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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
It isn't a singular entity. But even a small amount of social media outrage can have outsized effects. When Matt Damon suggested a few months ago that each situation is different and should be treated differently, he was roasted in the media and had to issue an immediate retraction and apology. Because we don't have any way to measure outrage - we don't distinguish between the outrage of 60 per cent of people, 6 per cent of people, or 600 individuals and a B-grade celebrity on twitter - it can all have the same effect.
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Or a person who builds their career on the fickle nature of celebrity needs to abide by the rules of a fickle nature of celebrity. I’m much more concerned when a regular person like the hydro one guy who yelled FHRITP on air and got fired for it when the mod tracked down when he was employed. People who are profit off of what really is hero worship get to live with its downsides.