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A documentary crew was visiting the hospital I worked at. They were filming the average shifts of doctors and nurses etc. I didn’t want to be part of it and as I came around the corner, there they all were, coming straight toward me and talking to another nurse. I immediately turned left to get away, tripped over a wet floor sign and fell flat on my face. When the documentary aired, they included the quick talk with the nurse and all you could see in the background was me run, fall and then see my feet poking out of a cupboard.
I voiced a video game and when I recently looked up the game reviews on Reddit, people said one of the most annoying aspects of the game is my voice!
I ran with the Olympic torch when I was 10 years old in Connecticut.
I found myself on People of Walmart
I once donated a signed piece of tv show merch to a charity auction and it turned out to be the main attraction that people were really battling over. No one knew it came from me or anything but it was pretty cool sitting in the audience watching people fight over something I contributed.
I was at a Transiberian Orchestra Concert. I was really into it and after a solid guitar solo from one of the bandmembers, I looked at him and stuck my fist in the air. Well, he saw it, looked at me, and did the same. He then encouraged the rest of the crowd to do the same when they were “feeling it”! Moments like those make you feel like you can command legions.
I’m a white Aussie woman, in my mid 20’s I was flying to the USA and had a layover in Japan- Narita Airport. Went to the food court Macdonalds and I don’t really know what what was said, but it became clear the girl at the counter mistook me for someone famous. Next thing I know I’m being mobbed and asked for pics with everyone! I just went with it and now have a pic of me sitting on the counter of the Maccas with about 80 Japanese people all posing with me very excited. I still have no idea who I was meant to be. I’m average looking and don’t wear make up or fancy clothes.
2-day Jeopardy champion. One of the best experiences of my life.
I was (14yo, 1985) a recipient of of one of the early Cochlear Implants this side of the country. I went on speaking engagements, did some interviews, articles in newspapers and teen magazines, did a benefit with Woody Paige (he wrote the newspaper articles too) and I met with prospective patients around the state for a couple years.I stopped wearing my implant a few years after high school. I had had enough. Silence is golden! Remain a staunch supporter but it wasn’t for me.
I was on Google Street View. Recognizably.That’s global, man!
My husband’s 15 minutes of fame is when we went and saw Bert Kreischer and as Bert was joking about having a hairy a*****e I pointed at my husband and for the rest of the bit he kept pointing at my husband and saying things like “this guy knows what I’m talking about.” My husband was mortified and it was the best birthday I’ve had in awhile lol
I bought the winning ticket for my work lottery group. $10,000,000.
There was a while when American eagle in Times Square had a thing where if you took a picture in their store, it would show up on their massive billboard in the square for 15 seconds. The biggest one there. You didn’t have to purchase anything. So my friend and I went in and they took our picture and sure enough within a couple minutes we were on the biggest screen in Times Square!And it never went away 😂 I guess nobody else wanted to do it…. Because our picture stayed there all night. We returned after dinner and a show and it was still there. Still wonder how many people saw that goofy picture of us just smiling at the camera.
I used to do gymnastics, and to this day I can still just pull a backflip pretty much anywhereSo I was out clubbing w some friends, and we’re at the dance floor, and this group of guys decided to make a circle, so ppl are dancing and s**t. And a lot of girls were taking turns twerking, which there’s nothing wrong w that, but everyone was kinda waiting for someone to do smth else. So I go in and I do my little backflip, and I thought that would be the end of it.Everyone starts cheering and going crazy as if I just scored the winning point at the Super Bowl. And for a while ppl kept like following me as we were leaving to get to our table, and the same group of guys even bought us a round of shots.Obvs the hype ended up dying as the night went on, but I felt pretty cool abt myself, like a lil adrenaline came in lmao
Russell Howard asked me a question while he was performing stand-up in a tiny venue, and my panicked answer made him laugh so hard he bought me a drink afterwards. Most of the details of our interaction are lost to adrenaline, sadly, but he was nice.
I made a reference to one of the fanfictions I wrote. And somebody was like, “HOLY S**T, IS THAT _______” they shouted it out in the middle of a grocery store……… that was my 15 seconds of fame moment.
Cramming a hotdog in my mouth while a famous golf shot was made in a Major. It is a rerun in a lot of sports highlight reels.
