- Hi, I'm Caleb Finn.
I'm here with BuzzFeed Australia
and I'm going to tell you about some of my first times.
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First kiss.
Oh my god, they're gonna go crazy for this.
(laughing)
I was, how old was I?
I was 13 and it was with a girl named Ally
and we're in, we're behind, we're in an alley or something.
We were in, it was with a girl called Ally, in an alley.
(laughing)
I didn't realize that.
She was really sweet.
She was my first girlfriend.
It was really awkward cause it's like no one
knows how to kiss on their first kiss.
(laughing)
First tattoo.
My first tattoo was the one on my chest.
Is that hurting the mic?
It's on my chest.
I got this one.
That was my very first one.
I was so scared to get a tattoo
cause I thought it was gonna hurt.
So I got on my chest and a little one
and it's a combination of EarthBound, UNDERTALE,
and Legend of Zelda.
So I got those three and it looks like the Starmen symbol
from EarthBound.
First time you made a video with cool transitions.
The first time I made a transition video,
it was my, maybe like tenth video I made.
And by then, the only thing I made before was memes
so when I changed to transitions everyone's like
in the comments, "we hate this,"
(booing)
"go back to memes,"
"we don't like this."
"stop, cringe,"
and I'm just like, but I like it.
So I don't know I loved it.
I had got so much more fulfillment out of it
instead of making memes.
So I just kept doing it.
First time you met a celebrity.
The first time I met someone famous not met them,
but I like spoke to them online.
It was Markiplier, from YouTube.
I was such a huge fan of Markiplier back in the day.
And he ran, it was like when he had like 20,000 subscribers
or something and he ran a live stream for charity.
And I spoke to him I just, he's like,
"Oh, I'm just gonna answer some questions."
I was like, "what's your favorite game Markiplier?"
And he told me and I was like, what?
Like, are you serious and I lost it.
And I'm just like, looking back at it now
he'll just be like, "oh yes this, moving on."
But like for me, I was like, oh my god,
Markiplier knows who I am.
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First TikTok crush.
Oh my god.
Oh, this is gonna be a bad idea.
First TikTok crush.
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Her name is Nintendo girl.
I think it's pretty well known now.
She's gonna kill me.
(laughing)
But it was Nintendo girl.
I loved her aesthetic and she seems so sweet and nice
and I was just like, I think you're so cool.
And it was awesome because she had more followers than me.
And then I blew up and then she messaged me, and I was like,
"Oh my god, wait, I love you like so much."
And she's like, "wait, no, I love you."
We just kind of became like really good friends.
We like spoke all the time and she's an amazing friend.
She's always there when I need her.
She's really cool.
First time you made a TikTok.
It was the start of November 2018, was my first TikTok.
I still remember it was horrible.
But I've got a really soft spot for it now.
It was just a stupid meme.
But I don't know, it's kind of nice to look back
and see like how far you've come.
It was cool.
- (Producer) Do you still have that video?
- I don't.
I deleted all of my old videos.
Cause there was a point
where it's like I switched content completely
and started the Caleb Finn brand kind of thing.
Cause my name before was @epibgamerboy.
Cause it was just all about like the game of war and stuff.
And then I was like no that's it content changing,
changing to @caleb.finn and that was it.
I just, I never looked back kind of thing.
First mobile phone.
I had a Sony Ericsson.
It was a black and white Sony Ericsson
and it only had snake on it.
I'm really showing my age here.
(laughing)
Yeah, it was not great.
It was, it wasn't touchscreen, it was buttons.
It was great and I loved it.
Cause I had it on a little lanyard around my neck
and I wore it everywhere.
I was so proud of it.
First video game you were obsessed with.
Legend of Zelda.
I have, one, two, three Zelda tattoos.
I am obsessed with Zelda.
I have a huge bookcase at home just full of Zelda stuff.
I've spent at least five to six thousand dollars
on just Zelda stuff.
I know, it's bad.
(laughing)
Don't judge me.
It's like my money pit, I am so obsessed with Zelda.
I own every single game.
I buy everything that comes out about it.
I am obsessed.
First anime you watched.
Oh my god, I think it was Digimon or Yu-Gi-Oh!.
I don't know if they'd be counted as anime or cartoon
but it's like they were always the Saturday morning cartoons
that you tune in every morning and watch.
And they're my absolute favorite.
I still have on my bag, I still have a Digimon digivice
that I carry with me everywhere.
Looking back now, Digimon just seems like kind of a Pokemon
rip-off but I will defend Digimon to the death.
It is so much better than Pokemon.
First thing you do when you wake up.
TikTok.
Always TikTok.
Yeah, every morning I would check to see how many likes
it's got, who mentioned me, what are the newest trends.
Cause my day is just making videos for the most part,
so it's like I need to know exactly what is going on.
I need to keep up to date with all the trends,
who's blowing up and it's just like, yeah.
So the first thing I do everyday is always watch
my friends' videos, check my likes, my comments, everything.
First piercing.
First piercing was not these, it was actually my ear.
My mom made me get my ears pierced when I was eight.
And I hated it.
I thought it was so stupid.
She made me get a ring.
It was a silver ring and I, oh my god, I just wanted
to take it out so many times.
She was like, "No."
(laughing)
She loved it but you know, I grew up and I was like
you can't tell me what to do.
(laughing)
First time you went viral.
Oh god, here we go.
Everybody knows my viral video.
Everyone calls me the local maniac boy and whatever.
My first video, the first one that went huge was,
I did a duet to a girl called Ava and it was to the song
I think the song's called
"I'm Gonna Show You" by Bebe Rexha.
And it went huge, it left it's mark on like TikTok history.
It became known as "The Video."
Like among everyone.
If you said "The Video" everyone knows
what you're talking about.
And that's the craziest thing to me.
I came home from a work shift and I thought,
oh this would be cool.
And it was completely out of my box cause it was kind of
like acting and I'd never done acting before.
So, I was scared to post it.
I didn't think it would do that well.
And for the first day that I posted it,
it wasn't much attention and then I woke up the next day,
and it hit like a million views.
And I was like, wait, cause at that point
the only video I had that had gone viral was maybe 90,000 to
to 100,000 views.
And to wake up to a million.
And then it didn't stop.
It kept going and going and going and now it's at,
I think 31,000,000 views.
Everyone just associates me with that song.
That song's going to haunt me the rest of my life
and I don't even like it.
I don't even like the song.
(laughing)
So for the whole next week of TikTok,
was just like I'm gonna, I'm gonna,
it was just the same song.
And I had to put it on mute.
First concert you attended.
The first concert I went to was Rise Against,
which is, I wouldn't say they're like heavy metal
but it's like rock, I think.
I was obsessed with them back in high school
cause I went through my emo phase like the whole way.
I don't know, it kind of never really ended.
I loved them so I went to their concert.
I was in the mosh, which was my first mosh pit.
I got beaten up but it was great.
It was so good.
(laughing)
I'd do it again.
First time you dyed your hair.
It might've been when I was maybe 12.
I've died my hair probably every single color there is.
There was black and then I went to orange, then purple,
then back to black.
And then now it's split dyed white and black.
Before that I had like a white fringe with black hair.
It was a mess.
I've dyed it literally every single color.
I'm sure the fans are going to go crazy
over the first kiss one.
And the TikTok crush cause I've been putting that off
for no, I'm not telling you, I'm not telling you,
cause nothing good can come from that.
Hopefully you know me a little bit better now.
I'm Caleb Finn and this is BuzzFeed.
Yes?
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