On the bus the next morning, I overheard some older girls in front of me talking about videos that were trending online.

“Did you see that new SkaterBoi video on Tubular?” the first girl asked.

“It was so good! He’s my favorite!” said the second. “I could watch his videos all day!”

“Yeah. It’s crazy to think he went viral overnight,” said the first girl. “Can you imagine what that’s like?”

“Seriously,” said the second. “One day you’re just a normal kid, and the next day you’re a celebrity heartthrob.”

“I hear he’s going to have his own television show,” the first girl said.

“Maybe he’ll get a movie deal?” the second one suggested hopefully.

I hadn’t heard of SkaterBoi, but if these cool older girls were into him, I should definitely check him out. I did a search on Tubular, a video-sharing site. It turned out SkaterBoi was a teenage skateboarder with an insane number of followers. (And I did a quick search—none were clowns.)

He had a bunch of silly videos of himself doing random things, like skateboarding down a busy city street saying “Hi!” to people. I looked at the comments section below that video.