Influencer Killed on TikTok Live & Internet Suspect Her BFF Did It To “Destiny Swap”

**Stephanie Soo** (0:03)
Have you ever heard of the term destiny swapping? The term was thrown around a lot on TikTok at the end of last year. It's a term with the definition and the mechanisms of how do destiny swap, how it's done. They're still debated. Practically every TikTok that you see explaining exactly what destiny swapping is, you're going to see some sort of, well, that's not exactly what it is in the comments. And then a different explanation for destiny swapping.
One person states, the definition is a little dark and complicated. It involves using negative energy, including jealousy to impact someone's life and take their blessings, which is like very vague and ominous.
Another person states, a destiny swap occurs when one person tries to take another person's life, like their spiritual gifts, finances, friends, or job for their own. Destiny swapping is usually rooted in jealousy and insecurity. Like they want to take what your future holds for you, for themselves.
Some say destiny swapping feels like someone is entering your life under the guise of being a friend, but you start noticing that they seem a little jealous of you. Like that's how it always starts. Well, at the same time, they copy the smallest minute details of your life. And this has nothing to do with gatekeeping. This is not just, oh, I love your jacket. Where did you get it? I'm going to buy the same one. Do you care? But this is copying your tiniest, little, smallest mannerisms. Your habits, small. I mean, everybody copies everybody's mannerisms the longer you're hanging out, but it's just the small things that you don't naturally pick up. It's almost like they're making an effort to emulate you.
Small little stylistic choices. They say it's usually when someone becomes unusually focused on your life, not just your clothes or your style, your entire life, your relationships, your routine that you think is mundane, decisions, why you make decisions. The admiration or curiosity starts feeling like they're doing a lab study on you. And that individual may also be condemning what you do, critiquing why you make certain decisions. But then they go ahead and they replicate it. They go and they do the same thing that you wanted to do, that they talked you out of. And they gain the success for themselves that you had planned for yourself. One person writes a long plea on Reddit.
Please could you pray for me? I believe my former partner's new girlfriend has destiny swapped me. The original poster writes about how she was in to the occult for a long time. She received a reading from this very trusted psychic. This is like May of 2025 And she gets this reading and the reader is telling her that she's going to get pregnant with a little baby boy with her boyfriend at the time. The baby boy will be born February 2026
And she writes, soon after that, my ex of six years, he cheated on me with this girl that he had known for a week, got with her the day after we ended. She's also very spiritual, and I believe she practices witchcraft. She's like made a few comments about it. But anyway, guess who found out they were pregnant with a little boy in May of 2025 and gave birth in February of 2026?
The new girl. She says since then, she's faced constant job rejections. She feels like she's in a slump that she cannot get over. She feels drained as if living the same life over and over again, getting into arguments with her family, facing financial difficulties. She's like, is this destiny swapping? She feels like it is. One person asks, spirituality reddit, is destiny swapping real? I strongly believe my friend is trying to destiny swap with me. Every time she complains about something, the same thing she's complaining about miraculously starts happening to me. And then it kind of resolves in her life. She kind of solves that problem in her own life, but it's unfolding for me. This has been happening for years about multiple different things across all different things like love life, financial problems, family problems, and now career related stuff as well. Please help me. I am desperate. How do I solve this?
It seems difficult to differentiate between a bad friend and a destiny swapper that could be a bad friend as well without... I mean, sometimes you could maybe have a bad friend who is unknowingly, unwittingly destiny swapping with you and you don't even know it. It's hard to say what exactly constitutes as someone trying to destiny swap. I have watched so many TikToks on this. I've read so many Reddit threads on this and it is still unclear to me. Some say it's very simple. Like it's not even that big. Someone obsessively copying, mirroring you. A person in your life starts dressing like you, talking like you, pursuing your exact dreams, or becoming fixated on your every move. See, it's common. Like sometimes friends will dress similarly. Sometimes friends will be in the same industry. But someone who's doing everything the same as you. They want to dress like you. They want to eat like you. They want to go into the same field as you. An example is an acquaintance who begins adopting your unique style, career path, and even mannerisms right before your own progress halts. That's when you know someone's trying to destiny swap. Someone comments, someone tell Jeff Bezos to watch out, because once I figure this out, it's over for him.