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In those early days, we'd been making the show for maybe a year or so,

and we organised a fan meet and a park, and we said, hey, if you really like the show, come down.

This is Blair Jocelyn, aka Mug, a YouTube creator from Sydney.

He's been making videos with his best mates since 2007,

and their channel, Mighty Car Mods, has over 3.8 million subscribers.

Welcome to another episode of Mighty Car Mods.

But in the early days, he was surprised anyone was watching that all.

Went down to the park and I reckon there was probably about 12 people there, maybe 12 to 15 people there.

And I remember I saw this child start coming over to me to say hello and I was like, oh my God, like, what do I say?

Like what do I do?

It's been a journey learning how to be a public figure.

Blair's had to adjust to the idea of strangers feeling like they know him.

And then he came up and goes, oh, I really love your show.

And I'm like, thanks, man, I'm glad you like it.

Hi-five. Let's talk about cars.

And I realized, like, that's actually the way that I wanted to interact with him.

That's, you know, that's the genuine way that it was.

Most of us are more likely to be on the fan side of that kind of interaction, right?

We have favourite actors, musicians, and now just as commonly favourite social media stars like Moog.

It's a weird kind of relationship to be a fan of someone, because it can be so intense,

so comforting.

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