Roll footage.
“Me and my fiancé are obsessed with watching live cameras of cities and we always watch the Times Square one,” explained the TikTok personality, who also goes by Dazza. “I jumped on it and saw the advert that you could ‘take over Times Square.”Darren Dowling eats a slice of bread on the big screen in New York City’s Times Square.“It was absolutely wild seeing my stupid face eat a slice of bread in New York City, what a buzz it was,” said Dowling, 26.
After paying $40 for the time slot, the Scot took to social media to find someone in New York City who could film his spot at the world’s most iconic tourist mecca. Eventually, he came across a man named Ryan, who “waited in Times Square for 40 minutes to secure the perfect spot and I got myself ready and prepped to watch the live cams.”
The resultant footage shows Dowling in a plain green T-shirt eating — you guessed it — a slice of bread while smiling upon the Times Square throngs from the jumbotron. The camera then cuts to the clout-seeker guffawing as he watches himself on the big screen.Videographer Ryan “waited in Times Square for 40 minutes to secure the perfect spot” to film the Scotsman’s Times Square video, Dowling said.Dowling decided to film himself eating bread because of a social media follower’s suggestion.
The TikTok commentariat was in hysterics over the ludicrous stunt with one gawker writing, “40 dollars well spent I’d say.”Dowling is well known for performing outrageous food stunts for social media.“Why do I feel this will become a trend,” proclaimed another, to which Dazza replied, “Glad to be at the start of it haha.”
In retrospect, Dowling dubbed the experience “absolutely iconic,” adding that he wonders what the Times Square spectators “would have thought.”
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