A shark mentality is the one that Vivian Tu had, a girl who did not spend on food for two years because she agreed to go out to eat with different boys between 2016 and 2018, which allowed her to stop spending on food and save non-stop, since he did not buy groceries even once.
Vivian went viral on TikTok after she shared a video on her account @YourRichBFF that caught the attention of users, as in it she assured that she had six appointments a week to avoid having to pay for the purchase, for which she saved more than $150 weekly.
Between 2016 and 2018, I did not buy groceries even once. I probably saved around $150 a week.
Recently, in an interview for the Elite Daily medium, Vivian admitted to her 2.3 million followers that said clip was just a joke and that although she did not start dating just for food, she did notice that her financial needs decreased a bit when she was looking for love.
In addition to this, the young woman confessed that she was using dating applications to make Cupid’s job easier and thus find love when she moved to New York, United States, where, by the way, she realized that dating was very convenient for your economy and appetite.
In addition, Vivian revealed that by going out to dinner she was saving between “50 and 100 dollars a week”, an amount that was used for her savings, investments and a Prada bag that she wanted to buy.
However, while some users on TikTok have crowned her a leader, others have called her actions unethical and have even declared her behavior a display of “toxic femininity”.
But despite what many may think or say, Vivián mentions that she is not sorry for her strategy, although she now realizes that there are other ways to save and she has learned so much that she now dedicates herself to giving different advice to manage the finance.