Devoted/crazy fans - how they arise? - Page 3

Originally posted by: pinkeye

These exist in west too. Otherwise how can people call themselves CUMBERBITCHES or Cumbercookies to show love for benedict cumberbatch. His fanbase is surely very aggressive and make few fanbases look like saints.

There are Beliebers, Swifties, directioners who caused world wide flood as zayn malik left one direction. There is different armies too who take over twitter to show their power. And there is jodi shippers like IF tv forums,most dominant one leonardo de caprio kate winslet shippers till date. 😆

Its just r just born that way. Its all in the brain.

I have heard stories about fans in South throwing flowers, confetti, coins on screen whenever star appears. Breaking chairs and vandalising theatre if they find portrayal of star offensive. Pouring milk on star posters and cut outs.
Rioting if a star dies. Committing suicide if failing to get FDFS ticket. Behaving and grieving like widows if star dies!

Especially stories around MGR and Rajinikanth's fans are something else!

Heard Rajini fans vandalised an actress' house after she slapped him in a film. It is just fiction! Why get so riled up? She didn't slap him for real!

The vrats, yajnas and jaap for AB when he had accident, the pressure to change ending of Coolie (AB had to die in it but they had to show he got saved miraculously). The phenomenon of girls marrying Kaka's pics or putting sindoor in his name or conmitting suicide when he married.

People taking off their footwear before entering theatre to watch Jai Santoshi Ma.

Just crazy.

Sometimes I see people claiming they rejected a match simply because the prospective bride or groom didn't like their favourite actor! How does it make sense to base even life decisions on craze for a star?

TV fans also go crazy. Even after nearly 30 years, the Ramayan and MB actors, Arun Govil and Nitish Bharadwaj get asked to bless people or their kids! Atleast they could have realised by now that these are just actors and not gods themselves, given how they have worked in other shows also.
Mohit Raina had people touching his feet even when he went to US. He was asked to bless kids and sick elderly women. When he said he was just an actor and not Mahadev himself, still a woman insisted that he bless them because he must have divine connection with God.

Smriti and Sakshi had many instances to narrate when they were approached to solve problems, people thinking they were actually Tulsi and Parvati.

Even after education, availability of star interviews and gossip, some people still get obsessed with onscreen persona? And don't accept that person is just another guy doing his job.

I can accept that people must take these things as real in old days when there was never any news on stars or their real lives and the medium of cinema and TV were new to them so they believed whatever they saw on the screen.

What's making some of them behave like this even now that truth is known?

Is this medium this powerful? Or is media also someway responsible as it hypes stars with titles like king, Superstar, God etc?

It just amused me how even educated people had started approaching Aamir on problems with their children post TZP. Hello! He is an actor! Just because he made such a film it doesn't mean he will solve your problems.

Is it because some of us feel helpless and directionless in real life and look for someone to give hope to us or speak for us? Do some of us overestimate the power of cinema and TV, and hope a star will correct everything?

IF is full of crazy fans. Whether loving celebrities obsessively or hating on them, it's the same thing really.

My theory is that obsessive fandom arises only if there's a void in someone's life.I just can't see a person living a healthy lifestyle being so obsessed over an actor/actress. Something's missing which this fantasy full-fills. Stalking a celebrity all over social media, revolving your life around them, posting pictures/news, analyzing/deciphering their every move all the way to knowing their schedule is just unhealthy in my opinion and these people need to get a grip.

People who kill themselves or starve themselves or write letters with their own blood are just mentally ill and need to seek help as soon as possible.

Like I've said before this is fantasy world and people who want to run away from reality are more easily influenced. Some cases more extreme than the others.