Hopeless and nowhere else left to turn, a man weighing 600-plus pounds pleaded for help via YouTube.



And he may have gotten an answer.



Robert Gibbs, who recently turned 23, suffers from diabetes and cannot stand for more than just a few minutes at a time while his body is taken over by sores, KPIX News reported.



"I have to slide to get off this couch," he told the news station from his home in Livermore, California, where the obese man lives with his mother, sister, nephew and niece. "I'm just trapped and there's no way out."



In his YouTube video, Gibbs explained that he's fought repeatedly to lose weight, with little success.



"I've tried losing weight on my own," he said. "Tried doing everything possible: been on diets, been hospitalized, and I've always done what needed to be done at the time and I'd just gain the weight back."



Creating the YouTube video was his last-ditch effort to find help.



"I'm making this video to try and get it to go viral," he said.



The clever gimmick may have worked.



In just a day the video racked up 200,000 views, and got the attention of the Dr. Phil show, who reached out to Gibbs and offered to connect him to weight loss guru and transformation specialist Chris Powell for assistance, CBS News in San Francisco reported.



"I would love his help, he works miracles," he said. "I'm getting the exposure I needed. I better start getting ready for the tornado that's about to become my life. I guess it is a good birthday for me."