I’ll go first, to set the tone:

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

  • WibblyMcButternutz@lemmy.world
    55·
    1 month ago

    I ran in a 10km race and ended up taking a wrong turn. Everyone behind followed me. A small local newspaper interviewed me. I ended up in a quick tv segment and had a small write up in the paper.

    • Thaurin@lemmy.world
      8·
      1 month ago

      Hahaha, that happened to me as well, although nobody followed me. I ended up in the marathon race, for which I hadn’t trained, so after 30 km (!) I had to finally give up and ride back in shame in the car they had at that station together with the others that didn’t made it.

      I did run the marathon a few years later.

  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
    44·
    1 month ago

    The Daily Show flew out to my hometown for an investigative report on stolen Crimewatch signs.

    I still have mine.

  • ᓚᘏᗢ@piefed.socialEnglish
    43·
    1 month ago

    For a long time I was in the first image result if ‘London goth’ was typed into google.

  • justdaveisfine@piefed.socialEnglish
    40·
    1 month ago

    I set up a SteamLink app onto a Raspberry Pi but I ran into a bug and couldn’t get it to work correctly. Valve acknowledged that they were looking into fixing it but after a few weeks of checking, I just put it aside and forgot about it.

    Well nearly a year later, the thought randomly popped into my head that I should check to see if they had fixed it. I went to the Steam Link section of Steam’s forum, and sure enough, one of Valve’s devs had posted a new version that fixed the issue.

    … 30 seconds prior to me checking the forum.

    I’ve never had something like that align so perfectly, but also for something so ridiculous as that.

    • Ugurcan@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 month ago

      I had that with a GitHub repo seemed abandoned, only to get updated first time in 4 years just a minute before I checked.

    • Drusas@fedia.io
      25·
      1 month ago

      I was among the first couple thousand to join gmail.

      People who think that my simple email address is their email address (which I guess is my email address plus some numbers or something) have become the bane of my existence in the years since.

      • Zak@lemmy.world
        15·
        1 month ago

        I’ve had at least three different people on different continents provide my Gmail address to various services. I’ve ignored most messages meant for those people, but one gave it to his lawyer when he was charged with a serious crime for which his conditions of release forbade contact with children. I took the time to tell the lawyer that’s nothing to do with me.

      • Zak@lemmy.world
        9·
        1 month ago

        I am, with the obvious username. I mostly only post in /r/flashlight now, as it’s the most active community anywhere online for that niche interest.

    • 4am@lemmy.zip
      4·
      1 month ago

      I have a low-6-digit Slashdot account, and I was user 480 on the Minecraft bukkit forum lol

  • Dhar@lemmy.ca
    35·
    1 month ago

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

  • pruwyben@discuss.tchncs.de
    34·
    1 month ago

    I was first to crack a code that appeared at the end of an episode of the Adult Swim show 12 Oz. Mouse. They sent me a T-shirt for it.

  • phanto@lemmy.ca
    34·
    1 month ago

    I encoded one of the very first mp3’s ever made, when it was still a “theoretical” model by Fraunhofer. I sung “I will survive” but in my very bad impression of William Shatner, accidentally posted it many years later on Napster, and found that copy following around many years after that on a torrent site. So, if you have a very old, very fake “Shatner” singing “I Will Survive”, it might be me.

  • DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world
    26·
    1 month ago

    I’ve made breakfast for LeBron James, Kevin Love and also Denzel Washington. I was the breakfast cook in a hotel they stayed at. LeBron was a dick, never even said thank you. Denzel and Kevin were some of the nicest humans I’ve ever met.

    • 2piradians@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 month ago

      No matter how many records James sets, Jordan will always be considered the greatest. Maybe it makes him sullen, but he should have worked on being more charismatic instead.

      • DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 month ago

        Whole heartedly agree with this. As an immigrant, back home, everyone knew Jordan, Michael Jackson and Mohammed Ali. I’ve even watched Ali’s fights on VHS tape (if that’s the correct term for the old video tapes) back in the 80s when I was a little kid. I did the same with Jordan’s games later on. I’ve listened to Jackson songs and danced (horribly) with them (to them?). In my country now, hardly anyone knows James, or any of the new generation.

    • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 month ago

      I always tried to get pictures of my end screens so I could send them in. Never actually mailed one, I don’t think.

  • Tedesche@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    1 month 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.