Proximity to a celebrity can confer fame onto otherwise unknown people.
Evidence
Leleboo_phucku is the Instagram account of Goodridge, a young woman who is notable primarily for being a close friend of the Barbadian pop singer Rihanna. Goodridge frequently travels with Rihanna and posts pictures of her glamorous ensembles, designer clothes, and famous friends (see figs. 6 and 7). While Goodridge is not a celebrity, her proximity to celebrity has made her one on Instagram … As Charles Kurzman and his colleagues (2007) write, celebrities have an aura that touches all whom they interact with: by meeting a celebrity briefly at an event or in an elevator, we hope that their status might rub off on us in some small way. — Alice E. Marwick, Instafame, 53
Categorization
- SHARE: Could send to a friend working in social media marketing or celebrity culture studies.
- XREF: connects to: Traditional celebrity rests on achievement or position but fame itself has other sources — Crystal Abidin, Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame…, 64; Television could manufacture overnight celebrities from ordinary contestants. — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 482; People irrationally believe proximity to a celebrity magically protects them from disaster. — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core: On the Role of…, 424
Related
- Traditional celebrity rests on achievement or position but fame itself has other sources (similarity 0.82)
- Ascribed micro-celebrity is granted through media attention and audience distance (similarity 0.79)
- Instafame means having a relatively large follower count on Instagram (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- People irrationally believe proximity to a celebrity magically protects them from disaster.
#complicates(0.90) — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 424 - Television could manufacture overnight celebrities from ordinary contestants.
#exemplifies(0.80) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 482