There's this weird effect where, when someone becomes famous enough, they cease to be treated like a human being.
Famous people enter the public domain. People then feel like they own a piece of the public figure: they can say, or do, whatever they want, because the person's famous.
The switch from treating someone like a person to treating them like a publicly-owned object is truly bizarre. And disturbing.
I'll never understand it fully.
It's like Hillary Duff had to buy the rights to the image of her own child years ago to prevent paparazzi to take photos and sell them.
And people say "they signed up for this" no they didn't.
Yes, there's this implication in society that when you pursue fame, you sign up for this. But it isn't explicit. No one agrees.
Thank god I'm not famous!
And its not only the harassment but the expectation that they have to talk on every social matter, and be on one side of the other of situations where they are not even involved just to please the masses.
No matter what they do, they will always have fans and haters, and both can be really dangerous.
Better not be that famous XD
It's worse, when someone is marketed to be that way. Like Asian idols. They're marketed so the fans feel like they own them. It's sad...
Very strange.
Some of it is the way society is today, but I think a lot of it is honestly human nature.