I don& #39;t know if it& #39;s just a side effect of working in the most boring department in the TV and Film industry for 10 years, but I truly do not understand stan culture. Your fave really is just a fallible, finite sack of meat and bone on a dying planet like the rest of us.
Like, there& #39;s a few celebrities who I keep seeing people basically join online harassment campaigns to defend, and it& #39;s like... look, your fave has definitely tried to make someone else pick up their dog& #39;s shit, or trashed a free apartment, or tried to fight a cameraman. Desist.
You don& #39;t know someone if you& #39;ve only met them at conventions or watched all their interviews; you know the public image that they& #39;ve crafted for you to see. And that& #39;s fine! People need and deserve privacy no matter their fame. But don& #39;t kid yourself that you know the real them.
And that& #39;s not to say that your fave is secretly a terrible person!! Just that there& #39;s a big difference between being familiar with someone& #39;s public image and actually knowing them. You don& #39;t love the person; you love the persona. It& #39;s not worth so much of your time.
So I find it reaaaally weird when I see people on here be like I LOVE YOU SO MUCH to people they& #39;ve never met, and then start taking part in dogpiles and harassment campaigns on their (usually unsolicited) behalf and making stan accounts. Your fave gets diarrhoea too, Shannon.
Tl;dr celebrity and fame is an illusion, and just because your fave did a hilarious interview once about their strict vegan diet and it made you want to marry them, doesn& #39;t mean they don& #39;t actually eat hamburgers on the reg.
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