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I considered making this a secret, but then I thought Nah.

This past week when all those "OMG Meryl Streep is eating pizza like a real person" type posts surfaced in the post-Oscar craze on Tumblr, I had an epiphany: I'm sick of people fawning over celebrities as if every stupid mundane thing they did was special.

This is a new thing for me because for years I stanned certain actors and faithfully followed blogs about them, looking at every picture of them walking on the street, eating a burrito or posing with uglier people and considered this a time well-spent.

I could not begin to fathom what it's like to be a celebrity and have borderline worship, vitriolic hate, and utter lack of privacy towards. Celebrity culture is pretty damn disgusting.

Why anyone wants to be a celebrity is beyond me.

...the money? The piles and piles and piles and piles of money?

Fame is like youtube hits. Worthless unless you can monetise it.

Many famous people don't have that much money. Much less than you'd expect. Conversely, most of the richest people in the world are relatively obscure.

That's why I have so much trouble with "live action fandoms" if you will.

- Joel McHale is not Jeff Winger. (Well - okay, maybe a little bit.) I don't really care how hot he is. I just want to talk about Community.

- I had to leave the Wicked fandom altogether because all anyone wanted to do was gab about Idina Menzel. (Although in fairness, a lot of Wicked fandom consisted of teenagers, so I may have been a little hard on them. Just a little.)

- I'm convinced Sylar worship in the Heroes fandom was only due to him being played by Zach Quinto. Had a homely old man played Sylar, nobody would have faingirled.

And it goes on. I like celebrities enough, but I just don't care that much. About any of them. Even when I was a teenager, I never got it; all my crushes were book characters.

Ha, most of my crushes were book characters too.

Yeah, that blurring of lines between actor/character annoys me too. I can't watch Daryl in Walking Dead without cringing. I just don't care about seeing gifs of another oh-so-down-to-earth thing Jennifer Lawrence says, I don't care about Tom Hiddleston being cute once again, I don't care about an actor accidentally brushing against his colleague and all the twenty gifs that document it.

I just want to talk about the actual shows or films or characters, too :/

/OP

AYRT

Yeah... too bad if we said that at any of the comms, we'd look like trolls or wank baiters. I once said that at a community and it was clear everyone thought I was insulting their intelligence.

I really hate how the imdb top news shifted from "Director is going to direct Book adaptation" to "Real spoiled brat of Miami is depressed because her rich husband left her on American television". I can show the movie news instead but it's annoying. Who the fuck even watches this thing? Also, why is American media trying to tell me the Kardashian family is relevant or worth making a television show cented around it? Did they accomplish fucking anything outside of "being the offspring of vaguely controversial lawyer"?

I'm not interested in following celebrities, but I make up for it with my interest in literary feuds. P.G. Wodehouse vs A.A. Milne, Mary McCarthy vs Lillian Hellman, Norman Mailer vs Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer vs feminists, Norman Mailer vs the world.

Ohhhh that crazy Norman Mailer.

waitwaitwait

P.G Wodehouse vs A.A. Milne?

Do tell! *chinhands*

I suddenly picture Bertie Wooster and Winnie the Pooh duking it out over Star Trek fight music.

Not new for me, I've always been like this. But I read a lot, so.

You know what's worse, OP? (IMO) The people who feed into it, with their posts on Twitter/Tumblr/etc., just posting the most outrageous/fan-adoration-getting selfies, just so their faces will stay in people's heads. (Looking at you DW people.) Which, to be fair, yeah okay that's their business, marketing themselves, but the squeeing reblogs and retweets of the stuff just sets my teeth on edge, and IDEK why. Like, I want to shake the fannits and go, "This is what they want you to do! Bread and circuses! Diversion from important issues!"

....though I usually tend to put the computer away before I start foaming at the mouth...

lol same I am blacklisting anything having to do with the oscars

There are actors that I like and I like pictures of them (sometimes use them as character inspiration) but I know way more about their personal lives and opinions than I care to.

Unlike you though, I was never really into it. I just know what I know because of magazine covers at the checkout, and pan-fandom spaces like tumblr and fs.

I feel the same, but I think this is getting so much worse lately. Now that it's unbelievably easy to assess people's reactions to every dumb things they do, celebrities (and their staff of course) have become shameless in manipulating them. We have reached that point where you often can see exactly what a celeb has read of him/herself and what effect he/she wants to have on his fanbase by saying/doing certain things.

Someone does it better than others I guess, but it's still quite disgusting to see, because you just know that most people won't even notice.

I've been enraged about all these pretty boys/men kissing and hugging each other on interviews lately because of this reason. Most of this crap is means to an end, they want to sell the product to slashers. Is that so hard to see?

I hope I don't sound holier-than-thou but I have never understood that particular sentiment. In fact celebs in general are just not that interesting to me. They're just people? I often like the art they produce, but rarely have more than a cursory interest in the artist themselves.

Late to comment but I agree with you. When I was younger I used to be so into finding out who my favorite actors were dating or how some famous person made themselves out to be a jerk for some miniscule thing that's not really important but I thought was. But then a few years ago I just kept finding myself not caring what most of the celebrity culture was doing. Even those celebrities that are famous for being famous that I used to hate I just cannot muster up any energy to care. I'd rather spend my energy being excited for movies or shows I like. I do feel bad when I catch myself getting caught up in some of those things though. =( Because I do from time to time, and when I catch myself doing that I have to remind myself that Actor X may be terrible for Y reason/s but that's not something I should focus upon. Just seeing or hearing people continue to push some mundane topic is a pretty quick reminder of why I get so easily tired of celeb culture as well.

I have a feeling you'd get a kick out of Weird Al Yankovic's song "TMZ."

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