Serena Williams and Tom Brady were just as excited to meet each other as you would be

What must it be like to be so famous that other extremely famous people freak out when they see you? The one subset of a subset of a subset that you’d hope would understand and act, maybe, sort of normally -- the only other people who have spent as much time sitting in front of studio cameras, being dusted and clipped in salon chairs, signing and signing and signing some more, walking into rooms and seeing every eye go wide.

There are, what, 500 people on Earth who have had as many people want to take pictures of them continuously over the last 15 years? 200? 100? They’re the only other people who have been famous enough for long enough to have witnessed the rise of smartphones as a photographic event: seeing people raise their first cameraphones at them, then the introduction of the first iPhone nine years ago, then realizing that everyone was going to get one, and getting all the way to now, when everywhere they go they’re followed by 100 raised smartphones, 100 crooked elbows straining to get the selfie just right. Do you remember when you first realized that selfies were going to be a thing? Now imagine if everywhere you went, people wanted one with you -- with just a sliver of your forehead, even. What would that be like? Do you marry a model or date Drake? Do they get it? Did they freak out when they met you, too?

Anyway, here are two of mankind’s most talented athletes ever, as well as two of the most famous people there have ever been, Tom Brady and Serena Williams, taking a selfie and gushing about being in one another’s presence.