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7 People Famous for Absolutely Nothing
Wait … Snookie is still famous?
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Eh, most of those people have been in movies or on TV.
“Famous for nothing” would be the streamers and influencers.
What the article means is that there is no reason for them to be famous. None of them can sing or dance or act. None of them has a powerful intellect. Etc.
I’m not sure you can call most of the influencers famous at all, but there are certainly levels of fame.
Let’s base fame, for a sec, on how many people would recognize them if they walked down the streets of Peoria. In the case of the truly famous: Tom Cruise, for example, it would be close to 100%. Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian are probably at least 40-50%, so that’s famous, and as the article suggests, for no good reason. The average influencer might be 1%, possibly 0%, so really not famous (but possibly very prosperous.)
I doubt this is new. It’s just that the people who were kind of famous-for-nothing in the past have faded completely out of the public memory. Who remembers Queen Marie of Romania? I only know her name because Dorothy Parker mentioned here in a short poem that stuck in my mind. Aly Khan? I know he was famous once, but I don’t know why. Does Tiny Tim count?
PS – Dorothy Parker’s Marie poem, and some others, are on this page
When I was a boy I could never understand why Porfirio Rubirosa was always being featured in magazines like LIFE and MAD. Those two magazines represented close to 100% of what I knew about the adult world. (Well, OK. it was those two and my mom’s National Geographics.) Based upon what I read, Porfirio was just about the most famous man in the world, but no adult could really explain why.
Turned it he was basically famous for having a big dick, which explains why no adult would explain him to me.
Wikipedia explains:
Best was when Tara Reid tried to start a rumor that Big Lebowski 2 was happening. The Coens jumped right in with “We fully support Tara’s project, we can’t wait to see her take on the material. We’ll be there opening night.”
I’ve never heard that. That’s a great story.