A girl with a Cambridge medicine interview the next day recognises Ali and Katherine at dinner, the first time Ali is recognised (2017)
story · status: told 2× · last event: retold (2020-11-15) · owner: Ali
Told alongside: Ali offers to buy a coffee in Cambridge for anyone who wants to meet him (2018)
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-12-22 | told | At dinner with Katherine at Prezzo, a girl with a medicine interview at St John's College the next day recognises them from their YouTube interview tips videos, and they take a photo with her. | Singing carols in the hospital - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #18 00:04:24 |
| 2020-11-15 (happened 2017-11) | retold | Ali was first recognised around November 2017, four months into YouTube: at a restaurant in Cambridge, which he thinks was Italian, as Katherine told him off for neglecting her for his videos, a girl with her Cambridge medicine interview the next day thanked them for their interview advice. | How I Gained 1 MILLION Subscribers 00:20:01 |
What is said about it
6 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2017-12-22 · Singing carols in the hospital - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #18 — Ali says meeting viewers in real life makes YouTube feel more real: otherwise views are just numbers on a screen, and a thousand views mean little until people come up to say they watched. — 00:04:51
- 2020-11-15 · How I Gained 1 MILLION Subscribers — Ali now gets recognised a few times in the street when he goes out outside lockdown; he likes it but finds it awkward, not knowing where to take the conversation. — 00:20:30
- 2020-11-15 · How I Gained 1 MILLION Subscribers — ask: Ali: For about three years Ali has had a standing offer on his website: anyone who comes to or passes through Cambridge can have a coffee with him, which he buys, no questions asked. — 00:21:02
- 2020-11-15 · How I Gained 1 MILLION Subscribers — Ali: For the first two years of his coffee offer Ali met people after work in his hospital canteen; recently, outside lockdown, Tuesday afternoons became his meetup day in a Cambridge town-centre coffee shop. — 00:21:32
- 2020-11-15 · How I Gained 1 MILLION Subscribers — Ali: Through his coffee meetups Ali has made friends and found a singing teacher and a guitar teacher, and Joe, whom he met at one, is now on his team helping with the content. — 00:21:32
- 2020-11-15 · How I Gained 1 MILLION Subscribers — Ali: Meeting viewers makes the numbers feel real to Ali, and he wants to do more in-person meetups, which he calls a really nice part of fame. — 00:22:01