I became somewhat known in the retro gaming community for doing this insane YouTube video on an obscure shooter (SHMUP) from 1992. I’d go to cons and get recognized. It was incredibly bizarre but wonderful at the same time. It led to me meeting a somewhat well known game dev. In 2019 he invited me out to San Francisco to a game release party where I spent the day with a bunch of legendary game devs as well as Macaulay Culkin and Brenda Song. Good times.
I was killed at the red wedding (Game of Thrones)
I was the only kid in sixth grade who could spell “psychology”. And then everybody clapped. No, really.
I was one of the little kids trick or treating in the opening sequence of Halloweentown.
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I ate 100 chicken wings in one sitting as a teenager and the chef came out to tell me he was impressed
Profiled on Humans of New York.Said profile also appears in Humans of NY Stories (book).
My picture was in playboy magazine. My mom bought five copies
I slapped some choking kid on the back at Disney world when I was 16. His parents didn’t realize he was choking. I didn’t even know if that was what I was supposed to do. It worked though. The awkward little emo I was hated the amount of attention it got, even if it was only a few minutes worth.
I was the victim of a popular prank video on Tiktok that went viral. It’s completely ruined my Social life
I was on who wants to be a millionaire, i didnt participate but i was the one who came as a friend for the participant, after that episoded aired on the next day at school i was pretty popular. After 2 days nobody gave a s**t anymore.
My dog was in the Latin-American soap opera, ¿Donde Esta Elisa? - he was even in the opening credits. (This is more towards my ex-wife’s 15 minutes).For me, I was on ESPN during the 1992-1993 HCAA hockey championship. I was in the pep band for UMaine and they put the camera right on me playing my tenor sax… and yes, the UMaine Black Bears won. :D
I was in college when the Virginia Tech shooting happened. My school had some sort of memorial service, and a couple friends and I decided to go because we had nothing better to do and it just kinda felt right.Turns out the photographer for our school newspaper was there and my friends and I ended up on the front page, holding our candles.Nothing really came of it but it was kinda wild to see my face on the newsstands.
I got top comment on an AskReddit thread once
I was car-spotting and filming cars in London when a Lamborghini caught fire from revving too hard.I had a large bottle of water on hand to help put out the car fire.
I roasted a celebrity that shall remain nameless in 2020 on Twitter, so many likes retweets replies and… bad DMs I ended up getting so scared I deleted my account.
Years ago when I was a teenager I was in one of those Truth anti-tobacco commercials. My role was the popular girl at a beach party that missed out on the fun because she just HAD to go have a smoke.They made me take huge puffs from a real cigarette to induce coughing, it was nuts lolI never got a copy of the finished commercial but I got to see it before it aired.
I was ranked world number 3 in my sport for 4 years. I’ve been interviewed for sport specific news publications in various countries.
I had a number one iTunes podcast and the logo for my podcast (and my face) was on a screen behind Steve Jobs while he was describing the top podcasts on iTunes. It was an Apple event for the iPod mini in 2005.
My mum won a BAFTA. Not really MY 15 second of fame, but it doesn’t stop me telling people.If we’re talking exclusively MINE, I was very briefly featured on The One Show, in passing footage.
Hanging out with the GZA and The Funky Nomads while GZA and my 12 year old played chess.I will forever be famous to my son for this event! Thanks GZA!For those who don’t know GZA is a member of the Wu Tang Clan.
Went to a professional baseball game in military uniform as a “member of the women’s council”. Went on the field and everything before the game. I was the only male in the group (not actually part of the council) but my female army roommate gave me and another female medic the tickets and we weren’t aware it was an event.The guy reading the names paused before reading mine. Made it a wee bit awkward 🤣
John Daily made fun of me on the Daily show for a picture that was taken of me drunk at a football game. The same picture was on the front page of the newspaper and on every highlight of the game. Colorado 62 Nebraska 36
I hugged prime Britney Spears when I was 16 and she was dating Justin Timberlake, she came into the store I was working at and I told her to have a Merry Christmas
I brought a dishwasher to school
I was on Good Morning America for about 15-30 seconds. Still have the video saved somewhere.
A friend of mine posted a clip of us playing Lethal Company on TikTok that blew up and became the most watched clip of the game for a while. I had no idea until a bunch of people sent it to me and were like “is this you?”
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