Celebrity culture here to stay?

goujon945 · 24 Jul 2008 at 23:03

Hiyo,

As per title really. Is this 'culture' here to stay or is it somehow a phase? I ask because to be honest im ready to kill some people, im sick of the fact that someone could probably name Paris Hilton's pets and not have even heard of Sudan. We are being bombarded with 'news' of celebs personal lives and fashions and i just want someone to promise me it will all go away!

Welshy · 24 Jul 2008 at 23:06

We can hope it's a fad. The same can go for this 'reality' TV pap.

Raymond Lin · 24 Jul 2008 at 23:09

As long as there are women around and buying those Heat magazines.

goujon945 · 24 Jul 2008 at 23:09

I think reality tv is linked to this culture. To me it seems that for some reason we are compelled to live our lives through other peoples.

Steve2000 · 24 Jul 2008 at 23:17

Doesen't matter to me. I have absolutely zero interest in celebrities. I could not care one iota less about what drugs that **** Whinehouse is taking, who Britney Spears is banging behind the bikesheds, Paris Hilton, Britt Eklund, Kerry "****face" Katona, whoever's undergoing a sex change, or infact any of this Heat magazine diatribe. I'm too old.

Van Hellseek · 24 Jul 2008 at 23:46

Raymond Lin said:
As long as there are women around and buying those Heat magazines.

Ironically heat doesn't really glamorize celebs, so much as bitch about them. The problem is womens insatiable desire for pointless (yet malicious) gossip.

titchard · 24 Jul 2008 at 23:50

I always thought there was a consistent "Celebrity Culture" for decades - just made more apparent through the creation of extremely meager versions of what really shouldn't be called a celebrity via shows like Big Brother et al.

Rich

Raymond Lin · 24 Jul 2008 at 23:53

seek said:
Ironically heat doesn't really glamorize celebs, so much as bitch about them. The problem is womens insatiable desire for pointless (yet malicious) gossip.

The point i was making was your 2nd point, i never though Heat Glamourise them but being in the public eye, good or bad, makes some women want to be them too.

Jokester · 24 Jul 2008 at 23:57

There were celebs in Roman times, I don't see why there won't still be celebs in another 2000 years.

Van Hellseek · 25 Jul 2008 at 00:01

Jokester said:
There were celebs in Roman times, I don't see why there won't still be celebs in another 2000 years.

Alexander the great was the original celeb. Now if reality TV had people like that then I may just change my mind about it.

titchard · 25 Jul 2008 at 00:01

Jokester said:
There were celebs in Roman times, I don't see why there won't still be celebs in another 2000 years.

Exactly, just there appears to be more due to so many 'micro' celebrities being created.

Rich

PardonTheWait · 25 Jul 2008 at 00:04

wtf is sudan

BigglesPiP · 25 Jul 2008 at 00:07

Kill them.

Curiousalien · 25 Jul 2008 at 00:08

Mohinder said:
wtf is sudan

erm are you being slow?

It is when something happens really quickly. you know all of a sudan like.

Van Hellseek · 25 Jul 2008 at 00:17

Mohinder said:
wtf is sudan

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=sudan...um=1&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=title

Curiousalien said:
erm are you being slow?

It is when something happens really quickly. you know all of a sudan like.

:/

inferno · 25 Jul 2008 at 00:22

haha

Im all for it, makes people like me seem even more clever

G-MAN2004 · 25 Jul 2008 at 00:27

Is it sad that I read WWTDD.com and Perezhilton.com every day? Although, they do mainly take the **** out of celebrities so it can't be that bad.

Gackt · 25 Jul 2008 at 00:31

I don't know - could the entire population handle the constant bombardment of depressing news such as Sudan?

Rebelius · 25 Jul 2008 at 00:35

to be fair, Surely what celebrities are doing in this country has more relevance to my life than what's going on in Darfur. I mean, just because there's massive conflict goin on in Sudan, why should people know of Sudan any more than they should be expected to know about somewhere like Kyrgyzstan?

PardonTheWait · 25 Jul 2008 at 00:36

seek said:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=sudan...um=1&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=title

:/

Of all the people on this board, you weren't one of the ones I expected to take that at face value.

I'm disappointed.