well accepted fact: it’s pretty awful being a young girl growing up in the public eye, and the awfulness is largely sexually loaded. jailbait countdowns. the attentions of threatening older men, attentions both parasocial and real. i think we think less about the specific weirdness of being a boy growing up in the public eye, especially a boy who’s an idol to teenage girls. it makes sense to think about it less, because teenage girls are legitimately less threatening than older men, but i can’t help being morbidly fascinated by the idea of what it must be like to be the object of teenage girls’ morbid fascinations.
ever since i started listening (and re-listening) to music by several boy groups / boy bands last year, and watching their videos peppered with numerous delusional fan comments, i have been thinking about this almost every day. thank you for putting this to words!
ever since i started listening (and re-listening) to music by several boy groups / boy bands last year, and watching their videos peppered with numerous delusional fan comments, i have been thinking about this almost every day. thank you for putting this to words!
im glad im not the only crazy person thinking like this