That's the give and take of having a high profile. You get known, and while enemies can come out of the woodwork, friends can too. Youtube definitely changes the game with this whole thing.

Some media people have contacted me through a few websites I ran or participated in. I would have to go through some old emails to see if it was the producers of that show that wanted some referrals or if it was a different show.

I posted about it on Frugals and the response was overwhelmingly negative (then I got banned). I think they eventually just contacted people already making Youtube videos figuring that those sorts of people would not mind getting in front of a camera, which is obviously true.