This article in USAToday quickly briefs the star potential of blogger Perez Hilton and how he still manages to have all kinds of famous friends despite the fact his well known blog trashes and rips a part the majority of hollywood. I think though that he is just a spade in the card game of fame. SO many people read this blog that any talk he gives them ups their status level. Kinda. You have to be pretty A-list to be on perezhilton.com
Social media have really turned into a beast. I mean here we are all blogging about media, but you have someone like Perez Hilton who has turned his blog into his own pocket of fame, by talking about other famous people. Its interesting the type of power that gossip coupled with celebrity has. And a bit sad too.
I think this holds true in many arenas. Maybe not in politics ... no one wants negative attention when running for office! But if you look at celebrities when they are promoting a movie or an albulm or anything else, they tend to have a lot of attention (negative and positive) but all publicity seems to be good publicity! Perez Hilton is notoriously a jerk, yet people still talk to him and invite him to parties because they want to be "in" with the "bad" guy!
ReplyDeleteI think it's ridiculous the lengths people will go to be famous. Like the old saying goes, if you can't do, teach... well, if you can't BE famous, surround yourself with the famous. (I made that last one up on my own). As it applied to Perez Hilton, he has no acting or music talents, or anything else that would have made him famous... and so he surrounded himself with the famous in order to propel his own career and perhaps his own self-worth. People think that celebrities are superhuman people, Gods even! So they do almost anything to be a part of that world. Perez surrounds himself with fame and therefore is famous himself. What we must all remember is that yes, celebrities are talented (for the most part) and yes, they are beautiful (again, for the most part), and yes, they are rich but they are still humans.
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