My issues are as follows:

1. The nepo babies who don't acknowledge their advantage and act like it was all of their own accord

2. Especially in the arts it further limits an alreadyi.ited perspective.


3. Particularly annoying to see those lacking in talent skipping the line ie Brooklyn Beckham's photography book.

Yes, stick them in those jobs that don’t matter. Do you really want them building bridges? Same logic as sticking all the diversity hires in HR.

Anonymous wrote:I mean, kids often go into the same careers or careers similar to/adjacent to what their parents do. They know how that world works and have early exposure to skill that will help them succeed. But no one puts together the not-so-exciting family trees of multi-generation academics or white collar office workers or farmers.

That might understandable for other professions, but for modeling it's obvious that these kids haven't quite inherited their parent's exceptional looks. It's not like they are using their inherited interests and learned skills to do any media job, they are basically stealing a spot meant for less than 0.1% of the population, across a decade or two. They're doing this using their family connections and best plastic surgeries that (family) money can buy.

Anonymous wrote:Not just actors but just look at families like Windsors, Trumps, Kennedys, Bushes etc. Everyone with money, fame and connections benefits from nepotism.

This is, like, the actual point of a monarchy?

I mean, kids often go into the same careers or careers similar to/adjacent to what their parents do. They know how that world works and have early exposure to skill that will help them succeed. But no one puts together the not-so-exciting family trees of multi-generation academics or white collar office workers or farmers.

I so miss the supermodel era. The icons were often truly unconnected. Thinking about Supernova deep in Russia or Iman in Somalia. But even Cindy and Christy were just regular girls.

Not just actors but just look at families like Windsors, Trumps, Kennedys, Bushes etc. Everyone with money, fame and connections benefits from nepotism.

Nepotism is a reality and an easy way to earn big bucks.

Anonymous wrote:There have always been nepo babies in Hollywood but it does seem like they are more prevalent than ever. Probably since there is so much more TV and film content these days.

I think it’s exactly this - between social media, streaming platforms/studios, traditional studios, and television the industry simply can’t get enough talent to draw eyeballs. Oh you have a famous parent? That’s a guaranteed 250K sets of eyeballs that will check out this project.

Once you have 500K engaged followers on social media, you have a built in baseline for success and profit.

Wow, they went really deep and far!

There have always been nepo babies in Hollywood but it does seem like they are more prevalent than ever. Probably since there is so much more TV and film content these days.

I haven’t read the article but I saw bits of it on twitter and such. The nepotism doesn’t surprise me. It’s rife, after all, in every field. It’s the fact that these kittens want us to pretend along with (most of) them that they’ve done it all on their own, purely by skill. I don’t like being bull crapped.

And one assumes that the genuinely hideous and untalented will mostly fade away.

Wow, they devoted an entire issue to a series of articles about entertainment and sports nepo babies. This took A LOT of time to pull together

https://www.vulture.com/tags/the-year-of-the-nepo-baby/