#family-sacrifice

#family-sacrifice

My dad, who grew up poor and lost his father as a teenager, had cultivated a knack for stretching every penny he earned. Years before we moved to the U.S., he squirreled away what he could, which helped him get settled in Pennsylvania when a locally headquartered company offered him a job on an H-1 Visa. Several months after my dad settled in the U.S., my mom, my brother, who was just six months old, and I joined him.

In the original video, the Filipino South Shore Plaza mall worker showcases his playful personality and says that, by night, people should refer to him as Maria Christina False Eyelashes, his drag persona. People were also very taken with his instantly-iconic catchphrase: "Joke only!" The video went viral, with people praising Richard/Maria-Christina's humour, charisma and energy, amongst many other things. Several other comments demanded Matt do a follow-up video, which he did.