Celebrities are personally known by masses who remain unknown to them.

Evidence

Personal knowing may or may not involve actual acquaintance. Celebrities, for example, are those sorts of persons who are personally known to large numbers of people about whom they know nothing at all. And all of us carry in our heads, in addition to numerous national and local celebrities, individuals who are made personally known to us by our friends and intimates. Thus I have personal knowledge of Joe, my cousin Mary’s friend, because she tells me about him. I even know, from the picture on her piano, what he looks like. But I have never met him myself. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 101

Categorization

• CANDY: The asymmetry that celebrities know nothing of the millions who know them personally is a light, memorable observation.