After a certain point in popularity it is assumed the celeb is going to sooner or later:

Be doxxed

Have death threats thrown at them

Be sexually harassed

Have police called on them

Then we have all the Vtubers who are Hannah Monatanning it up and straight chilling. Ironmouse has never been swatted, but by God some people would if they could, and others would probably show up at her house to show their “love”.

Dream is an example of someone who shouldn’t have let out who he was IMO because the attacks against him seemed to become a lot more real once there was a real human name, face, and location. Like I would have gone to the grave as Dream with how many people hated him before his face reveal.

  • Captain Poofter@lemmy.worldEnglish
    53·
    1 year ago

    I don’t think celebrities and actual humans are quite the same. Celebrities have been putting on personas since the very first celebrities began. A celebrity is literally a public image, that’s what it is. This stretches to politicians as well. Hannah Montana was not an original idea, it was a commentary on the lives a lot of celebrities live. Tosh.0? A shy introvert.

    The only thing you mentioned that was new is the invention of digital avatars. Everything else is business as usual. Who cares?

    As for the people harassing people? Well they should stop. Online harassment isn’t cool, regardless of celebrity status.

    • magnusrufus@lemmy.world
      13·
      1 year ago

      I didn’t mention anything other than people that view others as humans would care that other humans are being harassed.

      Being doxxed and getting death threats? Oh yeah that’s not cool but who cares?

      Also, a more minor point relative to your stance that celebs aren’t human, but how on earth did you manage to equate a public persona with completely obfuscating ones identity or even creating a totally new identity?

      • Captain Poofter@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        1 year ago

        Ok we’re talking about different parts of the original post.

        Also I literally don’t care about this anymore. Enjoy hitting downvote and crying about YouTubers getting caught up in their own choices in pursuit of fame.

            • magnusrufus@lemmy.world
              11·
              1 year ago

              Your only reply to the whole of the original post was who cares. The doxxing death threats and sexual harassment, who cares. You wanted to say that you were talking about a different part but you gave no context or indication for that when you just said who cares. How is that not indifference to human suffering? It really doesn’t seem like much of an assumption.