But we’ve completely lost the plot when it comes to keeping those opinions offline, or at least expressing them with nuances and sympathy for celebrities who care about real people who have feelings that could hurt. Do people even care if they’re hurting each other’s feelings anymore? Have you given up on controlling our reflections to stir the pot without considering the effects of our words? Have we all been handed over to digital cerebral worms that have fed social media involvement at every cost to humanity? This whole situation makes me feel like we have and that scares me.
People online, especially Gen-Xers and millennials like me, love to complain about old times when we are all hurt by toxic tabloid culture. But when individuals take part in harsh public discourse about the faces and bodies of celebrities, we replace those tabloids, perhaps turning it into something bigger, nasty. Something with no restrictions. Something that can’t control media outlets with teams of writers and editors who check each other with guts and facts before publishing inaccurate and harmful cans.
There is an excuse that Gen Z was not even cognitively alive during its peak tabloid era, but the rest of us already know how this story ends, the issues of generational self-image.
If you’re upset about something very harmful about other people’s faces like me, your feed has absolutely nothing best you can do. Many media outlets (particularly tabloid and blog types) view all types of engagement as a sign of creating more. While we can’t talk about the editing practices of individual creators on social media, refusing to get involved may at least train your personalized algorithms to stop you from showing this crap.
As for Millie Bobby Brown, yeah, shall we cool off? Anyway, it appears she’s already moved out of this issue. When I reached out to her team, she refused to comment. The Instagram statement speaks for itself, they told me.
Still, consider these facts. Brown has worked full-time in hyperdemand jobs for more than half of her relatively short life. She is an actor who has to constantly evolve his appearance and remain relevant to book work, not just for casting directors, but for all of us. She is a young woman of age who is normally and even healthy to wear clothes, wear makeup and live a general life. She’s doing her exactly Should Do it at her age: Have fun. Meanwhile, she maintains her vulnerable and relevant social media presence. She has still posted a selfie without makeup, and is open about her acne, and now up front about how this whole ordeal made her feel. Can’t you give it a bit of credibility where it’s due?
