He won a contest to tour the set of Suite Life on Deck, but didn't realize how much it would come up in his adult life. Influencer, Max Harris Abrams shares his story of winning the Deck Out Your Room sweepstakes.
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00:00I'm in the sky deck of Suite Life on Deck.
00:11It was during the era of Suite Life on Deck,
00:14and it was the Deck Out Your Room sweepstakes,
00:16and I literally applied without my parents' permission.
00:19Like, I pulled out their computer,
00:21and they asked your email and your phone number
00:24and, like, your name and age.
00:25That was it.
00:26And I submitted it, and then five months later,
00:29I came home from school,
00:30and I checked the voicemail machine.
00:32I remember it like it was yesterday,
00:34and they said, like, you won.
00:36Who wins these things?
00:37Like, how is it actually possible that I won this thing?
00:41And then next thing we knew, we were there in a limo.
00:43I just remember, like, pulling up to the hotel,
00:45and, like, everyone's like,
00:46oh, who's gonna get out of the limo?
00:48Like, who's here at the hotel?
00:50It's, like, my, like, little pudgy, like, preteen self.
00:55I just remember being, like, so overwhelmed.
00:58It just didn't stop.
00:59It was, like, the gift box, and then the limo,
01:01and then you meet the cast,
01:02and then you're at the set,
01:03and then the autographs,
01:05and it just didn't end.
01:06I was obviously excited to meet the Sprouse twins.
01:09I remember them being very sweet.
01:10It seemed like they were busy, I'm sure,
01:13and that they had to make time for me,
01:16but it was appreciated.
01:17I was most excited to meet Brenda Song.
01:21I will literally never forget, like,
01:22her coming in with hair rollers in her hair,
01:25and just being, like, the most gracious, sweetest person ever.
01:30I was so nervous and so weird,
01:32and, like, yeah, it was all a blur.
01:35Once every year, if not twice a year,
01:45there is, like, a trend where someone asked the question,
01:47like, who is the grand prize winner of the Disney Channel's Week of States?
01:50It was, like, 2018 or something,
01:52and someone tweeted, and I responded with the collage of me with the whole cast,
01:57and that was, like, my first claim to fame.
01:59This was, like, 2018.
02:00I remember it got, like, 10 million impressions.
02:03So that's when I made the YouTube video
02:05to capitalize on that fame for a little bit,
02:08and then once a year from that point on,
02:11especially after TikTok became a thing,
02:12then people started making TikToks about it,
02:14and I would just stitch it.
02:15I'm gonna cash in this check, like, you know,
02:18once every year until for at least another decade.