TommyInnit reveals how YouTube fame became \u201coverwhelming\u201d amid Minecraft boom YouTube: IMPAULSIVETommyInnit is one of the biggest faces of the Minecraft community \u2014 but fame comes with its caveats, and Tommy wasn\u2019t exactly prepared for the recognition that his status as a major Twitch star would bring him. The Minecraft community boasts a fair few influencers with huge fanbases, Dream, DanDTM, and Karl Jacobs among them, as well as English streamer TommyInnit. The UK-based content creator gained a foothold in the Minecraft player base in 2020, becoming one of Twitch\u2019s fastest-growing broadcasters and garnering 3 million YouTube subscribers at the end of the year. Now, Tommy boasts over 6.5 million Twitch followers and over 10 million YouTube subs, and it seems that his status as a top-tier influencer only continues to grow\u2026 but he wasn\u2019t prepared for the \u201coverwhelming\u201d amount of recognition the role would require. oh my god!! seriously thank you all so much \u2014 TommyInnit (@tommyinnit) December 3, 2020 During a September 14 episode of Logan Paul\u2019s IMPAULSIVE podcast, Tommyinnit revealed that, at first, being recognized in public by legions of fans was a bit too much for him. \u201cI found the start of this year pretty hard with anxiety and stuff, about going out in public,\u201d he began. \u201cThe whole getting recognized s**t, that was really overwhelming. I think a lot of it \u2014 the sort of feeling of alienation with YouTube, and people not seeing you for just, like a guy that makes videos \u2014 and it\u2019s totally easy to solve, and I feel like I\u2019m a lot happier with it and better with it now, but that was a struggle at the start of this year.\u201d \u201cI was thinking about dropping out of college,\u201d he added. \u201cI was really anxious about it. I didn\u2019t like the idea of going out in public. It was this choice between privacy and identity. \u2026 I went out with glasses and a disguise, because I wanted to see if I was still getting recognized.\u201d It makes sense that Tommy would find all this to be a bit over the top; the influencer reminded listeners that he\u2019d been \u201cmobbed at a train station by fans\u201d in the past, which was something that he didn\u2019t expect, as he\u2019d risen to prominence fairly quickly. (Topic begins at 32:12) For this Minecraft creator, fame happened quite literally overnight \u2014 but he\u2019s managed to find the tenuous balance between stardom and normalcy in spite of his status as an internet superstar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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