• came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    4 months ago

    celebrity / fame is weird. none of us knows any of these people, but we know their faces and voices so there is a bizarre familiarity which is completely one way.

    like I saw an obscure actor once and all I knew was I recognized them, but couldn't place them. [I later realized they played the antagonist in the Rodney Dangerfield movie, Ladybugs. ] but the brain sensation of "I know them" is overriding.

    as someone who looks like a shitload of other people (I am very generic to my type and kind), I sometimes get approached by strangers who recognize me as someone else. it's a weird feeling when people think they know you and you don't know them at all.

    I kinda get why celebs can end up distant, if not reclusive and only tend to see each other, socially.