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.
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.