The feel-good story which has captured the hearts of digital media is a grateful Thai-American who used his YouTube stardom to free his family from debt.
Having promised his parents to be successful and pay off their home mortgage, YouTube funny guy Tim Chantarangsu better known as “Timothy DeLaGhetto” surprised his parents with a dream come true and caught their reaction on video.
In Tim’s “Surprise for Mom & Dad” video, the 28-year-old hands over a USD210,000 check to his mom and dad. While dad seems slightly more interested in knocking back his beer, Tim’s mom gets all weepy and proud of her boy.
The video’s already been watched more than a million times since it was posted Monday.
The Chantarangsu family are Thai immigrants living in Paramount, California. They own a Thai restaurant and have worked hard since Tim was little.
“My family never had a lot of money growing up. My parents were always working multiple jobs, and I was that kid that was only allowed one pair of shoes every year,” Tim told Nextshark.
That helped motivate him to be a success, he said.
“I just always told them I was going to be famous,” he said. “My main motivations for really doing what I do, aside from wanting to get known and I wanting to be successful, was that I could take care of [my parents].”
Building his fame on YouTube for seven years, Tim is famous for his original skits, parodies and rants. He has almost 2.5 million subscribers and nearly 600 million people have watched somethin on his channel.
“I get my sense of humor from them, and I’m so grateful they [my parents] raised me with so much love and open minds,” he said in the video.
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