Anonymous asked: do people ever recognize you?
It has taken me so long to answer this question because I feel like a douchebag answering it.
But, yeah. A couple of times.
I should clarify that the only people that have recognized me are friends of friends who have seen my videos before meeting me. I’ve never had some random person walk up to me and go “hey do you make youtube movies?”
After high school, I stuck around and got jobs and lived in my mom’s house and made videos. A couple friends of mine who had not yet graduated spread the news of my videos to my alma mater (lol), and they sort of caught on. If only high school kids thought I was cool WHILE I was a high school student! I shake my fist like an old man at the notion.
SO ANYWAY, it’s 2008 and I’m standing outside of my house waiting for the carpool to pick me up. Some high school kid in his car slows down, rolls down his window and shouts “Hey! I like your YouTube movies!”
It was such a nice thing. It still makes me feel good.
Another time, while visiting home for a few weeks in the summer, I was walking to 7-11 when a group of maybe five kids stop and wave to me from across the street and yell “Hi Robot Riley!”
So silly.
