I used to fantasize about being famous when I was little.  "Wouldn't it be a great ego boost if everyone knew who you were and mobbed you wherever you went and sung your praises?".  The more I saw how fans react towards their idols I began to think it would be absolutely awful.  People obsessing over you and having shrines in your honor.  Men and women having posters of you in their rooms masturbating to your likeness, writing obsessive and psychotic fan mail filled with delusions that you "Sent me psychic messages of your love for me through the television".  Helicopters and paparazzi using high magnification and other means to peak over your fence and stare at you in your back yard.  Your phone would be inundated with calls from weirdos, your property would be stalked.  There would be fans who want to kill you so they dont have to "share" you with anyone.

And, the flip side.  Critics would be dissing you everywhere as well.  Music/movie/writing critics would be trashing your work, critiquing your clothes, all sorts of shitty gossip about you in the magazines.
user
How do you deal with the sudden attention that comes with being famous? How do you handle the psychological damage that
assistant
I used to fantasize about being famous when I was little.  "Wouldn't it be a great ego boost if everyone knew who you were and mobbed you wherever you went and sung your praises?".  The more I saw how fans react towards their idols I began to think it would be absolutely awful.  People obsessing over you and having shrines in your honor.  Men and women having posters of you in their rooms masturbating to your likeness, writing obsessive and psychotic fan mail filled with delusions that you "Sent me psychic messages of your love for me through the television".  Helicopters and paparazzi using high magnification and other means to peak over your fence and stare at you in your back yard.  Your phone would be inundated with calls from weirdos, your property would be stalked.  There would be fans who want to kill you so they dont have to "share" you with anyone.

And, the flip side.  Critics would be dissing you everywhere as well.  Music/movie/writing critics would be trashing your work, critiquing your clothes, all sorts of shitty gossip about you in the magazines.
user
fapping to your favorite celebrity would be way less fun if you were a complete asshole to everyone.
assistant