“I Found Myself On People Of Walmart”: 50 People That Had Their ‘15 Seconds Of Fame’

Cramming a hotdog in my mouth while a famous golf shot was made in a Major. It is a rerun in a lot of sports highlight reels.

I became somewhat known in the retro gaming community for doing this insane YouTube video on an obscure shooter (SHMUP) from 1992. I’d go to cons and get recognized. It was incredibly bizarre but wonderful at the same time. It led to me meeting a somewhat well known game dev. In 2019 he invited me out to San Francisco to a game release party where I spent the day with a bunch of legendary game devs as well as Macaulay Culkin and Brenda Song. Good times.

I was killed at the red wedding (Game of Thrones)

I was the only kid in sixth grade who could spell "psychology". And then everybody clapped. No, really.

I was one of the little kids trick or treating in the opening sequence of Halloweentown.

When I was a child, maybe 8 or 9, my mum took us to London, and we were just on the way out of the natural history museum and there were a couple of people on the street with a camera asking passers by if they wanted to be on TV.

Long story short, I ended up on the Disney channel (in the UK anyway) announcing one of the nominations for some awards show, i think in an ad for the show and not in the show itself. Anyway, looking directly into the camera, I was instructed to say "this year, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrect was absolutely magical", and throw my arm towards the camera like I was casting a spell.

My poor grandmother recorded hours and hours of that damn channel so I could see the footage (we didn't have Disney Channel at home) and did manage to get it. Clearly the take where I threw my arm out didn't make it as they used one of the other ones where I awkwardly look off camera at my mum. I expect that tape is long gone now, but think about it from time to time. It's my go to if I ever need to share one interesting fact about myself.

I ate 100 chicken wings in one sitting as a teenager and the chef came out to tell me he was impressed

Profiled on Humans of New York.

Said profile also appears in Humans of NY Stories (book).

My picture was in playboy magazine. My mom bought five copies

I slapped some choking kid on the back at Disney world when I was 16. His parents didn’t realize he was choking. I didn’t even know if that was what I was supposed to do. It worked though. The awkward little emo I was hated the amount of attention it got, even if it was only a few minutes worth.

I was on a TV show back in the day called Forgive or Forget. In a previous episode, I’d seen this young woman who was being abused by her boyfriend, but couldn’t afford to leave so I wrote the show to tell them if she was really interested in leaving she could stay with me in my New York apartment until she got it together. I’m single with no kids still.

So I went on the show and I was excited to meet her and then **do you know what this b***h did**? After the show, she asked me if her boyfriend could also move in with us. I was so through. Removed myself from the situation.

*But I looked good on television* 🤣. I wish I could find the episode. It was around 1999, before Robin Givens took over the show.

I was the victim of a popular prank video on Tiktok that went viral. It's completely ruined my Social life

I was on who wants to be a millionaire, i didnt participate but i was the one who came as a friend for the participant, after that episoded aired on the next day at school i was pretty popular. After 2 days nobody gave a s**t anymore.

My dog was in the Latin-American soap opera, ¿Donde Esta Elisa? - he was even in the opening credits. (This is more towards my ex-wife's 15 minutes).

For me, I was on ESPN during the 1992-1993 HCAA hockey championship. I was in the pep band for UMaine and they put the camera right on me playing my tenor sax.

.. and yes, the UMaine Black Bears won. :D

I was in college when the Virginia Tech shooting happened. My school had some sort of memorial service, and a couple friends and I decided to go because we had nothing better to do and it just kinda felt right.

Turns out the photographer for our school newspaper was there and my friends and I ended up on the front page, holding our candles.

Nothing really came of it but it was kinda wild to see my face on the newsstands.

I got top comment on an AskReddit thread once

I was car-spotting and filming cars in London when a Lamborghini caught fire from revving too hard.
I had a large bottle of water on hand to help put out the car fire.

I roasted a celebrity that shall remain nameless in 2020 on Twitter, so many likes retweets replies and… bad DMs I ended up getting so scared I deleted my account.

Years ago when I was a teenager I was in one of those Truth anti-tobacco commercials. My role was the popular girl at a beach party that missed out on the fun because she just HAD to go have a smoke.

They made me take huge puffs from a real cigarette to induce coughing, it was nuts lol

I never got a copy of the finished commercial but I got to see it before it aired.

I was ranked world number 3 in my sport for 4 years. I’ve been interviewed for sport specific news publications in various countries.