Internet celebrity’s deep impacts grow quietly rather than loudly

Evidence

In fact, while the notions of “internet” and “celebrity” may immediately bring to mind visualizations of being loud and proud, the impacts of internet celebrity culture are often counterintuitively taking root deeply, slowly but surely, and in quiet confidence, in all aspects of society such as economics, legality, culture, and social issues. — Crystal Abidin, Internet Celebrity, 58

Categorization

• XREF: Mirrors the slow-burn institutional drift thesis common in media ecology studies. — connects to: Early Bay Area tech elites openly despised aspirational internet celebrity — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 337; Feigned indifference to fame makes online popularity seem deserved — Alice E. Marwick, Instafame: Luxury Selfies in the…, 51