Via Happy Place, which entitled its post “Nerd makes charming video so Kate Upton will have to go to prom with him or look like a jerk.”
I don’t find it charming. It’s kinda creepy. He filmed himself in the shower, for pete’s sake.
I can’t recall ever hearing about a female fan making a video asking out a male celeb. Have I missed them? Or do female fans just not act that entitled?
Wasn’t there there that one woman who asked out Justin Timberlake or something? I swear I remember hearing about that.
Yes, I DO find it all very creepy. It puts the celeb in a very bad position. which is entirely selfish on the part of the asker.
Does it put her in a bad position, though? I’d have thought that her only sensible reaction is to ignore it – and I suspect that pretty much everyone with a modicum of intelligence would feel the same way. So unless she’s dependent on appealing to complete idiots…
I agree with you completely. Not everyone has a modicum of intelligence, though. Especially those who follow celebs obsessively.
The acceptance garnered her a lot of publicity. I suspect that it may have been a bone for her acolytes — hope for mere mortals. The event can be planned and controlled and does not require her to accept any further invitations.
Yes, that did happen, though it was a Marine Corps corporal and the Marine Corps Ball:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/13/corporal-kelsey-de-santis-justin-timberlake_n_897712.html
And more recently,Bruno Mars was the object of a jr. prom-goers affection:
http://mix931fm.com/teen-makes-video-in-hopes-of-getting-bruno-mars-to-go-to-prom-with-her-and-asks-for-ellen-degeneres-help-video/
So, yeah, fangirls do this.
Female fans act COMPLETELY entitled, just differently.
If you were to observe the Supernatural fandom, you would see a segment of the population that is FURIOUS when any of the men, like, talk to their wives or have children or in any way imply that they are either not single or gay.
They get truly angry about it, and there have been times at conventions where a fan has demanded that the wife leave because her presence was ruining it for them.
And then there’s all the ones who feel the need to have the actors validate the porn they’ve made about said actors BY SHOWING IT TO THEM. I’m not sure how much more entitled you can be.
What is it about the Supernatural fandom? They are insane. It’s completely, utterly, gobsmackingly crazy in there. It’s the biggest inability to separate fiction from reality that I’ve ever come across, and the level of hysteria between SamGirls and DeanGirls just blows my mind. And don’t even get me started on the slash fic – the characters are brothers, for goodness sake!.
I came across it when I discovered Supernatural in Season 4 and wanted to find a place to discuss theories etc. I backed away, very very quickly! Never seen anything like it. I’ve wandered around in a bit of BSG and A Song of Ice and Fire fandoms, and it’s a completely different thing.
I can’t imagine how their wives feel about.
Fantardedness knows no gender.
(And that video is obnoxious. He seems like a spoiled rich kid. Kate should pretend to never have seen the video.)
Oh, fangirls absolutely can behave very badly and entitled sometimes. This isn’t a gender thing at all. It’s a losing-all-perspective because you’re a bit too far down the rabbit hole thing.
I’ve heard of and seen fangirls do some pretty creepy things. At one of the conventions we gave, a couple of girls followed one of the actors into an elevator and propositioned him on the way up to his room. When relating the tale to us later on, he said it wasn’t as awful as the time a girl followed him into an elevator and begged him to let her get down on the floor and lick his shoes. At another convention, a girl used a convention talent show to sing, very emotionally, “I Don’t Know How to Love Him” (from Jesus Christ Superstar) to another very embarrassed actor. Un-comfortable!
My corner of slash fandom is sans incest, so I can’t really explain why the others don’t get squicked out. It also happens to be populated by a somewhat less terrifyingly ravenous horde, so I found that I was able to have actual discussions about episodes and do analysis.
But yeah. Unless you fell into the right place, it’s pretty difficult to find anything but sheer insanity.