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[Anonymous No.11570726]

Why is it that people, as they get older, generally stop caring about celebrities?
They can be huge fans as kids/teenagers, but then they become more "cynical" about them...

What is this process called? Is there some good literature about it?
Also, do you think losing this "tendency" completely is desirable?

[Anonymous No.11570733]

"adulthood"

[Anonymous No.11570739]

Older people have lives to live, or at the very least they have some menial calling like child-rearing to focus on. At that age, there is no need for the life of some faggot to fill the void.

[Anonymous No.11570765]

Because idolation is for children. Adults (should) know better.

[Anonymous No.11570774]

>>11570726
>What is this process called?
maturation

[Anonymous No.11570785]

>>11570733
fpbp

[Anonymous No.11570786]

>>11570739
You could argue that teenagers have way more going on in their lives than adults, who are stuck in their boring routines. Liking celebs isn't necessarily time consuming. I'm sure you can find busy adults who cream their pants if they see a celeb, in fact that's pretty much how Hollywood works.

>>11570765
>>11570774
Ok, but is this explained in more detail somewhere?
>idolation
Not a word.

[Anonymous No.11570817]

>>11570726
It's because they realize in maturity that actors and celebrities are also deeply flawed human beings, and the only distinction between a celebrity and another person is their wealth and status, which actually amounts to very little.

[Anonymous No.11570821]

>>11570765
*Idolatry is for children (and sinners)

[Anonymous No.11570831]

>"As kids individualize themselves from their parents, which is a natural part of development and growing up, they try to establish psychological and emotional independence," Ravitz said. "No matter the culture, they need somebody to look to, aside from their parents, for guidance and a model for becoming an adult. In our culture, this is often a sports figure, an actor, or a pop star."
>"We would never make the argument that these relationships can or should replace real relationships," Gabriel told Time. "Because people form bonds in their mind with their favorite celebrities, they are able to assimilate the celebrity's characteristics in themselves and feel better about themselves when they think about that celebrity. And that is something these individuals can't do in real relationships because their fear of rejection keeps them from getting close to people."
https://www.medicaldaily.com/psychological-effects-idolatry-how-celebrity-crushes-impact-childrens-health-358604

>>11570817
>wealth and status, which actually amounts to very little.
You don't really believe that and neither do most adults.

[Anonymous No.11570849]

>>11570831
...actually, I do believe that; I care very little for the opinion of other adults, however rash that might sound.

[Anonymous No.11570855]

>>11570726
i don't think that's really true man. plenty of young people (especially on this board, i'd imagine) don't really give a fuck about celebrity culture unless they're talking about james joyce's fart fetish.

anecdotally i'd say that old cunts tend to idolize a few specific celebrities, where as young people just follow the general movement of celebrity. Still the same amount of mana spent on the TMZ system, it's just that as people get older they define themselves by arbitrating preferences in their engagement with popular culture.

[Anonymous No.11570857]

>>11570849
>I care very little for the opinion of other adults
How about the opinions of cute teenage girls?

[Anonymous No.11570860]

>>11570857
I'm mostly dismayed and disgusted by teenage girls.

[Anonymous No.11570864]

>>11570860
What about JCs/lolis?

[Anonymous No.11570874]

>>11570864
You must love them.

[Anonymous No.11570884]

>>11570786
>You could argue that teenagers have way more going on in their lives than adults
peak zoomer

[Anonymous No.11570985]

>>11570786
>You could argue that teenagers have way more going on in their lives than adults, who are stuck in their boring routines.
I disagree. Kids are more and more willing to forgo freedom for phones. They're getting their driver's licenses later and later which implies they're less willing to spend time hanging out outside of e-time. Kids read listicles, fill out shitty surveys, play computer games, et cetera to fill in the void. Homework doesn't take that long and parents do all the arranging for SAT prep and whatnot.

[Anonymous No.11570995]

>>11570726
>Why is it that people, as they get older, generally stop caring about celebrities?
You don't remember people, especially women, going crazy about Prince Harry's wedding few months ago? Nobody ever really grows up.

[Anonymous No.11571235]

When you get older you suddenly notice that all these hip new celebrities are just people the same age or even younger than you and then you no longer feel like looking up to them.

