Post 23: Tumblr and Tyler Oakley (1-23-14)

The other night while all of the Twitter drama was happening between Liam Payne and Tyler Oakley, I saw that a lot of people were posting their opinions about it all on Tumblr. So I joined in and spoke my mind.

 

Then on Sunday I was randomly looking through my notifications and I saw this:

That made me really excited. A lot of people say that Tyler Oakley stalks his tag but I didn't really believe them. Well, I do now. I thought it was pretty cool that he saw what I had to say and liked it (literally and figuratively). Sometimes it's really hard to be in the public eye and take criticism but I think he accepted my criticism. I was not rude, I argued both sides, and gave them both the benefit of the doubt. I feel that's only fair.

I was kind of confused as to why I was so excited that Tyler liked my post. People seem so into these things lately. "Follow me," "Like my post," "Reblog." It's almost as if these things we get from celebrities are badges of honor. "Oh yeah, I have 4 out of 5 members of One Direction following me." People seem to measure their worth these days by numbers. Number of likes on a selfie. Number of followers on this social media platform. Number of reblogs. Number of celebrity followers... number... number... number.

Maybe it was always like this, just different. Actually meeting the celebrity as opposed to getting them to follow you. Actually getting an autograph as opposed to an electronic reply. Maybe in a few years it will just get worse. "I met Justin Bieber's hologram today." Let's hope not. I think one of each celebrity is enough for now.