The Internet Is Questioning Just How Rich Becca Bloom Really Is

Becca Bloom is #RichTok’s It Girl. The socialite with over six million followers on the platform dominates its wealthy segment as millions of people stay tuned to watch her flaunt her lavish lifestyle. Becca is rarely shy about her material wealth, whether it’s posting about designer shopping hauls, showing off her extravagant trips, or feeding her cat expensive caviar. Last July, she documented herself unboxing a luxury candle worth $20,000 or over P1.2 million

Recently, however, the content creator has been placed under public scrutiny as the reality of her riches is being put into question. Known to be a “billionaire heiress,” the internet is now asking if Becca is truly as wealthy as she shows.

If you were wondering if Becca’s somehow staging being rich, she’s not. She grew up in Atherton, California, famous for being one of the most expensive towns in the United States. There’s no denying her family comes from big money. Her parents, Simon Yiming Ma and Heidi Chou, are tech and real estate entrepreneurs with multiple business ventures to their names.

Following their footsteps into the world of business and finance, Becca has also amassed wealth of her own, which she began building back in her school days. According to the Wall Street Journal, she developed a solar-powered umbrella called Solarshade during a summer camp at MIT. As a high school student, she also earned $200,000 by selling her peer-to-peer platform, StudiPal.

Her wedding alone to her partner, David Pownall, was a lavish spectacle set in Italy at the Villa Balbiano, a 16th-century palazzo with rental rates starting at €100,000 or P6.65 million for just two days and one night.

Despite these ostentatious displays, she’s become the subject of several “exposes” as of late. The wave of criticism started when Daadi, a TiktTok creator with 1.2 million followers, took a deep dive into the history of her family’s business, Camelot Information Systems, a privately-held Chinese information technology company. As per reports, it was publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange back in 2010, before it went private for a valuation of $98.2 million.

“While being the majority owner of a nearly one hundred million dollar company is a gargantuan amount of money, it is nowhere near billionaire status, nor is it being close to what Becca represents,” noted the content creator.

In another video, he highlighted more discrepancies between Becca’s posts and her perceived lifestyle. He pointed out in one of them that despite house hunting with her husband for residential homes worth over $20 million a year ago, Becca continues to film content in the “conference room” of her apartment building.

Daadi accused the influencer of passing this off as her home despite clear “evidence” showing that it’s a public space. He also called out Becca for filming multiple videos in a private jet while wearing the same outfit, implying that she chartered a flight for content purposes—a move he questioned considering Becca has posted about her family supposedly shopping for a private plane before.

Becca has since responded to these allegations on her Substack with an article titled “How Misinformations Spreads.” In it, she refutes the rumors, saying, “An assumption doesn’t become a fact because enough people repeat it. I think it’s very easy to forget there’s an actual person on the other side of a viral story who might be watching millions of strangers debate things about their own life that they never actually said.”

She confirmed that she occasionally films in the lounge of her apartment building but that she also takes videos in her own unit. “But then the reasoning became something like, ‘we've seen her filming in the residence lounge therefore thats secretly where everything is filmed.’ Those two things don’t prove each other,” wrote Becca. “Me choosing not to show something is not evidence that it doesn’t exist.”

Becca maintained that she never claimed the lounge to be her place, and that a comment of hers saying that it was “her house” was taken from a completely different video that she filmed in her Atherton home.

“That’s what makes taking something out of context so effective. The quote doesn’t necessarily have to be fake,” said the influencer. “My comment was real. I really wrote it. You just change what people THINK I was responding to and suddenly the exact same words mean something completely different.”

Additionally, a commenter under one of Daddi’s videos alleged that they shared a public cruise in Paris with Becca who, at the time, had purportedly made it seem like she was on a private getaway with her friends.

In her Substack response, Becca clarified that she never said she was on a private boat. “I never said I chartered it. I never called it a yacht,” she wrote, stating that they were indeed on a public ride that her friend had bought tickets for. “I don’t even know why I would lie about it being public. We had the best time. I would absolutely take it again!”

Any allegations about Becca remain unfounded, and she cautioned readers against believing everything they read or hear on the internet.