[Anonymous No.11571260]

>>11570726
It is called growing up.

[Anonymous No.11571288]

>>11570726
As you grow up you become wiser and realize celebrities are nothing but fake, hypocritical human trash and you tend to focus on your own life rather than theirs.

[Anonymous No.11571711]

>>11571288
Celebrity is defined by how you are perceived. People are not any way in particular by the nature of how they are perceived.

[Anonymous No.11572827]

>>11570726
Young people need role models more than older people. I read an article years ago stating that celebrity worship is not as pronounced among religious people. It seemed to speculate that secular society deifies celebrities instead of religious figures. Like it's some sort of excess energy.

The business of celebrity is all about cultivating an image. There are admirable celebrities, but Hollywood's a pretty ugly place. I used to love/hate celebrities when I was younger. Now I can't help but find the whole concept to be pretty tragic. Growing out of celebrity worship is not only desirable, but healthy. Hollywood needs some serious oversight especially in regards to kids and animals. There's a good chance some working child star is being sexually abused as we speak. That's pretty fucked up.

The one celebrity I truly admire is Corey Feldman. That man is fighting the good fight alone.

[Anonymous No.11572890]

It seems really fucking bad in more liberal and urban circles. Given the rhetoric these types espouse its odd how much they love celebrities.

[Anonymous No.11572922]

cynical defeatism
same reason most people get slightly overweight

[Anonymous No.11573658]

>>11570726
i assume they realize celebrities are just people, and people they dont even know, so like...what is the point of caring about them

[Anonymous No.11573726]

I now only idolize kpop idols.

[Anonymous No.11573797]

>>11571288
wat do when you realize you're also fake, hypocritical human trash?

[Anonymous No.11573852]

>>11570726
resignation

[Anonymous No.11574678]

>>11570726
>Why is it that people, as they get older, generally stop caring about celebrities?
false premise. middle aged men obsess over athletes and middle aged and elderly women love celebrity gossip and the royals and whatever.

if anything older people live way more through television and mainstream celebrities than younger people do. younger people switch meme rapper every week.

[Anonymous No.11574693]

>>11570985
>SAT prep
Anyone who does this should just kill themselves. Fucking spoiled ass, upper middle class bougie faggots. tfw 2350 without any homosexual anal prep classes

[Anonymous No.11574723]

Everybody workship somebody in their life time, that's a role model, problem is now-days young people have some mediocre actor or their parents or somebody like mandela as their role model, that's obviously bad for a lot of reason, and parents are the only ones responsible for this, my role model when I was young was Alexander the great.

[Anonymous No.11574734]

>>11573797
I don't know, David Foster Wallace. You tell me.

[Anonymous No.11574741]

>>11574723
>my role model when I was young was Alexander the great
I can't tell if this is cringe or genuinely badass

[Anonymous No.11574752]

>>11574723
mine is william shatner. Watching the original star trek has upped my game incredibly. Kirk was a fucking pimp

[Anonymous No.11574757]

>>11574741
When I first read of a handsome man with great interest in art and maths and a harem of women that also practiced abstinence and never loss a battle the first thing I though was trying to imitate him.

[Anonymous No.11574760]

>>11574757
autism

[Anonymous No.11574783]

>>11574760
Autist are shallow and submissive creatures that only live to please their prurian senses.

[Anonymous No.11574816]

>>11570726
>What is this process called?
Maturity?

[Anonymous No.11574862]

3D is simply inferior

[Anonymous No.11575002]

As much of a 4chan dwelling dweeb that I am, I know a very good amount of normal adult people irl. And not one of them care about celebrities outside of noncommittal discussion of current movies.

sage for bad thread

[Anonymous No.11575037]

>>11572827
Feldman is a freak. I get that he was molested but he discredits himself every way he can conceive.

[Anonymous No.11575123]

>>11570726
When i was a teenager i didnt give a fuck about celebrities. I dont even remember as a kid caring or looking up to even on celebrity. There are people who genuenly care about kim Kardashian, kanye west, lil pump all these fucking images people read there lives like a book. Theres people who actually give a shit what kim kardashin did today. Growing out of that, Id call it growing up, thinking for yourself and not sucking hollywoods dick.