*fans Todd's face*

Incoming oxygen!

TRON.dll Wrote:Great, now the bottom of this thread will be forever-littered with Miley Cyrus ads, lol.

I was just noticing that and thinking the same thing. I mean, this website is the LAST place on earth one would expect to see those kinds of ads. But there they are. Oh well. Our own fault.

KiaPurity Wrote:*fans Todd's face* Incoming oxygen!

Thank you, KiaPurity.

I was a bit on the tired side last night when I was posting here. I think that had something to do with it. But that seriously had me cracking up. Sometimes you just gotta laugh, right?

lurkinghorror Wrote:...It certainly can be scary. Watching the evolving fascination with Britney Spears is a good example. People loved to watch her climb and then relished in her fall. We prop these people up just so we can take great pleasure in tearing them down. What it says about us as a culture is far more enlightening than what it says about the individuals we're focusing on.

I was never a Britney Spears fan. For a long time I've wondered why she's been such a big focus in the (celebrity-chasing) media. It seemed like if she sneezed, there was a story about it - why? Never got it. Not being a Britney fan (not hating her or anything at the same time) I did get annoyed with all the coverage the media gave her. It made me wonder what the big deal was and why make celebrities out to be such hugely important things (they seem to do that with many of them). I kept waiting for her to fade out of popularity, but there seems to be no end in sight. Any "trouble" she gets in just seems to fuel the media's obsession with her... or perhaps the media is just giving the public what it wants, although I know of a good deal of people who do NOT care for such celebrity coverage in the news.

I don't know what it is. Do the same people who "loved" Brittney (or similar star) really love her so much to bring her in to such popularity and then just completely turn? Or is it something else? Maybe some people always love her and then there are those who never like her who seem to be enjoying her being painted in a bad light these days? Or perhaps it's just a matter of jealous girls who are tired of their guys thinking she's hot or something? Or perhaps it's just the joy of watching the rich and famous being turned in to real-life soap operas for the entertainment of those who follow that kind of thing. Whatever.

It's sad, really. Crap like this (the media's and public's obsession with celebrity gossip) really embarrasses me. I mean, I feel embarrassed by how my fellow Americans (or broader: westerners) treat things like this. I hope people of other cultures/societies (places that do not worship celebrity gossip) understand that we're not ALL like that.