What will kill the culture of celebrity?

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  • Drake
    Hello world!
    • Mar 2003
    • 12508

    #1

    What will kill the culture of celebrity?

    It seems celebrity has reached an all time high. Was it always like this? Did people always become famous or notorious for looking good and acting.

    Do you think the interest in this new type of celebrity will ever die? Will we get bored of celebrities because they're just people like you and me? Or will we remain deeply fascinated with them because they have more money and are more beautiful (in our collective eye) than us on average.
  • rants
    Confirmed User
    • Apr 2006
    • 654

    #2
    It will never die. The internet made celeb watching even more better than before. Before you had to buy some shitty tabloid. Now, the photographer can instantly upload celeb pics on-line right after they are taken and they'll be on-line the same day.

    True celeb afficionados can check out Paris Hilton daily routine every single day on certain forums, you can watch on on Monday her going to grocery store and clubbing at night, on Tuesday going to get a facial and going to Starbucks, on Wednesday boarding a private jet, on Thursday in Cannes... etc

    And pics are HUGE and high resolution so basically you can see every pore on her face. When she goes grocery store shopping you can zoom in and see what she bought, If she's carrying something like a piece of paper we can probably zoom in and even read it if the print is big enough...

    It's 1000 times better than a tabloid, its instant gratification, you get the gossip shots on the same day that they were taken.

    It will never die. People will always love and idolize celebs.
    Plus they are also major fashion icons and can start trends by wearing something in public. If their seen wearing a certain item, once that shot hits the net, everyone will want to buy it.

    I actually like celeb culture.

    People have always into celebs, but the internet made it SO MUCH better.
    Even in earlier centuries people were always into the social lives of kings and queens etc in Europe...
    Last edited by rants; 06-03-2006, 03:26 PM.

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    • Drake
      Hello world!
      • Mar 2003
      • 12508

      #3
      Originally posted by rants
      It will never die. The internet made celeb watching even more better than before. Before you had to buy some shitty tabloid. Now, the photographer can instantly upload celeb pics on-line right after they are taken and they'll be on-line the same day.

      True celeb afficionados can check out Paris Hilton daily routine every single day on certain forums, you can watch on on Monday her going to grocery store and clubbing at night, on Tuesday going to get a facial and going to Starbucks, on Wednesday boarding a private jet, on Thursday in Cannes... etc

      And pics are HUGE and high resolution so basically you can see every pore on her face. When she goes grocery store shopping you can zoom in and see what she bought, If she's carrying something like a piece of paper we can probably zoom in and even read it if the print is big enough...

      It's 1000 times better than a tabloid, its instant gratification, you get the gossip shots on the same day that they were taken.

      It will never die. People will always love and idolize celebs.
      Plus they are also major fashion icons and can start trends by wearing something in public. If their seen wearing a certain item, once that shot hits the net, everyone will want to buy it.

      I actually like celeb culture.

      People have always into celebs, but the internet made it SO MUCH better.
      Even in earlier centuries people were always into the social lives of kings and queens etc in Europe...
      Cool. I was thinking that as access to celebs has increased, it's also opened the gates to more people becoming celebrities, often translating into shorter lifespan of celebs (if you're not on the cover or making headlines every day you're forgotten). I guess maybe we will go thru more celebs and info about them will be shared faster than in the past but we will forever remain interested in them.

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      • slapass
        Too lazy to set a custom title
        • Nov 2002
        • 14625

        #4
        it has already weakened do to the fact that there are just too many. Celebs have less power then they did just a few years ago.

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        • rants
          Confirmed User
          • Apr 2006
          • 654

          #5
          Originally posted by Mike33
          Cool. I was thinking that as access to celebs has increased, it's also opened the gates to more people becoming celebrities, often translating into shorter lifespan of celebs (if you're not on the cover or making headlines every day you're forgotten). I guess maybe we will go thru more celebs and info about them will be shared faster than in the past but we will forever remain interested in them.
          Yea everyone is a celeb these days, somehow this girl named Kristin Cavalleri from the mtv show Laguna Beach became one sort of... All she did was start in a reality tv show and she made the front cover of US Weekly because she was talking to Nick Lachey and now she wants to be a "serious actress"

          Celebs make up things all the time to stay in the spotlight. I heard that Paris Hilton likes to have her publicist "leak" certain things in the press...

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          • rants
            Confirmed User
            • Apr 2006
            • 654

            #6
            Originally posted by slapass
            it has already weakened do to the fact that there are just too many. Celebs have less power then they did just a few years ago.
            I don't think it has weakened. I visit a lot of forums and people are just fanatical , I mean like really fanatical. There's more celeb blogs than ever like Perezhilton and IdontLikeYouInThatWay and they are hugely popular.

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            • $5 submissions
              I help you SUCCEED
              • Nov 2003
              • 32189

              #7
              It won't die. It will just mutate. Like a nefarious roach

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              • samsam
                So Fucking Banned
                • Jun 2002
                • 682

                #8
                WWIII will kill celebrity dead in its tracks if its like a major assault on the civilized world

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                • Lycanthrope
                  Confirmed User
                  • Jan 2004
                  • 4517

                  #9
                  Originally posted by samsam
                  WWIII will kill celebrity dead in its tracks if its like a major assault on the civilized world
                  No it won't, if anything, celebrity is even bigger in third world shitholes.

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                  • KRL
                    Entrepreneur
                    • Oct 2002
                    • 31429

                    #10
                    Celebrity obsession is fucking nuts, but I think we're all guilty of it.

                    Like this past week every entertainment show was talking about Brad Pitts new baby.

                    Who the fuck really cares what his baby looks like and why should we. A million kids were born last week, why should his be any different just cause he acts in movies. Its craziness.
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                    • BlackCrayon
                      Too lazy to set a custom title
                      • Jun 2003
                      • 19634

                      #11
                      i made a lot of money off celeb sites, so even though i very much despise it i don't mind if it sticks around. gonna start up celebritybbs.com soon!
                      you don't know you're wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day..

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                      • BusterBunny
                        perverted justice decoy
                        • Aug 2005
                        • 19291

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Lycanthrope
                        No it won't, if anything, celebrity is even bigger in third world shitholes.
                        really?

                        my sig caught gonoherpasyphilaids and died

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                        • mardigras
                          Bon temps!
                          • Feb 2003
                          • 14194

                          #13
                          They used to say that Zsa Zsa Gabor was famous for being famous
                          .

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                          • Dr.Strangelove
                            Registered User
                            • Feb 2006
                            • 87

                            #14
                            This shit is going crazy when professionals off their pics to my site after they sell it to the tabloids in exchange for pimping traffic back to their agencies.

                            Now THAT's a first! And I'll take it. ;)

                            La Dolce Vita!

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                            • 2HousePlague
                              CURATOR
                              • Jul 2004
                              • 14572

                              #15
                              I think the trend is MORE celebrities, but with a SHORTER life-span.


                              2hp
                              tada!

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