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[SrFrog]

Every time I turn on the TV or computer I see the same thing, this celebrity did this and that celebrity did that. See, I don't care how people decide to spend their time but when they become clueless of more important matters that's when I think. What is wrong with those people?

So why do think some people care so much about celebrities and their lifes?

[Crona The Critic]

Every time I turn on the TV or computer I see the same thing, this celebrity did this and that celebrity did that. See, I don't care how people decide to spend their time but when they become clueless of more important matters that's when I think. What is wrong with those people?

So why do think some people care so much about celebrities and their lifes?

It's like the popular people in school-

Everyone knows them, so everyone wants to know everything about them.

Celebrities are higher than life people, according to America, so they are worthy of our entire attention span.

I don't agree with it.

[Vaporeon]

I make my own celebrities, these are people I follow on YouTube and Twitter. Never anyone popular culture put forward and always on the merits of the entertainment they can bring.

[Morrigan Aensland]

TBH, I think it's stupid. There's people starving and wars happening but every time I go on the Internet (I don't watch TV) all I'm bombarded with is Kim Kardashian's ass. I don't give a flying feather!
EDIT: What Tich said. I'm a huge Crabstikz fan. He's like my GOD. And he's not popular at all! Basically, I don't like people who conform to others for the sole sake of fitting in.

Edited by PinkieDaShy, 16 March 2012 - 04:34 PM.

[Envy]

I've never understood the obsession either. To be honest, I couldn't even possibly care less about what they're doing. Celebrity culture is so ridiculous and annoying.

[SrFrog]

I make my own celebrities, these are people I follow on YouTube and Twitter. Never anyone popular culture put forward and always on the merits of the entertainment they can bring.

What happens if they become semi-mainstream like Fred?

[Lady Rarity Pony]

Because everyone does what society wants them to do.

[Another Creative Username]

Because some people don't have a life.

[Morrigan Aensland]

^this.

[Vaporeon]

What happens if they become semi-mainstream like Fred?

It depends, do they still churn out good content or not.

[Strafe]

Yet no one cares about soldiers dying around the world, society is a disgrace.

[Champion RD92]

It's because people are getting stupider and stupider these days...

Just look at all the stupid little kids running around acting like complete douchebags

[SrFrog]

Yet no one cares about soldiers dying around the world, society is a disgrace.

Hilarious when people can remember the entire cast of Jersey shore but not able to point in a map where major wars took place. That honestly happened quite a few time when I was still in school.

[Kirlia]

Listen to this.

Edited by Devin Dash, 16 March 2012 - 05:16 PM.

[bee815]

Devin, you do make a point in that they often can justify their popularity because they make good music or rap or something, but the person who makes a good rap song is better known than the scientist who invented the vaccine and saved millions of lives? I don't get it.

Edited by bee815, 16 March 2012 - 05:19 PM.

[Kirlia]

Devin, you do make a point in that they often can justify their popularity because they make good music or rap or something, but the person who makes a good rap song is better known than the scientist who invented the vaccine and saved millions of lives? I don't get it.

Because people look up to other people more so for who they are rather than what they do nowadays. As a singer, you express yourself and your life through music. And people can relate to that. Hence, "we're the fucking shit in their eyes".

Edited by Devin Dash, 16 March 2012 - 05:33 PM.

[FinalGamer]

Devin, you do make a point in that they often can justify their popularity because they make good music or rap or something, but the person who makes a good rap song is better known than the scientist who invented the vaccine and saved millions of lives? I don't get it.

Seriously, everyone knows Eminem, but I only ever met three people who knew about Jenner, and NOBODY but me remembers Sir James Black who created beta-blockers.

And what about James Clerk Maxwell, the guy who discovered FREAKING RADIO WAVES?!
Yanno, the single most important discovery of 20th-century technology, leading to the radio and TELEVISION!?
I mean, say what you want for Marconi, Bell (or Gray) or Baird, but they had no idea about radio waves until Maxwell, and without that, they wouldn't have springboarded their idea.

Celebrity is a harsh mistress. But then again, give them 20 years, maybe nobody will remember Eminem. I guarantee nobody will remember Kardashian in the next 10 years.

[NeverNeverland]

I'd personally like to think that people are simple minded in some cases, and like Rose/Finest/Yuki said, since celebrities are higher than us in life we feel the need to know everything about them. I believe that it may also be to furfill something that they weren't able to accomplish before so they latch on to someone else for them to succeed.

Or something like that.

[Kirlia]

Seriously, everyone knows Eminem, but I only ever met three people who knew about Jenner, and NOBODY but me remembers Sir James Black who created beta-blockers.

And what about James Clerk Maxwell, the guy who discovered FREAKING RADIO WAVES?!
Yanno, the single most important discovery of 20th-century technology, leading to the radio and TELEVISION!?
I mean, say what you want for Marconi, Bell (or Gray) or Baird, but they had no idea about radio waves until Maxwell, and without that, they wouldn't have springboarded their idea.

Celebrity is a harsh mistress. But then again, give them 20 years, maybe nobody will remember Eminem. I guarantee nobody will remember Kardashian in the next 10 years.

To put this bluntly, who would honestly want to know what the hell radio waves are (not that I wouldn't want to)?

That's the problem. They're just not interested in that kind of stuff.

[FinalGamer]

To put this bluntly, who would honestly want to know what the hell radio waves are (not that I wouldn't want to)?

That's the problem. They're just not interested in that kind of stuff.

Ehhhh yeah I kinda phrased that badly. I guess it's all about entertainment value huh?