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emailing famous people or their handlers is kind of a hobby of mine. over about a hundred emails i've received about 30 replies. the surprising thing to me is
by serf 3y ago
emailing famous people or their handlers is kind of a hobby of mine.
over about a hundred emails i've received about 30 replies.
the surprising thing to me is that their level of 'fame' has little to do with whether or not they reply to me. I've received replies from some famously impressive people, and have been ignored by some real 'niche' ones.
I have a suspicion that there is a bit of a bi-modal distribution between 'small enough to reply to fans' and 'so big that there is a reply crew on-staff', most of my emails that were ignored were "Famous but not that famous" types of folks that are in the middle between the two.
- pfannkuchen 3y agoSo for the really famous ones you think it wasn’t really the person who replied to you?
- okr 3y agoA hobby? Sounds like stalking to me. :)
- dzek69 3y agostalking, because he had sent one e-mail to many people across some time? if he'd constantly sending one person dozes on messages, maybe demanding a response or something, that would be stalking
- hombre_fatal 3y agoOne of my hobbies as a preteen was to mail a hand written letter to famous people to ask for their autograph. I don’t remember what made me start doing it nor what my letters said but I have dozens of autographed pictures of famous people from Elton John to John Stamos just from asking.