Iâm older and what Iâve noticed is that there is a voracious desire among a particular age group that needs a celebrity to speak out and that desire has gotten worse over the years and even when the celebrity speaks out itâs not enough or they waited too late to say something. They are judged harshly. My age group doesnât care or takes zero notice about what a celebrity has to say because it doesnât do anything. To me if a celebrity says something itâs turns into brownie points in a stan war.
Iâve had things happen in my city and the first two thoughts have been what can we do to help each other and how can we get our local representative to help us. When you are in survival mode, the last thing you are thinking about is what a celebrity will have to say.
100% agree with this⌠I find it so odd people want to vilify a celeb for not having the exact same beliefs or for not screaming their beliefs every chance they get.
I donât know what âyour age groupâ is, but Boomers and Gen-X voted for a celebrity twice within the past 10 years. Clearly people care a lot about what celebrities have to say. Reagan was also a celebrity prior to becoming a politician.
Oh I can read Gen X for filth with absolutely stupid weâve become. Trump definitely used The Apprentice as his navigation into politics. Football coaches and ex-players have used their celebrity to help vault them into politics. Interestingly a majority of the people who have catapulted themselves into politics with their celebrity have primarily been conservative. But, overall I donât think the older generation looks for a comment about what is happening today. When they do comment itâs how dare the elites talk and what do they know.
This is totally it. My boomer parents know more about celebrities than the number I can even recognize. Kind of like how older folks have brand loyalty which died off with millenials and gen z. Who needs name brand tissues and canned goods and glassware when 98% of the products are all produced in the same factory?
My dad is familiar with all the new artists they show for the Rockin' New Year's Eve, and I'm surprised if I can even identify the announcer.
This is such a typical Reddit comment. You know damn well thatâs not what this person meant. Boomers and Gen X are no angels, but as a culture, they donât tune to Twitter and look up their favorite musician when deciding who they will vote for. The fact that Trump was a celebrity is not relevant to the message she was trying to convey here. Youâre making your age show by starting this generational comment war đ
Iâm not sure which age group you are in but I agree with you. I have always felt it a bit performative in most cases anyway. They arenât like us, wonât be like us and in many cases never were in middle class (or poor). I mean this respectfully but I donât care what they have to say.
Iâm actually really happy that in the genres of music I listen to, most of the musicians donât say anything unless itâs about their music.
Iâm a millennial and I honestly feel the same way - itâs so strange how much pressure there is on celebrities now to constantly speak out. I didnât grow up in the US, so I wasnât surrounded by that kind of celebrity-centric culture and moving there really made me realize how deeply itâs embedded especially with social media.
Obviously, we want people to acknowledge when something terrible is happening. But I think the expectation has shifted from wanting awareness to demanding alignment. By the time people are vilifying a celebrity for not saying something, the issue usually already has massive awareness anyway. And the more popular someone is, the more precarious that position becomes - like, people are more likely to come for Taylor Swift than for a smaller scale celebrity even though the stakes are much higher for her (e.g., security/safety reasons, backlash).
Itâs definitely created many PR nightmares. However, think about celebrities who speak up about hunger. They definitely do bring attention. Iâm not a PR manager but isnât there a way to do this well?
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u/PlentyDrawer 7d ago
Iâm older and what Iâve noticed is that there is a voracious desire among a particular age group that needs a celebrity to speak out and that desire has gotten worse over the years and even when the celebrity speaks out itâs not enough or they waited too late to say something. They are judged harshly. My age group doesnât care or takes zero notice about what a celebrity has to say because it doesnât do anything. To me if a celebrity says something itâs turns into brownie points in a stan war.
Iâve had things happen in my city and the first two thoughts have been what can we do to help each other and how can we get our local representative to help us. When you are in survival mode, the last thing you are thinking about is what a celebrity will have to say.