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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson" data-source="post: 397983" data-attributes="member: 5079">In the aftermath of this year&#039;s Met Gala -- and particularly influencer Haley Baylee&#039;s tone-deaf &quot;let them eat cake&quot; viral (now deleted) video -- there&#039;s a growing trend of users blocking celebrities and their corporate sponsors on social media.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.aol.com/news/let-them-eat-cake-why-190129656.html">https://www.aol.com/news/let-them-eat-cake-why-190129656.html</a>This isn&#039;t the first time in recent memory that there&#039;s been blowback to the very idea of &quot;celebrity&quot;.&nbsp; After that ridiculous video of celebrities singing &quot;Imagine&quot; in Covid-era, there was some musings that we don&#039;t need celebrities and probably never did.&nbsp;&nbsp; After that though, celebrities managed to scurry back like over-dressed cockroaches.&nbsp; Personally, I&#039;d be happy for the end of celebrity culture.&nbsp; I find their schtick increasingly tedious -- their preening and smug moralizing and grotesque money-grubbing can hit the road.(I&#039;ll make the distinction that I think society does need artists and performers; I have no objection to their work.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s the idea that we&#039;re supposed to care about them as famous people that has run its course.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crimson, post: 397983, member: 5079"] In the aftermath of this year's Met Gala -- and particularly influencer Haley Baylee's tone-deaf "let them eat cake" viral (now deleted) video -- there's a growing trend of users blocking celebrities and their corporate sponsors on social media. [URL]https://www.aol.com/news/let-them-eat-cake-why-190129656.html[/URL] This isn't the first time in recent memory that there's been blowback to the very idea of "celebrity". After that ridiculous video of celebrities singing "Imagine" in Covid-era, there was some musings that we don't need celebrities and probably never did. After that though, celebrities managed to scurry back like over-dressed cockroaches. Personally, I'd be happy for the end of celebrity culture. I find their schtick increasingly tedious -- their preening and smug moralizing and grotesque money-grubbing can hit the road. (I'll make the distinction that I think society does need artists and performers; I have no objection to their [I]work[/I]. It's the idea that we're supposed to care about them as [I]famous people [/I]that has run its course.) [/QUOTE]

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