It was a simple request made on reddit from a father in the US asking for someone from Australia to record a message to his son who had just lost his tooth. Enter Jeff from Seymour in Victoria.

Jeff with his six-month- old son, Ryan at home in Seymour. (ABC Central Victoria:Larissa Romensky)

Jeff aka 'Bruce' just couldn't resist.

"I thought the story was cute," he said.

A couple of days later he is an Internet sensation.

"I am honestly surprised at the attention this is getting for what was about five minutes of effort on my part," he said.

At the time of writing, over 100 comments have been posted on reddit.

His biggest surprise is the number of people who have listened to his voice recording on SoundCloud.

It has been played close to 4,000 times.

"I've had more hits in the last two days than I've had in the previous five years," said Jeff.

He has even been asked to record a victory chant for the Baa Baa's or Barbarians, a New England Rugby Union team in NSW.

It began when American father Jacob Hall was handed a tooth by his son accompanied by a silly grin.

With no time to plan he uploaded his request to reddit.

"My son thinks his tooth fairy is Australian. Help a dad out?" wrote Jacob.

"He writes letters to the tooth fairy when he loses a tooth, and he would be blown away by an audio reply."

Father of three, Jeff is a stay at home dad and is currently busy looking after his six-month old son, Ryan.

"I was just helping out another parent."

It took Jeff about thirty seconds to record and a few more minutes to clean up the sound.

"I had the equipment sitting in front of me and it wasn't going to be much effort," said Jeff.

The reason the tooth fairy had to be from Australia was because Jacob had previously been late with his tooth fairy visit to his son, providing the excuse that it was because the tooth fairy had to travel from down under.

Jeff decided to take the Australian theme a little further by naming his character, 'Bruce'.

A fan of Monty Python, Jeff gained his inspiration from the Bruce sketch, where John Cleese introduces an Englishman Michael to three Australian Bruce's who then decide for convenience sake to rename him Bruce.

Jeff then chose the broadest Australian accent for his delivery but ever mindful of the importance of dental hygiene.

"Don't forget to brush your teeth", was added to the end of the script.

A relative new comer to reddit Jeff has only been using it for the last 15 months.

He prefers it to other social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter.

"Facebook an echo chamber," he said.

"It is for people that just want validation as well as an advertising forum."

He finds Twitter too limited.

"Too impersonal, 140 characters is not enough," he said.

Jeff isn't too bothered by the loss of his anonymity on reddit but said he may change his username in the future.

"The convention on the forum is to be anonymous," he said.

At the moment he is just happy to have been able to assist.

"I hope it spreads some joy around the world," he said.