[ SECRET POST #5399 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5399 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

01. https://i.imgur.com/iYpF6Vk.png

[(Anonymous)]

I'm still wondering how the hell are mainstream celebrities still relevant.

Maybe it's me turning into a Boomer, but little by little, the more samey films feel and the same casts used everywhere, and the more controversies sprung to light, I'd come to think nobody would end up liking normal celebrities.

... and yet, they remain as one of the main sections in newspapers.

[(Anonymous)]

Liking celebrities isn't the same thing as wanting to consume media about them, though. Controversy sells. People hate-read, or follow gossip and other "entertainment news" just so they could gasp and tut-tut over what's inside. It's not the best reflection of human nature, but it's weird to me that anyone would ever expect this to stop.

[(Anonymous)]

as with anything in human nature, I think it's possible to stop if the main drivers of such things made a conscious effort to refuse to cover it, make money off it, etc. given that humans are also inherently greedy and will make money off the worst things, that's the part I don't see changing.

before pop celebs it was royals. royalty and their courts were the trend-setters, fashion followed what they did. that apparently goes back as far as the pharaohs so humans have been doing this stupid looking-for-trends-from-our-admired-heroes thing for at least 5000 documented years. we can be better, but will we?

[(Anonymous)]

I always think of Maria Bamford's standup joke on this: "I do worship celebrities because they're very powerful, their moods create weather... I was feeling bad about it, but then I was like, of course, I'm just a tiny, frightened animal. You know, I look towards the most powerful and fertile of our species for information on how to survive. I need to find out what that Jennifer Aniston is doing, she's a strong sexy monkey. She's gonna tell us where all the bananas are located."

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

I was going to mention it's also stupid as hell to devote your time into hate-reading things, but I immediately realized that's what social media sites have been purposely crafted into.

Still, when I read the news, I'm interested in what affects me directly or indirectly. Even tech news are relevant because of that. I can even understand sports, even if I don't watch them nowadays. But celebrity gossip just seems... there. Someone else's life that is not only not the least relevant to me, but often it's also purposely crafted to get eyes on the thing, either by the editors or the people wanting to prop up the celebrity.

I don't think it's as comparable into following the lives of nobility and royalty, since they were the rulers in the past, whereas celebrities are just spoiled rich kids. A spoiled rich kid has no bearing on what may happen to me, whereas a head of state having skeletons in the closet has relevance in the way they lead, as it also involves their state of mind and mental health.

... Yeah. re-reading what I wrote, I realize I've become a sodding Boomer. Apologies. I do understand the factor on the need for celebrity gossip being human nature. Humans like all information, even gossip, as it tells them about their tribe, and this includes the fact people often have celebrities as parasocial relationships.

I follow fictional character lives, but that's because they're not real, and I love the fiction of it. I know they are explicitly written to be fun to follow, and they follow a story structure for entertainment. News of celebrities are only skin-deep.

[(Anonymous)]

Co-signed. Co-fucking-signed, my friend.

[(Anonymous)]

i feel you so hard. and it's as the other anon said, the vast majority of the time i'll hear about celebrities because people want to mock them or be outraged or whatever and like... i do not give a fuck!! if they said something outrageously stupid!! these people mean nothing to me shut up about them if you hate them so much!!! i don't give a shit about kim kardashian's birthday party or the washing routine of ashton kutcher you people are UNHINGED.

[(Anonymous)]

Dueling toilets like in the pic would be way better than side by side.

[(Anonymous)]

That way you can maintain uncomfortable eye contact!

[(Anonymous)]

And literaly duel with plunger handles!

[(Anonymous)]

...Okay, but now I'm curious. If nature calls for them both at the same time, do they just go at the same time on their shared toilets???

[(Anonymous)]

It's a bonding experience.

[(Anonymous)]

Solidarity! Help with the crossword! Etc.?

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly as much as I crave my own bathroom that I share with no one, I'd take a bathroom with two toilets over an apartment with only one toilet, but like
I can't imagine it being used in anything other than a DIRE emergency??

[(Anonymous)]

Considering I never saw anything about this, this sounds like you may want to curate your timeline

(not saying what you're saying isn't valid. Just that it could help)

[(Anonymous)]

Not that you can't fine random news about celebs annoying/uninteresting, but I find it funny that I only heard about this through f!s. Celeb news is relevant sure, but it's also pretty easy for me to just avoid it? If someone hadn't complained about it on here I'd never have known this was a thing.

[pantswarrior]

If you use Twitter at all this particular story was sort of impossible to avoid. I saw it in my "What's happening" sidebar for three days straight and I have no idea who these people are or why I should care about their scat fetish or whatever.

Some of the people who are actually cool who I follow were also going "WHY IS THE DOUBLE TOILET STORY STILL TRENDING" a couple days in so it wasn't just me. Twitter's algorithms just really, really wanted everyone to know about these people and their toilets. -_-

NAYRT

[(Anonymous)]

I'm on Twitter more than I admittedly should, and I never saw anything about this

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT.

Also on twitter, also never saw anything about this. Idk if my twitter algorithm doesn't quite suck but I don't get any celeb news unless I decide to click on the trending tags on the sidebar, otherwise I have no idea what's up with the famous strangers. But I also furiously curate my feed, if I'm not even passingly interested I remove the topic.

[(Anonymous)]

Morons should have gotten a bidet instead of another toilet.

[pantswarrior]

Most of the time I have no idea who anyone who's trending is these days, and I have no idea how they got famous, and I *definitely* am not going to care about whatever weird personal thing they're trending for.

And then I'll see some weird phrase trending and go "oh yay, something that looks potentially amusing" and turns out it was because some streamer/YouTuber said it and everyone is just repeating what they said and... what is the freaking point?

Considering that mostly the celebrities whose names I recognize are either being shouted out on the anniversary of their deaths or in celebration of them having a birthday upwards of 70... I think I'm just old.

[(Anonymous)]

I stopped paying attention to celbs last year when they sang that horrible cover to "Imagine", did that horrible and fake "I take responsibility", sang "Fried Fish" to the tune of "Vogue" (Madonna), and comparing quarantine to being in prison (Ellen Degeneres).

[(Anonymous)]

Off topic a bit, but wow that was only last year?? I know it’s not, but it feels like 5 years ago!!

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I don't need to know their pooping or showering habits.