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whats it like being famous?

posted 4 years ago by beavis (3249)
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not that I think it could happen to me

just made me worry last night about pursuing being an actor, and it will be like two years before i can pursue it if I start saving money right now

right now as being not famous at all I have these mystery people online who give me cryptic usernames(that they hack or change) as hints to something. I have been a notorious online dwelling and apparently I made my impression. call me crazy but they are surveillance my activities and it pertains to things in my life.

if I was famous , would it be that bad times 10? sometimes the messages get to me especially when I have no money or job to make money, and I start acting irrationally.

maybe I should join TMZ lol then i'll get my answers. start stalking celebrities

[–] Moonglum9 (10699) 4 years ago

Except for all the wealth, women, admiration, preferential treatment, and vacationing 10 months a year, it totally sucks. I don't wish this on anyone.

[–] beavis (3249) 4 years ago

lol yeah, sometimes your might get what you wished for, i would tread lightly

[–] beavis (3249) 4 years ago

well ive narrowed it down to governments and hired spys and (possibly someone I know) but I still don't know who hacking me. I use vpn's a lot and they still get all of my data.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

You need to take your antipsychotic. And the hacking will go away.🧚‍♀️👍🍃

[–] beavis (3249) 4 years ago

not true, we all have our information out there

i take my pill to limit dopamine levels , still doesn't change anything, it's not a magic pill

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Yes we do, you are correct.
But we don't obsess over it or think anyone means us harm.

[–] Moonglum9 (10699) 4 years ago

I don't know about that. I think you tried to poison my tea. It tasted funny.

[–] jonathan_k80 (6436) 4 years ago

"Except for all the wealth, women, admiration, preferential treatment, and vacationing 10 months a year, it totally sucks. I don't wish this on anyone."

I wouldn't wish it on anyone either. No privacy, being hounded by reporters and paparazzi, people even going through your garbage. You couldn't stop at a store for a carton of milk without being harassed. The "perks" you listed aren't worth it.

[–] dmac8 (5050) 4 years ago

you think they'd go to the store for a carton of milk otherwise? the help does stuff like that.

[–] jonathan_k80 (6436) 4 years ago

I wouldn't like the idea of hiring "help." I wouldn't want some stranger having access to my house and the opportunity to go through my personal belongings. There are some things, like picking up food items, that I prefer to do myself.

[–] 102000 (6127) 4 years ago

That in itself would be a problem for me. What if I want to run to the store for a carton of milk? What exactly does a person do with their time if someone else is doing everything for them? After a while it would be a drag.

[–] dmac8 (5050) 4 years ago

like every scenario, there are downsides. but I don't think giving up public milk buying is high on the list of brutal trade-offs for most. as for the rest, they can focus on what they do to make that money so they don't have to bother with other stuff. isn't that what everyone does on every scale in some way? Are you going to put a new roof on your house or brakes for your car? Probably not. But you do something else that earns you money so you can hire help to take care of such things. Those people just make enough that can use their money hose to wash away a lot more things. That's why they have assistants who take care of the more trivial day-to-day things so they don't have to think about anything else but that script or that role or that song or that show, etc, etc, etc.

[–] 102000 (6127) 4 years ago

Oh for heavens sake, it has nothing to do with buying milk - that is just an example of living a normal life.

[–] dmac8 (5050) 4 years ago

that's "normal life" for wealthy celebrities. not everyone thinks the errands that most people have to do are anything more than mundane, and perfectly expendable if you have the kind of money to make them go away.

[–] 102000 (6127) 4 years ago

But I thought we were talking about being able to go out in public - not hiring people to do jobs for you.

I think most people want to be able to go out in public and do normal things - walk their dog, go to a coffee shop, etc. Why do we see so many candid photos of celebrities w/o makeup or all dressed up - just running around places?

