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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Any more that any story about a famous person can be believed?
It’s unique, because we’re in a space where we don’t know these people at all. They have an image, PR, a brand, they are famous for one thing and the rest of their life is more or less a mystery. That said, how often has a story come out about a famous person struggling with mental health, or drug addiction, or charity work, or being a really great person... and you just believe it? Why is it ok to share countless good stories that might end up putting a pretty average or even dickish person on a pedestal, but it’s not ok to share stories that remove them from that pedestal?
What you or anyone else, including the companies who employee these people, do with that information is really up to you and them. Again, I don’t agree with Warner cutting him, but at the same time, why do I care or have some say in their decision to do it? I get it, it’s not like he’s a big star or have a bunch of positive brand association left, so it’s an easy decision.
Again, if you think mental or emotional abuse shouldn’t be mentioned because it’s technically not illegal, I disagree. If you think the only stories people should share about a celebrity are either great ones or ones where they broke the law, why? Why the interest in keeping these people on a pedestal whether they’ve earned it or not?
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There's an interesting thought here about how this affects regular people.
The only reason these abusers/victims are being noticed is because one of them is a celebrity, almost always the abuser.
What does it say about our culture that we don't really care about victims who were abused by regular joes? It's pretty disgusting when you think about the psychology behind it all.
There's nothing quite like the draw of celebrity. And the only thing we love more than seeing a celebrity that we're a fan of hit it big, is to see another celebrity (sometimes the same person even!) come back to earth in a spectacular fall from grace.
If this was Jane Doe complaining about John Q Public being an abusive POS, even if it was 50x worse, then nobody would give a ####.
It's not even about successful/rich people being taken down. It is purely about the ability to generate page clicks from the sensationalist headlines. The better the reputation of the abuser to begin with and/or the bigger star they are/were then the more we eat that #### up.