TikTokers are sending messages of inspiration to an 8-year-old after her parents said she asked for 'less bullying' on her Christmas wish list

• Parents of an eight-year-old girl shared a recording of a Christmas wish list on TikTok.
• The note asked for "more friends" and "less bullying," leaving viewers heartbroken.

TikTokers are responding with heartfelt messages of support to an eight-year-old girl from a family-vlogging TikTok account after her parents said she asked to be bullied less on her Christmas wish list.

The parents — Bryan and Suzy Boliver — posted a video about their daughter's Christmas list on December 5 on their TikTok account @thebolivers, which has 57,000 followers and typically features content of them raising their two children, aged eight and six, often doing viral challenges with them and sharing snippets of their everyday lives.

The clip showed a white piece of paper titled "2022 Christmas list," with a number of requests written on it, such as an "iPhone Apple 12" and an "iPad Mini" in pink. Towards the bottom of the list were the words "more friends" and "less bullying to me."

An on-screen caption on the post read, "When you get your 8-year-old daughter's Christmas list. When I tell you my heart sank."

"I wasn't going to post this, but you know what.. this is being 8 yrs old in 2022 and maybe we should be talking about it," a secondary caption under the post said.

Commenters responded to the post — which received 3.9 million views and 214,000 likes — expressing sympathy towards the child.

"Makes my heart ache ," and "that broke my heart," some top comments said.

Other commenters offered solutions for the parents about how to address and respond to the list. "I'm a teacher. If this were my student I'd want to know. Please talk to her teacher," one user said, while another person wrote, "I got a 7 yr old that would love to be a pen pal."

A handful of TikTokers stitched and duetted the video to share longer messages of support for the child and their reactions to the clip.

One user offered to be her friend and to defend her against bullies, saying, "Hey, next time somebody bullies you, you tell them that you got a friend on the internet that's about six foot two and weighs 400 pounds," adding, "Don't you worry sweetheart, we'll take care of you. We got this."

The user urged other TikTokers to send their own messages of support to the child, captioning his video, "duet me and let's show her she isn't alone."

Other users reacted to the Bolivers' video by condemning bullying culture in society more broadly.

"This poor baby. The helplessness I feel for children suffering this cruelty is unfathomable. Teach your kids the importance of love, kindness, and acceptance. It can be a matter of life or death," one TikToker captioned her duet, using the hashtag #bullyingawareness.

Another user, who said he had a daughter of his own, said, "My daughter is my princess. If she put that on her list, I would be destroyed. It would mean that school for her is just torture and I'd have to send her there everyday."

The Bolivers did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

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