Originally Posted by
severncity
I wasn’t suggested that the cult of celebrity didn’t exist in the past. I said
Charlie Chaplin et al were celebrities because they had talent and maybe good looks too. New billionaire Kylie Jenner has little discernable talent and has become a celebrity because of her generally talentless family, and a billionaire through flogging makeup that mugs buy to “be like her.” Celebrity has changed in a way that Warhol kind of predicted.
Joey Essex proves my point.