Now, you might think that since I'm making a part 2 of this, I must get recognized a whole lot like I'm some sort of celebrity or something... Nonononono. What actually happens, is that... ...I'm awkward, and I don't want to speak for everyone, but chances are, you're awkward, too. So when I do get recognized, we're both being awkward. Together. And that stuff makes for great videos. Once you get to MY level of YouTube fame, whenever I go out in public, I always have a thought in the back of my mind: "I wonder if any of these people have seen me pour sprinkles over my shirtless body?" I especially get worried when I see my target demographic in public... ...Little boys. This might be paranoia, or anxiety.. But I swear, sometimes little boys... Will stare at me for an uncomfortable amount of time. And I'm just trying my best NOT to make eye contact. You know, I don't really have any defining physical characteristics that make me stand out. As of right now, little boys have to look at me and think: "Is that tall, white, dirty blond hair, early 20 year old beta male that one youtuber I like? Or am I just imagining things?" It's funny I call myself "TheOdd1sOut", when I'm part of like.. no minorities. I mean I might get nervous around little boys.. But when I DO get recognized it's the highlight of my day. So I don't know what I'm worried about. I should just wear a shirt that says: "HEY!!!...I'm TheOdd1sOut." So one time I went to Walmart and I was buying
a bunch of whoopee cushions for my April Fool's video, and as I was walking down
the aisle I saw this little boy at the other end walking towards me and his
face just lit up and I thought, "Oh this kid knows this is happening, ladies and
gentlemen here we go!" "Are you James?" "whoo?" and I walked off I'm
just kidding I mean I did say "whoo" but I didn't walk away, I was just, I was just
messing with the kid it's probably really weird for that kid to see a
YouTuber in Walmart buying nothing but whoopie cushions, so that was fun. This
other time I was buying supplies for my 3,000,000 sprinkle video and I ended up
going to three different stores, "Hey do you guys have an inflatable pool?" "Yeah
what size do you need?" "Um, enough to fit three million sprinkles..." "What are you
using it for?" "I need it for a thing." So after I finished my important business
errands I felt a little hungry so I decided to buy some pre-made food. I work
hard DANG IT! I deserve it and I decided to go eat at Zupas. Zupas is a pretty
good restaurant, they have sandwiches and soup and they give you a
chocolate-covered strawberry with every order.
I'm telling you this because I want them to sponsor me. I went up to the counter and
there was this employee that said, "Hey man what's up?" And this is going to be a
bit of a tangent but I just want to say that I absolutely LOOOVE that kind of
employee. It's SOOO much better than those fake fast-food employees, do you know the
ones I'm talking about? Like every time I pull up into a chick-fil-a drive-through
there will be an employee that will say "It's always a great day at chick-fil-a!
My name is Mackenzie. How may I serve you?" And I just want to say "Mackenzie,
Mackenzie, Mackenzie, Mackenzie. I came here yesterday and Bryan said the exact
same thing. I know your manager told you to say that. Look, neither of us want to
be here okay? No one says 'It'S a gReaT dAy At
CHicK-Fil-A', okay, that's so dumb. So stop lying to me and give me the usual. Like I
would much rather have a fast-food employee just say *punches wall* "What you want?!?" Okay
maybe not that rude but you get the point.
So now there's a random guy who works at Zupas who doesn't even know I put him
in a YouTube video but I like his work ethic. Treat me like a person
and not like a customer. Anyway, tangent over. I ordered some soup and a sandwich.
Cool. I go up to the cash register, my soup is ready, but my sandwich wasn't. The
girl said "Did you get anything else or just soup?" I said "No I got a sandwich too."
I paid for the food but the sandwich still wasn't ready. I checked my phone,
looked at Twitter. By now the sandwich was done. The girl took the sandwich and
the soup and a chocolate-covered strawberry and put it in a plastic box
doggy bag thing. I was super hungry. I thought the transaction was done, so I
grabbed a box and start sliding it towards me.
Then she took out a plastic bag and said "Oh, do you want in a bag?" and I thought
"Yeah. I do." So I slid the food back over, and as this girl was putting the food in the bag she yelled, "JAAAAAAAAaaaAAAAaaaAAAaaMESeeeeeeeuh? And I was NOT ready for that. "Oh hey, I mean, mean WHOOOooOoOoOoO? She said, "Did
you come here because of my email?" *James whispering* "You've sent an email?" So that was pretty fun all.
The other employees were like, "Wait, this guy's important?" There's a high chance
that this woman is watching this video right now and I looked up her email and
her name is Scarlett, isn't that a nice name? So Scarlett, if you're watching, can you tell your coworker I like his work ethic? Also, can you hook me up with free
Zupaz? I never really understood how people could get nervous talking to me.
I'm just some 21 year old who likes M&Ms and drawing cartoons for the Internet.
