It's hard to be a normal human being and become famous on the internet. In most cases, you have to be an overweight preteen tweaking out over videogames, a ninja, a baby singing rap songs, or a groin injury.
Mr. Chi City is none of these. His videos involve nothing out of the ordinary: freeze pops, parking tickets, and chrome garbage cans. He has acquired millions of hits on YouTube and CollegeHumor, yet he remains just a "regular dude who happens to own a digital camera."
I spoke to the self-proclaimed "realest dude on YouTube" last week about how to get women, keeping anonymity in his videos, and why he thinks his videos are so popular.
How did you begin making the videos?You know what, man, I had a friend who was in a -they don't call them halfway houses anymore, now they're called transitional houses- and he had internet access. I guess you could call it good behavior, where as long as they wasn't in there clownin', they would let them watch TV and have internet and stuff like that. So he wanted me to e-mail him and keep him updated on what was going on, and I was like, "If you got the internet, look, I'll post a video about my Chevy on YouTube and then you can just check it out." And he hit me up the next day like, "Man, we really liked seeing your car... could you post something else, just going around where you live at?"
So I was like... "A'ight."
[laughs]
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