Serge, who recently arrived in Paris, spoke on TikTok about the isolation that can be felt when arriving in an unknown city. The next day, his video had already been viewed more than a million times and a meeting has since been organized in the streets of the capital.
A “shit day” that turns into a powerful message of support. On October 9, Serge, a young 20-year-old Swiss photographer, published a touching video on Tiktok which would soon move thousands of people.
After “a breakdown, a slump” in “the Parisian gray”, the latter, newly arrived in Paris, opens up for 56 seconds. With tears in his eyes, he recounted “feeling very alone” in the capital.
“It’s ridiculous, but (…) I’m just looking for people who are passionate, kind and willing to be friends with someone new. I don’t know how you make friends anymore, it’s horrible. That I miss being little,” the young man smiles shyly.
Serge then puts his phone down for the night and will not touch it until the next morning. “When I woke up, I wanted to delete the video, telling myself that people were going to make fun of me,” the young man explained to BFMTV.com, this Sunday, October 13.
“In reality, the opposite happened. My video had already exceeded a million views and 5,000 comments, with only kind messages,” he confides.
A coffee and soon La Boum?
A second video is therefore published on the social network, where Serge, with a renewed smile, thanks those who contacted him. A Tiktok, posted on October 10 during World Mental Health Day, a coincidence of the calendar and “a beautiful symbol”, smiles its author to BFMTV.com.
Then, in a third video released the next day, the latter finally invites the authors of messages of support to a meeting in the streets of Paris, this Saturday, October 12.
“I wasn’t expecting anything by going there with my headphones. When a wave of people came to meet me, I understood that people had really come”, reacts Serge this Sunday, who details a “very moving” scene “.
In the end, around sixty people met at the Louvre, before strolling along the banks of the Seine and having a coffee in a bistro in the city. The one who said, from the first video, a fan of music, of the three decades from the 1960s to the 1980s and of The Boom intends to meet his new acquaintances in the future, during an evening.
Four days after its publication, Serge’s first video is on track to exceed two million views and 10,000 comments. “The real message is that social networks are not only malicious. The love I have received is incredible,” smiles the young man.
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