I didn't sleep very well last night and this morning I couldn't find my favorite pair of socks again.

Then suddenly, randomly, I received one of the most exciting and incredible emails I think I've ever had.

On my whole my whole world has been turned upside down.

I read 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've never heard of famous birthdays calm.

But as you can imagine, I was intrigued to see if it was really especially if my fans will be very excited about it.

And it turns out not only is this website really, but I found myself already on there with my own personal profile.

Apparently I'm a YouTube star.

Yeah.

Ah, blogger and Vlogger Yeah, and I encourage people to engage with the locals.

Fucking Yeah, I do.

Although I don't ever remember explicitly stating that.

But I definitely do then And this is the bit I'm really excited about.

I discovered the extent of my fame.

It turns out I have 26 592nd most famous birthday in the world over seven billion birthdays.

And I have 26 592nd most famous.

I looked at this and it just hit me 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 jealousy.

If you were to fit the world's most famous 90 people in tow, one football stadium, I would be in that stadium with a margin of 63 408.

Famous birthdays.

Despair and I would be in that stadium alongside fellow celebrities like Justin Bieber.

Ken, what another Ricky Martin on, um, William.

So it is significant Don't take my fame away from me, It z fuck.

Who am I kidding?

I'm not famous.

Famous Birthdays.

Com It's not even a good website.

They've got my birthday wrong.

Surely the fact they got my birthday wrong undermines the entire premise of having a website called famous fucking birthdays.

Nor that it matters.

You're not famous on YouTube these days unless you have, like, three million subscribers.

And even then it's not like Riel proper fame.

Whenever someone asked me what I do for a living and I say I make videos on YouTube, you can see the disappointment slowly wash across their faces.

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 26 0 most famous people on famous birthdays dot com I'm nothing.

Nothing but awful website society.

Do I really believe that I'm a YouTube star?

No, not really.

I'm not completely deleted.

I realized this YouTube channel is still pretty small, insignificant in the grand scheme of YouTube channels.

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 at a wall listening to Duran Duran, and I don't think that's something many people my age can relate.

Thio.

And if you're wondering what my age is, he confined.

AL 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 on Living in a Country is amazing.

And also Miss 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 failed to appreciate how many people have followed this channel over the years.

I've also failed to appreciate where some of these videos have ended up.

It really amazes me where making YouTube videos could lead.

For example, the KFC Christmas video has featured on UK television on Channel four on This is Chris Broad, a teacher living in Japan, who's going to substitute being away from the bosom of his family with chicken shot breast meets.

Then there was the time I was asked to present part of an American documentary on the Travel Channel, where I mainly bumbled around a cat cafe, making a fool of myself.

It's a cat cafe.

Come on, let's go with it.

Chris Brit, living here in Japan is sampling this odd Japanese phenomenon.

This is a disorientated room.

It feels like a lot of cats have escaped.

I've just taken over a house, to be honest, it's like a crazy day care.

Send meets a hostile 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 managed to stuff into one room.

Still not sold on the idea of cat Catholic teaching swear words, video letters and viral success online and to my delight, led to the term swear word missionary Big featured in the headline in the London Metro And that was always my goal in life.

So I was quite happy about that.

More recently, that bloody Marmite video received a lot of exposure on.

Ended up on the sinister, all powerful daily mail website amongst other places even lead to the most ludicrous situation I've ever seen.

In which was giving an interview on BBC radio about how I gave Japanese people Marmo.

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 didn't know I was a I was in a bad mood that day.

I didn't know you offered them great slabs of white bread with Marmite slathered all over it.

I figured if you're gonna try my my, you might as well do it in a big way.

Try Mom, I in a big way.

I never thought I would be saying that phrase or BBC radio, So that was interesting.

Also, when I first met my good friend not ski for the first time, he told me about a weird, bizarre dream that he had to become forever immortalized online next to the smirking face of J.

K.

Rolling 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 realized, as he now features and those annoying Clickbait thumbnail links on websites around the world, Dreams become reality on the abroad in Japan Channel.

Of course, the biggest benefit from doing this has been connecting with so many amazing people around the world.

Every week I received 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 swearing, Oh, go fuck yourself, eso That is the real reward behind doing this.

Not the prospect of being a YouTube star and certainly not the prospect of rising through the ranks of famous birthdays.

Thio.

Try and beat my friend Charlotte in Japan.

I think she's got the 16448th birthday.

I think you know, I can't believe she's 10 0 birthdays more famous than I am that z ridiculous, you know, just because she she smiles more in her videos.

Bitch, if there's one lesson I want you to take away from this video, though, is if you put your heart and soul into something, something you enjoy something you're passionate about, You No, sorry.

I just wanted to sound really profound and clever.

The rial lesson in this video is don't trust the Birthdays on famous Birthdays Com 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 are take anything I could 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.

Please don't forget to hit the like button.

If you want more videos, I'll see you next time.

You can also find lots of cute, smiling characters on nearly every object, whether it's the sheep shaking the hand on a pack of tissues or the cute rabbit on the front of the notebook.

Cute but slightly insane.

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