An adorable video of a teenage social media influencer on TikTok offering flowers to an elderly woman in a city center food court has gone viral.
As the elderly woman sipped her takeout coffee at the Emporium Melbourne shopping center, Harrison Pawluk, 22, kindly interrupted her and requested her to carry the flower.
After experiencing the hardship of people living in poverty abroad, he was moved to carry out random acts of kindness.
“Sorry to bother you, is it ok if you can just hold these?” he asked.
Pawluk then placed his knapsack on the ground and took a black parker out of his pocket before leaving the elderly woman holding the flowers and left.
He remarked, generating a teary expression on her face, “Have a nice day.”
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The video from June 21 has now received 10 million likes and 51.9 million views.
During a recent trip to LA, Pawluk—who has three million social media followers—said he was motivated by seeing homelessness.
He remarked, “I was recently motivated to change the focus of my writing and use my platform to promote kindness and good deeds.”
The platforms of too few creators are used for good.
I hope to utilize mine as a means of doing good and, perhaps, of influencing a few people in the process.
Through business alliances and sponsored posts, Pawluk makes roughly $10,000 to $15,000 per month from his TikTok and YouTube videos.
Taylor Reilly, Pawluk’s 21-year-old manager in Brisbane who handles sponsorship deals, said well-known TikTok influencers like Pawluk submit videos every day that are catered to a very particular demographic.
‘Harrison isn’t out to falsify his videos as a lot of people do to obtain a viral video or an outstanding reaction,’ he claimed.
He creates this stuff because he really thinks that he is changing the world, sometimes one person at a time.
He loves making content, therefore he’s documenting these nice deeds.
“He wants to create a snowball effect” by encouraging others to do good deeds.
The poverty they witnessed in California, according to Reilly, who traveled to LA with Pawluk, gave them a new direction for their TikTok films.
He claimed, “I actually got to experience life in a different light.”
I used to create prank and parody videos, but after experiencing the level of poverty there, I changed my perspective and returned to Australia with the intention of using my platform and content to spread kindness and do good.
‘My videos right now can involve tiny acts of kindness giving away flowers, surprise people with money, or just chatting to individuals to help them get things they’re having in life off of their chest,’ the author said.
Pawluk hopes that filming his unplanned gestures of generosity would bring in some money.
My new objective is to partner with businesses that share my desire to spread kindness, he declared.