I was having a pretty average day today
I didn't sleep very well last night and
this morning I couldn't find my favorite
pair of socks I'm not again and then
suddenly randomly I received one of the
most exciting and incredible emails I
think I've ever had and my whole my
whole world has been turned upside down
and I'll read it out hi Chris
I'm with famous birthdays a popular
celebrity website visited over 10
million times a month 10 million times a
month I'm contacting you because many of
your fans have been searching for you on
our website my fans
if you'd like to be added to our website
all we need for you to send over is your
birthday and year you were born your
fans will be very excited to find your
famous birthdays now I'd ever heard of
famous birthdays calm but as you can
imagine I was intrigued to see if it was
real especially if my fans will be very
excited about it and it turns out not
only is this website real I found myself
already on there with my own personal
profile apparently I'm a YouTube star
yeah a blogger and a vlogger yeah and I
encourage people to engage with the
locals [ __ ] yeah I do though don't
ever remember explicitly stating that
but I definitely do and then and this is
the bit I'm really excited about I
discovered the extent of my fame it
turns out I have the twenty six thousand
five hundred and ninety second most
famous birthday in the world over seven
billion birthdays and I have the twenty
six thousand five hundred ninety second
most famous
and I I looked at this and it just hit
me how how famous I am which is of
course very very famous now I'm sure at
this point some people might say famous
birthdays rankings are not an accurate
measurement of Fame those statistics are
completely meaningless except as a
beacon to desperate pathetic individuals
such as yourself to which I say enough
enough of this is jealousy if you were
to fit the world's most famous ninety
thousand people into one football
stadium I would be in that Stadium with
a margin of sixty three thousand four
hundred eight famous birthdays to spare
and I would be in that stadium alongside
fellow celebrities like Justin Bieber
Ken Watanabe Ricky Martin and
William so it is significant don't don't
take my phone away from me it's it's
done I'll [ __ ] who am I kidding I'm not
famous famous birthdays calm it's not
even a good website it got my birthday
wrong
surely the fact they got my birthday
wrong undermines the entire premise of
having a website called famous [ __ ]
birthdays not that it matters you know
famous on YouTube these days unless you
have like three million subscribers and
even then it's not like real proper fame
whenever someone asks me what I do for a
living and I say I make videos on
YouTube you can see the disappointment
slowly wash across their face as they
turn to go away probably gonna have to
start lying about what I do for a living
and even then the lies won't hide the
fact that I'm not even in the most
famous 26000 most famous people and
famous birthdays calm I'm nothing
nothing
but awful websites aside do I really
believe that I'm a YouTube star and no
not really I'm not completely deluded I
realize this YouTube channel it's still
pretty small insignificant in the grand
scheme of YouTube channels and honestly
I've never been attracted to the idea of
being a YouTube star either just because
I'm not particularly charismatic or
interesting I spend most of my time
staring a wall listening to Duran Duran
and I don't think that's something many
people my age can relate to and if
you're wondering what my age is you can
find it out or famous birthdays calm but
why do I make youtube videos then if not
to become a raging YouTube star surely
anyone who has a YouTube channel must be
driven by some kind of egotistical
desire to stand out well firstly my
motivation behind doing this was born
out of a small filmmaking hobby I've
always had and living in a country is
amazing and awesome as Japan gave me an
excuse to put that hobby to good use and
over the years of living in Japan I've
been pretty lucky to come across some
fairly unique situations people and
places there's never been a plan though
other than making a video I thought
would be informative or entertaining in
some way I never anticipated that videos
would be watched by so many people
honestly I still fail to appreciate how
many people have followed this channel
over the years and I've also failed to
appreciate where some of these videos
have ended up it really amazes me where
making YouTube videos can lead for
example the KFC Christmas video is
featured on UK television on channel 4
and this is Chris broad a teacher living
in Japan who's going to substitute being
away from the bosom of his family with
some chicken shop recipes then there was
the time I was asked to present part of
an American documentary on the Travel
Channel where I mainly bumbled around
the cat cafe making a fool of myself
it's a cat cafe come on let go of it Oh
Chris from Britt living here in Japan is
sampling this odd Japanese phenomenon
this is a disorientating room
it feels like a lot of cats are for
escapes and I've just taken over a house
to Yorkist it's like a crazy daycare
center needs a hostel don't even think
about going past that curtain with these
two guys no doubt about it the cats are
in charge here yes they certainly were I
can't believe how many cats they manage
to stuff into one room still not sold on
the idea of cat Katherine the teaching
swearwords video led to some viral
success online and to my delight led to
the term swear word missionary being
featured in a headline in the London
metro and that was always my goal in
life so I was quite happy about that
well recently that bloody Marmite video
received a lot of exposure and ended up
on the sinister all-powerful Daily Mail
website amongst other places it even led
to the most ludicrous situation I've
ever been in which was giving it
interview on BBC Radio about how I gave
Japanese people Marmite now I've watched
I've watched the video I have to say
there are a couple of things objections
I have to the way that you tested this
Marmite has to be spread very thinly on
hotly buttered toast for it to be
palatable yeah I don't know I wasn't a I
was in a bad mood the day I did it
though so I've offered a great slab sort
of white bread with Marmite slathered
all over it I figured if you're gonna
try Marmite you might as well do it you
know and I've been a big way
try Marmite in a big way I I never
thought I would be saying that phrase of
BBC radio so that was I was interesting
also when I first met my good friend
that scheme for the first time he told
me about a weird bizarre dream that he
had to become forever immortalized on
line next to the smoking face of JK
Rowling at the time of course I told him
it was crazy if not unrealistic and yet
following on from that Marmite video his
dream has now finally been realised as
he now features in those annoying
clickbait thumbnail links on websites
around the world
dreams become reality on the upon Japan
Channel
of course the biggest benefit from doing
this has been connecting with so many
amazing people around the world every
week I receive literally hundreds of
emails comments messages from people
sharing their stories and experiences
and dreams and I'm very grateful knowing
others have gotten insight into Japan
over the years through these videos it
is really rewarding whether that's been
sharing in the ongoing struggle battle
of learning Japanese exploring the
country or the culture or just sharing
in the magic of Fox's robots and swear
it ah
go back use them yay so that is the real
reward behind doing this not the
prospect of being a YouTube star is
certainly not the prospect of rising
through the ranks of famous birthdays to
try and beat my friend Sharla and Japan
I think she's got the sixteen thousand
four hundred and forty-eight birthday I
think you know I can't believe she's ten
thousand birthdays more famous than I am
that's ridiculous you know just because
she she smiles more in our videos [ __ ]
if there's one lesson I want you to take
away from this video though it is if you
put your heart and soul into something
something you enjoy something you're
passionate about and you there sorry I
just wanted to sound really profound and
clever the real lesson in this video is
don't trust the birthdays on famous
birthdays calm stupid website trying to
make me even more egotistical and
unpleasant with silly meaningless
statistics although don't be surprised
if I use those statistics for marketing
purposes I'll take anything I can get
thanks for watching guys and thank you
for your support over the years I don't
say thank you enough so thank you
wherever you are in the world there's
some fantastic stuff coming up so keep
an eye out and please don't forget to
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also find lots of cute smiling
characters on nearly every object
whether it's the Sheep shaking the hand
on a pack of tissue or the cute rabbit
on the front of the note cute but
slightly insane I like a downer
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