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Growing up in New Jersey, then North Carolina, she was a gamer girl who liked Yogscast, attended Minecon, and sat on the floor watching her older brother stream on Twitch. Paris Facetimes with best friend and fellow creator Antoni Bumba. But look any further than her green-billed brim and you'll find that Paris is a self-built entrepreneur of the digital era, with a million TikTok followers, six-figure deals with brands like Amazon and Anthropologie, and the financial freedom to buy whatever the fuck she wants. The 22-year-old standing before me in denim shorts, high tops, a green trucker hat, and a tie-dye shirt does not fit the customer profile of a furniture store for Brooklyn's artistically minded elite. You don't know people's shit, you don't know how much money anybody has." "I will love it even more because I know why I bought it, and I know exactly how I felt in that moment when he treated me like I was so tiny… looking at me like I don't belong there." She adjusts the shearling-trimmed Jacquemus bag on her shoulder. "That's a 'fuck you' purchase," Paris says, her arms crossed by the street. Then Paris purchased one of the shop's more unique pieces: a paper lamp in the shape of a Campbell's soup can. When we arrived 20 minutes ago, the proprietor observed our little group of twenty-somethings with thinly-veiled disdain. Fifteen thousand dollars worth of Willy Guhl planters rest in pooling rainwater in the driveway. If money could talk, Victoria Paris' would say "fuck you." The TikTok creator is fuming on a sidewalk in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, outside a shop selling pricey mid-century relics.