Woman messaged all 6 of her siblings asking for $100, the responses left her teary-eyed

There's something special about sitting in front of the TV with a box of pizza, sharing a movie night or hours of random gossip with your siblings. Despite the occasional quarrels, sibling bonds are often unbreakable. In May 2024, Tia Bee Stokes (@thetiabeestokes) decided to test her siblings' generosity by asking each for a $100 loan. Their responses left her in tears, and when she shared an Instagram reel of their text messages, the video quickly went viral.

Tia is a cancer survivor. Diagnosed in April 2020 at 34, she went viral by dancing for 15 minutes every day during her treatment. She told PEOPLE that she wanted to remind both herself and others that she was "still alive." Whether at home or in her hospital room, Tia recorded her daily dances and shared them on social media.

The video shows her text message asking all of her six siblings for $100 via Venmo. “I asked all of my six siblings for $100 with no reason except I was in a bind and I was shocked at how they responded,” she wrote in the video overlay. In each of the text messages that her siblings replied to, there were only positive remarks like “Of course,” “Let me know if you need anything else,” and “Igotchu!” One of the siblings even wrote “Only 100?” Plus, their screenshot showed that they transferred not just $100, but $500 to their beloved sister.

“This made me cry,” Tia expressed in the post caption, adding that they were tears of joy. “Just to know that I can reach out to any of my siblings no matter what I’m going through and they will love me & ready to serve me with no expectation or no reason why. If you notice not one of my siblings asked “For what?” Or “Why?” They just loved and sent $. I know our parents are smiling down on all seven of us we’re not perfect not even close to it. But our love is strong,” Tia said in the heartwarming message. “They taught me, ‘Love with no reason,’ she wrote in the video overlay.

The tearjerker scene made thousands of people bawl. @kreateurlife commented, “I love that they didn't even question why!” @whataboutaub said, “I pray my children will have this kind of relationship!” Others said how lucky Tia was to have siblings like these. Many said that their siblings would just block or ignore them in case they asked for this money from them. @da_sha8373 quipped “I need some new siblings.”

Speaking to PEOPLE, Tia reflected that she wanted people to see “hope.” And the way to make people see hope is to be generous towards them. "Whatever it is, that's why I show up, is to help the one, there's one person out there that needs that hope, and if I did it, you can do it too," she said. Her siblings showed that their love for Tia was unconditional. And despite enduring tough maladies and painful treatments like red devil chemo, Tia is one of the richest persons in the world, because she got “love.”

You can follow Tia on Instagram (@thetiabeestokes) for more content about her family and body positivity.

This article originally appeared on 08.09.24.