In August 2014, a local news reporter at the Wayne County Fair in Pennsylvania pulled aside a small boy who had just come off one of the rides.
His name was Noah Ritter, he was five years old, and he was there with his grandfather, visiting from Wilkes-Barre.
The reporter asked him what he thought of the ride.
Noah did not really answer.
Instead, he launched into a wandering, breathless monologue built almost entirely around one word: apparently.
"It was great, and apparently I've never been on live television before," he said.
He explained that he does not usually watch the news "because I'm a kid," and that his grandpa hands him the remote after they watch the Powerball drawing.
The reporter tried to steer him back to the ride.
Noah obliged, briefly. "Wow, it was great." Why? "Because apparently you're spinning around and apparently every time you get dizzy. Yeah, that's all you do is get dizzy."
He kept returning to the fact that he was on television.
"I've never ever been on live television. I never ever be on live television." He mentioned the super slide too, and how going down it had scared him half to death.
The reporter, by this point clearly aware she had something unusual on her hands, asked for his name and turned to his grandfather to spell it out. R-I-T-T-E-R. From Wilkes-Barre.
"All right, buddy. Good stuff."
The clip ran on WNEP, a local station serving northeastern Pennsylvania. Within days it had spread across the internet.
Noah became known as the "apparently kid," and the interview turned into one of the defining viral local news moments of that year.
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What a sequence for Tobias Harris! A brick on a wide open 3 followed seconds later by a floater that barely grazed the rim. I can't believe the Pistons front office looked at this roster and really thought it'd be good enough to make a run.
That was, beyond any shadow of a doubt, the most impressive defensive half in the history of the NBA.
And it came in an elimination game where they were down 22 at the half.
Unreal. #DetroitBasketball
@chaseorum21@MattDeLuca@ForePlayPod Valspar, RBC Heritage, and Zurich (if they win) would be 3 wins in the past 4 weeks.
And the week before that was a P2 in the Players.