Please don’t take this offensively or as a rude comment, I’m genuinely curious- why is it so important to people to follow and keep up with celebrities? I feel like these apps wouldn’t have any traction if we stopped giving famous people so much extra attention outside of their mediums (movies, music, etc). People got updates about albums, movies, tours, etc all before the internet, so what is the draw?
Twitter is the only platform where you can actually interact with the people who you are a fan of. I was able to talk to, post, have my posts liked, interact with, get retweeted by people who I am a huge fan of. It's really the only medium where you can do that. I cancelled my account the day Musk took it over, but I definitely miss that.
As to why people want to talk to or interact with someone who they are a huge fan of, that's just human nature and before Twitter people would write letters or maybe even travel miles and miles by horse and buggy to meet a favorite opera singer or whatever back in the old days.
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u/Glitter_puke 2d ago
The various scenes and most of the artists I follow haven't migrated over to bluesky yet and discord is shitty for my use case.