Jordan James Parke Story: Celebrity Culture

Celebrity Culture This year brought many strange and unusually topics that trends in the internet but none stranger than Jordan James Parke Story. About three months ago, a picture began to trend on the internet of a man looking transformed, like he had done about 50 plastic surgeries. The reason, he wanted to look like Kim Kardashian (a popular reality star). This shocked a lot of people around the world. People began to release their reaction through videos and twitter by which many were very funny, but the shocking point was how much he paid. He was said to have paid about $150,000 for the surgeon. This sort of behavior is called “celebrity worship syndrome”. People …show more content…
According to Chittom, Lynn-nore (Editor and Blogger), “Celebrities have a long history of using their fame to support their favorite causes and charities. During the 1980’s the overnight success of Band Aids and USA for Africa raised significant funds for famine relief in Africa and thrust activism by celebrity musicians into the spotlight” (Point: Celebrities use their fame for the greater good). This statement is right to a certain point as some celebs do raise awareness on some certain issues and promote charity event and even sometimes even build charitable associations, but it most of the time, they do this for more recognition and fame. According to Belanger, Craig (Writer and Sociologist), “Celebrities often endorse causes that are receiving public attention… which takes focus away from issues that affect many more people….celebrities are often ineffective spokesperson for causes because of their lifestyle either keep them from being committed or result in negative publicity” (Counterpoint: Celebrity Activism is a distraction). This is very understandable as most celebrity do not fully understand the issues they advocate for because of its complexity, so we see celebrities advocate for global warming when the topic is hot in the media, then after some month or day, drop the issue and more to another hot …show more content…
Plain and simple. Celeb can really bring the best in us and the worst in us. As mentioned before obsession with celeb(s) can lead to “celebrity worship syndrome”. People have been reported on bleeding themselves, cutting their hair or worse attempting to commit suicide because of their Favorite Celeb did something they didn’t approve of. Recent the famous boy band “One Direction” came under the spotlight when one of their member decided to leave the band for his own reason. This caused turmoil in the internet as million voiced their outrage and confusion on why it happened. The media eat it up as it was the headline news for tabloids, news station and social media. During this time people were harming themselves and rumors of suicide went round. This culture inspire people to do themselves harm. According to British researcher Satoshi Kanazawa, of the London school of Economic and science, “the human brain was not designed to handle the constant bombardment of celebrity based stimuli and that we will lose touch with our friends and family as a result” (Celebrity Culture pg. 247). This prove that this culture in a way is killing us. According to recent stats it is believed that America reached the peak of happiness in the 1950’s since it have been going downwards as the rise of celebrity fame is one on the many reasons that this phenomenon is happening. This stigma is so bad that for a brief period of time there was a