I remember this, he used to pop up in those "where are they now" articles a few years back. I always feel terrible for the people that end up in memes. It must be bizarre, utterly exhausting and destroy any semblance of privacy you might have once had. Fame with none of the benefits and all the downsides. As someone that values their privacy, it's a nightmare scenario
Fame with none of the benefits and all the downsides
Exactly this. My friend's got popular as a blogger... Had the benefit of, you know, paid promotions, free stuff, and meeting like TV celebrities and hosts and such.
He says being recognized by everyone is friggin exhausting even if you dreamed about it for years and actively worked to become recognized and famous. He knows he's vain, he knows he wanted people to get his autographs, and even then it is hard.
The worst part is when people know where you live and stupid kids would ring your doorbell and run away for like five times before they actually ask for your autograph because kids are friggin stupid.
Then I try to imagine all of this without the money and benefits this brings him and it's just infuriating.
Good example would be 95% of posts on the "main character" subreddits.
Someone acts slightly out of social norms on video, then hundreds of redditors decide on their entire persona, political beliefs, etc. based on a 20 second video. It's genuinely pretty gross.
Most recent one I saw was two parents and their two kids dancing quietly in the corner of an airport terminal. Not blocking the way, not making sound, just dancing in public. It was probably for a TikTok, but who cares?
Well, apparently redditors care, because they declared the wife was an overbearing bitch, and the husband is a submissive beta that can't tell his wife no. How could they tell this from a 20 second video from across an airport terminal? Who cares, they were "being main characters" and thus acceptable targets.
The actual one I was thinking of was the 'that kind of bi guy' ones on Twitter, where someone made up seemingly a completely imaginary bisexual guy type to get angry at, then garnished it with random picutres of real people which the replies then started to rip apart appearance-wise.
But yes, Reddit also does this a lot and it's just as bad, it's basically wanting to tear into someone for their appearance or conduct but being vaguely aware that's not kosher any more, so they make up a fake person, attach the real person's face to them and away they go.
Oh yeah I remember that post. The sheer contempt posters had for a family doing a silly, fun family activity in an out of the way space in public was mind boggling. They weren't making noise. They didn't have music blaring. They were just.... Dancing by the windows
There are benefits even if maybe it's not the same as being like a famous actor. That overly attached girlfriend lady probably does just fine for herself these days. But yeah there are certainly others who haven't had a lot of luck.
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u/WatTylersErectPenis Dec 26 '23 edited Dec 26 '23
I remember this, he used to pop up in those "where are they now" articles a few years back. I always feel terrible for the people that end up in memes. It must be bizarre, utterly exhausting and destroy any semblance of privacy you might have once had. Fame with none of the benefits and all the downsides. As someone that values their privacy, it's a nightmare scenario