Yea, I do agree that that access to your friends has replaced some of the celebrity worship. However, some have always taken celebrity concept and equate it to

Yea, I do agree that that access to your friends has replaced some of the celebrity worship. However, some have always taken celebrity concept and equate it to having “a friend“, an emotional attachment to the concept of a person. Fantasy that “if we ever met in real life we’d probably be great friends”. Ignoring ”never meet your heroes”, and that these people pay $2500 a night at places to specifically never come in contact with you. To me, one of the best things that have come out of Covid has been that celebrities are not essential. Perhaps we can also contribute the shift to other things? Woke Politics, Oppression Olympics, and generally divisive things now talked about openly in favor of silence with a concern of not knowing who you will offend? Surely some celebrity fans have been put off by statements they can’t agree with? As media, and politics become more divisive, so have opinions put out by businesses which include celebrity identities. We used to not talk about religion or politics because “you didn’t know who you would offend“. Maybe it’s just that Hollywood has become ”too much“, and this an expected implosion where people just don’t care about the people that clearly wall themselves away and employ armed body guards (while arguing against both those things for lesser people)? Disparity in legal, tax, whatever effects. Lobbying groups that protect them. In people who care about equality, perhaps celebrities are too obviously classes of nobility? IDK. Just happy to see agreement with my long held apathy.