Has anyone else noticed that the general population has developed a distaste for Hollywood / Celebs?

submitted by PencilPusher55 from (self.whatever)

It's so interesting to me how after this covid-19 struck people were like "Please just stfu. You're not suffering like us" when they posted the IMAGINE video on twitter or whatever social media platform it was.

The recent series of events that have been very trying on the American people have lifted the illusion of these celebrities having any type of connection at all to the working class.

Have you noticed this too? It's a beautiful thing.

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[–]Narrator 11 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

There's no professional sports which is nice for a change.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I am honestly surprised more people aren't crying out about this. I never cared for it much myself, but lots of others seemed addicted to it. But since it's gone away, I haven't heard anyone really mention sports, or the lack thereof, at all. It's like way less people actually cared than I thought, and most of the hype around sports was just media-manufactured

[–]konoplya 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

mostly the right leaning people. the shitlibs eat this soy latte up

[–]NorfolkTerrier 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I think the ideal is for people not to care about celebs as much. Right now we're seeing a negative climate where a lot of the celebrity fixation is negatively focused (such as looking for "bad" things people said/did to attack them over), but it still reinforces the idea that these people are really important. Hopefully we'll see more people starting to get a better sense of what matters and what doesn't.

[–]Chipit 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I haven't really noticed anything. But hopefully it worked.

Just remember when you buy a ticket to a Hollywood movie, you're paying for children to be raped.

[–]Kupsofjoe 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

In past centuries celeb actor types where looked down upon and forbidden from holding office cuz they were immoral/untrustworthy.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

In past centuries celeb actor types where looked down upon and forbidden from holding office cuz they were immoral/untrustworthy.

I can testify that celebrities are typically of questionable character because the arts fields are not something which require high ethical standards to begin with

[–]Dr_Bukkake 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

They gave a standing ovation to a man who was convicted of raping a 13 year old girl in the ass.

[–]horatioherbert 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

'gave' --> give

[–]RuckFeddit 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We're all lead to believe things have a much bigger following than they do in reality. Almost nobody gives a fuck what celebrities say, and those that do are unimportant in the scheme of things.

[–]nullo 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I have seen more of it over the past couple years. I think people have felt that way for a while, but being stuck at home, etc. has just made people looser lipped.

[–]Current_Year_Acct 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think this pandemic caused a lot of people to have enough immediate problems in their lives that they don't have the mental space to pay attention to celebrities, so they've just started to seem extra full of themselves. Also, younger people seem like they pay more attention to internet figures or niche music artists than your standard hollywood A-listers.

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think also a lot of people are scared because the foundations of their way of life are shaking, and when people get scared, they often get very egoistic and full of themselves, as a way to counter the scared feeling. Like they're just fronting harder than ever so they (and others) don't realize how worried they actually are. I think for many it's a coping mechanism

[–]Aureus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think I've noticed this somewhat. But people I know weren't that into celebrities in the first place, so it's hard to tell if their opinion has become more negative.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I member right after 9/11 took place many celebrities did a special on TV for charity, they did songs and speeches. I actually really liked Tom Pettys version of I won't back Down, I remember him looking at the camera looking pissed and saying that. But anyways yeah nowadays people would tell them to stfu. I guess it's different since they had to do videos remotely and that just seems like low production values and cheap, so more annoying. I compare that to the imagine video they did. I guess 9/11 was also easier to virtue signal for, all of us MERICANS got attacked but most of us didn't really suffer anything, those in the towers and planes did of course and around NYC. But this corona effects us all, we all have to socially distance and wear masks and I think most americans are annoyed by it and do think it's a hoax.