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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Social media has clearly led to the overidentification of the general public with celebrities, and a loss of distance or a buffer of some kind. People now think they know someone better than that person knows themselves.

It is quite scary. I was on a subreddit board for a reality tv show and the posters on that sub were quite terrifying. The people on the show aren't even celebrities and the show is very over storylined, produced, edited, spliced etc, and yet posters were having breakdowns in their personal lives over what they perceived to be happening and wanting to contact producers to have them help the cast they had decided were victims. They also were calling and harrassing cast members places of work and sending tons of hateful emails and messages to their workplaces and family members. Even when the liked members of the cast tried to tell them to stop and that it hadn't happened as they perceived, the posters were insistent that they were right and that they knew these people and what each one was really like and who needed to be brought down.

Crazed fans have been happening for a long time. I remember when the British boy band Take That disbanded in 1996, the government had to set up a crisis hotline for counselling support as so many fans were threatening to kill themselves. Social media has just made it ten times worse.[/quote]

Fans were hyperventilating and passing out for the Beatles and Elvis long before 1996.[/quote]

I know but social media has allowed these crazed fans to easily find each other and band together and campaign or target or attack en masse whomever they wish. Social media and its confirmation bias algorithm also leads to people getting worked up into a frenzy and seeing others who feel the same way makes them think their perspective must be true and justified. [/quote]

Can you imagine how difficult it is for Taylor to find a BF? If her fans don’t like him, they attack. And it could affect their career not to mention their mental state. I’m sure that’s why MH was only a fortnight.[/quote]

She doesn't seem to have any difficulty finding a boyfriend. She is a serial dater. [/quote]

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