The cowds at Global Gathering festival, Long Marston Airfield, Stoke on Trent, UK. “A sense of compassion and caring for other people - that’s what made her famous.” “Oprah has exemplified this way of being for decades,” she said. While there aren’t many great examples of the celebrity and fan dynamic, Rockwell said Oprah Winfrey stands out among the rest, partly due to the vulnerability she extends to her audiences. “It is a dangerous place, it is a dangerous world, and we seem to have lost the capacity to have empathy for one another.”
“Fans give up so much of their own unique agency and autonomy in life by overfocusing on a celebrity’s existence,” Rockwell said, adding that social media is like the wild west and has yet to be fully understood. As a result, Rockwell said the lines have blurred between obsessive, extremely committed fan groups, and a cult, noting how dangerous it is to engage with mob mentality online. She said that the idea of “ reflected glory ” through the social media lens has opened up the floodgates for fans to engage with the celebrity experience. We have to treat people the way we want to be treated.” Rockwell believes celebrities maintain a great responsibility concerning how their fans interact online, saying: “If we don’t do that, what are we opening the door to? The golden rule still exists. Attention on the internet is a powerful currency, and people always want more…until they get burned.” “Moreover, it communicates that tweets of that nature are the way to get her attention. This communicates to the fanbase that such behavior is welcomed and encouraged,” Pow said. “She frequently retweets their most zealous defenses of her no matter how much vitriol the statements contain about others. In Minaj’s case, Kadian Pow, a sociology and Black studies lecturer at Birmingham City University England, agreed that the rapper often deploys her fans like a protective shield against her online enemies. But they can become dangerous when fans begin to degrade and dehumanize others under the guise of defending their idols. On the surface, most fandoms are harmless. This comes four years after a similar situation occurred with music and cultural journalist Wanna Thompson, who tweeted a critique about Minaj’s music and became the target of online abuse from fans of the rapper as a result. After tweeting that Minaj is “so clearly a horrible person” earlier this week, she was met with mounds of harassment and threats - including sexual violence, robbery, and kidnapping - and even received a response from the rapper herself.
Foster had criticized “Super Freaky Girl” and Minaj’s MTV Video Vanguard Award performance in late August.
Recently, this came to a head with cultural commentator Kimberly Foster.
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