Every city seems to have them. Those gilded neighborhoods with impossibly massive houses, a range of luxury cars, huge yards, etc. But how? How come so many people have so much money?
This is the question that Aaron Vankampen, an independent location researcher in Toronto, has been asking homeowners for months. The responses he received provided a lot of feed for his TikTok account, which has exploded in a big way since he posted Part 1 in early November:
“Before that, I worked as a locator and bartender,” Vankampen told MarketWatch. “The pandemic hit and I woke up with a lot of free time. I was looking for something to do with that time. “
So he let his curiosity guide him and began wandering through the luxury neighborhoods and asking questions. His most watched TikTok, which includes lawyers, Teslas TSLA,
and an “dream worker” was clicked 35 million times incredibly:
Vankampen’s rise to TikTok fame was meteoric, with more than 1 million followers in less than two months. As their reactions suggest, the interviewees were generally friendly and friendly when approached by TikToker from door to door.
He said, however, that the strange problem had arisen. For example, he was evicted from a guard dog property. “I have learned and I will never approach a house with a ‘beware of the dog’ sign now,” he said.
In the next phase of his socializing plans, Vankampen is trying to push his reach beyond Toronto, once travel restrictions ease and he visits homes around the world. Would he receive the same warm welcome in, say, New York City as in Canada? We could find out one day.
In the meantime, he is also launching his YouTube channel, with an eye on extending TikTok interviews without time constraints and, ideally, to make money in the process.
“My plan is to stay inspired, if I can find a way to make money while still inspiring my followers, then that’s what I’m going to do,” he said.