7. Language Use. Task 1. Youtube-famous in the real world

 

 

Daniel Middleton, also known as DanTDM (0) from a child-friendly YouTube gaming channel The Diamond Minecart, (1) washas beenwill beis continuously working on his channel since 2012. He is the most popular British creator on YouTube with 12.7 million subscribers and 8.3 billion views.

Middleton and his YouTube gaming peers have a very specific kind of fame: they can walk down the street and most passers-by will have (2) someanynovague idea who they are, except the channel viewers.

“I get spotted more when I’m out now just (3) causebecausemoredue of the size of the channel. More so in school holidays. But even when I’m out and about in school or  (4) workjobdutytask hours, it’s the parents who’ll see me and say ‘I need to get a picture with you to show my kids’,” (5) tellsspeakssaystalks Middleton.

“However, I feel positive about this, since the difference between traditional celebrities (6) butandoralso the people who are popular on YouTube, I guess, is that we seem more accessible (7) asthanlikethen traditional celebrities. They can seem (8) widelylikelyapparentlycompletely inaccessible: they don’t walk the streets that everyone else (9) doeshashavedo.  But when people (10) come up tocome atcome up withcome across me, even though I’ve not met them before, they feel like they’ve known me for years, and there’s a proper connection there.”

“It’s pretty strange to get used to. I wouldn’t even say I’m used to it yet. If people turn up to an event and are really (11) excitedexcitementexcitingexcitingly to meet me, it confuses me. I’m naturally quite an (12) frightenedexcludedintrovertedafraid person, so I’ve had to train myself to be able to deal with these situations.”