## Highlights I think this type of backlash is happening because people are realizing this relatability is just a tool to conceal privilege and that most of these people were never relatable to begin with. Celebrities and influencers exist to sell you a product, and it is hard to sell to people who have no connection to you. We can all sense a corporate-like hollowness to the relatability of celebrities and influencers. Being relatable is meant to be positive, but now it is just used as a weapon to promote consumer culture. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hxw94q4fqqn1v6nmzjjwh1gb)) - 💭 gen z is being more conscious of this I've realized that Hollywood as a whole is just a circus meant to distract us. Celebrity culture is a drain of our attention on current events; it’s why a massacre was carried out during the Super Bowl this year. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hxw96s94qw2qq3k8e948e7b3)) - 💭 entertainment is distraction from the truth They're meant to make the American dream seem possible in a world where it is increasingly not. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hxw97xek5zh5vdv9cex14x87)) If a kind of peasant revolt ensues against the upper class, it would be the celebrities who get attacked, not the billionaires who own the world and ruin our lives. Hollywood celebrities consume their wealth in the gaudiest way possible so that the true elites can consume their wealth privately. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hxw98dbv9yb79vrgeyecgysh))