Internet Famous
I’m what I jokingly refer to as a D-list YouTube celebrity. Not famous by any means, but every so often people will recognize me or I’ll be in a video that will make the rounds on popular blogs. But many of my friends aren’t in the entertainment industry so they’re completely shocked when worlds collide.
In college it was especially funny. I worked for a pretty big YouTube channel (barelypolitical/The Key of Awesome for you YouTube fans out there) and acted in a bunch of their videos.
When people asked where I worked, I usually just said I worked for a production company, because unless they were really into YouTube they wouldn’t understand my job (“wait, you can make money off YouTube??”). A lot of my friends didn’t even really know/care what I did.
But every so often a video I was in would go viral and I’d have people coming up to me in classes like “Did I just see you on Perez??”
I once went to a YouTube event with a friend and she was shocked and COULD NOT STOP LAUGHING when I was mobbed by a bunch of eager 10-year-olds wanting autographs. Story credit: Reddit / challengereality