He was a seemingly pretty normal 17-year-old whose backyard in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania happened to be lousy with deer. Peña, who recently moved to the white-tailed deer state from Texas, had befriended the creatures, and was making videos of himself feeding them donuts and dunking on them on the basketball court.
The deer he dubbed his “best friend” is named Money. “I just want to show everybody how I’m spending my day. I’m out here eating crackers with my pet deer named Money,” he said in that first video, giving Money some Club crackers. “I got you, bro.”
Well, Peña’s videos have now gone viral. In the last day or so, his number of Twitter followers (handle @COLDGAMEKELV) has climbed from a couple thousand to over 21,000, as of the time of this writing.
“Yesterday I had 1,500 followers on Instagram, and today I have 40,000,” he told me, clearly a little bewildered by the public’s enthusiasm for his backyard escapades with a bunch of deer.