What does $5,000 a month get you? The viral star barging into New York apartments

Caleb Simpson's man-on-the-street TikTok videos capture the insides of stranger's homes for millions of followers

Come inside a shoebox studio apartment with a stripper pole in downtown Manhattan that rents for $2,095 (1,764) a month. Or an $800 (674) housing project unit with hand-painted kitchen walls. What about a luxury $5,000-a-month rental with marble countertops? Curious voyeurs can see them all on Caleb Simpson's TikTok, and they won't be alone. Nearly 6 million people follow his short-form house tours, romps that he bills as this generation's MTV Cribs".

Seeing the inside of someone's home is one of the most intimate things you can ever do," Simpson, 30, tells the Guardian. And then there are the price points, what you pay for your space - people will be curious about that."