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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 398068" data-attributes="member: 8">I agree.As for celebrity culture in general, we the non-celebs also have to take responsibility for both the good and the bad.The result can be so simple, as it shows in your situation. You don&#039;t like it anymore and you&#039;re not paying for it anymore. And that&#039;s really the only way to let them know, even if you know that one person isn&#039;t going to make a difference. Corporations don&#039;t care about opinions, and that so-called &quot;feedback&quot; is only there to create the illusion that your opinion matters. PR has never been so irrelevant as it is today (and yet people are still being trained to do the job. I can imagine that, after years and years of study, someone finally gets that precious job and then they&#039;re being told &quot;we need a PR guy so sit over there and do absolutely nothing, don&#039;t even move. You don&#039;t mind working overtime, do you?&quot;).Therefore I wonder, is it the non-deserving celebrity that I dislike, or the non-celebrities/followers who worship them? Can we really blame the celebrities to make the best of a situation? Can we really expect them to say &quot;keep your money, this doesn&#039;t feel good&quot;.We may think that they are not worthy of the whole celebrity enterprise thing but as long as it works it works, as long as it pays it&#039;s real.Is it possible that COVID has wiped out the less-profitable but more talented competition? Maybe it&#039;s going to take a little while but I think a new wave of talented young artists is coming (if it isn&#039;t already happening).If you&nbsp; know what&#039;s wrong with modern entertainment, and I&nbsp; know it, then I expect millions of other people to know it as well.Gosh, this thread makes me feel all revolutionary. I think I&#039;m going to buy a beret.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 398068, member: 8"] I agree. As for celebrity culture in general, we the non-celebs also have to take responsibility for both the good and the bad. The result can be so simple, as it shows in your situation. You don't like it anymore and you're not paying for it anymore. And that's really the only way to let them know, even if you know that one person isn't going to make a difference. Corporations don't care about opinions, and that so-called "feedback" is only there to create the illusion that your opinion matters. PR has never been so irrelevant as it is today (and yet people are still being trained to do the job. I can imagine that, after years and years of study, someone finally gets that precious job and then they're being told "we need a PR guy so sit over there and do absolutely nothing, don't even move. You don't mind working overtime, do you?"). Therefore I wonder, is it the non-deserving celebrity that I dislike, or the non-celebrities/followers who worship them? Can we really blame the celebrities to make the best of a situation? Can we really expect them to say "keep your money, this doesn't feel good". We may think that they are not worthy of the whole celebrity enterprise thing but as long as it works it works, as long as it pays it's real. Is it possible that COVID has wiped out the less-profitable but more talented competition? Maybe it's going to take a little while but I think a new wave of talented young artists is coming (if it isn't already happening). If [I]you[/I] know what's wrong with modern entertainment, and [I]I [/I]know it, then I expect millions of other people to know it as well. Gosh, this thread makes me feel all revolutionary. I think I'm going to buy a beret. [/QUOTE]

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