Fame is Cool (Until You Get a Stalker)

hi my name is maz and i am a youtuber so make sure to like comment subscribe and offer your firstborn child oh my gosh is that are you marz from the amazing uh yeah wait how did you find wow you're you're a youtuber i watch your videos all the time and it always manages to cheer me up my favorite is the one where you talk about your brother's scar that really helped me track him down oh and i love your parents they're so nice and we've got so much in common with both pisces moon and blood thai people and dna sequence gta hi my name is maz and i'm not used to being publicly recognized as a youtuber when i first started off making videos i did it with the purest intentions of doing it as a hobby i mean success and being paid for the videos is cool and all but the creative fulfillment you get for making a great video oh man that's just yeah i haven't made one yet so i'll let you know how that goes for me because of the contrast between the methodical environment of the hospital versus the casual laid-back style of youtube the feeling of being recognized as a public figure or the idea that people look up to me for my videos is still to this day insane to me and i'm grateful for each and every one of you well almost every one of you but even though it might seem bizarre to me i can't deny the fact that i do get recognized sometimes i've had to deal with this the most at conventions or events like vidcon and that's completely understandable to me it's a setting where people rock up expecting to meet youtubers you know so of course it's not that much of a surprise oh whoa guys please no need to push if you want to meet me just form a single line all right the first time i ever got recognized was at vidcon australia 2018 back when i had about 60 000 subscribers james had flown down to australia to attend with me because we're best friends and he's filthy bloody wrist so it's bound to be a great time now when we arrived at the actual convention center he was immediately swarmed because well you know he's cute but then this one girl came up to me and asked if i'm mars from the amazing now i wasn't sure what was happening so i kind of just gave an awkward yeah i am she then looks up at me with this expression of wonder in absolute awe of meeting a youtuber and then starts bawling wow am i that ugly so that made her start crying and laughing which is probably a little bit better than before right the thing is i was touched by how emotional she got by seeing me because it was clear that she genuinely liked my content and i wasn't expecting this sort of reaction at all back then but admittedly i was also very flustered because i had no idea how to navigate through this kind of situation so uh because i had that kind of youtube grinding mindset at the time i may or may not have raised up my vlogging camera and recorded her crying when meeting me which i now realize seems like i'm picking on her like oh my gosh look at this loser cry baby little but hey at least she was crying from actual joy of meeting a youtuber that she cared about and because i was in an environment to expect that it was overall a pretty positive experience for both of us at least i think so but there was also a time that i got recognized outside of these conventions when i was least expecting it because i was working at a hospital so a year after the crying incident i was rosted to work with the pediatric ward which meant that i was going to be taking care of a bunch of miners on this specific day i was taking a history from a mom because her daughter had come in with a pretty rough case of asthma it's pretty stock sanded though so i wrap up the questions and thank both of them and as i go to leave walking away from the girl the mother chimes up and says wait a minute you sound like one of the youtubers my daughter watches i think his name is the amazing no no this can't be happening my two lives that i tried so hard to hide were crashing colliding with each other it ain't right cynthia cynthia but this is where i decided to use an ancient tried and tested unfailable technique called bluffing ma'am do you really think that i a mere junior doctor would also have a secret double life as a youtuber a modern-day brown hannah montana perhaps hmm i guess not ha i thought as much hi my name is maz and i'm officially a doctor now frick but see this kind of recognition is when it's all face to face and that's pretty manageable to me because even if i'm caught off guard like i was at the hospital i can rely on my tried and trusted social skills to carry me through it but it all gets into weird territory when people start to use the internet to invade my privacy and that's really scary to me because i've got this one story about how this weirdo almost knocked on my door to figure out where i lived and that's why i'm really glad to have private internet access a leading vpn provider sponsor my video about well privacy wow thanks that actually worked out what's a vpn you ask well it stands for virtual private network which is a fancy way of saying that you create a secure connection to another network over the internet privately it does this by hiding your ip address by replacing it effectively concealing your location and digital footprint which honestly i wish i used a bit sooner also look as an australian the amount of content that we get on our streaming platforms is nothing compared to the us so with a vpn like private internet access you can switch it up to another country and then bam you can watch content from streaming services like netflix amazon prime crunchyroll from whichever country you just set up basically unblocking geo-restricted content private internet access is available for all platforms from windows mac os android ios and many others which is great because you can use one subscription to protect up to 10 devices at the same time with a strict no logs policy and a 30-day money-back guarantee it's a pretty solid vpn service to grab and if you use my link you can get complete digital privacy for about two dollars a month with two extra months for free thanks again to private internet access who's helping support my channel and fend off some of the weird messages that i get with that being said the real creepy thing was when people would reach out to me specifically with information about the places where i used to live this is probably because of my older videos behind the scenes and where i recorded them all in my old houses dorms and apartments and yeah that really used to freak me out so when i would get somebody saying that hey you used to live at 420 bingas lane right or yo i went to baba bowie university too what they didn't realize was that i was already on the phone with the police with super specific instructions on how to apprehend them get them officer now honestly it wasn't until i went to university that i dealt with the really weird message that was posted up on a confession page for our dorm this was basically a private group on facebook where people would send anonymous confessions to each other at least that was the intent of it it slowly but surely became a bit of a meme as it always does when people started posting up anonymous parodies of actual confessions it was sometimes difficult to work out what was real and what was not but then one day i got tagged in a post in which a random stranger with no mutual friends said something along the lines of hey everybody i just realized that my favorite youtuber was living in the same building as me what should i do should i go up to him and maybe introduce myself i mean each of the doorway in the university dorm has the resident's name labeled outside of it so i guess i could just climb the floors and find the room that he lives in you know mars if you're reading this i love you and i think we should make baby now this wasn't the exact post word for word because i left the group out of fear when i refused to go back but my initial reaction was oh no no no no no no no no no no no no hey is this my get them officer now look i'll be the first to admit that this definitely could have been an elaborate prank or meme from my fellow doormates but i'd argue that somebody acting like a stalker to go and manually find your room to invade your privacy to see you is universally scary and not just a me thing alright thankfully i was moving out in a month so it wasn't the worst thing in the world but living in fear for one whole month about people finding out where i lived was not the way i imagined graduating university because yes i might be a youtuber but i'm also just a normal dude at the end of the day i wake up eat work interact and sleep in the same way that you guys do i just get paid to record and put up on the internet so please don't come up to me when i'm at home or my family's home or if i'm occupied with work because yeah i'm not gonna take that well because imagine being in my shoes and seeing random people message you personal information about yourself and your family y'all wouldn't like that either i i hope if you genuinely like my content or it's impacted your life in some way which again is still crazy to me approach me and strike up a conversation when i'm out in public nine times out of ten i'd react to that very positively and have a chat with you for a bit that is the right way of recognizing people all right and with that laters and stay amazing what are you doing i'm taking a blood sample from my favorite youtuber oh okay i just want to quickly say 99 of you who come up to me are always super respectful super kind and i have a great time with you it's just that one percent that really weird me out remember to like comment subscribe with the notification bell and if you've made it this far comment how you are actually my stalker alright and with that laters and stay amazing

Channel: TheAMaazing

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Length: 9min 47sec (587 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 01 2021