[–] dmac8 (5050) 4 years ago

as usual, it branched into other stuff.

but what you're saying shows that they can do it if they want to. my point was that they're not all avoiding typical errands b/c they can't go out in public. they choose to avoid those errands b/c they can afford to make them go away. I think there is plenty of incentive to make the mundane disappear by using your wallet (if you have one big enough). that's my point. during this quarantine, we see plenty of celebrities getting (re)acquainted with plenty of "normal" stuff that they had money hosed away. they just don't have "the help" around to do it now. so it wasn't that they couldn't do these things before, it's that they could afford to free themselves of those things.

[–] AndyKing1967 (33693) 4 years ago

Exactly this. You reach a point where you list the things that you don’t like doing or are too time consuming and delegate them to someone else, which leaves you more time to concentrate on the things you do like to do.

[–] dmac8 (5050) 4 years ago

it frees your time and that's the only thing in life that's guaranteed to be in limited supply. if you enjoy some of those other things or take some personal pride in doing them, so be it. but if you don't, clear that clutter out.

[–] AndyKing1967 (33693) 4 years ago

Time is the most precious commodity of all. If it’s a choice between my wife doing the ironing or me paying someone else to do it, whist we go and do fun family stuff together, well take a guess at what I’m going to do.

[–] Moonglum9 (10699) 4 years ago

I think you're gallantly going to offer to do the ironing and give your wife the money you saved from not hiring someone to do it so she can take the family out and have some fun. You are a saint, sir. An honest to goodness saint!

[–] AndyKing1967 (33693) 4 years ago

Honestly, if you’ve ever seen me trying to iron a shirt, no, just no.

[–] sslssg (27403) 4 years ago

And yet there are a lot of famous people who stay out of the spotlight. I think there is a combination of "public interest" like when a couple gets together or breaks up or something that the public would be interested in. Then you have the "stars" needing a boost or just their crew marketing them, ie the kardashians. I remember reading something Kid Rock said when he was with Pamela Anderson about not being able to avoid paparazzi which implied that they only know where you are going to be if someone tells them where you are going to be.

[–] dmac8 (5050) 4 years ago

there are many more than the Kardashians who make sure to be out and about as much as possible to maintain that spotlight. it's a common tactic even for much more talented people.

[–] sslssg (27403) 4 years ago

Oh I agree. There are some who are hardly ever in the tabloids and some who are always. I just think that there is a difference between the two camps of those in the spotlight.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Denzel is a pretty good example.

Mega superstar, but you almost never hear anything about him when he's not in front of a camera.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

You're asking people Here?

[–] AndyKing1967 (33693) 4 years ago

Speak for yourself darling. Camera, lights, action!

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Lol!

[–] nyctc7 (41187) 4 years ago

Around 20 years ago, I was having dinner at Elaine's, a NYC bar-restaurant that was a writer's hangout in the 60s, and toward the end of its life known as Woody Allen's favorite place to hang out.

My seat happened to have a good view of him. Being an easily star-struck person I stole a few glances, and on one of them he was staring directly at me with a steady gaze. I felt it was as if to say, this is what it feels like to have people staring at you.

[–] Knish (1721) 4 years ago

It's a good thing you weren't a 12 year old girl.

[–] AndyKing1967 (33693) 4 years ago

Or his step daughter.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Badum-pish!

[–] ColumboKate (5308) 4 years ago

🤢

[–] AndyKing1967 (33693) 4 years ago

Sorry, it was too easy.

[–] ColumboKate (5308) 4 years ago

If I were famous I could never read any media or internet. Even though I know they are full of shit, Trolls would kill me off 🥺.

I'm happy being a nobody.

[–] GlenEllyn (21066) 4 years ago

Once upon a time, many moons ago, during a conversation with my eight-year-old son, I used the cliche "Some day when I'm rich and famous, I'll..." My son looked up, slowly shaking his head and said very earnestly, "Mom, you might be rich some day, but I don't think you'll ever be famous."

It still makes me laugh.