemate’ saga however it has not been launched.
