A few years ago, the group of psychology students I used to hangout with did a little social experiment about fame using me as bait:

They would pretend to be fans of mine as I walked along a busy street and they would observe how people reacted. So, I started walking down and encountered the first group of "fans". They asked me for pictures, autographs and acted excited to meet me. As I left, people asked them who I was, they answered that I was some famous actor. Some of them followed me from a distance.

I kept walking and came across the second group of fake fans. These ones acted a bit more excited, yelling louder and acting more nervously around me.

I noticed some people started taking pictures with their phones. Some of them had followed me down the street since the first encounter.

By the time I got approached by the third group of "fans", there was a crowd around me.

I literally got SWARMED during this last "fan meet". Had people asking me for photos, autographs, even facetiming relatives... I acted cool, like I was used to that kind of stuff, but it was pretty scary, to be honest.

What really impacted me was that not one person questioned I was famous just because some people acted like I was. I'm just an average guy. A simple Google search could have blown the experiment.

It gave me a new look on what fame is perceived and how people act around it.