Celebrity Obsession Gone Too Far

There are many things about celebrity obsession that I understand

. I get the interest in every detail of their lives. I get the enormous volume of photos that are taken of them. But I do not understand why anybody cares about the pictures of them that were in their high school yearbooks.

I see how the details of celebrities lives that are presented in tabloids and entertainment magazine TV shows can be interesting. Their actual lives - when the cameras aren't rolling - aren't nearly as interesting, but the details that end up being shared with the world are chosen for a reason. As a result, they usually have some relevance.

Not only that, but celebrities are in a sense cast members in a great play that lives up to the literary mandate that their work so often does not. Celebrities' existence is a de facto commentary on society simply because their lives become representative of many other people's lives. When a person who isn't known gets cancer, for example, nobody but his family notices. When a celebrity gets cancer, it provokes discussion and action.

The unbelievable quantity of photographs that are taken of celebrities also make sense. With some notable exceptions, people don't become celebrities because they're ugly. Even the ones that aren't sex symbols are both photogenic and interesting to look at, and so in some sense the photographers who are always on their heels are doing everybody a service. They're taking pictures of people whose picture the society wants to see.

The celebrity photo machine also creates commercial opportunities. There is a tremendous value to having your clothing item, handbag, or other accessory somehow placed on a celebrity when that celebrity's picture is taken. That creates rabid competition among the producers of clothing items, handbags, and other accessories to get celebrities to carry them, and it creates a ready market for pictures. Wherever there's a market, someone will find a way to cater to it, so it's no surprise all those photos get taken.

But to my way of thinking, finding an old yearbook photo and showing that to everybody makes no rational sense. Nobody cares about the yearbook shots of the few people who got famous young and stayed famous. We've already got plenty of options for seeing their pictures. People want to see shots of the people who were gawky unknowns in high school and then suddenly got famous later.

The fact that the high school yearbook picture is so fascinating to so many people and that celebrity yearbook pictures get shown as fun facts or trivia questions before so many commercial breaks is, to me, one indicator that celebrity obsession has gone too far. In a sense, showing that picture is more disrespectful of the celebrity's privacy than it would be to take a picture of them naked and blast that around the Internet.

But I don't expect that my inability to get the rationale is going to have any effect on the popularity of celebrity yearbook photos. As long as they're popular, it stands to reason that someone will be searching through high school yearbooks for shots that are suitably embarrassing.

by: michuelesanders

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