VIDEO STAR VIRAL : HONOURS CALEB SIMPSON

 

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'' Dee, please, set up a separate '' Video !WOW! Vines '' account and page on !WOW!. If global students want to share up to 10 second clip on Education, welcome them with a smile.''

Caleb Simpson began his quest to get ordinary New Yorkers to give him a tour of their apartments with an iPhone and man-on-the street persona about two years ago.

He would spontaneously walk up to a random people on the street, asking if they owned or rented their apartment, and how much they paid per month.

If they told him - which was rare - he would ask if he could see their home, which he then wanted to post on his social platforms.

'' The first 100 people said no, which was devastating,'' said Mr. Simpson, a 32-year-old North Carolina native who moved to New York in 2015, to teach Tennis at a club in Manhattan.

Though he persisted, people just kept declining, so he ''pasted their reactions, usually in 15-seconds clips, at first, just to see what would happen,'' he said. '' The clips got millions of views. ''

The first person to invite Mr. Simpson in was a 30-something videographer in a two-bedroom duplex in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and paid $3,000 a month.

'' That video got millions of hits,'' he said. '' I knew I was on to something.''

TODAY, 500 apartment video posts later, he has 2.5 million subscribers on YouTube, 8.6 million followers on TikTok and 2.5 million on Instagram.

His operation now includes a booking agent, a  videographer and an assistant, and he has managed to sprinkle some celebrities and a few foreign locations into the mix.

This Publishing continues. The World Students Society thanks Alix Strauss.