Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20151206235105/@comment-26397825-20151212025356

You don't know of any famous people who became famous because of their story rather than because of a Hollywood-style corporation? What about that guy who fell in a ravine and got trapped by a rock, and survived 3 days with no food or water and then had to cut his own hand off to escape? He counts.

Google is you friend in this case, and it doesn't have to be an old legend. New ones count too, just as long as it isn't a big coorporation like Hollywood who made them famous. I am counting media as word of mouth in this instance, because it is accidental fame rather than planned fame like being a moviestar or singer gets you.