I've always thought of myself as a pretty normal guy. At least I never
understood that sort of nervousness until I met carlsagan42. I recently got
into this game called Mario Maker (good game) which is a game where you can
make your own Mario levels and share them with the world via the Internet. I
wanted to find some Mario Maker let's players that were one: good at the game
and two: weren't screaming every 10 seconds, which is actually a lot harder
to find and you might think. But, I went searching and I found these three let's
players who mostly play Mario Maker and, they're "all right" at the game. I mean
they're only a little better than me. (jealous much?) If one of my videos gets delayed, you
could probably thank these three because I'm watching their videos instead of
working. Also, this is going to sound weird, but every morning after I wake up
at 12, I pour myself a bowl of cereal and I watch one of their videos so I start
my day off with my Mario Maker Boys. (MMB) Anyway, one of the let's players,
"carlsagan42" carlsagan42: "Mushruuuum!" was going to Phoenix Comic-Con, which was great because I was also
going to Phoenix Comic Con. I didn't have a panel or anything. I just went with
Jaiden and her friends, and we just walked around. Comic-Con was a lot of fun.
I met up with a lot of people, I even got recognized at sooooubaway. One of the workers knew me There's this room where you could play video games, and I went up to
this one kid playing Super Smash Brothers, and I said "Alright dude, let's
do this!" And he said, "I feel like I know you from somewhere." "Huh, okay". and then I totally wiped the floor with him with Kirby, and he was like
twelve years old, so I had a fun time at the con, but I also wanted to meet Carl.
Now Carl wasn't going to the con because of his Mario Maker skillzzzz, but rather he
was going because he's actually a scientist who studies vaccines and plants,
and he was going to talk about that. So on Friday, after doing some stalking on
Twitter, I found out that he had a panel at 9 p.m. YES! Leading up to the panel, I
realized that I was getting my information off a tweet and not from the
official Comic Con handbook, so I didn't even know if I was going to the correct
panel When 9 p.m. rolled around, I walked into the room Carl said he was having
his panel. I saw a group of 5 people sitting on a stage, but I didn't see Carl.
*sighs* "Guess he's not here. (Look back, James.) OH WAIT HE IS HERE! HE'S JUST THE ONLY PERSON IN COSSSPLAY!' That's the guy I like! The one in the wig!" (Spongebob's wig is better) As I listened to his panel, I kept
telling myself that Carl was just a normal person like me, he plays Mario, I
make cartoons, I shouldn't be nervous to talk to him. Why am I like this? (Nervousness, duh) The panel
was great. Everyone enjoyed it except for this one woman, who I think was
"anti-vaccine". Once it was done, the panelists stayed around for a couple of
minutes, and I went up to Carl and I said Hey, I really like your Mario Maker
streams." And since he talked about vaccines, I showed him this comic I made
back in 2014, which I will read now "Hey folks! Are you
tired of hearing this? 'Can you believe all the horrible things doctors put in
vaccines? There's no way I'm vaccinating MY child! Well suffer no longer with the
ANTI-ANTI VACCINE! (AAV) The Anti-Anti Vaccine will stop anyone from thinking vaccines
are harmful, or cause autism!' And then he injects the Anti-Anti Vaccine into the
person, and then he flops over. 'Is he okay?' 'No he's dead!' Vaccinate your relatives
TODAY!'" It's dark, yes, but Carl liked it, and he even said that AAV is a name of a
virus. So vaccines actually a virus, actually vaccines are viruses. So the
anti-vaccine lady was behind me and I think she wanted to talk to Carl, so I
said, "Okay, (whispers) I love you. BYE!" and I left Carl to deal with her. Some of you might be
wondering why I didn't say "Oh, also Carl, by the way, I have 3 million subscribers
on YouTube." ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Well, because I think that's rude. And I didn't want to flex TOO HARD.
I mean, if he did ask about my sub count, I totally would have told him, but I
don't know I just didn't want to brag. I tell you the story because I understand
that people might get anxiety talking to someone they look up to. And just because
I have more subs than someone, doesn't mean I won't get nervous talking to them.
Senpais can have senpais, too. I wonder who Carl's senpai is. Then two days later, I
tweeted out to him and he followed me back and we're BFFs now. Now guys, don't
embarrass me in front of Carl, okay? Don't just go to his channel and
comment "Who's here because of the oods1out?" Because no one cares, alright? If
you have to comment, comment, "Wow great video Carl! You're an awesome
person when it comes to Mario. You just jumped right into my heart." And also you
can check out the other two that I mentioned. They're, they're pretty good too. So in conclusion, is it cool to be recognized? Yeah. Will I ever get tired of it? Who knows? Oh man, I finished another video. I
hope Carl doesn't think I'm weird, I mean I am a little weird. Carl you have weird
fans. Also, the other two streamers Ryu and POO,
I want to meet them as well. I just want to say that for the rest of this month
and the next month I'm going to be super busy, I have a lot of trips planned out,
one of them being VidCon, which I'm super excited for, so sorry if there's a long
time until the next video. Also another thing, I want to thank my friend FootofaFerret for making the part of the video, where I read off my vaccinate
comic, so that's why it looked like an episode of Game Theory. I feel like this
could be a new tradition at the end of every video, just "who helped James make
THIS video?" (Don't forget us subtitles for the peeps who do put them on :D Also yesterday was my 5 year anniversary of when I posted my first
comic on the Internet, so thank you for -five amazing years- of making content. Okay that's all. Good night everyone and as always, "That's just a theory. A
GAME THEORY! Thanks for watching, and wear your seatbelt. (Subtitles mostly by NinjaMobsterRJ3 he so cool, wow, and the community as well.)
