Should this woman throw away her friendship after what a seemingly innocent divination revealed about her best friend? That’s the question thousands of people are asking after Maria (@mariaaquarius__) shared a pretty incriminating drawing of her bestie’s “soulmate.”
Maria is begging TikTokers for advice in a viral clip, where she reveals how her best friend allegedly got her “soulmate” drawn by an astrology app utilizing AI. The result? Someone Maria knows quite well.
“Guys, my best friend just got her soulmate drawn,” Maria begins in her clip. “And I think her soulmate’s my boyfriend.”
Maria then shows a screenshot of the AI-generated drawing on the Starla app. It depicts a man with a beard and mustache, sporting wavy hair and clear eyes.
Then Maria reveals a picture of her alleged boyfriend. The resemblance is uncanny, down to the way he parts his hair.
Maria understandably asks, “What do I do?”
Viewers had an easy consensus for Maria
Maria’s clip, which earned over 6.8 million views, had viewers sharing what they would do in her shoes.
“I would stop being friends,” a top comment with 67,000 likes read. “Nah she just wants your boyfriend,” another wrote.
“She is in love with him and described him to ChatGPT,” one user speculated.
Others pointed out that this “boyfriend” seemed very familiar to other “soulmates” TikTokers shared online.
“I’ve seen 3 of these soulmate drawing vids and they’re all the same man,” one user claimed.
They’re right.
Not everything is as it seems
Upon closer inspection of Maria’s TikTok account, this “boyfriend” of hers more than likely does not exist. Most of the videos on her account are similar in nature, with her sharing how a “soulmate” was drawn by this app. Then she shares how she allegedly knows the person in real life.
So far, she has claimed the man in question to be her brother, her own soulmate drawing, and her future husband in different videos. While Maria does not disclose her TikToks are part of a paid partnership with the app, it’s likely she is collaborating with Starla to get more users. This is a common tactic used by influencers on social media.
What is the Starla App?
The Starla-Call to the Universe app claims it is “powered by real NASA data and interpreted through expert systems.”
It seems the way it works is that you give your birthday, age, and gender, and what characteristics you like in a person. It then “generates” your soulmate. Of note: you can customize and style to your preferences before sharing to social media.
There have also been reports on TikTok and Reddit where people get the same generated image repeatedly. In one Reddit post, a user said the app generated a man as their soulmate–even though they were a lesbian.
It is free to download but does require a paid subscription to use its “soulmate drawing” feature. While it currently has a 4.8 rating on the app store, several recent reviews are bashing Starla for misleading them.
“I saw this app on TikTok and decided to get it I installed it and wanted my drawing done but I had to pay $15 so I did and in the same hour I cancelled the subscription and uninstalled the app,” a reviewer wrote. “Now it’s telling me that I owe $16 i don’t know if I’m the only one but I won’t recommend this app if you don’t want to have the same problem as me now I can’t install any app because of this issue.”
Another accused the app of being a “money scheme,” saying they got the monthly subscription “just so that I could see the soulmate sketch and I never even got my sketch.”
@mariaaquarius__ guys.. what the heck? #greenscreen #soulmatedrawing #manifest #manifestation #affirmations #lawofassumption #fyp #foryou #witchtok #claim #lovereading #birthchart #lawofattraction ♬ original sound – Maria??
The Mary Sue reached out to Maria via TikTok message and to Starla via email.
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