TikToker raises $32k after story of homeless man at his work goes viral TikTok: @thesean_pA TikToker has gone viral for sharing the story of a homeless man he found sleeping on the doorstep of his workplace, and has even managed to raise over $32,000 for the displaced individual. It\u2019s not every day that a story this wholesome goes viral on the internet, but that\u2019s exactly what happened when TikToker Sean Perez shared the story of a homeless man he found sleeping on the front porch of his job. Perez uploaded a video documenting his story to TikTok, showing him talking with the man and letting him know he would \u201cget him set up\u201d the following day. After notifying his employer of the situation, Perez\u2019s boss took the homeless man \u2014 named Jamie \u2014 to get food, and even purchased him a hotel room. Jamie told Perez\u2019s employer that he was without official documentation, needing an ID card, birth certificate and social security card. Things took off fairly quickly after that. Thanks to the charity of Perez, his boss, and kind strangers on the internet, Jamie was able to secure his ID and continue living in the hotel for another week \u2014 but the wholesome tale didn\u2019t end there. Perez\u2019s first TikTok documenting Jamie\u2019s story has officially gone viral, amassing over 13.9 million views on the platform. Subsequent videos from the account \u2014 which, at the time of writing, are all short clips of Jamie opening packages from strangers and getting into hilarious shenanigans with Perez \u2014 have accrued hundreds of thousands of views each. Perhaps the most impressive part of this story is that a GoFundMe, set up by Perez to benefit Jamie, has currently reached over $32,000 from its initial goal of $1,000. That\u2019s nothing to sneeze at! Jamie\u2019s heartwarming story comes as a welcome reprieve after a year of lockdowns and financial hardship for many, showing that the kindness of just one person can snowball into something truly great and transform someone\u2019s life in a massive way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TikToker raises $32k after story of homeless man at his work goes viral TikTok: @thesean_pA TikToker has gone viral for sharing the story of a homeless man he found sleeping on the doorstep of his workplace, and has even managed to raise over $32,000 for the displaced individual. It\u2019s not every day that a story […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}