What makes a celebrity?

[GF]

If Google’s home page tells me you died, then you were probably a celebrity. If I have to use the search bar to find out you’re dead, then you probably weren’t.

[Gashlycrumb]

@GF I’m pretty sure Google tells you things like that based on where it thinks you are, though. So Bollywood stars aren’t celebrities to me right now and probably never will be, in spite of over a billion people disagreeing about that, and George Stroumboulopoulos will magically become a celebrity when I visit my dad.

[Faraday]

It’s super arbitrary, but for me ‘celebrity’ is just when people who don’t know you personally know of you and care about what you do.

There are levels of this, of course. A bronze-plaque YouTuber doesn’t have the same renown as Taylor Swift, but they’re still known within their respective communities.

It can be problematic to draw an arbitrary line. Wikipedia’s notability rules for who warrants a page has been criticized for contributing to a lack of recognition of the achievements of underrepresented groups.

In terms of the thread here, I don’t think it matters. There are plenty of folks in there - even “famous” Hollywood actors - I’ve never heard of. If someone cares enough to post, that’s enough for me.

[Pavel]

@Faraday said in What makes a celebrity?:

In terms of the thread here, I don’t think it matters.

If I die while this forum exists, I want a post in that thread mentioning it.

[mietze]

i mean people are celebrities in their respective realms regardless of what any particular individual recognizes. i don’t watch tv or go to the movies anymore (just like youtube clips of trashy stuff and like movie synopsis stuff). Chances are you can name some pretty famous people and either i won’t know who they are or maybe i’ve heard their name but if you made me pick them out by picture i’d struggle. that doesn’t mean because mietze doesn’t know who x person is that they’re not like a world famous celebrity.

but let’s get into a fight about it like the endless +fame fights on TR and other WoD places lol

[somasatori]

@mietze said in What makes a celebrity?:

but let’s get into a fight about it like the endless +fame fights on TR and other WoD places lol

Not my Fame 5 movie star/swimsuit model/recording artist vampire!

[mietze]

@somasatori i disbelieve. my pc might be an 18 year old doctor/cheerleader/socialite who owns a dojo and a nightclub but i took the face blindness derangement and secretly i’m also illiterate with only selective eidetic memory so i refuse to acknowledge you.

[somasatori]

@mietze I’ll have you know that by age 20 I already was in the special forces and earned my third PhD, so I can prove (by way of dice pool) that your face blindness is false! Acknowledge my fame!!

[Pavel]

I hate both of you.

[GF]

@Gashlycrumb Yeah, celebrity is relative. I’m fine with that.