'Do It On Purpose': Why This Lacey Man Does Car Giveaways On TikTok

LACEY, NJ — "Do it on purpose."

That's the motto of Lacey's Rex Vengeance, whose daily TikTok livestreams garner thousands of viewers. They all hope to see their names get written on the car in his garage. It means they have a chance of winning it.

It's not a fancy or new car. But the 2010 Audi A4 means something to the viewers who comment about what they would do if they had it. It gives them hope. And "do it on purpose" is more than just a motto to them - it's a movement.

This will be the third car Rex Vengeance has given away. He's also done smaller giveaways like iPads. But he's not rich; he just wants to pay it forward. It started when he had almost nothing.

He had to stop working as a tattoo artist when he developed hand tremors, Rex Vengeance told Patch. Then he lost his place. Bills piled up. He moved into a trailer that he described as "just a roof over my head." He had no hot water, couldn't cook, he didn't even have a bathroom.

"I just got into a really depressed point," he said. All he had was his truck. But then something struck him.

"Something just came over me that there are people who even wish they had those problems," Rex Vengeance said. So he started writing names on his truck. It turned into a giveaway. He used monetization from his TikTok videos to pay for the giveaways.

Now, he has 500,000 TikTok followers who all hope they're picked next.

"I did not expect it to take off like this at all," he admitted. In fact, he said he thought he would just be giving away his only truck and be left with nothing.

But his movement has only grown since then. Rex Vengeance and his street crew recently drove all the way from Forked River to a small town in Northwest Missouri to deliver a 2003 Escalade to a giveaway winner.

If you scroll through the comments of any of his videos, you'll see dozens sharing stories about what a new car would give them.

"The comments are the best part," Rex Vengeance said. "Just seeing the hope that these giveaways offer."

It doesn't just stop there. He wants to encourage people to pay it forward. That's what it means to "do it on purpose."

The idea is that if you do good things on purpose, you start doing it on accident, Rex Vengeance explained in a recent TikTok video. Pay it forward was popular - while it was trending, he said.

And if "dumb stuff" and "hateful things" can trend, Rex Vengeance said, then so can "do it on purpose."

Follow @RexVengeance on TikTok to join the movement. He also takes donations, sells merchandise and makes vinyl decals to fund further giveaways. For more information, visit RexVengeance.com.