A slideshow that Faith Bang first presented to friends at a “PowerPoint Girls Night” has become a TikTok video, one that walks through roughly four years of relationships and ends with a conclusion about her own name.
Bang, who lives in New York City, opened the video by introducing herself and the premise.
“My name is Faith Bang, and this is all the boys, Faith Bang before,” she said. “A little bit about me. I was born on January 8th, 2002. I went to Wilchester Elementary School, and then I went to the Korean Central Presbyterian Church of Houston, KCPC. Grew up very Christian. So Christian.”
She said she spent a period in Korea before enrolling at the University of Texas at Austin, where she worked the front desk of the Moxy Hotel.
“I think every extroverted person should work at the front desk of a hotel at least once in their life,” Bang said. “I love that job, and I hold that hotel very near and dear to my heart.”
After graduating, she moved to New York City.
“And that is where I gave this exact PowerPoint presentation to a PowerPoint Girls Night that we had like two weeks ago, and it was so fun,” she said. “So I thought I’d let y’all in on the fun.”
Bang traced the story to 2021 and what she called “my very first long term relationship,” followed the next year by “my first earth shattering heartbreak.”
She was living in West Campus in Austin at the time with her best friend and roommate, Lindsay Choi, who she said was a fan of the singer Clinton Kane. Choi bought tickets to a show in Austin.
“This was before he got canceled and everything like that came up about him,” Bang said. “None of our friends listen to his music, but this one guy that she was family friends with came into town for the weekend to go to this concert with her because he wanted to see him as well. And I had always thought he was cute because he went to KCPC, which is where my parents met, which is where they got married and everything like that.”
She described the sleeping arrangements that followed.
“When they came home from the concert, Lindsay’s was a twin bed, my bed was a full bed, and our little Amazon couch was much too small for his long 6 foot body. So he’s like, can I crash in your bed? I said, of course. Again, I’d always thought he was cute. One thing led to another, and bang!”
It did not last, she said.
“No, he was not the one. He unfollowed me a couple years after that. But I hope all is well with him. We keep it moving.”
That summer, back in Houston, she matched with someone on the dating app Hinge.
“And I had also always thought he was cute because he went to Wilchester Elementary School with me, so we’d been children together,” Bang said. “And he texted me if I wanted to go over to his house to watch Grey’s Anatomy. And his house was in the neighborhood that I had grown up in and long moved away from. So of course I said yes. One thing led to another, and bang! Again, he was not the one. Unfortunately, he liked my stories for a couple years after that and would slide up and I hope all is well with him.”
By 2024, Bang said, she was close to graduating with a job already lined up in New York.
“Senioritis is in full swing. I already have my job secured in New York. My class load is pretty, pretty slim, so I decided to treat myself to a little Hinge date,” she said. “And the first date is pretty okay. Second date, we decide to get drinks, we’re laughing, we’re talking about our birthdays, and he has to pull out his wallet and his driver’s license to prove to me that he wasn’t joking, that he was also born on January 8th, 2002.”
That one turned into a relationship.
“We continue a pretty good conversation. He comes back to my apartment, one thing leads to another, and bang, we actually started dating. And I was like, wow, maybe this could be the one,” she said. “Unfortunately not. He moved to the West Coast after graduation for his job, and I moved to New York City.”
In New York, she said, she fell in with a large friend group of recent graduates. One of them left a backpack at her apartment and returned the next day with a request.
“He’s like, hey, do you have Netflix? And I’m like, yeah, we have Netflix. He’s like, I wanna watch this one drama called Crash Landing on You. And when I hear that, my ears perk up because this drama holds a very special place in my heart,” Bang said. “If you don’t know, it’s set in North Korea, and it depicts it so beautifully. And it just reminds me of that time, and I was like, of course you can watch this drama.”
They finished the series over several weeks.
“So we sit down together and watch it. Over the course of a couple weeks, we finish it, and then we’re partying together still. So one thing leads to another. He comes back to my place, and bang! We actually ended up dating. I wrote him a book. I’ve talked about this before. It was pretty crazy relationship that really didn’t work out.”
The last entry in the slideshow was a man she called skater boy.
“Then we’re in New York City, and we’re keeping it moving, and there’s this one boy who I had a very, very big crush on. He would toad around a skateboard. We call him skater boy. I really liked him. He had lived at the Moxy while I’d work there for, like, six months. So he came into town, and one thing led to another, and bang! I’ve talked about this before. Things with that one really, really didn’t work out.”
Bang closed the presentation by asking what the encounters had in common.
“And I’m sitting here by myself, and I’m like, hmm. Where am I putting all of this love? Why am I choosing the wrong person? And why am I sitting here all alone? And I think back to every single person, and, like, what do they all have in common? Faith. Bang!”
The answer, she said, was the point of the whole slideshow.
“The moral of the story is, maybe don’t look for yourself in other people. Don’t look for the love that you want in other people, because it already is in you,” Bang said. “I think And I’m still growing and learning. And again, I’m not a role model by any means, but that’s just an interesting story for you.”
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