Social Media Means
Social Media Means
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Most people become famous before they're 30, according to Harvard University researchers. By data-mining 740,000 entries of famous people on Wikipedia, they were able to calculate 29 as the median age at which people become famous today, a drop from 34 (during the mid-20th century) and 43 (during the 1800s).
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Read More »I have this fantasy in which I’m famous. I mean, really famous. I can’t walk down the street without being mobbed by a crowd of crying fans, all screaming to get my attention. I’ve had this fantasy since I was in second grade. My mom enrolled me in a neighborhood acting class, thinking that it would help me overcome my shyness. I remember my acting teacher, a young woman who played Kirk Cameron’s love interest in an episode of the 90s sitcom, Growing Pains. Though I had seen every episode, I had no idea who she was, how many lines she had or if she had any lines at all. It didn’t matter though—I was still in awe of her. And after four sessions of pantomiming drinking a glass of water and wandering around the room as my favorite animal (a killer whale), I knew I had found my calling. Once I graduated college, where I had been involved in a theater company for four years, I took the necessary measures to procure head shots, an agent and finally begin my professional acting career. While my friends were climbing up the corporate ladder or going to law school, I was running to commercial auditions and picking up a lot of odd jobs to make ends meet. Despite the frustrations, and there were plenty, what kept me going was my well-preserved childhood fantasy of fame and fortune. After about three years of pursuing the Hollywood dream, hundreds (thousands, maybe millions?) of rejections, a few commercials and crushed ego, I had had it. I had to acquiesce to reality. The fantasy, it turns out, would have to remain a fantasy. Though these events occurred nearly a decade ago, I am still plagued by the many ‘what if’s and ‘if onlys’ of that period of my life. My second grade self still yearns for a chance at her 15 minutes of fame. However, my adult self knows better. To her, those few years of struggle was enough. For some celebrities, however, waiting a couple years to make it big is a walk on the red carpet. At age 21, Oscar-winner Halle Berry was living in homeless shelters in New York. She would eventually get her breakout role in Jungle Fever two years later. Kelly Clarkson, America’s first Idol, ended up living in her car when her home in Los Angeles caught fire. She eventually returned home to Texas where she would later audition for and become the first American Idol. Though he wasn’t homeless, Ken Jeong had to keep his day job as a physician before he was able to fully commit to his dream job as a Hollywood comedic actor. Then there’s J.K. Rowling, one of the most popular authors on the planet, who describes herself as “the biggest failure,” suffering through numerous setbacks, including: coming out of a failed marriage, raising a child as a single parent, having no job, struggling with depression and a mailbox full of rejections for her Harry Potter manuscript. Eventually, one publisher said yes, and the rest, as you know, is literary history.
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Read More »He adds, a “giant ego” may act as a protective shield from criticism, but “healthy resilience can be developed by the practice of ‘getting back up’ when you get knocked down.” Marlene Morris Towns, a marketing professor at Georgetown University agrees. “Celebrities have to build twice as thick skin in today’s entertainment marketplace.” In addition to the rejections, she says, it’s you and your personal brand that gets criticized or scrutinized by anyone with an internet connection—which might explain why some famous people refuse to participate in social media. For example, Twilight actress Kristen Stewart regularly gripes about her disdain for social media: “Twitter f--ks me over every day of my life...I get so mad. It’s like you’re trampling on someone’s life without any regard. And it’s rampant. Everyone can do it now. Buy a camera and you’re a paparazzi; get a Twitter account and you’re an informant. It’s so annoying.” Stewart’s complaints have been largely mocked or dismissed as part of the intrinsic cost of celebrity, where else, but on social media. Despite the ridicule, Stewart still has several high-profile films coming out this year, which suggests her career and her resiliency are still in tact. I, on the other hand, have very little resilience. My aversion to rejection should be obvious from my earlier attempts at stardom, but even now, I have difficulty scrolling through the comments section in my blog, apprehensive about being gifted the Internet’s version of flaming bags of poop from generous trolls.
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Read More »Or go straight to (reality) patient zero: Kim Kardashian, whose meteoric rise to stardom can be attributed to a ‘leaked’ sex tape. These days celebrity sex tapes are about as common as the flu, but back in 2003, they were the rare PR windfall. The sex tape that launched a thousand reality shows was the magic angle that would launch Kardashian’s empire and eventually help her become the highest-paid reality television star in history.
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