- Apr 10, 2011
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I'm going to try relating this to the topic of Tumblr.
My brother is pretty popular on that website. He has tons and tons of followers and they're quite dedicated also. Of course he doesn't do endorsement deals or signs autographs or anything like that, I mean he is only known by strangers because of his blog on that website.
But sometimes (more frequently than I'm comfortable with), he'll get recognized by his followers out in public. We went to an amusement park last summer and these girls started whistling at him while we were in line and started screaming his tumblr URL out at him. He was recognized more than just that once throughout the day, which included people asking for pictures with him.
He found this "popularity" kind of cool at first because he did nothing to really get it -- the followers just started pouring in for his tumblr. But he started to get really creeped out by it in the end when random people were talking to him in person about personal experiences he's talked about online because a lot of teens our age use tumblr as a place to express themselves. Since then, he's practically stopped posting personal stuff on that website because of how crazy and weird some of his followers can get.
I just find it so weird how people can get a weird and crazy fanbase from something as tiny in importance as a tumblr profile or cheerleading (not saying cheerleading or social networking is stupid, just that in your whole life it's not the most important thing).
My brother is pretty popular on that website. He has tons and tons of followers and they're quite dedicated also. Of course he doesn't do endorsement deals or signs autographs or anything like that, I mean he is only known by strangers because of his blog on that website.
But sometimes (more frequently than I'm comfortable with), he'll get recognized by his followers out in public. We went to an amusement park last summer and these girls started whistling at him while we were in line and started screaming his tumblr URL out at him. He was recognized more than just that once throughout the day, which included people asking for pictures with him.
He found this "popularity" kind of cool at first because he did nothing to really get it -- the followers just started pouring in for his tumblr. But he started to get really creeped out by it in the end when random people were talking to him in person about personal experiences he's talked about online because a lot of teens our age use tumblr as a place to express themselves. Since then, he's practically stopped posting personal stuff on that website because of how crazy and weird some of his followers can get.
I just find it so weird how people can get a weird and crazy fanbase from something as tiny in importance as a tumblr profile or cheerleading (not saying cheerleading or social networking is stupid, just that in your whole life it's not the most important thing).