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But is it not deception (to ourselves) to believe that these celebrities somehow acknowledge and maybe even like us, when they required money to do so? (Never
by foofoo55 6y ago
But is it not deception (to ourselves) to believe that these celebrities somehow acknowledge and maybe even like us, when they required money to do so? (Never mind the concept of someone becoming more special than others by being good at pretending to be not themselves.) I realize I sound grumpy to many people but the whole thing seems like such a sham.
- FreeFull 6y agoThe thing is, without some sort of barrier, they would be completely swamped by the public trying to get them to record these, and then would be practically forced to stop doing it.
- concerned_user 6y agoThey will be forced to stop when it becomes more popular anyways, unless some sort of lottery systems gets introduced or fees get bumped up into a $1000 range. But even then I think most will pull out of it after a while, especially if it gets popular, hard to imagine it is an exciting activity to do hundreds of such video messages every day.
- pbhjpbhj 6y agoThey could add a "lottery" element to it. A less evil implementation of that would be to ask the performer what size stack they want and just keep a list of the latest n requests (or requests up to m days old). Automate a reply "sorry you weren't able to get a message from $celeb, blah". You'd need heavy filtering to avoid abuse (automated re-requests).
- xivzgrev 6y agoIt’s not a sham to me. a celebrity says your name and wishes you a happy day, and someone paid them to do so. It’s fun - That’s all that’s to it.
- humanrebar 6y agoYou must not like places where the wait staff show off their bodies and flirt for tips. That's basically the same thing but cheaper and more sexual.