okay, so i'm old.. but i don't get the you tube and vloging thing thing. my youngest dd [15] has been following a well known you tuber connor franta and sends messages to him on twitter, he has sent back a message direct to her and now she has gained over a 1000 likes because of the message she sent that he liked and responded to !!!! it all happened within a couple of hours, she's star struck, i'm gob smacked and 100s of young people want her to put in good word for them with the man of the moment, so he might contact them too, crazy or what ? i have expect fans peering through the window when i'm doing the washing up and her getting asked for autographs at school several people who know her have retweeted it and face booked it too, she is probably known about in darkest peru and outer mongolia as i type this.
but i still don't get it am i being dim or something ? [be gentle i'm a facebook. social media virgin] !
AIBU?
my daughter become a 'celebrity' over night [you tube ]
mrsfuzzy · 01/05/2015 14:58
Shit!!!!! She got 1000 likes??? She is famous!
Seriously OP, I think you have been caught up in your dd excitement. It's not actually a huge deal. She isn't famous not will anyone come to the door looking for her.
But in perspective, I have 5k followers on Twitter and histogram.......And I am not familiar or even vaguely exciting, funny or interesting to follow. My last post was a picture of my new wall light 
And apparently my kindle fire doesn't know what instagram is and calls it histogram 
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private really? A lot of my rl friends have many more than that. So I suppose I thought it was average.
It's a Captain America wall light. Maybe my marvel obsession has boosted it
DadonIce It has become quite the thing now.
Even bigger is Twitch, a platform that allows gamers to stream what they're playing with commentary. People can literally quit their jobs to become full time game streamers. I have a couple of favourite Twitch streamers myself, and he became so popular last summer that he could afford to quit his job. However when the summer holidays ended he had to go back to his day job (he was a freelance computer tech, so it wasn't like he had to go begging for a job back, he just stopped taking jobs for a while). He still streams pretty regularly and has won awards too. On Twitch, you have the ability to become a "Twitch Partner" - You need to fit a specific set of criteria to become so, such as regular streaming and a certain amount of viewers. But when you are a Twitch Partner, you get paid money from adverts on your channels. Viewers can also subscribe to the channel for $5 a month (non commital), and the streamer gets a cut of that, and people can donate a set amount of money, which I believe they keep majority of. I've seen single donations of $1000 before!
There are also people that have become millionaires from gaming, and I wish I was good enough to do so as well 
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Aww I didn't notice this was AIBU and was hoping this was a guest blog with Zoellas mum or something
I have about 6k Instagram followers and I'm not very interesting either, I'm just good at plaits, have nice house decor and a cute kid
Your daughter isn't famous, though I've seen it happen where a famous vlogger favourited one girls hair tutorial video online, this gained her 10k new subscribers overnight which kept growing as they liked her videos, and said girl now does YT for her day job!
My sister is a bit 'famous' on Instagram with almost half a million followers. I, on the other hand, am feeling famous when someone repins my pins on Pinterest!
Shewept 5000+ followers on Instagram and twitter isn't average.
OP calm down! Unless you're the 15 year old, in which case, carry on.
It's normal. If Justin Bieber retweets someone or follows them, that person will get 1000's of new followers within seconds. It's a teenage fan thing. Exactly how a lot of us were as teenagers but now they have the internet so easy access to 'celebs' in a way we didn't have.
Let her have her thrilled, Queen of Sheba moment but you're the adult.
Got to laugh...My mundane photos of 'here is my new wall light' and 'this is my new superman mug' got me above average followers.....omg I am instafamous
Actually just remembered David hasslehoff and Chloe Madely follow me, maybe it's not the wall lights then. Maybe it's the uber slebs that follow me
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