And I just remember feeling this sense of dread, like, is this what celebrity is about? Is it about having your privacy encroached upon? Is it about just boosting your ego? Is it about becoming a household name and monetary or political success? I don't know. I came as well to ask you about your experience. Have there been times where you felt famous? Have you tasted the sweet cognition of celebrity? Concoction of celebrity? And what did it feel like? Did you enjoy it?
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 4:47
Fame. I wanna live forever. Something, something else. I'm a millennial man. I'm not supposed to know all the lyrics to that. Anyway, interesting concept. Popularity always has been a vanity of which equates to wealth, some type of money, or if you have the misfortune of being famous for free. I guess that's kind of what social media is now, right? No, I would say social media has given people the tools to churn out monetization from pain
I want to bust it open, and I just want to be me. I want to walk back into that familiar space of being a fellow friend or a person that visits this bar, so to speak. So the pedestalizing that happens where you're almost no longer the person, you're instead an idea. And that is extremely uncomfortable
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 4:09
I don't like when I get featured on this app, but it happens because I feel like how you had felt initially, it'll feel good. But then, like you said, people can have certain ideas of you that don't really reflect how you feel, especially considering well, I guess not just considering me. Maybe this applies to all of us, is applicable to all of us
And most of the time, though, for whatever reason, those things aren't always separated when someone is considering an idea that someone spoke or wrote or what have you. And maybe that's just a standard way of operating for humans. I don't know. But I'm okay with after the fact saying that these ideas we talked about or this thing I heard this person say was said by Christina, but, like, in the moment, don't put the spotlight on me
Lance Watson
@lwatsonjr · 4:58
I don't feel like I need to go back and clip a unit of thought when I'm sort of working through it in my head and trying to be the big word, the fancy word is extemporaneous when I'm just trying to be spontaneous with what I say and what I share on this platform. But outside of those things, there's sort of an element of feeling famous that comes across plastic and performative. And I think that's what I was sort of feeling as I posted this