2011 contestant writes about social media comments on her appearance
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2011 contestant writes about social media comments on her appearance
A second-place finisher's first-person account of the comments about her looks that were posted to social media when her episode aired.
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Re: 2011 contestant writes about social media comments on her appearance
Thankfully on Jboard we are pretty much above the trivial aspects of the contestant's physical appearance and instead focus on their knowledge of trivia.
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As if I needed another reason to STAY AWAY from (so-called) social media. What assholes! oops. I'm sorry. Assholes are useful.
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Re: 2011 contestant writes about social media comments on her appearance
What's more ridiculous? Writing 140 characters about how a J! contestant looks, or writing 1000 words about what anonymous morons said about you on Twitter?
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gnash wrote:What's more ridiculous? Writing 140 characters about how a J! contestant looks, or writing 1000 words about what anonymous morons said about you on Twitter?
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Writing 140 characters about how a J! contestant looks. Not even a close call, IMO.gnash wrote:What's more ridiculous? Writing 140 characters about how a J! contestant looks, or writing 1000 words about what anonymous morons said about you on Twitter?
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Yeah, I didn't hear that criticism about Arthur Chu.Winchell Factor wrote:Writing 140 characters about how a J! contestant looks. Not even a close call, IMO.gnash wrote:What's more ridiculous? Writing 140 characters about how a J! contestant looks, or writing 1000 words about what anonymous morons said about you on Twitter?
Gnash, did you read the article?
ETA: At first I didn't notice the bold in your post, lieph82.
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I wonder if that's the difference between an un-moderated environment and a moderated one. If someone posted something like that here, I certainly wouldn't leave it up. But people don't do that here. And for that, I'm thankful. Yet another reason I've never figured out why people hang out on Twitter.
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Long before twitter, there was Usenet.MDaunt wrote:If you want to lose your faith in humanity, go on Twitter.
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I don't know, I've always found the idea of a "public figure" searching twitter to see what people are saying about them, and getting upset about negative things is a bit "off".
To me, the twitterverse is like a bar... it's a public space, but people have conversations about other "public figures" knowing that (in theory) the subject of their conversation could hear them, but don't expect them to. Someone can complain about a politician, or an athlete, or an entertainer without thinking that said person is going to be hearing the conversation.
In this analogy, a person who searches to see what people are saying about them on twitter would be like someone going from table to table, listening to other people's conversation to see if people are talking about them. And that seems a bit... weird to me.
(Maybe a more direct analogy is when you hear about an actor or director going "undercover" to a screening of their film to hear what people have to say about it... it's not necessarily "creepy", but if you're going to listen in on other people's "private" conversations about you, you're going to get what you get)
But what amuses me about this story (and others like it) is the idea that a self-proclaimed "twitter fanatic" is even remotely surprised that people would say negative or inappropriate things on twitter. Really??? It's like a "youtube fanatic" being surprised that youtube commenters would get into a stupid argument.
To me, the twitterverse is like a bar... it's a public space, but people have conversations about other "public figures" knowing that (in theory) the subject of their conversation could hear them, but don't expect them to. Someone can complain about a politician, or an athlete, or an entertainer without thinking that said person is going to be hearing the conversation.
In this analogy, a person who searches to see what people are saying about them on twitter would be like someone going from table to table, listening to other people's conversation to see if people are talking about them. And that seems a bit... weird to me.
(Maybe a more direct analogy is when you hear about an actor or director going "undercover" to a screening of their film to hear what people have to say about it... it's not necessarily "creepy", but if you're going to listen in on other people's "private" conversations about you, you're going to get what you get)
But what amuses me about this story (and others like it) is the idea that a self-proclaimed "twitter fanatic" is even remotely surprised that people would say negative or inappropriate things on twitter. Really??? It's like a "youtube fanatic" being surprised that youtube commenters would get into a stupid argument.
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I guess she's writing about it as a cultural phenomenon, but snarking about the people and things we see on TV isn't exactly new. It's just that now it can be done out in the open.
I suppose that's one privilege that players from past decades had that current players do not--the ability to have their experience exist in a vacuum. Used to be you could go a game show, maybe win some money, and then unless you did something extraordinary, you could be forgotten and go back to your life. And I think most people who go on game shows these days still carry that expectation. It's not like the olden days, when an aspiring actress might go on You Bet Your Life in the hope of getting noticed.
