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The 60-year-old man called Mr. Bill, who sells souvenirs to tourists at HCM City’s Ben Thanh Market.

It was not a beautiful girl or a famous singer who lured YouTube visitors, but rather a 60-year-old man called Mr. Bill, who sells souvenirs to tourists at HCM City’s Ben Thanh Market. He impressed a foreign visitor with his excellent, American-accented English. The visitor’s clip of a conversation with the souvenir seller was posted on YouTube in late 2007 and became a “phenomenon” that made Mr. Bill very famous on the Internet.

Michelle Phan, 23, a Vietnamese American in Massachusetts (USA).

Another overseas Vietnamese, Natalie Tran, 23, is called “YouTube Queen” in Australia because her clips on YouTube have the highest numbers of visitors in Australia (over 200 million viewers and 600,000 people have registered to watch her clips).

Natalie Tran, 23, a Vietnamese Australian.

This March 2010, Thai Trinh, nicknamed Chinsu, a 11^th grade schoolgirl in HCM City, suddenly became famous thanks to a clip featuring herself playing guitar and singing.

Thai Trinh, nicknamed Chinsu, a 11th grade schoolgirl in HCM City

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