one reason we don't have as much great music/art/cinema these days is that being a celebrity totally sucks ass. incentives dwindling toward zero.

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objectively worse. culture doesn’t stay equal parts good at all times. there are flourishing periods and periods of decay.

Meh. Does it suck or are we just getting old?

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yeah being a celebrity used to mean maybe getting hounded by the press occasionally but now it's everybody, everywhere and its relentless. everything is a conspiracy, everyone is picked apart and chewed up. like i said, there's jsut so little incentive to do it, especially if you're the sensitive artist type, which is why we don't see those much anymore.

consequences trending towards crucifixion. 

recently witnessed someone get berated for drinking starbucks cuz they’ve sent money to israel — looked into it, couldn’t find any information that confirmed that. actually just confirming the opposite

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i support boycotting as a means of peaceful protest but the last part is fried 💀

proof?
“i believe it’s the truth and idc”

lmfaoooooo

living as some of these people must be exhausting jfc

When I was 19 I got "famous" on my college campus and it was legit a nightmare. I had people trying to talk to me at 8am on the way to class and if I wasn't super friendly I would have to hear about it on this school message board thing we had back then. People wanted me to like perform for them when I was just trying to get to class.

"i believe it's the truth and idc"

wonderful

that's just the tax of being mainstream. IMO the real issue is that social network's algorithms are a race to the bottom ... shitty content that is addicting but doesn't transform