Edition 36: Blowing things out of proportion
The thing with the internet is that things seem to leak far easier than in the pre-internet age; all the sorts of sex videos are probably the best examples. That in itself isn’t a strange thing, it’s just far more accessible. What me bugs me lately is that leaked things get blown out of proportion to the extreme.
Best known example of the year probably are the naked pictures of Vanessa Hudgens; to a lot of people it seemed to be a big deal. A lot of people seemed to think that she would get fired by Disney for no longer reflecting the Disney image. This of course didn’t happen because Disney is a business and in the long run a business won’t care about something that will only be a vague memory a year from now.
Of course the images were never supposed to see the light of day; they’re personal. So why does it make a scandal if they’re leaked? Just because she works for Disney? There probably are naked pictures of hundreds of celebrities out there we just don’t see them. It’s not like no one has never seen a naked person before.
All of a sudden two weeks ago there were pictures of Miley Cyrus pretty much just fooling around with a friend. She’s a fifteen year old teenager, goofing around with friends is what they do. These pics were leaked to the internet but didn’t really get much notice until a certain celebrity blogger named Perez Hilton saw them (just to clarify, I had seen those pics several days before he posted them I just didn’t see anything worthwhile in them).
He dubbed the photographs as a faux lesbian photo shoot. What on earth is lesbian about two girls fully clothed on the floor of a hallway? I’ve seen girls do far weirder things without them being lesbians. If they were up to anything lesbian they would make sure not to do it in a public place. Even if they were Lesbian I don’t see how that matters. After Perez posted them other media outlets seem to take it more seriously. I’m now exactly doing what Perez Hilton wants though, I’m reacting to it, that’s all he wants he wants to get a reaction out of people. That and he seems to hate Miley for a non-existing reason, though my guess is that it’s because most people do like her.
Miley has stated that she would quit her career as soon as she didn’t have fun any more, stories like this don’t help with that. Though she has stated that she’s more upset about her friend having to deal with the fall-out seeing she’s not famous and has to deal with all of this in school. She’s not quitting the business because she loves doing what she does too much. Everyone has their limits and if things like this happen too often she might actually do it, which would be a shame. All of this upset just over some pictures of two girls goofing off, it sure is a weird world we live in.
Certain media outlets just want to turn things into a scandal for publicity; they just don’t seem to care that they’re hurting the people involved. In some cases a certain amount probably is justified but not with these kind of stories. It’s just the eternal quest of people looking for bad things in celebrity lives. Yes they’re human we already know, doesn’t mean everything they do has to be dragged out and analysed to the extreme.
I even dare to say that Jamie Lynn Spears pregnancy is being blown out of proportion; of course she’s only sixteen and she’s pregnant but it’s not like it never happened before. Just let her be, she doesn’t need bullshit stories about some old guy being the father. She already has enough to deal with, that’s just the disadvantage of being the sister of popwreck Britney Spears. It would have been bad enough if she just had been pregnant but being Britney’s baby sister just makes it worse. For the child itself it would probably best if it grows up without media attention.
It’s easy to say that celebrities should ignore all of this; the truth is they can’t. Every time something like this happens journalists will ask them about it which isn’t just annoying to them but also to us, because we basically get the same interviews every single time. Interviews are usually about personal lives instead of careers these days. It wouldn’t be that shocking if some of them at some point really would call it quits because they just can’t deal with all the bullshit anymore.
