Rebecca Black

djchameleon · 04-19-2011, 08:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Ben Butler

She has still got a lot of attention and isn't the saying all publicity is good even if it is negative. Jedward, Susan Boyle, Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, anyone famous there who has been through a hard time in the past, Katie Waissel and Cher Lloyd even. Part of being in the public eye is attracting criticism and it is how you deal with it. I think you are overreacting with the death threats and everyone hating her. Life ruined? Jeez. She is young and has the rest of her life ahead of her. Most of that post is bull ****!

I agree with most of this post except for the last line.

She did the song, she got noticed, she's living her 15 minutes of fame. What she chooses to do with that recognition now is up to her. If I were her, I would retreat back into obscurity and then pop up five years later with a decent song and use her past recognition as a catapult to jar people's memory about who she is and they get to see that she really can see and is a decent artist.

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Originally Posted by EvilChuck

If you want to compare her to anyone, you should compare her to someone who has a similar story to their fame like the Star Wars Kid. He also had a video put on youtube, that became an internet meme with millions of people worldwide mocking him. He has had years of psychiactric help for the trauma the experience of being the butt of everyone's jokes has caused him. There's no such thing as bad publicity though, isnt that right?

I'm not saying the exact same will happen to Rebecca Black, but it is clearly a possibility that you should not dismiss so easily.

As for me overreacting to the death threats, how am I supposed to react? Are you seriously condoning the actions of anonymous people sending death threats to a 13 year old girl? Seriously?

It doesn't really matter where she originated from she is technically a celebrity and when even internet celebrity have to deal with the same things as other celebrities so the comparison is fine. You are pretty much arguing semantics at this point.

Just because one person needs psychiatric help because he couldn't handle the fame that doesn't mean that everyone handles fame in the same way and WILL automatically need it.

The whole death threats thing is moot because it's just internet tough guys talking out of their ass and they won't ever do anything about it. Yes, she might feel bad/worried for a little bit but when she realizes that the internet has ALWAYS been like this then she'll get over it.

I don't condone death threats over the internet but it's not as big of a deal like you are making it out to be.