Throwback Thursday or #TBT is an internet trend used among social media platforms. Like many internet trends, it is hard to determine who or what exactly started the #TBT hashtag trend. The earliest usage on Instagram was by the user @bobbysander22. Sports Illustrated attributes the origin of the term to a sneaker-specific blog named Nice Kicks. According to SI, this blog began a practice of regular postings (on Thursdays) of photos of old basketball footwear in 2006, titling the series “Throwback Thursday”. Since then, the slogan has blown up to the point where #TBT has been used on Instagram over 500 million times.
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This month’s ‘Throwback Thursday’ is brought to you from the time we went to Bali as part of an extended celebration for my husband’s milestone birthday. Enjoying the sunset as we sat at one of the seaside restaurants at Jimbaran Bay, we cast our glance around and saw Travel and Lifestyle YouTuber Nelly’s Life… sitting two tables away from us!!!
Now… I could… ahem… take the credit and say I planned the whole thing; that I had stalked her YouTube channel, found out that she was going to the same country, and suggested to husband to dine at the same restaurant. Truthfully, though, this was pure coincidence; a case of being at the right place, at the right time.
Knowing this opportunity might never come again, we abandoned our table to strike a conversation with her. After a quick photo snap to commemorate the occasion (after all, this might be the closest we would ever get to brush shoulders with someone famous!), we headed back to our table in time to have our dinner served. And judging by the fact that there were more dishes on the table compared to our original order, perhaps, the establishment thought we were also fellow YouTubers!
Have you ever encountered a celebrity (of any kind)? Did you do the star-struck thing and approach them, or did you leave them be (or just take a snapshot of them as they walked past)? Share your stories by commenting below.
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