I've been the same way, I remember YoutubableHD him and I used to be good friends back in the day. x'D Before I even joined net, but him and I only talked for about a month then he got flooded with things to do, and I never really heard from him back.
It's always great having someone you respect contact you. I remember not long ago, my friend got a reply from AshDubh. She hasn't stopped screaming wth joy since then
Never really had much time for youtubers but I guess I its the same feeling when I got a twitter reply from one of my fave aussie actresses xD
I haven't been directly contacted by someone I admire, but I remember when I was a HUGE Rogue fanboy and my girlfriend sent him a tweet saying I wanted to do naughty things with him. He responded with "oh god." It was amazing. This isn't relevant to what happened to you at all, but I wanted to share that story.
^me fangirling ;o Also, I've purchased some original props from another youtuber I watch and they're hanging on my wall xD
I usually talk to small youtubers with like 10k subs but i talked to Mumbo once in youtube comments and i've talked to XisumaVoid too!