A TikTok creator is drawing attention to what she describes as a dispute over a New York City apartment and a subletter\u2019s GoFundMe campaign.<\/p>\n
The woman, who goes by Kaylen or @kaylendoesstuff on TikTok, posted a video breaking down the NYC roommate drama that has captivated viewers and gotten people pretty involved, whether by commenting, resharing, or liking her video.<\/p>\n
TikToker Says Subletter Didn\u2019t Have Proof of Income<\/p>\n
Kaylen begins her video by explaining that her best friend, Marlyn, has been the leaseholder on their apartment for the last three years. She says Marlyn\u2019s roommate moved out at the end of April 2026 and found a subletter, whom she refers to as EK.<\/p>\n
So EK is moving in in May, and the lease ends in June. Kaylen says Marlyn tells EK from the start that she\u2019s not going to be signing a new lease with her and that she either has to leave or find a new place once the lease is up.<\/p>\n
Marlyn later found out a place in Manhattan and tells EK she\u2019s leaving.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s when EK, as Kaylen explains, \u201cstarts to crash out\u201d because she doesn\u2019t have a job. Instead, she sells keychains and doesn\u2019t have the pay stubs or proof of income that many apartments and rental properties require in order to sign a lease.<\/p>\n
That means when Marlyn leaves, she won\u2019t have the documentation needed to stay on her own. So then Kaylen says EK started a GoFundMe and includes a screenshot in her video, calling her out for it because of how she referenced Marlyn in the fundraiser description.<\/p>\n
In the screenshot of the GoFundMe, EK introduces herself and says she\u2019s a \u201cfull time artist in NYC for over a year now and jumped through so many sublets trying to find home.\u201d<\/p>\n
She then goes on to explain that she moved into her current apartment \u201cthinking I\u2019d get to stay, but after a horribly traumatizing situation with my roommate, now turned into dealing with slummy landlords.\u201d She adds that she\u2019s \u201cat my breaking point\u201d and isn\u2019t sure if she\u2019s going to need to pay the entirety of rent for July on top of the security deposit, or if she\u2019ll have to move in literally a week. At the time the screenshot was taken, she had reached $3,345 of her $5,000 goal.<\/p>\n
Kaylen appears to have taken issue with EK\u2019s reaction to Marlyn moving out and her GoFundMe description, where she calls the situation \u201ctraumatizing\u201d and refers to her friend, the landlord, as \u201cslummy,\u201d which is why she made a reaction video breaking everything down.<\/p>\n
She ends her video by saying her friend has been nothing but nice to EK, and that it\u2019s not her fault she doesn\u2019t have the documentation or proof of income to qualify for the apartment on her own.<\/p>\n
She then offers some advice, saying she should get a job or go back to Georgia, where she originally moved from.<\/p>\n
The video drew thousands of comments, with many users supporting Kaylen\u2019s account while others urged caution because only one side of the dispute had been shared.<\/p>\n
The Daily Dot was unable to independently verify the claims made in the TikTok video or the GoFundMe campaign, which are based solely on the participants\u2019 accounts shared online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A TikTok creator is drawing attention to what she describes as a dispute over a New York City…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[32384,109136,9,56,63,65,64,109137],"class_list":["post-284594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-gofundme","tag-kaylen","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-proof-of-income"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}