Everyone wants to make millions on youtube, and everyone wants to be an influencer. It's getting kinda old and tired
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Is there a classical god or goddess for banality? Soon these shows will have 12 year old nymphets as hosts, expressing their adolescent tastes and opinions. If you want to see the future of commercial entertainment just ask What Would Fellini Do?
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Thank you, Steve Jobs.
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Trying to put this in context while true celebrity Tom Hanks (and his wife Rita Wilson receive Coronavirus treatment. Just can’t manage to wrap my head around this.
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Problem is, even if these shows, or some of them, are interesting, the interest wanes quickly. Most of these “celebs” are nobodies who will not last long, except to the sad-to-say vapid portion of our population, which has grown wildly — and it seems will continue to do so.
This is what happens when our educational system dumbs down.
Plus, there is so much “content “ available, regardless of its quality, who can keep up? Even “good” shows may not get the attention they “deserve.”
We have an idiot culture, which in large part is why we are in the shape we’re currently in... bad.
Having said that, some of it is entertaining... for a short while. ; )
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I'm angry I wasted five minutes of my life reading this. Mr. Bromwich should make better use of his Sidwell Friends education. Embarrassing.
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This "we" is ignoring them...A List to F List.
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Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. That is from 50 years ago. While not factually accurate, reality certainly trended in that direction.
For me, life is too short to pay attention. Enjoy the moment I am in. FFocus on the things I am good at. ocus on what I can control, because Life is half random.
Who are these guys? Nevermind, I have no interest.
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I despise "The CULT of Celebrities" Shallow, vapid people famous for nothing important or significant. I don't care about them, never did and don't regret it.
I'd rather watch paint dry.
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@Margaret
Thank you for sharing.
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My kids got me into watching Hot Ones. It definitely captured my attention - the next thing I knew we'd watched 8 of them. My fave was the one with the Chef who at the end ranked the wings by flavor. Most try to muscle through the pain as the wings get hotter. He had no reservation about spitting out the ones that just tasted bad.
Visiting family last week, we had the TV on. My brother wanted to find something we could all watch. I texted my daughter in Japan to get the name of the "Hot wing show." I was like, "Hey, let's put on Hot Ones." Definitely a hit.
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Only those that are sufficiently naive to be awed by so-called celebrities, with very singular talents and too often, little education, listen to or care a whit about these celebs, wealthy or not! In my opinion, all the Arts have become so degraded as to fail to live up to that definition!
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Almost all of the people and shows mentioned I have never heard of. And I am happy about that. How about watching the PBS News Hour or Bloomberg television. They have interesting guests.
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Alas. So many celebrities, so little time.
And so many budding celebrities, all counting on YouTube and Instagram to bring them fame and fortune. An embarrassment of riches as we plop our eyeballs for a minute or two, click on this, then on that, maybe even subscribe!—until we get bored and plop them elsewhere.
I have watched some of this ubiquitous, anodyne fluff, and am saddened at how basic and narcissistic we have become.
Nearly everyone’s platform is self promotion, and very little common good unless it generates clicks.
As far as Jack Galifanakis, he breaks the mold. His interview of Obama was pure genius.
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Like celebrities need more platforms to stand on.. Give me a break. These formats are ego strokes and nothing more.
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The truth is these types of interviews are more appealing to Millennials and Gen Z than the regular boring 2 stories and movie plug that you get with almost every late night show interview.
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Celebrity worship - the banality of Western "culture."
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What we need is a bear market in celebrities. Let’s get rid of the froth. We need fewer well-known people. Do yourself a favour and pay attention to more obscure people. They’re easier on the nerves.
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On this Pandemic Declaration Day of Days Plus One, I'm with Gertrude Stein on this topic: There is no there there.
We are buried underneath the bottom of the Dead Sea on what passes for entertainment.
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Why am I even reading this stuff? I am only "helping" the hapless by noticing them and joining their success at "attention getting". This is a regrettable sign of our times that we spend time watching the class clowns of our community pick the lint out of their navels while sitting in the corner of our world. Sorry I stopped here, very sorry!
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@Brian Winkel
Amen.
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Vulgar, ignorant America. We have the leadership we deserve.
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@Tim My comment to friends and family, many of whom, including my wife, watch what I consider ridiculous and mindless TV, is: all you have to do is watch a few hours of cable TV and you understand why Donald Trump is in the White House.
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“Celebrity culture” is just a reflection of how vapid, anti intellectual and morally bankrupt the overriding capitalist culture is.
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Why should we care about (or even spend our time considering) celebrities” eating hot wings?
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Fodder. This is how we waste our lives watching this kind of entertainment.
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Could this also be the natural evolution from the incredible dullness of the canned interview, where the answers are prepped in advance, and the questions are actually premises for jokes? Also the lack of interaction that was created while guests remained on the sofa has just sucked all the fun and spontaneity out of late night. No wonder the guests on Fallon prefer to play the games.
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For goodness sake, there is any easy way to stop this nonsense: if nobody watches sponsors are not going to pay for the show. Just stop watching these ego stroking shows! Stop agreeing with C list persons ( they are not even celebrities!) that they deserve your time just to keep their names in conversation!
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An important and overlooked point: Another reason why Hot Ones is successful is because Sean Evans asks genuinely great and interesting questions. It's clear that research went into an honest attempt to ask questions that go beyond the banal and expected (unlike the late night shows).
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@AlexNB Exactly. I've learned things about certain celebrities that I would have never known had I not watched a Hot Ones episode. For example, I watched Guy Fieri's interview. My impression of Guy was neutral to slightly negative going to the episode. But at the end of it, Sean asked him what he was promoting and Guy simply said teach your children to cook. Teach them because it's a necessary life skill, and processed foods are not the answer. I 100% agree with his view on this, and I had no idea until I saw that episode.
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