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Holy cow, was Ben Hauck always this ripped?: Ben Hauck shows off six-pack abs during trip to the beach
*Read on for an explanation of this tweet
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PS In case you& #39;re confused by my series of tweets like these, I keep seeing "news stories" about celebrities and their bodies. Usually the headlines are about the person& #39;s abs, and usually the celebrities are middle age. Often they are stories about a single Instagram photo.
So as satire, I take these headlines and substitute in my name. (Just in case it& #39;s not clear, I& #39;m NOT a celebrity!)
When you think about the articles, they& #39;re utterly ridiculous. These are written by actual human beings, who stop and think the look of a body part in a photo is worth writing a large-scale news article about. They require editing work and typesetting. People are paid for these.
But not only are they utterly ridiculous, they are a lot of other things, too. Many I suspect are pitched by publicists for these celebrities, so the newsworthiness has an added magnitude of questionableness.
Plus, there& #39;s the whole notion of, "Doesn& #39;t it feel a bit & #39;wrong& #39; to write a whole article about a person& #39;s, say, abs? What would your shrink say if you said that was your job?"
But what& #39;s also interesting is you don& #39;t see these types of articles about NON-celebrities -- which is what my satire is about.
No one cares about my abs. No one cares about my other body parts. But if someone wrote an article about mine, wouldn& #39;t I potentially go, "Hey, WTF?"
No one cares about my abs. No one cares about my other body parts. But if someone wrote an article about mine, wouldn& #39;t I potentially go, "Hey, WTF?"
Imagine seeing an article about a photo of the abs of a random person who is neither a celebrity nor a performer, and who has not gone viral for some reason.
Creepy much?
Creepy much?
When you see ARTICLE after ARTICLE about the same celebrity& #39;s abs or body parts, you start to think there& #39;s a cottage industry around said celebrity and said celebrity& #39;s body parts.
It might just be a matter of what my homepage pitches to me, but most of these articles are about a) females, b) of middle age (I think a majority are in their 40s-50s), and c) abs.
The tweet starting this thread is taken from an article about a male football player in his 40s.
The tweet starting this thread is taken from an article about a male football player in his 40s.
