Getting Recognized Stories

hello my geeks and peeps my explainers and blah blah blah listen here if you know that intro you probably know who I am and if not hello I'm Rebecca thanks for noticing my mouth isn't hanging open right ? out of the question without it anyway, back to my original point, if you know me, there's a chance that one day you'll be wandering the world and you've spied a wild becca in its natural habitat and if that glorious day comes, I'll tell you I assure. little udalais it's okay to get close I won't mutilate you to death probably something you'll hear a lot from storytellers is that they don't know why people get excited or overwhelmed when they meet them oh please don't cry I'm just a weirdo who spends too much time in front of a computer screen and doesn't bathe as much as he should.

That's it, that's the reality of our situations. The day to day of what we do is not glamorous. In fact, I'll tell you the only time this job feels like glamorous conventions where sponsors give us a ton of free stuff and when we go on stage everyone comes back, but even then you're working really hard at these events. You're sweaty and exhausted and your feet hurt because you only had to wear shiny high heels, didn't you, Dorothy, put them together? Maybe you'll get some Dr. Scholl, your wannabe fashionista, wait, what was I talking about? Oh, sure, meet them all.

Sit down, I heard funny

stories

about three years ago. I was in the supermarket. Nothing particularly important about this trip. I was just buying my stuff. I got in line to pay and there was a high school kid and his mom in front. Of me, a tall, tall football player, now when I'm at a convention or on the rare occasions I appear on camera for a video, I tend to dress up a little, but that day I was in normal Becca mode, no makeup, my hair was all very curly, I was wearing my glasses like that, it would help disguise me, no one will suspect anything if I wear my Clark King glasses, but still, sometimes people don't realize who I am because I'm not at all pretty, a good example while I was standing there in line, I noticed the high school boy started staring at me for a long time, the wheels were definitely turning in his head, he took out his phone, searched for something and then started looking between me and his phone a few Sometimes, that's fun.

Feeling knowing they're looking at you but not wanting to awkwardly return eye contact, so you do that quick glance over and over again. The boy's mother finished paying and began to push the basket away from her, yelling at her to let her out, come on. She looked at me pretty frantically and she said are you Rebecca Parham? Yes, safe photo, click and he walked out the door. The cashier looked at me and said what the hell was that. He

recognized

me from my YouTube channel. Any nerd who talks about stores. I once had a little girl follow me through the pharmacy section of Target, every time she stopped me in an aisle and looked at something, she would stand six feet away from me and pretend she was looking at the shelves too.

I know she was pretending because little girls aren't usually her. She was fascinated with rogaine, she looked at me askance a lot but she never said anything to me. She wasn't wearing makeup that day either and was probably really sleep deprived so I must have looked pretty scary with a resting witch face and everyone, yeah, come closer. Girl, would you like a selfie? I promise you it won't steal your soul. Very often I am surprised by the kind of people who know who I am, they also show up in every situation. Look, most of the time young kids come up to me. early teens in college, you get it, so when my mom and I were at the airport and walking to our door, I was quite surprised when a man traveling alone in his 40s approached me and said: Excuse me, but...

Are you Rebecca Parham? I wasn't ready for that, my brain was expecting this man to say, excuse me, is this the flight to London or some other elderly person? Remember that Thundercats show? He was a good guy and he told me that he watched my videos with his daughter, ah. your son is making you look at me now, that makes sense, fair play to you, dedicated parental unit. There was a time in 2019. I was in downtown San Antonio for San Japan, a big Weeb Fest anime convention. I was there to sing at a concert with fellow youtubers Caleb Hiles Annapantsu and CG5 the night before the convention started we all went to dinner and when we finished we called an Uber to get back to the hotel I was in the front seat and Caleb was in the back. back seat directly behind I must have been talking about something very interesting because I had turned towards my window to better talk to him over my shoulder, the car stopped at a red light and as we were sitting there, a movement outside of me window caught my attention.

Look up. and this is what I saw in the suburb next to me, quite funny, there was a time when my face wasn't even

recognized

about three years ago I was at Disney World with my family and on this particular day we were at Epcot David. and I was waiting outside the bathrooms for Mom and Rachel when a girl walked by and noticed that David was wearing an opening lab t-shirt. The nerd stopped and said, "Hey, I really like your shirt." I couldn't help but notice that. The girl was wearing a Voyage of the Spirit t-shirt, so I said, "Oh, look, you're wearing Hayao Miyazaki.

You should really go to the Japan pavilion. They have all kinds of fun anime and manga stuff here. I was pretty pleased with it." my perfectly executed socialization.” interaction there its very easy to talk to my fellow geeks but then i noticed how she was looking at me she was looking at me very intently and narrowing her eyes suspiciously i immediately thought i had said something stupid oh god i insulted her i assumed she liked me the anime. i mispronounced hayao miyazaki i did something i should have done she kept looking at me but then she said you sound familiar hello my geeks and peeps my explainers and entertainers and that was all i needed to hear uh who needs to stand in line for a photo? with a princess, you have a moderately popular youtuber here, but I will never forget that the only reason I was recognized that day was because of David's nerdy shirt, you won this one bro and speaking of nerdy shirts, we have one of those sweet new witches from The wooden shirts in store for you, we call this one the garden witch shirt, good for ladies, gentlemen and all other corporeal beings, get them while they're hot.

Baby cakes link in description below. Okay, I think I'm almost out of time. for this video now, don't forget the explainers and animators, if you see this face poking around in the post-pandemic outside world, you won't be afraid to show up. It makes my heart happy to see their blessed little faces and then squeeze them. Good morning my little oolalies, thank you so much for tuning in, but now I have to tune out, goodbye.