Celebrity meet and greet transactions follow predictable patterns when you appear once. You're in line for your ten-second window with someone from something you genuinely love. The interaction stays surface level. Forced smile. Generic acknowledgment. Walk away deflated. Greg Sestero from The Room meets thousands at cult film screenings since the 2000s. First encounter provides exactly this experience. So does the second.

Pattern breaks somewhere between encounter four and five. Edmonton 2016: standard meet-and-greet treatment. Calgary events building slowly from generic "hey sport" to actual recognition. Fifth encounter: random sidewalk meeting outside sold out show. Greg stops, points, "I know you," offers free tickets. The conversion required thirty viewings of the worst film ever made. Multiple years of showing up. Each event adding incremental recognition until transactional treatment shifts to genuine connection. Opposite approach exists: Baltimore airport, mystery TV actor keeping head down while fan loses composure taking pictures. Rental car line allows acknowledgment of weirdness without demanding identification. Boundaries maintained, interaction stays respectful.

Recognition requires accumulated presence. Transaction stays transaction when you only show up once because celebrities meet too many people to remember single encounters. The number between deflation and connection is somewhere around five.

Topics: celebrity meet and greet expectations, fan recognition strategy, The Room cult phenomenon, repeated celebrity encounters, respectful boundaries

RUNDOWN: The team breaks down how five separate Greg Sestero encounters over multiple years converted generic treatment into genuine recognition, and why respectful boundaries matter in both repeated and one-time celebrity interactions.