[ SECRET POST #6806 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6806 ⌋

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[Jenna Ortega]




















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[(Anonymous)]

I have the same issue when people I follow who were not showing their face on camera suddenly start showing it - it just is a step that makes them too real for me.

[(Anonymous)]

I’m the same but also feel that way about authors and content creators. I enjoyed the little tidbits from interviews but I dislike knowing much about the professional entertainers. I just don’t enjoy their work as much and if they wade into the fandom it totally kills it for me.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, it feels really weird. I remember seeing screenshots of Taylor Swift's Myspace/Facebook when she was still in high school in (likely) a Buzzfeed article in the 2010s and it felt invasive and just...weird. I don't want any sort of "real closeness" to public figures. It feels invasive and like I entered some alternate world.

It is a little amusing to see people get worked up over celebrities unfollowing each other on social media. It reminds me of the late 2000s-early 2010s fandom culture on the internet. It's amusing but also weird to hear gossip/yapper creators say things like "Lana unfollowed Ethel and Ethel unfollowed Clairo so I blocked Gracie Abrams" as celebrity gossip. Most internet related things for me were fandom related, so when IRL mixes in with internet stuff, it feels so weird. Like this shouldn't be happening.

[(Anonymous)]

IDK how to feel here's this uncanny valley between parasocial and social that is hard to gauge. I am quite autistic so I would rather keep things simple and that often means NO following celebs that could notice me and so on (like small celebs)

[(Anonymous)]

I don't wanna hear from or about them unless they're in fan spaces as a fan. Like, when Bryan Fuller shows off his haul of Hannigram merch, or Hideo Kojima retweets his favorite fan art.

[(Anonymous)]

I realized most artists I followed were complete morons as human beings. That's why I don't follow any of them anymore. I don't want the artist between me and their art.

[(Anonymous)]

Seriously. And we shouldn't care about their opinions in the realm of politics either, but just make up our own minds and stick to our own beliefs.

[tabaqui]

I don't follow anybody because - a, I don't want to be horribly disappointed and b, it just seems weird. Like they know 'fans' will be following, so therefore, they are observed, and therefore, it becomes performative even if it's not supposed to be. And that kind of sucks, that people end up doing that (I know, free will), and I don't want to be part of it.

[(Anonymous)]

When it comes to inauthenticity I also can't help but wonder exactly how many famous people simply have a ghost writer manage their accounts for them. Particularly in the earlier days of social media, where a lot of famous people were expected to have an account.

[tabaqui]

This, too. Which I totally get, because non-famous-me gets exhausted by social media just trying to see my family's posts and keep up on the few political things I follow. I can't imagine getting hit with 3000 replies in 10 minutes to a post about your dog or whatever.

[(Anonymous)]

Sometimes distance helps sell the fantasy better. You can know something is fictional but believe it in the moment of experiencing it and the separation can help with your immersion.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I think this is exactly it! You worded it much better than me, thank you.

[(Anonymous)]

I get this. Personally, I avoid social media a lot so I can't say I share the experience, but it's really not much different from typecasting I think? You see something often enough, and it becomes expected. Be it a role, or a person, even when you know it's unfair, you can't help but be attached to that association.

she looks amazing

[(Anonymous)]

I think she looks amazing. She's decided her face and body are her own to do whatever she wants with and she's not interested in displaying traditional beauty to satisfy the public's wants. All power to her and Millie Bobby Brown for saying eff you to the greedy guts who want to consume their beauty on their time off as well as when they are on-screen.