The communal atmosphere of the Internet intersects with the communal nature of celebrity information.
In the old days, people gossiped about their neighbors. In the digital age, tidbits about entertainment luminaries form the common threads that bond us together, providing us with topics for conversations and armchair theorizing.
The Internet-addicted generation has such a voluminous appetite for tabloid information that it would appear to make up most of their knowledgebase. Or so it seems to me.
What does it have to do with me, at all, if Zhang Ziyi makes out with her fiance?
I'm not her family member, nor am I even her friend or acquaintance. If she did not go out with a media tycoon, she would not have dated me - the chances are less than one in a million.
Why should I care?
Likewise, Chen's photographic activities do not tell me what I should or should not do.
I never equate the roles he played with his real self. Some people talk about stars as if they're their bosom buddies. But they are not. All the mountains of information about them are only good for killing time.
As for the pervasiveness of explicit images online, these images are basically compensating for the lack of a Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition, or, more bluntly, the absence of real porn.
Most portal sites in China look like a high school boy's fantasy room, with half naked women in all kinds of postures.
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