I’ll go first, to set the tone:

Tay Zonday of ‘Chocolate Rain’ fame used to follow me on Twitter. 💪

  • Imaginary_Stand4909@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 hours ago

    Unfortunately we didn’t get 1st place, but my high school Splatoon 3 team got 2nd place in a national e-Sports competition, so I guess I used to be one of the best teenagers in the nation.

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    I was a participant in what was described as a “tipsy, low-kick cancan line” by a young journalist covering a show for a university’s student newspaper when I was a pre-teen (ah, all-ages shows, good times).

    I’ve been censored on the radio on two separate occasions (made jokes about a competing station when calling in for a giveaway).

    There’s others but they are far lamer, if you can believe it.

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    6 hours ago

    I was in a ring pop commercial for about half a second, and it was just my silhouette.

    I also started a Smash Brothers tournament for Smash 4 that ended up in the national rankings at one point. I think our largest tournament had 80 people. We had some high ranking players like Jtails come, and even guest commentators like Max Ketchum. I was actually college room mates with one of PC Chris’ close friends, and I had the pleasure of getting absolutely destroyed by Chris in Melee a few times in some basement hangouts. My college room mate actually made a brief appearance in the Smash Brothers documentary in the chapter about PC Chris.

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    German indie rock band Guano Apes has an autograph from my wife.

    Basically one of the band members was a friend of a friend and she was over once or twice. And he has a door where he collected visitor’s autographs.

    I don’t know if they were already famous at that time. They might have been.

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    9 hours ago

    I have improved the lives of many people in small ways via my job as a therapist. The best part is that I know this for a fact by seeing the improvement over time. Therapy is, in some respects, about re-parenting people; the damage you help heal is intimate and permanent. You help people grow, literally. Very rewarding, again, in the long run.

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    11 hours ago

    I worked with Linus Torvalds, met Carl Sagan, and caught a cold from Danny Elfman.

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    12 hours ago

    I once interviewed the former chancellor of West Germany, Helmut Schmidt, on a stage in Hamburg Schauspielhaus in front of thousands. It was also on TV.

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    Back in my Reddit days I made a meme for the D&D memes subreddit about how my players decapitated an enemy with a bag of holding

    That somehow ended up on the front page of Reddit and I very quickly learned about a TTRPG series called dungeons and daddies that did the same thing

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    I was a niche internet microcelebrity once. I ran a shitty facebook meme page (two of them, even) with some 40k followers.

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    TL;DR- Drunk and with no experience I lead a small group in pretty big parade.

    I once led a small marching band in a parade while incredibly drunk, with a flagpole effectively attached to my cock (yeah, just rest the end against your belt, it’s fine), and with only 45 minutes of training the weekend before. At the largest fife and drum muster in the US. I had no prior experience at anything remotely related. I had only been to one of the corp’s meetings previously. Later that night I kissed my future wife for the first time.

    I’m sure there’s some wonderful psychoanalysis take away that I thought of the flag as an extension of my cock.

    To this day I have no idea why they didn’t get the actual marching band member boyfriend of one of the members to lead, because apparently I was pretty awful at it. It got some minor news coverage, so there’s a chance a picture exists somewhere.