Unusually Famous: Why millions of people think I\u2019m a toddler DexertoTiny Tim has achieved viral fame for being able to sound exactly like a toddler. We spoke with the internet sensation about his rise to stardom and what\u2019s next for his unusual talents. Everyone\u2019s got something they\u2019re good at, but some folks\u2019 talents are a bit more unique than others. For instance, we interviewed a guy who got famous for being able to accurately recreate the sound of just about any vehicle\u2019s engine. TikTok star \u2018Tiny Tim\u2019 also has a pretty interesting talent: he\u2019s able to sound like a toddler, and often uses this special skill to prank call unsuspecting people by saying totally inappropriate things under the guise of being a little kid. We got to speak with Tiny Tim about his talent, how he discovered he could do this strange voice, and what he plans to do with his skillset in the future. Click here to watch the full interview. Going viral for sounding like a toddler \u2018Tiny Tim\u2019 says he found out that he was able to do his toddler voice when he was in grammar school. Tim says that one day, he came in late for class \u2014 and when his teacher reprimanded him over his tardiness, he hit her with a hilarious one-liner in his special voice: \u201cYou don\u2019t have to shout at me!\u201d The class erupted in laughter, and it\u2019s been off to the races ever since\u2026 but not everyone was a fan of his comedy. In fact, Tim says that when he tried stand-up, he encountered a tough crowd. However, when he brought out his \u2018toddler voice,\u2019 the crowd seemed to love it. After one of his shows, Tim claimed a radio DJ came \u201cbarging in\u201d to the green room asking, \u201cWhere have you been?\u201d He invited Tim to his studio to do some recording, and over the ensuing two years, Tim became a prank call connoisseur over the airwaves. One of his prank calls in particular went viral after it was posted to social media. In the clip, Tim called in sick to an elementary school, pretending to be a student there. It \u201cblew up\u201d online \u2014 but it did get him into a bit of trouble with the police, who checked in on him after school staff contacted local authorities out of concern for the kiddo supposedly left at home. The dark side of online fame After skyrocketing to stardom, there were quite a few viewers who accused Tim of faking the prank calls and scripting the entire thing, or even using a filter to manipulate his voice. \u201cNot one video have we done where it\u2019s scripted,\u201d he told us. \u201cThere\u2019s no rehearsal. There\u2019s no planning. There\u2019s no script.\u201d Although haters are a dime a dozen, Tim says that things took a seriously dark turn when his Facebook account got hacked early on into his internet fame. Tim claims that the hacker posted \u201chorribly, smutty stuff\u201d to his official page that \u201cnearly wiped me out.\u201d \u201cI dipped into a deep depression,\u201d he admitted. \u201cKnowing that you\u2019ve built something up, which everyone loved, to then having it taken away from you. We got the Facebook page back, and if it wasn\u2019t for my missus\u2026 I dread to think that road would have taken me.\u201d Tiny Tim isn\u2019t in it for the money: \u201cI want to make people happy\u201d Luckily, Tim was able to recover from the hack, and now gets stopped for photos and videos with fans on a fairly regular basis. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t be where we are now if it wasn\u2019t for people watching our videos,\u201d he explained. Since then, Tim has come up with a colorful cast of characters that pop up in his videos, boasting millions of followers across multiple social platforms \u2014 but although he\u2019s able to make a decent living from his antics, he isn\u2019t in it for the money. \u201cI just want to make people laugh,\u201d he said. \u201cI want to make people happy. I wanna spread as much laughter as I possibly can.\u201d As for the future, Tim hopes he can score a Netflix series someday where he\u2019s able to interview high-profile folks with one of his classic prank calls at the end of the conversation. \u201cI would love a Netflix series,\u201d he told us. \u201cI would love a chat show where I\u2019m on and talking to people in the public eye, and we talked about it, just an interview, and at the end we just go, \u2018Have you got your phone on you?\u2019 And we do a prank call at the end.\u201d Although Tim\u2019s seen the good and the bad sides of internet fame, he\u2019s continuing to bring joy to people with his hilarious prank calls \u2014 and hopes that one day, he\u2019ll be able to reach even more people with his own show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Unusually Famous: Why millions of people think I\u2019m a toddler DexertoTiny Tim has achieved viral fame for being able to sound exactly like a toddler. We spoke with the internet sensation about his rise to stardom and what\u2019s next for his unusual talents. Everyone\u2019s got something they\u2019re good at, but some folks\u2019 talents are a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}