Rise of a Football God

Gregory woke up to the greatest shock of his life.

Ding! Ding!

(Congratulations! Your YouTube channel 'MagicalSam' has received 50 subscribers!)

(Congratulations! Your YouTube channel 'MagicalSam' has received 812 subscribers!)

(Congratulations! Your YouTube channel 'MagicalSam' has received 3,120 subscribers!)

(Congratulations! Your video 'Samuel Moses- Volume 1: Rising from the streets of Abraka' has attained the Hot tag!)

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Gregory… was simply flabbergasted.

For someone who had grown used to being on the wrong receiving end of life, who like a metal placed in an anvil kept on being hit with no care given to how long he could remain strong before breaking, to suddenly experience such a fortune, Gregory was just speechless.

'Is this really happening?'

Gregory could not believe what he was seeing. His eyes widened, confusion swirling in their depths.

So many questions were on his mind as he stared blankly at his laptop. 'How?'

'When?'

'What happened?'

'Oh my Gosh! How did this happen?!'

Despite the many rational questions that were in his head, in the end, all of it culminated into a simple exclamation. "What the hell!"

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People's lives can change at any moment.

In Gregory's case, one video was all it took to change his life.

He poured his heart and soul into making the video as he was mesmerized by the individual named Samuel Moses, but that was not the main reason why the video blew up, shooting him to prominence.

Afterall, there were many other YouTube editors like him who were really good but were underrated, leaving their work to rot in obscurity.

That great divide between obscurity and popularity, most times, a catalyst was needed to bridge the great divide and Gregory got that catalyst early.

The real reason why the video blew up was because of Sam.

As soon as Gregory uploaded the video, an hour later, in the evening when Sam and Emile Smith Rowe finally returned to his family mansion in Abuja, Maitama after enjoying themselves and playing street football, his girlfriend showed something to him.

Sam almost expected Kayla to berate him for going against her wishes and going to play football on the street, or a nagging display even, but he didn't get any of that on arriving home. Rather, Kayla simply sat him down, gave him food to eat and showed him a YouTube video to watch.

The video's title?

>Samuel Moses- Volume 1: Rising from the streets of Abraka<

"A video about me?" Sam was surprised. "Who created it, you?"

Sam looked at his girlfriend only to see her shake her head. "You remember the cashier that mom brought back from the supermarket where she went shopping?"

Sam nodded. "It's him?"

"Yes, he created the video. After watching it, I could not help but feel that you should watch it too. Afterall, despite being your social media handler, there are still things I feel you should have real input on still".

Sam nodded again and then he took the iPhone, he mumbled under his breath. "I never knew he was a content creator".

"He just started".

"Huh?"

"This is his first video".

"Really?" At that moment was when Sam noticed the name of the YouTube channel. "MagicalSam?"

"Wait, he created the channel, dedicating it all to me and my career?" His eyes widened in disbelief.

Kayla chuckled. "He's clearly not your normal football fan, he's a 'you' fan". She said with emphasis.

Suddenly interested, Sam clicked on the video and watched it.

Eminem said 'Lose Yourself!', 'Seize your moment!', well, Gregory definitely seized his moment because the video that he created was a masterpiece.

He poured all of his passion, experience, and skills into making the video.

Watching it, Sam did not feel like he was watching an edited video at all, everything was so accurate that he felt like he was re-watching his life all over again from a third person's POV.

From the mighty highs to the crazy lows, Gregory missed nothing, including everything in the video and that hit Sam's deepest spots.

By the time he finished watching the video, he could barely hold in his emotions. "The guy is good". He commented seriously.

And then, he looked at his girlfriend, smiling. "Let's endorse him!" He suddenly proposed.

This… was the catalyst that Gregory needed to blow.

Endorsing Gregory was exactly what Kayla wanted and was the reason why she showed her boyfriend the video in the first place. Once she got Sam's approval, she went ahead, reposting the link to Gregory's YouTube video in all of Sam's social media handles.

And that became the trigger for the frenzy that followed.

What greater catalyst to popularity than being mentioned by one of the most popular professional football players of the English premier league?

Within just minutes after Kayla posted the link in Sam's social media handles, Gregory's video started trending and the more people watched it, the more people realized how much of a masterpiece it was as it gave them a better POV of Sam's career.

Watching it felt like experiencing Sam's career. Gregory was able to perfectly execute the story-telling technique of show, don't tell.

It was literally perfection.

A lot of people appreciated it.

And from there came the comments, the appreciation messages, the recommendations, the continuous reposts, the gifts and request for a Patreon, the sending of links, and then eventually the rapid surge in subscriber count.

By morning, Gregory's subscriber counts in YouTube already rose over 50,000 subscribers!

Despite such a crazy surge, it didn't stop there even as it kept on rising rapidly.
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And this was just the initial wave.

Kayla already contacted Gregory after receiving Sam's approval. From henceforth, any new video that he created on Sam's career, Kayla would personally endorse it, promoting it on his behalf.

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That morning, Gregory felt like he was dreaming.

"Damn!" He muttered, too emotional to control himself as tears flowed down his eyes. "Dreams really do come true".

"My life… has changed".

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[I'm still bogged down by school work since this is my final year session. I'm yet to edit the last 2 chapters, I'll edit them and today's 2 with time.]

[I've edited them now.]