I had no idea what a viral video was. Two weeks [after I uploaded 'Evolution of Dance'], I got a notification in my inbox someone had interacted with this YouTube video. I went and looked and I had 19,000 views on my video. A couple days later, 30,000 people had watched. I remember thinking, 'Maybe I'll get a gig out of this.'
Jumping from a quarter- to a half-million, I started getting emails from friends who were getting the video on newsletters, seeing it in their email. What really prompted the big moment of, 'This is something unique,' is I get a phone call from someone at YouTube. There's a voicemail: 'We got a call from the "Today" show, and they want to know if we could give them your contact information.'
It was about four weeks before it clicked and I was like, 'Oh, this is something different.' That's how I got to be the poster boy for YouTube for a couple of years. I honestly figured it would all die down in a year or two. I never thought that 14 years later, I would still be talking about it. I will always live on as the first.
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