celebrity II: Clout

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celebrity II: Clout

Making viral content that stretches across all fours like a tent. Clout, likes, shares, eyeballs anything for that content. Will use my kids to get likes, gimme, gimme, gimme! Degenerate, attention seeker, will sell my mamma for some views. Can never be content with that 9 to 5, provides life without substance - content. Content is king. Dopamine infested existence, chasing a thrill, a high, virality, clout, shock value, sex! Celebrity, celebrity would do anything for the views. Insight disrespect and cut queues, I am on a stream, 50000 views, 50 million more and I'll be living my dream. Bot clique, manufactured social proof, 6 million followers but no engagement. Pay attention to me, look at what I can do, I've got a big ass, I can dance for you, subscribe and see my cat, it's pink! 

Controversy, shock value, disrespect, violence, clout, everybody can be famous, anyone can be a celebrity. The death of mainstream has destroyed civility. Talented people used to be the celebrities, now it's all clout. Celebrity, celebrity, has no value if everyone is one. Ruled by algorithms, hey, relax guy - I am sure you are big but I don't know you. Celebrity, celebrity, has lost soul, lights dimmer, unhealed trauma simmers and hopes for dinner. How can you create something timeless when you are chasing clout? Steam hovers to create baseless clouds. Reign doesn't shower to sustain a legacy. Attention, recognition, fame, thrill, money - a hell of a life! Celebrity, celebrity, everything was always fabricated, the media, press and larger than life personas. Bot clique, manufactured social proof, 6 million followers but no engagement. Kayfabe is dead, proceedings transparent, costumes off and make-up out of sight. Creating a generation of people always in character, in a role for the light. You can do it too, put up a fight. Celebrity, celebrity, has lost all value. Hey, relax guy, I don't know you, the death of mainstream has made you another guy. Celebrity, celebrity, doesn't do anything anymore, everyone wants to go viral, everyone wants to be a celebrity. 

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