Celebrities, certainly, have their appearance critiqued all the time, but I think there's more of an acceptance that it comes with the territory of being rich and famous.
I suppose that's one privilege that players from past decades had that current players do not--the ability to have their experience exist in a vacuum. Used to be you could go a game show, maybe win some money, and then unless you did something extraordinary, you could be forgotten and go back to your life. And I think most people who go on game shows these days still carry that expectation. It's not like the olden days, when an aspiring actress might go on You Bet Your Life in the hope of getting noticed.
Celebrities, certainly, have their appearance critiqued all the time, but I think there's more of an acceptance that it comes with the territory of being rich and famous.
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Do you really think that many of the people who tweeted about her in 2011 have any recollection of what they said about her? She is certainly "forgotten" and could've gone back to her life without it affecting her if her husband hadn't searched twitter.nserven wrote:I guess she's writing about it as a cultural phenomenon, but snarking about the people and things we see on TV isn't exactly new. It's just that now it can be done out in the open.
I suppose that's one privilege that players from past decades had that current players do not--the ability to have their experience exist in a vacuum. Used to be you could go a game show, maybe win some money, and then unless you did something extraordinary, you could be forgotten and go back to your life. And I think most people who go on game shows these days still carry that expectation. It's not like the olden days, when an aspiring actress might go on You Bet Your Life in the hope of getting noticed.
Celebrities, certainly, have their appearance critiqued all the time, but I think there's more of an acceptance that it comes with the territory of being rich and famous.
I'm sure that many contestants from past decades had many nasty things said about them in the living rooms of strangers, but they were able to go back to their lives because they didn't know what people were saying about them. Just as a contestant today can decide to not go searching to see what a random 13-year old sitting on his couch is saying about them.
(I'm sure there are cases where creepy twits find a contestant's twitter page and tweet "weird" things at them... that's a completely different animal, of course)
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This is relevant commentary on how people respond to different things as a knee-jerk (both twitter folks and the article's author). There's really no reason to brush off the perspective.
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Well, it worked for Henry V.Turd Ferguson wrote:I don't know, I've always found the idea of a "public figure" searching twitter to see what people are saying about them, and getting upset about negative things is a bit "off".
To me, the twitterverse is like a bar... it's a public space, but people have conversations about other "public figures" knowing that (in theory) the subject of their conversation could hear them, but don't expect them to. Someone can complain about a politician, or an athlete, or an entertainer without thinking that said person is going to be hearing the conversation.
In this analogy, a person who searches to see what people are saying about them on twitter would be like someone going from table to table, listening to other people's conversation to see if people are talking about them. And that seems a bit... weird to me.
(Maybe a more direct analogy is when you hear about an actor or director going "undercover" to a screening of their film to hear what people have to say about it... it's not necessarily "creepy", but if you're going to listen in on other people's "private" conversations about you, you're going to get what you get)
But what amuses me about this story (and others like it) is the idea that a self-proclaimed "twitter fanatic" is even remotely surprised that people would say negative or inappropriate things on twitter. Really??? It's like a "youtube fanatic" being surprised that youtube commenters would get into a stupid argument.
I think she was more surprised at what the twits chose to comment on, rather than that they made negative comments.
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A valuable lesson: run your outfit by your friends before going on national TV.
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I agree; there are a lot of "this is how the internet reacted" perspectives out there; contestant on television shows seem like the right level of minor level famous to only hear this because of today's internet. I remember a specific story that ran well past it's expected lifecycle because some intern wrote an opinion piece about a guy she dated on OKCupid ... who happened to be a Magic: The Gathering world champ. She clearly underestimated the Venn diagram overlap of "Magic players" and "denizens of the internet"; her tone and snide were insulting and the back and forth way the story went on of various attacks and defenses gave content to some sites for weeks.
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Best, and IMHO only, attitude to have towards such things is the following:
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Darn, I thought it was going to be the Taylor Swift video...
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?? I thought that was Taylor Swift ...Turd Ferguson wrote:Darn, I thought it was going to be the Taylor Swift video...
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