I may be sort of rose tinted, but I don't remember celebrities having as much of an impact on my generations compared to the SoMe influencer celebrities today.

I may be sort of rose tinted, but I don't remember celebrities having as much of an impact on my generations compared to the SoMe influencer celebrities today. Possibly because they're so much "nearer" to the consumer than celebrities were for us. There just wasn't that same para-social relationship, partly because you couldn't write (and get a response) from celebrities instantaneously back then. Today you can join their Discords and sometimes they'll talk directly to you, and I'm sure that's very hard to "deal with" (for a lack of a better way to put it) for a lot of young people.