


New York City is not all it’s cracked up to be, whines one TikTokker in a hilarious viral video that has hit close to home for many.
“It’s so lonely, it’s disgusting … it’s not what it looks like in the movies or the shows at all,” gripes Benton McClintock, 26, a comedian and content creator.
The video is written from the point of view of a new graduate who moved to the Big Apple from Alabama six months ago. Though McClintock says it’s a parody, there are slivers of truth in the one-minute video that has racked up over 1.2 million views.
“I thought I was going to be like, living in the West Village, and you know, like dating a rich man who’s, like, an heir to a Fortune 500 company — but that’s just like not happening. I’m waiting in line at a place called Pianos every weekend to just, you know, get drinks spilled on me by frat bros,” McClintock says, convincingly in tears.
“Pianos is so accurate,” commented one viewer with crying and laughing emojis.
“It’s literally nothing like ‘Sex in the City’/’Gossip Girl’/’FRIENDS,'” added another.
Others told him to go back to the South or to “suck it up.”
McClintock’s videos capture other NYC woes, like an annoying roommate delivering the dirty dishes left in the sink directly to the perpetrator’s bedroom, and the rush to tidy up an apartment before mom comes to visit.
Others portray the city from the point of view of a visitors to NYC, like one from Los Angeles who can’t find an “angel kelp hair smoothie” here or another from Spain, who gets kicked out of a bar for trying to leisurely sip a $16 gin and tonic for four hours.
Jokes aside, McClintock, who moved to NYC six years ago as a fashion intern, is no stranger to the realities of the city.
Last year, he spoke with The Post about loose syringes and discarded drugs harming dogs in Washington Square Park.
His 5-year-old Cavalier spaniel-bichon mix, Rusti, had been poked multiple times by needles.