Encountering a celebrity in a coffee shop, in an airport or at the beach is kind of a strange interaction because you recognize the famous person and actually know quite a bit about their lives and careers but they have no idea who you are.
But the fact that they don’t know you and still agree to talk to you, to take photos or sign an autograph makes the meet even more special. Of course, not all celebrity encounters are that wholesome and Bored Panda has a couple of articles about famous people being rude or disappointing in real life that you can find here and here.
This time we are looking at people’s experiences of encountering celebs that were really random and quite strange, leaving the fans either confused or fascinated by the weird behavior.
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The thread was started by Twitter user chase. who has over 80k people following his account wanting to hear what he has to say. He shares random thoughts, opinions on pop culture and his photos. His bio says “idk what I’m doing,” which probably resonates with a lot of people who thought they would have everything figured out when they grew up.
He decided to ask his followers what were their strangest interactions with celebrities either in real life or online and received quite a few interesting stories.
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The Twitter user also had his own story and remembering it was actually what made him want to know other people’s experiences. Apparently, his friend’s classmate met Lorde once after she released her first album.
The friend met the singer at a coffee shop and he noticed that the girl’s purse was full of ring pops. Also, she was not willing to take pictures at that time because she was on a “private friendly vacation.”
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But don’t you find it weird how we as humans tend to fixate on someone we don’t know and spend time and even money on this one-sided relationship? Well, you don’t need to find it weird, because it is actually quite natural that humans will always pay more attention to people at the top.
Psychologist James Houran goes as far as to say that celebrities act as a drug: “They're around us everywhere. They're an easy fix." Celebrities know that, so they give interviews, go to fan meets and create social media accounts to make themselves look more approachable.
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While most people have a healthy admiration towards celebrities, some people might develop what's known as the "borderline pathological" stage. That is when they start to think that they have a personal relationship with the celebrity when they actually don’t.
The phenomenon of being highly involved in celebrities’ lives has been named celebrity worship syndrome in popular culture, wrongly interpreting the acronym CWS, which referred to the Celebrity Worship Scale. However, some behaviors do fall under the category of a syndrome, like being willing to commit crimes on behalf of a person or spending crazy amounts of money for common things a celebrity touched.
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Do you think people shouldn’t be as invested in famous people’s daily lives? Do you think it’s weird we can take a glimpse into how famous people live? Also, do you have any strange, random or awkward celebrity encounter stories? Let us know in the comments!
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