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From cats and cucumbers to pimple popping and unboxings, the web is awash with an enormous array of movies to ship folks right into a social media wormhole.
But for hundreds of thousands the newest content material catnip is the straightforward sight of a person sanding picket flooring.
Danny Stenhouse – higher recognized to his followers as Danny Sandhouse – is setting TikTook and YouTube alight with viral clips of his work restoring flooring. One video has attracted greater than eight million views.
As properly as bringing pleasure to others, he mentioned sharing the movies had additionally helped give him the main target he wanted.
Mr Stenhouse, who has ADHD and Asperger’s syndrome, began working as a ground sander round ten years in the past.
“I started sanding after a guy came to sand our floors at home and, having ADHD, I was hooked by the immediate satisfaction of seeing the sander strip and that hyper-focus the sander could have on one thing, and I thought that’s what I want to do,” he mentioned.
Once he had constructed up a preferred enterprise he determined to strive sharing movies on social media to present him a brand new outlet.
“I’d found lockdown really hard and was making some bad choices, ending up drinking more so I thought I needed to focus on things I could do to improve my life, so I tried making a video,” he mentioned.
From a primary couple of makes an attempt, making an attempt totally different digicam angles and voiceovers, it didn’t take lengthy earlier than his movies have been reaching hundreds of thousands of individuals.
To date, Mr Stenhouse has greater than 180,000 followers on Instagram, greater than 33,000 followers on TikTook and greater than 90,000 subscribers on YouTube, together with his movies exhibiting him sanding historic flooring or giving tricks to anybody who would possibly wish to strive it themselves.
“I feel people like Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson and Justin Bieber get millions of likes, not people like me,” he mentioned.
His movies have hit such excessive numbers he’s additionally capable of earn cash for them.
“Everything has happened so fast, but to be able to earn this extra is amazing and I love receiving questions from people about all their sanding queries and helping them.
“When I used to be in school, having ADHD, I could not focus, could not sit down and I discovered it laborious however now after I get caught into one thing I’m hyper-focused and need to be one of the best at it and with the sanding, I by no means become bored with it,” he said.
He said he also hopes to inspire other young people who may have had tough past experiences.
“I had a extremely troublesome begin in life on Bell Farm in York with a single mum or dad, however every part could be become a power,” he mentioned.
“I obtained bullied as a child, however now the world is saying, ‘Danny, you are cool’ and I simply need folks to know it is a lengthy previous life and you aren’t your previous or your trauma, simply imagine in your self.”
