Best Job Ever
Some guy got hired as a production assistant on a Katy Perry music video set, and apparently this qualifies as the best job in the world. Doesn’t matter what he actually did—move lights, grab coffee, whatever. The context is the whole point. You’re on set with Katy Perry. That’s genuinely the job that hits every fantasy requirement for a certain demographic.
I’m not going to pretend I’m above this. It’s a funny fantasy, obviously. The appeal is pure proximity: you’re in the same space as someone beautiful you normally only see through a screen. That’s it. The actual work could be tedious, but who cares. You’re there, and everyone who hears about it immediately hates and envies you in equal measure.
There’s something weirdly human about wanting to be near something you find beautiful, even in the most delusional way possible. Even as a production assistant moving sandbags. Especially then, maybe—because you get to be close to it while also having the excuse of work, some kind of legitimate reason to be in the same room.
I have no idea if this guy actually existed or if it’s just one of those internet jokes that everyone accepts as true because the premise is too perfect. Either way, he’s immortalized now. Not for anything he actually did, but for the lucky accident of being in the background of the right moment.