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Originally Posted by MB.
Yeah, there's definitely a line that can be, and has been, crossed many times in that respect, I agree... I think it's just, unfortunately, part and parcel of being so high profile, though, as if your personal opinions (or the public's perception of what your personal opinions are, based on the little they can get) automatically become public and subject to whatever scrutiny social media is able to throw at them
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I agree. It's a little ironic we're having this discussion on a Big Brother website of all places. It's not like it's fans are angels and to a degree the show is literally about stalking our faves
... and celebrity does attract the obsessive/stalking types. Short version, I do feel like social media, Twitter particularly, has crafted their recipes from these overly-obsessive types. That instead of connecting all kinds of people, we're being encouraged to be little brands for ourselves and create bubbles around ourselves filled with like-minded folk... and inevitably that does engage the more ideologically obsessive personalities who take over and translate that sort of "fervor" for one's "crew" to fanaticism...
I remember watching Trump fuel his base on the idea of his presidential campaign many years ago and he had an energized cache of followers even then... never thought he'd even run, much less win, and yet here we are... so I understand why a celebrity who sees that energy feels they have to develop a sort of defensive strategy against it, with fear it may actually destroy careers instead of help make them.